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Curriculum Vitae:

Training and Education:
AGO Gallery School :  Oil Painting : Drawing : Portraits : Open Studio
  ~ monthly pilgrimages to visit galleries at AGO to sit, think and draw
Banbury Workshops - Willowdale Group of Artists - studies in Watercolour
Tuesday Drawing Studio at Willowdale Group of Artists

Group Exhibitions:
   AWOL Square Foot Show: August 2007, 2008
   Don Valley Art Club: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010
   North York Visual Artists Shows: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
   North York Visual Artists’ Studio Tour 2005, 2007
   Willowdale Group of Artists 2006, 2008, 2009  – Juried Show
   Willowdale Group of Artists 2007, 2008 – Fall show
   Visual Arts Ontario Gallery - VAO@NYVA – April 2007

   Thornhill Group of Artists - May, 2008

Solo Exhibitions:
     Rainbow Cinemas Fairview Gallery December 2007
     Rainbow Cinemas Market Square Gallery during 2009 and 2010
     Fairview Mall Library April 2010

Representation:      
       Dunluce Castle Wee Cottage Café, Northern Ireland

Positions Held:

President of North York Visual Artists ~ 2003 - 2007
Executive Director, Art For All Canada Inc. ~ from 2009, ongoing
Curator Rainbow Cinemas Gallery ~ from 2008, ongoing

Associations Membership:
     
Art for All Canada
      Art Gallery of Ontario
      Don Vallery Art Club
      North York Visual Artists
      Scarborough Arts Council 

      Willowdale Group of Artists

Juror for the following art show:

Richmond Hill Group of Artists, Mill Pond Gallery, 314 Mill St, Richmond Hill, Reception April 23rd  - Show Dates: April 19 - May 2, 2010     

Awards:

December 5th, 2009 - 3rd Place Award - Juror
Yetvart Garbis Yaghdjian
at North York Visual Artists' Winter Art Show -
Todmorden Mills, PaperMill Gallery
for her painting
Titled: Cottage in the Forest - Abstract Mixed Media Watercolor

April 30th, 2010 - Best Abstract Award - Juror Catherine Hobart
at Don Valley Art Group's Spring Art Show -

for her painting

Titled: Night Skies -
Watercolour

May 31st, 2010 Awarded by Inside Toronto Newspapers the
2010 Urban Hero Award for Arts and Culture -
in recognition of her volunteer work and efforts on behalf of visual artists in this community.