Some Key Formal Educational Sites

Born and grew up on a remote, subsistence farm in the Upper Ottawa Valley, Québec, Canada (1933-), Clarendon No. 4 (one room school house), Shawville High School, McGill University, (Teaching Certification, 1951-52), Sir George Williams College (BA, Fine Arts, 1954), Canadian School of Drafting, (1958), The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts School (1965), Canadian School of Photography (1966), Conservatory of Music, McGill University (1954, 1965, 1966), Cornell University, Syracuse University (MSc, 1961), Québec Superior First Class Teaching Diploma, 1961, Syracuse University (MFA, 1963-64 summers, exhibition not completed), Atelier Dix-Sept (Paris, 1965), Concordia University, 1998-99 (digital image and sound)...

Some Key Teaching Sites

Maniwaki, Two-Room School (Grades 1-9, 1952-53), Shawville High School (1953-54), Cedar Park Elementary School, Pointe Claire, Québec (1955-56), John Rennie High School, West Island (Social Science Specialist, 1956-58), Beaconsfield High School (Art Specialist, 1958-63), Lindsay Place High School, Valois, Québec (Art Specialist, 1963-64), Sir George Williams University/Concordia University, Fine Arts, 1963-93), University of New Brunswick (Director/Instructor, Art Center, Summers, 1964, 1965), Saide Bronfman Center, Montréal (1965-66), Sir George Williams Art School, Montréal (1965-66), St. Lawrence College, Cornwall, Ontario (1965-66), National Gallery of Canada, (Director, Summer Educational Program, 1966, 1968), National Film Board of Canada (Consultant, 1967), Art Critic (The Gazette, 1967), Thesis supervision (45 candidates, Fine Arts, MA, MFA, PhD, 1968-2003), Numerous committee and administrative roles (Faculty Committees: Excellence in Teaching, Academic Planning, Tenure, Hiring, Portfolio Evaluation … ; Director of: MA in Art Education, Curriculum Committee, Saturday Classes, Painting Major, Diploma in Art Education, Foundation Year, Faculty Supervision; Assistant Director, Department of Fine Arts; Chair, Art Education … ); Nominated, Creative Teaching Award, (1983), Distinguished Professor Emeritus (1993-), Sessional lecturer, University of Victoria (2002-2007), guest lecturer, Victoria College of Art (2006) … numerous conference presentations, lectures, workshops, consultations, research projects … Presentation, the Org Project, Edmonton CSEA Conference (2005) … ORG Project Organization, (Open Response Gallery, Not Profit Society, BC) 2004- ...

Some Key Works: Art, Text, Music

The Reaching I Ching Project (83 Multimedia eScape artworks, illustrated in Volume 3, 1960-2000) culminating in the ORG Project (gallery site, web site, and portfolio publication forthcoming); original words and music and notation for 64 works in the Reaching I Ching Song Cycle (1985-2009, forthcoming); 64 photomontages in the Reaching I Ching Screen eScape Series (2005), Book of the Reaching I Ching Screen eScape series (2005, forthcoming); Biographical book on Alfred Pinsky (2006, forthcoming); Book on Drawing (2007); four books published in the iiae series (2000 -2004); iiae (interactive interdisciplinary art event/ art education: a new pedagogical orientation to creativity, documented in Volumes 2 and 4); various juried articles in research journals; UFI (phonetic notation syntax, documented in Volume 3, ©1999), the Analogos (concept mapping, visual schemata linguistics, documented in Volume 2); three studio houses designed and built (documented in Volume 1, 1969, 1983, 1993); Pontiac High School mural (1968, documented in Volume 1); solo keyboard concert, improvisation, Vankleek Hill (1998); ScreenSpace (Audiovisual Performance, Interactive Futures, Victoria Film Festival, 2003, with Kyle Horner), http://www.openspace.ca/web/item/55; Annual Faculty Exhibitions, University of Victoria (2001-2008), Totem, Open Space (2002); Woodland Sounds, series of drawings and paintings (1956-2006 and ongoing) … numerous exhibitions, presentations, performances: image, text and sound (documented in Volume 1); This or That series of sand-mounted montage works, 2008; member,  James Bay Art walk, 2008, ; Publication: Drawing on all 4 Brains and all 8 Intelligences,: Drawing on the Mind, 2008, http://www.trafford.com/06-2654. BCATA article in the Eco Art issue: Readymades and the Art of Sustainablitiy, 2009; Series of Drawings: The Moving Man, Homage to Michael Snow's Walking Woman, 2007-2009.

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