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Born Julie Cowan, 1948
Married Sir Christopher Oakes
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Education
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2004
Masters Degree in Cultural Theory, New School University,
NY
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2000
Masters Degree, Art and Art Professions, New York
University, NY
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1996
Computer Graphic Design, Extension Dept. Okanagan
University College, Vernon, BC
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1998 Canadian Securities Commission
Certificate, CSC, Toronto, ON
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1975
Professional Teaching Certificate, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC
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1974
Intensive Chinese Language, Tibetan History, New School
for Social Research, New York, NY
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1971-1973 Thanka painting under the master
Lhasa court Thanka painter, Sherab Palden Berut,
Samye Ling Tibetan Center, Eskdalemuir, Scotland
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1970
Emma Lake Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, SK
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1969
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gold Medal, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, M
B
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1966
Painting 101, Emma Lake Summer School, University of
Saskatchewan, Regina, SK
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1965 Summer Painting School, Banff
Centre of Fine Arts, with Charles Stegeman and Francoise
Andre
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Solo
Exhibitions
2011 Swounds The Canadian
Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2009 The Canadian Museum of
Northern History, Kirkland Lake,
ON
Genesis, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 The Buddha Composed, Galerie
Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, QC
2008
The Buddha Composed, The Varley
Gallery, Markham, ON
2007 The Buddha Disturbed, Art
Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC
2006 Human Sacrifice, Conscientious
Perversity, Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art, Toronto, ON
2005 Human Sacrifice, The Revolving
Door, Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art, Toronto, ON
Human Sacrifice, Quercia
Stories, The Rivington Gallery, London, England
Poultry in Motion, The
Absolute Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2004 Human Sacrifice, The Art Ark,
Kelowna, BC
2004 Forbidden Fruit, The
Destination Gallery, Parrsboro, NS
2001 Gentle Bondage, Vernon Public
Gallery, Vernon, BC
Private Parade, Bau-Xi
Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
2000 Reptiles and Roses, Bau-Xi
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1999 Venezia, Headbones Gallery,
Vernon, BC
Complimenti, Bau-Xi
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998 Rising Above, Bau-Xi Gallery,
Toronto, ON
Feathers Flying, Bau-Xi
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1997 The Venice Series, Headbones
Gallery, Vernon, BC
The Venice Series, The
Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Home Offerings, Bau-Xi
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1996 Herstory, The Alternator
Gallery, Kelowna, BC.
1994 Cunte Perfume Launching,
Artimisia Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Upright Man, Upright
Woman, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
Born to Shock, Gallery 56,
Vancouver, BC.
1993 B.P.A. RCA Visuals, Public Art
Gallery, St. Johns, NF
1992 Born to Shock, Alternator
Gallery, Kelowna, BC
1987 I am a Woman with a Past,
Vernon Public Gallery, BC
1985 Gardens and Clothes Lines,
Assiniboia Gallery, BC
1983 Lady Oakes, Temple Gallery,
Nassau, Bahamas
1973 Chandoo Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario, under the name Zangmo
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2011
Avian, Lonsfale Gallery, Toronto, ON
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2008
Bogota 2008, Esto No Es Una Galeria, Bogota, Columbia,
Catalogue and Essay Writer
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2008 Sex on the Beach, Gallery
Moos, Toronto, Ontario
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2008
Five Canadian Artists, Galerie Atelier III, Barmstedt,
Germany, Catalogue
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2007 Looking East, Lehmann Leskiw
Fine Art, Toronto, ON
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Julie Oakes - Featured
Artist, Ashpa Naira Gallery, Vernon, BC
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2006 Headbones Gallery, Inaugural
Exhibition, Exotic Erotic Xmas, Toronto, ON, Catalogue
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Heidi Cho Gallery,
Parnassus, New York, NY
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2005 Spot the Dog, Anchorage Museum
of Art and History, Anchorage, Alaska, Catalogue
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The Fugitive Gallery,
Vernon, BC
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Out of the Closet, The
Rivington Gallery, London, England
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Gallery Artists, The Totem
Gallery, Venice Italy
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2004 Big and Small Show, EVAC, Des
Moines, Iowa
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2003 SCOPE International, Curcio
Projects, Miami, Florida
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Gallery Artists, Totem
Gallery, Venice Italy
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2002 Meledandri, Fred Mitchell and
Julie Oakes, Sugarhill Art Center, NY
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SCOPE International,
Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY
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2001 Having Returned, Headbones
Gallery, Vernon, BC.
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2000 Master Program Exhibition, New
York University, New York, NY.
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1999 Gallery Artists, Totem
Gallery, Venice, Italy.
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Clara e gli Americani,
Brescia Gallery, Brescia, Italy. Catalog
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Masters Program
Exhibition, Venice, Italy. Catalog
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1998 Venice, Casa Italiana, New
York, NY.
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1998 New York University Masters
Program Exhibition, Venice, Italy. Catalogue
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1996 Jury Show, Vernon Public Art
Gallery, Vernon, BC.
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Gallery Artists,
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC.
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1995 Gallery Artists, Grunt
Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
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1994 Emerging Artists, Museum of
Modern Art, Miami, Fla.
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Art of the Motorcycle,
Redding Art Gallery, Redding, Ca.
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1993 Images and Objects XI,
Assembly of BC Arts Councils, Trail, BC. Catalogue
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1992 Juried Show, Daniel Cameron,
Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY.
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In the Biblical Sense,
Smash Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
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B.C. Festival of the Arts,
Vernon, B.C.
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1991-1992 Earthlines, Deadlines, Lifelines
is a group show of seven artists curated by John Taylor.
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01/14-02/13 The Kelowna Public Art
Gallery/Museum, Kelowna, B.C.
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03/30-04/29 The Vernon Public Art
Gallery/Museum, Vernon, B.C.
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05/29-07/05 The Redding Public Art
Gallery/Museum, Redding, CA
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08/01-08/31 The Hama Sushi Gallery, Venice
Beach, CA
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12/01-12/31 Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan
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09/06-10/20 The Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.
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Canadian Museum and
Curators Conference held here in September.
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11/22-01/05 The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Victoria, B.C.
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1991 Helio Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show
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1990 OAL Gallery, Kelowna, B.C.
Condominium Show
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1989 Dome Gallery, New York, N.Y
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1989 Vernon Public Art Gallery,
Okanagan Artists
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1989 Loch Mayberry Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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1988 Okanagan Jury Show, Penticton,
Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, B.C.
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1986 Assiniboia Art Gallery,
Regina, Sask. Two Woman Show
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1986 Bessborough Gallery, Sakatoon,
Sask.
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1985 Rosemont Gallery, Regina,
Sask. Two Women Show
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1985 Penticton Art Gallery, Art
Attack, four artists
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1983 PIAFA Art Auction, Penticton,
B.C.
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1982 Okanagan Jury Show, Penticton,
B.C.
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1982 Kamloops Public Gallery, A bed
of Ones Own, eight women
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1980-1978 Grainary Gallery, Fintry, B.C.
Owned and operated and
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Exhibited solo and group
shows
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1977 Kelowna Public Gallery B.C.
Two person show
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1976 BauXi Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
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1976 Galerie Royale, (now Heffel
Fine Art) Vancouver, B.C.
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1969 Winnipeg Public Art Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Visual
Performances
2010 Cat Fight, with Aleks Bartosik
1994 Cunte Perfume Launching,
Artimisia Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1993 A Bevy of Beauties, Alternator
Gallery, Kelowna, BC
1992 Breasts Protest Fashion
Extravaganza, RCA Visuals, St. Johns, Nfld
Breast Protest Anonymous,
Vernon, BC
1986 SWAT, OAA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
1983 I am a Woman with a Past,
Vernon Public Gallery, Vernon, BC
1969 Spectrum Organization
1969 Purse Snatching, General Idea
in conjunction with Felix Partz
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Videos
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1996 Women who Wax and Pluck, (5
minutes) produced and acted.
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1993 Cunte, (3 minutes) produced.
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1994 Crow's Feet, (2 minutes, 48
seconds) produced.
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1994 Trashy Lingerie at the
Cappuccino Bar, (12 min. 14 seconds), produced & acted.
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1993 A Bevy of Beauties, (3
minutes, 4 seconds) produced, acted.
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1992 Breasts Protest Anonymous, (13
minutes) produced, acted.
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1989 Snuff Walls Around Townhouses
(SWAT), 4 minutes, produced, acted.
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1987 I am a Woman with as Past, 25
minutes, produced, acted.
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1983 Lewd Wave, (5 minutes)
designed, acted.
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1984 Wives and Lovers, (4 minutes)
produced, acted.
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Writings
2011 Hooks, novel, published by
Dundurn, Toronto, Winter 2011, 360 pages
2010 Guest speaker for RBC Glass
awards and Winifred Schantz Ceramic Award
Between the Idea and
The Reality, Swounds
Toronto writer for Vies
Des Arts, English Edition
#221 L’Hiver, 2010,
Coercing Doubt, Stan Douglas;
Beyond the Beanstock, Maelstrom, Roxy Paine
#218
Printemps, 2010, Death as an Anecdote to Kicking the
Living,
Mark
Adair
#219 Ete, 2010, Any
Ever, Ryan Trecartin
2009 Toronto writer for Vies Des
Arts, English Edition
2009
Headbones Antholgy, 2009, Rich Fog Publishing, 2009, 162 pages
#214
Printemps, 2009 When Women Rule the World, Judy Chicago
in Thread
#215, Ete, 2009, Seven Days in the Art World by
Sarah Thornton
Chris Cran, Bright Spiral Standard
#216, Automne, 2009, Ashley
Johnson, Zoomorphic Gestalt
Overwhelmed and Engulfed, Mark Lewis, Venice
2008 Headbones Anthology 2008, Rich
Fog Micro Publishing, 184 pages
Aligning with Beauty,
Varley Gallery of Markham, ON, 80 pages
2007 Headbones Anthology 2007, Rich
Fog Micro Publishing, 180 pages
2006 Conscientious Perversity, Rich
Fog Publishing, 2006, 198 pages
Forward by Dr. Robert C
Morgan
Headbones Anthology 2006,
Rich Fog Publishing, 2006, 180 pages
Art Editor and writer for
Riverside Quarterly Magazine, Toronto, ON
2005 The Revolving Door, 200 Pages,
published by Rich Fog Publishing, Canada,2005
Forward by Dr. Terry
Williams
2004 Quercia Stories: Lay My Head
on the Chest of the Dane, Gentle Bondage, Editing Evil,
167 pages, published by Rich Fog Publishing, Canada,
Forward by Susan
Brandoli
2001 A Canadian Artist’s
Perspective of 911, Power Images, 68 pages
Personal observation
reportage for “The Morning Show”, CBC radio, BCfollowing
September 11, for eight broadcasts.1974
White Socks Suck, young adult novelette, 87 pages,
unpublished
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Catalogues
2011 Swounds, Julie Oakes
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery,
102 pages, with curator’s foreword and comments by
Christian Bernard Singer published by The Canadian Clay
and Glass Gallery
2009
Genesis, Lonsdale Gallery, 66
pages, published by Lonsdale Gallery.
2007 The Buddha Composed,
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, 122 pages, text French and English
by James Campbell, published by Galerie Samuel Lallouz,
2007
2007 The Buddha Composed,
The Varley Gallery of Markham Ontario, 90 pages, text by
Katerina Atanassova, Rich Fog Publishing, Canada, 2007
2006
The Buddha Disturbed, The
Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, 84 pages, text by Paul
Crawford, Rich Fog Publishing, Canada, 2006
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2004 Sync Collections,
Retrospective Catalog, 80 pages, Rich Fog Publishing,
Canada
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Selected Reviews
2011 Toronto Star, The
Irrepressible Ms. Julia Oakes by Peter Goddard
The Record, Symbolic
Birds Take Flight and Fall by Robert Reid
Toronto Globe and Mail, Avian at
Lonsdale Gallery
by
RM Vaughan
2007 Canadian Art, Julie Oakes
Lehmann Leskiw Fine Arts by Ashley Johnson
2006 Mass Art Guide, Julie
Oakes: Juliette and Justine by Dr Robert C. Morgan,
page
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Magazine, issue 31.3 Justine Tells Juliette All
feature article, back and front inside cover, pages 38-41
2001 Sights of Resistance by Robert
J. Belton (University of Calgary Press), Julie Oakes,
Boys when the Spring Comes, pages 167, 318, 319.
1994 Art in America, March 1994,
Cunte, a Performance Piece by Julie Oakes pages 60,61.
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Selected Collections
National Art Gallery of
the Bahamas
The Kenderdine Gallery,
University of Saskatoon
The Glenbow Museum,
Calgary
The Varley Art Gallery
The Canadian Clay and
Glass Gallery
Mendel Art Gallery,
Saskatoon
The Norman McKenzie Art
Gallery, Regina
Credit Union Central,
Regina
Canada Council Art Bank (2)
Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council
Saskatchewan Telephone
Company (2)
Vancouver Authors Society
Straub Clinic, Hawaii
University of British Columbia
Vernon Arts Council
Vernon Public Art Gallery
Vernon Performing Arts
Centre
Vernon Public Library
Holiday Park Resort
Corporate Collection
Gotham Restaurant, Hys Corporation, Vancouver
Cotes Hallmark Collection
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Scholarships and Grants
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2008 Ontario Arts Council
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1993 Canada Council Project Cost
Grant
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1985 Canada Council Art Bank
Purchase
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1975 Canada Council Project Cost
Grant
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1973 Canada Council Short Term
Grant
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1970 Canada Council Bursary
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1969 Canada Council Bursary
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1967 Cotes-Hallmark Scholarship
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Teaching Experience
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2005 Guest Lecturer, The New School
University, Department of Sociology, NY
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Guest Lecturer, The
Toronto School of Art, Painting, Toronto, ON
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2001-2003 Guest Lecturer for Professional
Practices for the Artist, Dept. of Fine Arts, Okanagan
University College
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1983-2000 Vernon Arts Council, taught Figure
Drawing and Painting and Foundations
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1979-1983 Vernon Adult Education Department,
taught Figure Drawing and Painting and Foundations
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1976-80 Vernon School District,
Substitute teacher for art and theatre, Primary and
Secondary
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Work
Experience
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2005- Assistant curator and
catalogue commentary writer, Headbones Gallery, The
Drawers, Toronto, ON
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1994 - 2000 Owned, directed and curated
Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
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Professional Organizations
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2006-2008 Ontario College of Teachers
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1975-1980 British Columbia College of
Teachers
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2004-2008 College Art Association
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