I'm an artist, teacher, community cultural programmer and advocate based out of Dawson City, Yukon, previously of Whitehorse, Vancouver, Regina, Saskatchewan (where I grew up on a farm), and a slew of other cities and towns in between in California, Mississippi, Florida, Colorado, Brazil & Uganda.
I am immersed in The North, making art, teaching, drumming, and coordinating youth and arts programs - just south of the Arctic Circle, in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in (TH) Territory.
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I have exhibited paintings, assemblages and installations in Southern California, Florida, Colorado, Saskatchewan, Vancouver, Ottawa and Whitehorse. I have worked on projects for contemporary artists, Bryan Jungen and Rodney Graham, in Vancouver, and studied with Joe Santore of the NY Visual School, Bob Boyer (Head of the Art Department at the First Nations Univ in Saskatchewan), George Littlechild, and Master printmakers Sue Hover and Patricia Branstead. I studied technical painting primarily with Lisa Birke at Emily Carr University.
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UWF in Florida, a Bachelor of Education (with a High School Visual Art specialty, as well as anti-racism, FN education, and special-ed training) and teaching certificate from Simon Fraser University in BC, a Masters in Community Development from DSU in Mississippi, and completed 8 studio courses at Emily Carr University.
I have been involved in the arts, community based work and advocacy for over 20 years. I worked for the United Nations as the national coordinator for the World Youth Forum, and on local and international development projects. I was a guest instructor for photography and painting at the Colorado Mountain College.
I was a painting instructor Emily Carr University and assisted with the Summer Teen Painting Intensive at .
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I started an arts collective called Mobius Collective North with Jocylyn McDowell, Nate Wood, and local artists, musicians, writers, performers and scientists interested in the connection between humans and nature on macro and micro scales, intimacy, and the cosmos, through high and low-tech modalities. We performed with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2017 for the 'Canada Scene' Festival with a contingent of Yukon artists/musicians as part of 'Theatre in the Bush'. www.mobiuscollectivenorth.com
I have worked with the Splintered Craft Youth Art Centre (Skookum Jim's Friendship Centre) youth in the arts and shadow projection shows at the Yukon Art Centre, the Adaka Festival, the Skookum Jim's Folklore show, the Whitehorse International Film Festival, and the Atlin Music & Arts Festival. www.facebook.com/Splintered-Craft
I was a founding programmer with a new arts-based Community Centre in Whitehorse, YT, with a mandate to support youth in the context of community. It is called The Heart of Riverdale. http://www.theheartofriverdale.com/index.html. I coordinated and instructed after school programs, summer camps, coordinated exhibits for the Yukon Art Centre youth gallery, and mentored youth staff.
As a member of SLAC - Southern Lakes Artist Collective, we are currently working towards an exhibit at the Yukon Art Centre Gallery responding to collective art making during Covid times. We mounted a collaborative installation at the Arts Underground Gallery in 2015. Collective artists facilitated weekend-long workshops at Tagish Lake and Crag Lake in sculpture/welding, paper making, ceramic sculpture and mold making. http://slacnorth.weebly.com. In 2016 SLAC initiated a new gallery in Carcross called ArtHouse Carcross which was a collaboration with the Yukon Art Centre. (Profiled on CBC (see article))
In 2015 I worked with Whitehorse Independent Theatre on production, arts education, outreach, and a high school mural in collaboration with the Splintered Craft Youth Centre for a project involving Addictions/Self-Harming with Watson Lake High School.
I worked with the Cedar Walk Aboriginal Alternative School as a visiting artist regularly for printmaking, painting and a mural project. I coordinated a month long festival during the Vancouver Olympics in the Downtown Eastside, and for 6+ years I worked in arts programming combined with crisis work, street outreach and advocacy based out of Vancouver, primarily with the Downtown Eastside community (Co-Salish Territory).
I was on the Street Vendor Photo Calendar Project Jury, community small grants committee, and supported the Homeless Soccer Team that travelled to Italy.
I am immersed in The North, making art, teaching, drumming, and coordinating youth and arts programs - just south of the Arctic Circle, in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in (TH) Territory.
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I have exhibited paintings, assemblages and installations in Southern California, Florida, Colorado, Saskatchewan, Vancouver, Ottawa and Whitehorse. I have worked on projects for contemporary artists, Bryan Jungen and Rodney Graham, in Vancouver, and studied with Joe Santore of the NY Visual School, Bob Boyer (Head of the Art Department at the First Nations Univ in Saskatchewan), George Littlechild, and Master printmakers Sue Hover and Patricia Branstead. I studied technical painting primarily with Lisa Birke at Emily Carr University.
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UWF in Florida, a Bachelor of Education (with a High School Visual Art specialty, as well as anti-racism, FN education, and special-ed training) and teaching certificate from Simon Fraser University in BC, a Masters in Community Development from DSU in Mississippi, and completed 8 studio courses at Emily Carr University.
I have been involved in the arts, community based work and advocacy for over 20 years. I worked for the United Nations as the national coordinator for the World Youth Forum, and on local and international development projects. I was a guest instructor for photography and painting at the Colorado Mountain College.
I was a painting instructor Emily Carr University and assisted with the Summer Teen Painting Intensive at .
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I started an arts collective called Mobius Collective North with Jocylyn McDowell, Nate Wood, and local artists, musicians, writers, performers and scientists interested in the connection between humans and nature on macro and micro scales, intimacy, and the cosmos, through high and low-tech modalities. We performed with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2017 for the 'Canada Scene' Festival with a contingent of Yukon artists/musicians as part of 'Theatre in the Bush'. www.mobiuscollectivenorth.com
I have worked with the Splintered Craft Youth Art Centre (Skookum Jim's Friendship Centre) youth in the arts and shadow projection shows at the Yukon Art Centre, the Adaka Festival, the Skookum Jim's Folklore show, the Whitehorse International Film Festival, and the Atlin Music & Arts Festival. www.facebook.com/Splintered-Craft
I was a founding programmer with a new arts-based Community Centre in Whitehorse, YT, with a mandate to support youth in the context of community. It is called The Heart of Riverdale. http://www.theheartofriverdale.com/index.html. I coordinated and instructed after school programs, summer camps, coordinated exhibits for the Yukon Art Centre youth gallery, and mentored youth staff.
As a member of SLAC - Southern Lakes Artist Collective, we are currently working towards an exhibit at the Yukon Art Centre Gallery responding to collective art making during Covid times. We mounted a collaborative installation at the Arts Underground Gallery in 2015. Collective artists facilitated weekend-long workshops at Tagish Lake and Crag Lake in sculpture/welding, paper making, ceramic sculpture and mold making. http://slacnorth.weebly.com. In 2016 SLAC initiated a new gallery in Carcross called ArtHouse Carcross which was a collaboration with the Yukon Art Centre. (Profiled on CBC (see article))
In 2015 I worked with Whitehorse Independent Theatre on production, arts education, outreach, and a high school mural in collaboration with the Splintered Craft Youth Centre for a project involving Addictions/Self-Harming with Watson Lake High School.
I worked with the Cedar Walk Aboriginal Alternative School as a visiting artist regularly for printmaking, painting and a mural project. I coordinated a month long festival during the Vancouver Olympics in the Downtown Eastside, and for 6+ years I worked in arts programming combined with crisis work, street outreach and advocacy based out of Vancouver, primarily with the Downtown Eastside community (Co-Salish Territory).
I was on the Street Vendor Photo Calendar Project Jury, community small grants committee, and supported the Homeless Soccer Team that travelled to Italy.