Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 | [upcoming at Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice] |
2022 | On Courthouse Steps, September 17 – December 31 |
Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, ON | |
2022 | Another Way Through, with Vic Mantha-Blythe | May 9 – June 10 |
Design At Riverside, Cambridge, ON | |
2021-2022 | From Behind the Mask, Travelling Exhibition |
Design At Riverside Gallery, May 10 – June 9, 2022, Galt, ON Three Sisters Cultural Centre, April 1 – 10, 2022 St. Jacobs, ON Stanley Park Community Centre, September 2 – December 7, 2021, Kitchener, ON Homer Watson House and Gallery, May 21 – August 29, 2021, Kitchener, ON Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, March – April window ex., 2021, Kitchener, ON Design At Riverside Gallery, March – April window ex., Cambridge, 2021, ON |
Group Exhibitions
2022 | Journey With Our Kin | October 29 – February 5 (’23) |
Cambridge Art Galleries: Queen’s Square, Galt, ON | |
2022 | Being Scene | March 31 – May 31 |
Workman Arts, Toronto, ON | |
2021 | SHOW.21 | November 22, 2021 – February 13, 2022 |
Cambridge Art Galleries: Queen’s Square, Galt, ON | |
2021 | Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed | Nov. 5, 2021 – Jan. 22, 2022 |
Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia, ON |
Community Projects
2022 | Unstitching Maps/Retelling Stories |
Interactive community storytelling counter-map project, in Journey With Our Kin exhibition, Cambridge, ON, | |
2022 | Expressions 47: Look Up |
Project + exhibition collaboration between AIR and youth, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON | |
2020-2021 | From Behind the Mask Community Quilt Project |
Lead Artist, October – May, organized in Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, ON www.frombehindthemask-quilt.com |
Residencies
2023 | [upcoming] Mainframe Residency, May-June, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, NL |
2023 | Emerging Artist Residency, February-April, Centre[3] For Artistic + Social Practice, Hamilton, ON |
2021-2022 | Artist-in-Residence, Nov ’21 – Feb ’22, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON |
2021 | Co-Create Residency, May, Otherwise Studio & Bumaroo Collective, Guelph, ON |
Grants / Awards
2023 | Research & Creation Grant, Canada Council For The Arts |
2023 | Waterloo Region Micro-Grant, Research, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation |
2022 | Alpha Rho Chi Medal, University of Waterloo |
2022 | Thesis Commendation, University of Waterloo |
2022 | Career Catalyst Grant, Ontario Arts Council |
2022 | Waterloo Region Micro-Grant, Research, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation |
2021 | Joy Experiment Award, HIP Developments |
2021 | Nomination for KW Women of the Year Award, Arts and Culture section |
2021 | M.Arch Merit and Community Engagement Award, University of Waterloo |
2020 | Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, Project Grant |
2020 | Love My Hood, City of Kitchener Community Grant |
2020 | SSHRC J. Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
2020 | President’s Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo |
2020 | Engineering Matching Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo |
2019 | Faculty of Engineering Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo |
2017 | FORREC Design Award of Excellence, University of Waterloo |
Publications
2022 | A Brick Amiss, Art Quilting Studio magazine, Summer Issue, pg 144 |
2021 | Care, Community and COVID-19, Galt Publication Issue 04: Pause/Play pg 114-118 |
2021 | From Behind the Mask, The Joy Experiments, 2021, pg 147-149 |
2021 | Care As Architectural Practice, Master of Architecture Thesis, University of Waterloo |
Artist Talks / Lectures / Conferences
2022 | Quilting Political Space, Norfolk County Quilt Guild, ON, September 6 |
2022 | Quilt Architectures: Making Political Space, Association For Art History, Summer Symposium Conference, UK (virtual), July 21 |
2022 | Care Not Contract, CAFÉ Capital: Teaching & Learning Workshop, Carleton University, May 10, ON |
2022 | Show.21 Artist Talk, Video, Idea Exchange Gallery, ON, January |
2021 | Community Impact & The Gallery, Art$Pay, ON, August 23 |
2021 | From Behind the Mask, Artist Talk, Homer Watson House and Gallery, ON, July 23 |
Professional Experience
2023 | Artist-Researcher, City Of Kitchener |
2023 | Member, Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice |
2021 – 2022 | Artist-Educator, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery |
2021 – 2022 | Contract Architectural Researcher, University Of Waterloo |
2021 – 2022 | Arriscraft 2021-2023 Lecture Series “Praxes of Care” Planning Committee, University of Waterloo |
2021 – Present | Member, Kitchener-Waterloo Artists Co-op |
2021 | Sessional Lecturer, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Fall 1A Studio ARCH 190 |
2019 – 2022 | Guest Critic, University of Waterloo School of Architecture |
Education
2021 | Master of Architecture (M.Arch), University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON |
2019 | Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS), University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON |
Bibliography
2022 “Expressions 47 Brings Student Art To The Forefront,”
The Community Edition, Alex Kinsella, June 3, 2022
2022 Interview with Midtown Radio KW, Matt Rappolt, April 9, 2022
2022 “Quilt captures Waterloo Region’s early pandemic story”
The Record, Anam Latif, March 20, 2022
2022 “Kitchener artists creating quilts with a message”
The Record, Johanna Weidner, January 6, 2022
2021 “Giant quilt made of masks chronicles ‘struggles and triumphs’ amid pandemic”
CBC, Tiffany Mongu, July 24, 2021
2021 “A Stitch in Time”, University of Waterloo, Carol Truemner, April 15, 2021
2021 Interview with 98.5 CKWR, John Maciel, March 15, 2021
2021 “Waterloo Region community quilt being assembled and on display”
Interviewed by Jessica Smith, March 13, 2021
2021 “Patching together our collective view of pandemic life”
The Observer, Damon Maclean, February 10, 2021
2020 “Community art project helps people share pandemic experiences with quilting”
CTV Kitchener, Interviewed by Jessica Smith, December 12, 2020
2020 “From Behind the Mask: A Community Quilt of COVID-19 Stories”
Feature in Toque magazine, written by Cai Sepulis, December 2020, pg 150-151
2020 “Community Quilt of COVID-19 Stories”
The Community Edition, written by Mellisa Embury, December 3, 2020
2020 “Connected while apart: Community quilt tying together stories of the pandemic”
CTV News, written by Katherine Hill, October 13, 2020