Art Exhibitions:
- Purple Velvet Chair of Peculiar Portraiture “Possible Worlds” Nuit Blanche solo interactive, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB, January 2026
- I couldn’t have done it without you, group exhibition with Free Flow Art Collective, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, August 2025
- (in)(dis)Still Life Station “Curious Dialogues” Nuit Blanche collaborative interactive with Madison Long, Brandon, MB, January 2025
- The Eternal Question, solo exhibition, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Kayes Community Gallery, November 2024 – February 2025, artistic director, Lucie Lederhendler, Opening reception, December 12
- What a Woman*, solo exhibition, Prairie Fusion, Portage La Prairie, MB,September/October 2024, gallery manager: Lee Beaton
- Mirror 13, solo exhibition, Prairie Arts cARTel, Russell, MB, March 31 – May 18, 2024
- What a Woman, solo exhibition Arts Mosaic, Virden, MB, February 1-28, 2023, gallery manager: Christa Milne.
- Beauty is the Wanted Feature Here, group exhibition at Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba responding to Shelley Niro’s: A Good Long Look, August, 2021.
- Gold, aCulture Days collaborative eco-art performance with Ryan Flannery, Global Market, Brandon, MB, September, 2019.
- Inter5ections, group exhibition at Neepawa Arts Forward, June/July, 2019 and Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, July/September 2019.
- Picture the Forest. September, 2018, Guided Nature and Art Walk at Assiniboine Food Forest, Brandon, MB. Collaboration with Dave Barnes.
- Whimsy and Wonder. Solo exhibition. June/August, 2017, 12th Street Gallery, Brandon, MB. Owner/Curator: Amy Buehler.
Degrees and Awards:
Métis Creative Arts Certificate, Wheat Expressive Art Therapy Institute, land-based at St. Laurent, MB, and online. Commenced July 2025, currently studying, projected completion July 2026.
Studies in Ceramics, Visual Design, Painting, and Creative Thinking at Brandon University and Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 2001 – present
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art One on One Mentorship. March to June, 2022. Mentor: Lisa Wood
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art Rural Arts Group Mentorship. November to June, 2018/2019. Mentor: Elvira Finnegan.
B. Ed. A. D. at University of Manitoba. Excellence in Certification Year Practicum Award nominee. Research Assistant to Dr. Rodney Clifton, 1999
M.A. (English) at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON – Thesis: Arcadia, Void and Equilibrium: Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and Eastern-European Canadian writers. Awarded McMaster Graduate Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship, 1996
B. A. (Specialist) at Brandon University, Awarded Board of Governor’s Entrance Scholarship, Medieval Studies Scholarship, Mildred McMurray Memorial Prize, Harold Vidal Scholarship, full scholarship final year, Silver Medal in English, 1994
Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Educator
Visual Arts, First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies, English, and Family Studies Teacher, Prairie Hope High School, Brandon, Manitoba. Grades 9-12. 2024 to present
Visual Arts, English, Drama, Social Studies, History, Theory of Knowledge, Creativity Action and Service, École sécondaire Neelin High School, Brandon, Manitoba. Grades 9 – 12. 2001 to 2024. Manitoba and International Baccalaureate Visual Arts Curricula.
English Teacher, Grandview School, Grandview, Manitoba. Grades 9-12, 2000-2001.
Visual Arts Curriculum Pilot and Review Team, Manitoba Education, 2014-2015. Published 2015.
Director of high school theatre productions: Where’s Charley?, 2023; Anastasia: The Musical, 2022; Hindsight is 2020: original online major production, Hindsight is 2020, 2020; RENT: School Edition, 2019
Set Designer and/or Set Construction for theatrical productions: West Side Story, Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Sanctuary: Hope for Darfur, RENT, Anastasia, Where’s Charley?
Mentorship/Facilitation of Student Art Exhibitions:
- The Water Still Flows Panel and Student Art Exhibition project bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts on Water Protection to honour and express our Visual Art departmental name: Geyaabi nibi bimijiwan (the water still flows), received through ceremony from Anishinaabe Elder Barb Blind, 2023-2024. Student art exhibition, June 2024. Collaboration with: Laura Moar, Indigenous Academic Achievement Advisor, Ryan Flannery, and Michelle Lemoine.
- Neelin Vernissage annual student art shows, celebrations, & keynote events, 2011 – 2020
- Apart, Yet Connected, Neelin IB Visual Art Student Exhibition, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Curated by Chris Cooper, 2020
- Art, Whatever That Means, Neelin IB Visual Art Student Exhibition, Art Gallery of Southwestern MB, March, 2019, Curator: Alyssa Fearon
- Neelin IB Visual Art Student Exhibition, Glen P. Sutherland Gallery, February, 2018, Gallery Manager: Jimmie Kilpatrick
- All I Can Do, Neelin IB Visual Art Student Exhibition, Art Gallery of Southwestern MB, March/April, 2017, Curator: Natalia Lebedinskaia
Public Presentations
- Engaging Students and Honouring Indigenous Art and Artists Without Cultural Appropriation, Brandon Teachers’ Association LIFT conference presentation, October, 2025
- The Eternal Question Artist Talk, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, live streamed with live audience, December 2024.
- “Cultivating New Audiences through Community Relationships” Panel presentation, hosted by Manitoba Arts Network Showcase, topic: engaging youth in the arts, October 2024.
Current and Past Visual Arts Community Associations
- Art Grant Task Force Member, Brandon Downtown BIZ, August, 2025 – present.
- Free Flow Artists Collective Member, 2023 to present
- Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba Member
- Manitoba Arts Network Member
- MAWA Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art Member