CURRENT PROJECT
The Green Corridor Environmental Gateway: The reimaging of a 2 km section of the NAFTA Trade Corridor in collaboration with artist Noel Harding and community partners. The creation of this drive through Art and Science Museum highlights examples of environmentally based Pubic Art, Science projects and community activities. Example projects include: “Nature Bridge” pedestrian bridge built with sustainable building practice and design, phase 1 completed 2004 (budget 4.2M). Artist-consultant to Brook Mcllroy Planning and Urban Design, Huron Church master plan adopted by City of Windsor Council 2006. Development “Urban Nature Park and Educational Wetland” community partners include Greater Windsor Essex Catholic School Board, Essex Region Conservation Authority and University of Windsor.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Bank On Art, Toronto, Ontario, Various Locations
Open Corridor, Windsor Ontario
2008 WPK Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
Moose Jaw Art Gallery, SK
2007 El Taller Cultural Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Artist Residency Project for Festival Casa del Caribe
Esplande Art Gallery,Medicine Hat Alberta
2006 Thames Art Gallery Chatham
Clara M Eagle Gallery, Murray Kentucky
Nature in the Garage, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Fahrenheit, Festival of Fire Art, Essex Ontario
2002 Labouring Body, Artcite, Windsor
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Artcite, Windsor
2001 Toecan, Thames Art Gallery (catalogue)
Connections: Art Gallery of Windsor
2000 Great Lake Erie: Imagining an Inland Sea (catalogue)
Travelling exhibition
Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, Michigan
1999 Mitchell (catalogue)
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
Chatham Cultural Centre (Juried)
1997 Art for All, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
1996 Finalist, Park Street Public Art Competition, City of Windsor
1995 Galerie 512, Montreal, Quebec
"Partner in the Arts", Art Gallery of Windsor
1994 Alumni Exhibition, University of Tennessee
Artists Sketch Books", Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, Michigan
1993 Alumni Way Public Sculpture Project, Windsor, Ontario (catalogue)
1992 Windsor Postcard Project, Artcite, Windsor, Ontario
1990 "Around the Sweet Sea", Art Gallery of Windsor,
Windsor, Ontario (Solo), (catalogue)
"The Electronic Artist" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
1989 Detroit Artists Market, Detroit Michigan (catalogue)
1988 "Forms from the Lake" Artspace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario (Solo)
"Blue Buoy" 55 Peterboro Gallery, Detroit, Michigan (Solo)
" Great White North" Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, New York (catalogue)
1986-88 Southern Arts Federation U.S.A. through 1988 (catalogue)
1987 "Dream Boat" Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick (Solo)
"Sculpture Tour" University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (catalogue)
"Dream Boat" Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick (Solo)
"North of the Border-South of Here", Michigan Gallery, Detroit, M
1986 "New Wood New Ways" Touring Exhibition
"Outdoor Sculpture" Cleveland State College, Cleveland, Ohio
1985 "Romeo is Bleeding" Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario (Solo)
"Sculpture" Walter State University, Jefferson City, Tennessee
"The Fine Line" Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1985 "International Juried Exhibition" Renaissance Centre, Detroit, Michigan
"Southwest 45" Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
1984 "Futs Diputs" Artcite Gallery, Windsor, Ontario (Solo)
"Sculpture Tour" University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (catalogue)
"Sculpture" Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario (Solo)
"8 Artists" College Park, Toronto, Ontario
"Detroit Regional Competition" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
"Marry Me and Other Southern Flirtations" 200 East Cooperative Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee (solo)
1982 Sculpture Installation for Dupont Corporation at 1982 Worlds Fair, Knoxville, Tennessee (Solo)
"Slaves of Adventure" Installation at Art and Architecture Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (Solo)
"Sculpture and Ceramics" Virginia, Inmount College, Bristol, Virginia
"Works on Paper" Gallop Gallery New York, New York
"Lawndale Competition" University of Houston, Houston, Texas
1981 "Watermelon Invitational" Tyson Arts Centre, Knoxville, Tennessee
1980 "Art Venture, Sculpture" Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto, Ontario
*Received Juror's cash award: "Best in Show"
COLLECTIONS
·The Canada Council, Art Bank, Art Gallery of Windsor, Knoxville Arts Council ·Essex County School Board, OMERS (Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System) ·Private Collections
LECTURES
2008 Artcite, Windsor Ontario
Leadership Windsor/Essex
2007 Visiting Artist, McMaster University.
Leadership Windsor/Essex
2006 Visiting Artist, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
2004 Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León. México (Published) Conference Presentation Green Corridor, Ambassador Bridge Environmental Gateway,
2003 White Mountain Academy, Eliot Lake Ontario
1988 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
1987 Mount Alison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Open Corridor, NAFTA Trade Route Windsor Ontario, Canada
2003 Curator, “Stolen Moments Borrowed Time”, art by members of the Windsor work force created at work using materials borrowed from employers
1995 Curator, "Between Machine & Story", Artcite, Windsor, Ontario
RESEARCH FUNDING
2008 Canada Council Inter-Arts, Drive thru Symphony
Ontario Arts Council, Multi Arts
2007 Green Corridor core-funding contribution from private investors
2006 Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada
2004-08 Office of the President, U of Windsor
2004 Trillium Grant through Envision 21
1990, 1987 The Canada Council, Project Grant
1989 Michigan Council for the Arts
1997, 1995,1992,1990,
1988, 1987 Academic Research Grant, University of Windsor
1993, 1990,
1988, 1987,
1985, 1984 Ontario Arts Council, Materials Assistance Grant
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2005 Sandwich Community Development Task Force
1993-99 Member, Board of Directors, Art Gallery of Windsor
1997-98 Chair, Technology Committee, Art Gallery of Windsor
1997-98 Member, Steering Committee, Functional Needs Study, AGW
1997-98 Organizer of symposium “Technology Cheated My Image”, AGW
1995 Member, Committee to Study Endowment Project Investment, AGW
1993-96 Chair, Education Committee, Art Gallery of Windsor
1993 Participant, "Surviving as an Artist", Visual Arts Ontario Conference,
Jury member, Ontario Arts Council, Artists Grants
EDUCATION
MFA University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1983
BFA University of Windsor 1980
TEACHING
2002-2003 - Administrative Head, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor
1984-current - Instructor, Sculpture, Art Fundamentals University of Windsor
February 2009
