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Angela Grace Arsenault
angie.arsenault@gmail.com
Education
2017 - present
PhD, Humanities, Fine Art, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2015 - 2017
Masters of Fine Art, Fine and Media Arts, NSCAD University, Halifax
2007 – 2009
Jewelry Art and Design Diploma, Vancouver Community College
1999 – 2004
BFA, Media Art, minor in Art History, NSCAD University, Halifax NS
Exhibitions/Commissions
September 2023 Cultivate heart, permanent installation commissioned by Eltuek Arts Centre, Sydney NS
Sept 2023-Feb 2024 Little library of foraged inks, Sydney Branch for “Proletariart,” CBU Art Gallery, Sydney NS
October 2022 Little library of foraged inks, Halifax branch at “Carry the Spark” for Nocturne, Halifax NS
August 2022 Little library of foraged inks, Charlottetown branch at Art in the Open, Charlottetown PEI
December 2021 Residue, Solo Show, Lunenburg School of the Arts, Lunenburg NS
October/November 2021 Town Terrarium Portal, Commissioned by Town of Bridgewater, Bridgewater NS
August - November 2021 Little library of foraged inks, Commissioned by Zuppa Theatre and Ecology Action Centre for “50 Things,” Bridgewater NS
September 2020 Salt crystal chandelier, mixed media installation, Lumiere Art at Night, Sydney NS
March 2020 Dis-ease, Fine Art Comprehensive Solo Show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal QC
September 2019 The secret lives of weeds, mixed media installation, Lumiere Art at Night, Sydney NS
September 2018 An unlikely illumination, mixed media installation, Spotlight Project, Lumiere Art at Night, Sydney, NS
April 2018 Dissident Vectors, HUMA 889 Group Show organizer and participant, Concordia University, Montreal QC
October 2017 Relate, Report, Repeat, Group Show, Nocturne Art at Night, NS Archive, Halifax NS
July - August 2017 Fresh Paint/New Construction, Group Show, Art Mûr, Montreal QC
June 2017 Haunting the valley, in conjunction with Ursula Johnson’s re(al)-location project, LandMarks 2017, Cape Breton Highlands National Park
June 2017 Remembering with a sense of relief, LandMarks 2017 group show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
March/April 2017 Keeper of Industrial Memory, MFA thesis exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
Fall 2016 Mix Masters, MFA Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University
Summer 2016 Industrious: Moratorium, Solo Exhibition, Salty Rose’s, Cape Breton Highlands, Ingonish, NS
Summer 2016 Fresh Paint/New Construction, Group Show, Art Mûr, Montreal QC
Fall 2015 The Thing Is, MFA Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, coordinator/exhibitor, NSCAD University, Halifax NS
Fall 2014 Peacework, Group Show, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax NS
Winter 2014 Light, MAG Group Show, Zwicker’s Gallery, Halifax NS
February 2013 Ancient Wounds, Solo Exhibition, Swoon Fine Art Gallery, Hammonds Plains NS
Feb/March 2012 Sinners and Saints, Solo Exhibition, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney NS
March 2010 Group Show, Circle Craft Gallery, Vancouver BC
September 2009 Propel, Group Show, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design. Halifax NS
Spring 2009 Group Show, Vancouver Community College, Vancouver BC
Residencies
March 2024 Artist in Residence, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica California
September - December 2021 Artist in Residence, Lunenburg School of the Arts, Lunenburg NS
April 2019 Artist in Residence, Alchemy Island Artist Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto ON
August/September 2018 Artist in Residence, hosted by Visual Arts Nova Scotia and Lumiere at The New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation in Sydney, NS
Summer 2011 Artist in Residence, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney NS
Summer 2009 Artist in Residence, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax NS
Awards/Grants
Sept. 2022 - Sept. 2023 Explore and Create, Canada Council for the Arts Research Creation Grant for The Art of Survival in Capitalist Ruins.
September 2019-2022 SSHRC Bombardier (CGS-D) Scholarship, Concordia University, Montreal QC
August 2018 LEAP Grant Recipient, Concordia University and Université de Quebec a Montréal, Montreal QC
May 2018 GSA Conference and Exposition Award, Concordia University, Montreal QC
April 2018 Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
April 2018 Faculty of Fine Art Conference Award, Concordia University, Montreal QC
March 2018 Mobility Award, Concordia University, Montreal QC
April 2017 Starfish Awards finalist, Sculpture, NSCAD University, Halifax NS
March 2017 Fellowship Recipient, Department of Fine Arts,Concordia University, Montreal QC
Spring 2016 Social Sciences Humanities Research Council Bombardier CGS Award
Winter 2016 Starfish Scholarship, NSCAD University, Halifax NS
Fall 2015 Starfish Entrance Award, NSCAD University, Halifax NS
April 2014 Grant to Individual, Arts Nova Scotia
May 2013 Grant to Individual, Arts Nova Scotia
Spring 2009 Circle Craft Award, Vancouver BC
Teaching/conferences/etc.
September 2023 Panelist, Creative Responses to Sustainability: Engaging with Complex Issues Through Expression and Culture, Creative Connection Conference, Cape Breton University, Sydney NS
October 2021 Creator/Instructor Colour in Nature: Botanical Ink Making, Lunenburg School of the Arts, Lunenburg NS
March 2019 Brownfield Notes: Urban foraging in the postindustrial landscape, media installation — Emerging Scholars Symposium Exhibition, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal QC
June 2018 - November 2019 Research Assistant, The Didactic Turn in Art and Architecture, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University, Montreal QC
March 2019 In conversation with Angie Arsenault and Dr. Ron Rudin, Unnatural Landscapes film screening - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal QC March 2019
March 2019 Research-Creation Presenter, Brownfield Notes: Urban foraging in the post industrial landscape — Sustainability in the City and Beyond Conference, Centre for Urban Futures, Concordia University, Montreal QC
October 2018 Presenter/Panelist, Research/creation project: Company Ephemera Class and Identity/At home with ghosts at the Oral History Association Conference, Concordia University, Montreal QC
June 2018 Presenter/Panelist, Research/creation project: Economic Violence, Community decay and death of identity in coal miners of Glace Bay, NS at the Dangerous Oral Histories Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland
June 2018 Presenter/Panelist, Research/creation project: Company Ephemera Class and Identity/At home with ghosts at the Glasgow Summer School, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland
May 2018 Research Assistant, Fiat, Lingotto and Packard, Detroit, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2011 - 2017 Sole Proprietor, Angela Grace Jewelry
Winter 2017 Teaching Assistant, LandMarks: Art + Places + Perspectives, National installation course in collaboration with Parks Canada. NSCAD University
2013 - 2016 Creator/Instructor of two popular classes: Remarkable Rings and Notable Neckpieces, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax NS
Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant, Introductory Sculpture, NSCAD University
Winter 2016 Teaching Assistant, Intro Jewellery, NSCAD University, Halifax NS
Fall 2015 Teaching Assistant, Intro to Visual Culture, NSCAD University