Education
University of British Columbia Okanagan, MFA Critical and Creative Studies 2015 - 2018
Bauhaus Kolleg (EU Urbanism II), Post Graduate Programme 2007 - 2008
University of Calgary, BFA (with Distinction) minor in Museum Studies 1994-2000
Professional Experience
Program Specialist, City of Calgary Public Art Deparment – 2017 – present
Artistic Director, M:ST Festival January 2010- 2017
Programs and Outreach Coordinator, EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society September 2009 – January 2011
Artist Mentor, ‘This is my City’, Calgary, Alberta (October – November 2009)
Researcher (Co-op position) Environment Canada. Supervisor: Susan Preston, Senior Policy Analyst, Ottawa Ontario. Summer 2009.
Research Assistant, ‘The New Creative Edge: Cultural production in the suburbs’ Dr. Alison Bain, York University, Toronto, ON 2007 -2008
Editorial Assistant, Undercurrents Journal, York University, Toronto 2006 -2007
Marketing Coordinator, Heartwood Institute for Youth Community Development Halifax, NS 2006 (May – Aug)
Programming Director, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB 2003-2005
Gallery Administrator, Forest City Gallery, London, ON 2001-2003
Curatorial Intern, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB 2000 (May – Aug)
Curatorial Projects
2011 “Eye Level” Estonian Arts Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 “Eye Level” Pith Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2009 “Eye Level” Suvilahti District, Helsinki, Finland
2005 “Minor Urbanisms” The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2004 “Bassmynt” The New Gallery Calgary, Alberta
2003 “Compositions for Bad Piano” Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2001 “Where the sidewalk ends” video screening at EM Media, Calgary, Alberta
Exhibitions/Performances
2015 “Dwelling” Fina Gallery, Kelowna (October)
2014 “Travelling Light” The New Gallery, Calgary (March-April)
2011 “Magpie” ATOMIC CENTRE, Winnipeg (September – November)
“Magpie” Urbanistika / Tallinn Cultural Capital, Estonia (April)
2010 “Showing Up, Speaking Out” Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
“This is my Cecil”, Ledge Gallery, Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, Alberta
“Calgary ARTours” Group exhibition with Sharon Stevens and Cat Schick at Truck Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2009 “Magpie” as part of Escape Action, curated by Don Simmons for FADO, Toronto
2008 “Billboard Project” Site Specific installation, Dessau, Germany
2007 “On the Road Again”, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2006 “Harakapood (Oct 2006) as part of “Shop Dropping” at Western Front, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Marisa Jahn (U.S.)
“Ministry of Walking” (Aug 2006) as part of Publicacts.ca facilitated by Christine Shaw (Canada)
“Edmonton Trail Days” (June 2006) as part of “Shop Dropping” at TNG, Calgary, AB. Curated by Marisa Jahn (U.S.)
2005 “Bird Song” (Aug 2005) This neck of the woods residency, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Harakapood” (Aug 2005), part of PUBLIC / PRIVATE PostsovkhoZ performance festival, Mooste Estonia
Selected Writings
2010 “Scott Rogers: Wireframe” exhibition review, Khyber Arts Centre, Halifax.
2008 “Houses of Culture and Memory” in OnSite Review, Issue 17 (Winter 2008)
‘Event Architecture’ M:ST Critical Initiatives text
“Walking the Line: Angela Dorrer“in Fuse Magazine (Fall 2008)
2007 “Welcome to Palookaville” exhibition essay for Milutin Gubash at YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto, ON.
2006 “Archive of Public Space” in “The April Memo: a cultural notebook” Access Art Gallery, Vancouver.
“Welcome to Freedom Street” C Magazine issue 90 (Summer 2006).
“Space Invaders: There Goes the Neighbourhood” in On Site Magazine, issue 15 (Summer 2006).
2005 “Minor Urbanisms” exhibition essay for The New Gallery, Calgary
“Chromaplay” exhibition essay for Clint Wilson at Hamilton Artists Inc.
2003 “In Between Spaces” Catalogue essay for Linh Ly.
2001 “Insufferable artist storms the city’s galleries” feature article in FFWD Magazine, January 25, 2001
2000 “Lois Andison” Exhibition review in Espace, Winter 2000-2001 issue
“Iskwew Festival: Celebrating the feminine in Indigenous film and video” Review in EM Media Newsletter, Winter 2000
“Pezzo Grosso: Jim Picco at Stride Gallery” in Artichoke, Winter 2000 issue.
“Harold Klunder: The Lethbridge Paintings” Interview in Southern Alberta Art Gallery Newsletter, Autumn
2000 “Karilee Fuglem: Cumulous” in SAAG Newsletter, Autumn 2000
“ARHI: Art History Begins Here” in “Silver” The NEW Gallery’s 25th anniversary catalogue
Residencies
2007 Moks Centre for Art and Social Practice, Mooste, Estonia
2005 This Neck of the Woods, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Moks Centre for art and Social Practice, Mooste, Estonia
2002 Ecological Art Residency, Omotepe Biological Field Station, Nicaragua
2000 Earth Sculpture in the Rainforest, La Suerte Biological Field Station, Costa Rica
University of British Columbia Okanagan, MFA Critical and Creative Studies 2015 - 2018
Bauhaus Kolleg (EU Urbanism II), Post Graduate Programme 2007 - 2008
University of Calgary, BFA (with Distinction) minor in Museum Studies 1994-2000
Professional Experience
Program Specialist, City of Calgary Public Art Deparment – 2017 – present
Artistic Director, M:ST Festival January 2010- 2017
Programs and Outreach Coordinator, EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society September 2009 – January 2011
Artist Mentor, ‘This is my City’, Calgary, Alberta (October – November 2009)
Researcher (Co-op position) Environment Canada. Supervisor: Susan Preston, Senior Policy Analyst, Ottawa Ontario. Summer 2009.
Research Assistant, ‘The New Creative Edge: Cultural production in the suburbs’ Dr. Alison Bain, York University, Toronto, ON 2007 -2008
Editorial Assistant, Undercurrents Journal, York University, Toronto 2006 -2007
Marketing Coordinator, Heartwood Institute for Youth Community Development Halifax, NS 2006 (May – Aug)
Programming Director, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB 2003-2005
Gallery Administrator, Forest City Gallery, London, ON 2001-2003
Curatorial Intern, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB 2000 (May – Aug)
Curatorial Projects
2011 “Eye Level” Estonian Arts Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 “Eye Level” Pith Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2009 “Eye Level” Suvilahti District, Helsinki, Finland
2005 “Minor Urbanisms” The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2004 “Bassmynt” The New Gallery Calgary, Alberta
2003 “Compositions for Bad Piano” Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2001 “Where the sidewalk ends” video screening at EM Media, Calgary, Alberta
Exhibitions/Performances
2015 “Dwelling” Fina Gallery, Kelowna (October)
2014 “Travelling Light” The New Gallery, Calgary (March-April)
2011 “Magpie” ATOMIC CENTRE, Winnipeg (September – November)
“Magpie” Urbanistika / Tallinn Cultural Capital, Estonia (April)
2010 “Showing Up, Speaking Out” Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
“This is my Cecil”, Ledge Gallery, Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, Alberta
“Calgary ARTours” Group exhibition with Sharon Stevens and Cat Schick at Truck Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2009 “Magpie” as part of Escape Action, curated by Don Simmons for FADO, Toronto
2008 “Billboard Project” Site Specific installation, Dessau, Germany
2007 “On the Road Again”, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2006 “Harakapood (Oct 2006) as part of “Shop Dropping” at Western Front, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Marisa Jahn (U.S.)
“Ministry of Walking” (Aug 2006) as part of Publicacts.ca facilitated by Christine Shaw (Canada)
“Edmonton Trail Days” (June 2006) as part of “Shop Dropping” at TNG, Calgary, AB. Curated by Marisa Jahn (U.S.)
2005 “Bird Song” (Aug 2005) This neck of the woods residency, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Harakapood” (Aug 2005), part of PUBLIC / PRIVATE PostsovkhoZ performance festival, Mooste Estonia
Selected Writings
2010 “Scott Rogers: Wireframe” exhibition review, Khyber Arts Centre, Halifax.
2008 “Houses of Culture and Memory” in OnSite Review, Issue 17 (Winter 2008)
‘Event Architecture’ M:ST Critical Initiatives text
“Walking the Line: Angela Dorrer“in Fuse Magazine (Fall 2008)
2007 “Welcome to Palookaville” exhibition essay for Milutin Gubash at YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto, ON.
2006 “Archive of Public Space” in “The April Memo: a cultural notebook” Access Art Gallery, Vancouver.
“Welcome to Freedom Street” C Magazine issue 90 (Summer 2006).
“Space Invaders: There Goes the Neighbourhood” in On Site Magazine, issue 15 (Summer 2006).
2005 “Minor Urbanisms” exhibition essay for The New Gallery, Calgary
“Chromaplay” exhibition essay for Clint Wilson at Hamilton Artists Inc.
2003 “In Between Spaces” Catalogue essay for Linh Ly.
2001 “Insufferable artist storms the city’s galleries” feature article in FFWD Magazine, January 25, 2001
2000 “Lois Andison” Exhibition review in Espace, Winter 2000-2001 issue
“Iskwew Festival: Celebrating the feminine in Indigenous film and video” Review in EM Media Newsletter, Winter 2000
“Pezzo Grosso: Jim Picco at Stride Gallery” in Artichoke, Winter 2000 issue.
“Harold Klunder: The Lethbridge Paintings” Interview in Southern Alberta Art Gallery Newsletter, Autumn
2000 “Karilee Fuglem: Cumulous” in SAAG Newsletter, Autumn 2000
“ARHI: Art History Begins Here” in “Silver” The NEW Gallery’s 25th anniversary catalogue
Residencies
2007 Moks Centre for Art and Social Practice, Mooste, Estonia
2005 This Neck of the Woods, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Moks Centre for art and Social Practice, Mooste, Estonia
2002 Ecological Art Residency, Omotepe Biological Field Station, Nicaragua
2000 Earth Sculpture in the Rainforest, La Suerte Biological Field Station, Costa Rica