GUEST FACULTY
| Lesley Clarke Lesley Clarke is a multi-media artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally, her exhibition record includes the, Winnipeg Art Gallery, OrrGallery, and North Dakota Museum of Art. She received her MFA degree from Concordia University in Montreal and completed undergraduate work at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design and at Eastbourne College, England. |
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| Buffy Cram Buffy Cram’s fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire, The Bellevue Literary Review and the bestselling collection Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. She has spent the last decade teaching and writing in Vanouver, Montreal, Boston, Texas, Mexico, South Korea, South America and various parts of Europe. Her first book of short stories, "Radio Belly" has just been released by D&M. Originally from Victoria, BC, and a firm believer in the geographical cure to just about everything, Buffy spent the last decade teaching and writing in Vancouver, Montreal, Boston, Texas, Mexico, South Korea, South America and various parts of Europe. She currently divides her time between Victoria, BC, and Berlin, Germany. http://www.buffycram.com/ |
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| Wendy De Gros Wendy De Gros is an artist whose practice focuses on abstract painting informed by architectural structures and imagined spaces. She has an Honours BFA from the University of Victoria and has studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Alberta College of Art and Design. In addition to being a practicing artist, Wendy has apprenticed in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She has exhibited work in textiles, sculpture and painting in Alberta and British Columbia. BFA University of Victoria degros@vancouverislandschoolart.com |
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| Natalia Delgado Natalia Delgado is a Mexican artist, designer, educator, researcher, international speaker and published author, living in Canada since 2009. Natalia has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in graphic design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Art Education at the University of Victoria. She has over ten years of teaching experience in the areas of design, marketing and creativity and is currently teaching design and photography at Uvic and is working as a consultant and instructor for the International NGO Poster for Tomorrow. She has participated as speaker and workshop facilitator in Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Finland and Ghana. Recipient of numerous awards for her design work has exhibited been exhibited on a national and international basis. Diploma of Illustration and Design, Capilano College natalia@nataliadelgado.com http://natalia-delgado.com/ |
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| Laura Dutton Laura Dutton's art practice explores light as a material relating to both video and photography, and how light can encompass an environment or simply make a mark. Her work is an attempt to engage with the process of viewing and to explore how this process is negotiated subjectively. Laura received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 2006 and completed her MFA studies at the University of Victoria in 2011. She is currently teaching photography and video art at UVic. MFA University of Victoria BFA Concordia University lauradutton.visualartist@gmail.com http://www.lauradutton.com/ |
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| Carla Funk Carla Funk served as the City of Victoria's inaugural poet laureate from 2006-2008. Her work first appeared in the landmark anthology Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, and she has since published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Apologetic (Turnstone Press). She teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. carla@carlafunk.com http://www.carlafunk.com/ |
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| Andrew Lewis Andrew Lewis, an internationally recognized Canadian art director and graphic designer, is widely acclaimed for his award-winning corporate brand identities, ground-breaking consumer packaging and bold poster art. A much sought after lecturer/speaker at design conferences and universities in Canada, USA, Latin America, as well as Europe and Asia, his work is included in myriad international collections, design conferences, poster biennials and design text books. His clients span the globe and include such household names at Perrier, Starbucks, Zyliss and VISA. Lewis was recently heralded by Rockport Publishing as one of "The 30 New Poster Masters". andrew@alewisdesign.com http://www.alewisdesign.com/ |
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| Val Nelson A former dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Val graduated with honors and received the Helen Pitt Award from Emily Carr College of Art + Design. After over a decade making dance-videos, she studied painting with Florence-trained Lee Makalak and Paul Chizik. Singled out by art critic Christopher Brayshaw at Artropolis 2003, she was a semi-finalist the same year in the Royal Bank Canadian Painting Competition. Val has received Canada Council, BC Arts Council and Vancouver Foundation grants, and she is included in Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, a book on the current state of painting in Canada. In 2011 her work was purchased by the Canada Council Art Bank, and she was a scholarship resident at the Vermont Studio Center. val@valnelson.ca http://www.valnelson.ca/ |
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| Inga Römer Inga Römer is a painter from Berlin, Germany, who has had exhibited her paintings throughout Canada and Europe. Nature has been a predominant factor and source for Inga's artistic work. She is also involved with Interdisciplinary collaborations such as working with marine researchers and alternative architecture collectives as part of her practice. She is currently finishing a Master of Science degree in Climate Change Management and will be pursuing a PhD in in Dundee Scotland with the research focus: “The role of nature in contemporary and traditional artmaking and the influence of the Romantic and the Sublime in Social and Philosophical Ideologies”. This focus of study will offer her an opportunity to combine the arts and the environmental studies. Between 2006 and 2009, Inga Römer has taught courses as a permanent lecturer at VISA, the Continuing Education and Visuals Arts Department of the University of Victoria, where she graduated with an M.F.A. in 2006. MFA University of Victoria ingaromer@gmail.com |
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| Jenn Robins Jenn specializes in both traditional and innovative forms of printmaking. Jenn has developed a proprietary process where she prints on various thicknesses of metal. Jenn has received many awards in Canada for her printmaking and her art is found in collections in Canada, the US, Holland, Japan, Argentina and England. Jenn has recently been accepted into the juried 8th British International Miniature Print Exhibition. Click here to read Christine Clark's interesting article in FOCUS mag. BFA University of Victoria at Okanagan University College robins@vancouverislandschoolart.com http://www.jennrobins.com/ |
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| Jeroen Witvliet Jeroen Witvliet attended the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Holland and the Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver BC. He is an artist who works in a variety of media, such as photography, painting, drawing and video. He has been working independently as an artist for the last 13 years and has taught different art related courses in these years as well. BFA Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam witvliet@vancouverislandschoolart.com http://www.structure365.com Artist Talk |
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