Teaching & Workshops.

The educational experience should be within a nurturing environment to facilitate growth and transformation, wherein the artist develops in a space safely fueled by encouragement from a community of educators who provide relevant cultural information, skills and aesthetic guidance. Formal training on the history of art, practice, and personal reflection in an environment of warmth and acceptance of uniqueness are all important.

ART INSTRUCTION, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT.

•  Curriculum design for Cultural Leadership Development Project, University of Waterloo, Ont., Cultural Management Department  (1993-1994)

•  Formal academic teaching experience in Canada, Africa and China:

  • Recent teaching experience: Introductory Art History ART 151, Northwest Community College, Terrace, B.C. Prince Rupert, Painting Art 105/106, May 2000, 2001 Hazelton’s, Fall 2000, Winter 2001, Terrace

  • Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, co-instructor in painting: travel In China (summer 1993)

  • Cuttington University/College, Liberia, West Africa, Assistant Professor of Art (1982-1989)

  • World University Service of Canada, Selebi Phikwe, Botswana, Senior Secondary School, art instructor (1989-1990)

  • University of Saskatchewan, art instructor, part time (1975-1988)

  • Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, art instructor, part time (1986-1987)

  • National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, gallery educator (1985-1986)

  • College of New Caledonia, Prince George, B.C., art instructor (1978-1981)

  • Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta, art instructor (1977-1978)

  • Parkland Community College, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, art instructor (1976-1977)

•     Courses taught: Drawing, Painting, Silk screen, Etching Lithography (multi-media), Western Art   History, African Art History  First Nations Art History


WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES.

I view these workshops and lectures as an important component of my professional growth and as opportunities for interaction with others in a variety of art and therapeutic disciplines.

  • "Watercolour landscape" (adults), "text and art" (children)", Eagle Arts Academy, Shawnigan Lake, B.C., July 14 - 18, 2003.

  • "Watercolour painting", Art Workshop, Studio 2880, Prince Ceorge, B.C., Sept 6-8, 2002.lecture: "Diary artisit/therapist working with First Nations Communities, NW B.C"

  • “Symposium de peinture figurative do L’Etang-Du-Nord”, Iles de la Madeleine, Que. Painter-participant, July 31 – Aug 6, 2000.

  • “Art in Action-All About Drawing-A Workshop with Edward Epp, Mus. of Northern B.C. Prince Rupert, B.C. January 31, 1998.

  • Maxwell International Baha’i School, Shawnigan Lake, B.C. Baha’i Summer School, 1997, with Leanne Boschman-Epp, ( MA- poet) text and visual art workshop: “The arts and the Fundamental Verities”

  • Leighton Centre, Calgary, Alberta-May 11 -12, 1996: “Art and Healing (self-expression)”: narrative

  • Kitimat School District, Kitimat, B.C.

  • Kitimat Village, Kitimat, B.C.

  • Island Mountain Arts School program, Wells, B.C.

  • Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, B.C.

  • Emily Carr College Outreach Program (locations throughout B.C.)

  • Fort Qu'Appelle, Kamsack, Kelvington, Saskatoon, Saskachewan Sasksatchewan

  • Centennial Museum, Kitimat, B.C.

  • Queen Charlotte Islands Museum, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.

Lectures

  • Traditional Art of Africa, Landscape as a Metaphor, Religion and Aesthetics, Integration of Landscape, Nature and the Study of Self — Locatiqons:

  • Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, B.C.

  • Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

  • University of Saskatchewan Anthropology Department

  • Northwest Community College, Terrace, B.C.

  • Art Gallery of Victoria, B.C.

  • Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, B.C.