Education: 1989 Arts Administration Program, The Banff School of Management, Banff, Alberta.
1985-86 Visual Art Studio Program Resident, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta.
1981-84 Bachelor in Fine Arts Degree (Art History minor) Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1967 Diploma in Chemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Awards: 1996 Chalmers Craft Award.

Teaching & Arts Administration Employment:
since 1992 Coordinator/Instructor in Textile Arts Program, Capilano College, North Vancouver, British Columbia.
1989-91 Assistant Head-Textiles, in Art Studio at The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta.
1987-89 Director/Coordinator, for Artist-Run Centre Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Exhibitions: 2000 Language of Crafts, group exhibition curated by Ron Kong, Canadian Crafts Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia.
- CONNECTION, re-CONNECTION, inter-CONNECTION, Mary Black Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, group exhibition curated by Ilona Hay.
- Fiber In/Form: Material, Process, and Meaning, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, U.S.A.
(April) group exhibition curated by Layne Goldsmith, CD ROM catalogue (upcoming) and
website at <http://www.art.uidaho.edu/fiber>.
1999 Digital Identities; Transforming Communities: Reinventing Ourselves, Surrey Art Gallery, group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Kidd.
1998 Dressing Down; group show curated by Robin Metcalf at Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario.
- webs://textiles and new technologies; preparation of a web project 'to weave a virtual web' invitational exhibition curated by Emily Dubois, UC Davis, California.
- Heroes, Goddesses and Monsters: Artsist Interpretation of the Odyssey across 25 Centuries; group exhibition Bowden College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, U.S.A..
- Built to Code, with Katy Campbell and Laiwan at ArtSpeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, curated by Susan Edelstein.
1997 Tracing Purpose; International Invitational Exhibition; Kansas City, U.S.A.
1996 SYMPO - FIBRES international de Saint - Hyacinthe; invitational international artist
residency and symposium, Centre Expression, Saint - Hyacinthe, Québec.
- Afterimages: Representing the Absent Body group exhibition curated by Gil McElroy for the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Faculty of Architecture, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Patternings, 2 person exhibition, Seymour Art Gallery, N. Vancouver, British Columbia, curated by Carole Badgely.
1995 8th International Lodz Triennale of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland (invitational) untitled, group exhibtion curated by Janis Bowley, Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Web Projects/Film: 1998 'to weave a virtual web' or 'the empress' new clothing', stories, myths and metaphors
http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/program/textile_arts/index.html
1993 To Spin a Tale, a mixed media Internet project for Sansair gallery.
1991 Penelope, a documentary film about the work of Ruth Scheuing, produced and directed by Janet Clark, Fredericton, New Brunswick. (available also in video casette).

Collections: Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia (1996); Centre Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec (1996); Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta (1996); Canada Council Art Bank (1995/88); New Brunswick Art Bank (1989); Galerie d'Art Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick (1989); private collections.

Artist's Statement

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