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Curriculum Vitae

Laurel Cormack

BIRTHPLACE:  Port Arthur, ON  1935 (Renamed Thunder Bay)

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  • Athabasca University, Calgary location, Online BFA Credit Courses

  • Alberta College of Art, Calgary.  Fine Arts Program, Painting Major, Diploma With Distinction, and Louise McKinney Scholarship.

  • Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary.  BFA Degree.

  • The Banff School of Fine Art. Honours. The Nat Christie Scholarship

  • Red Deer College.  Painting Workshops

  • University of Manitoba.  Painting Workshops

  • North Island College, Campbell River, BC.  BFA Credit Courses

EDUCATION:

These are the primary galleries that had me in their stable of artists:

 

  • Virginia Christopher Galleries, Ltd., Calgary, AB

  • The Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton, AB

  • Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton, AB

  • Art Works, Vancouver BC

  • The Gallery, Banff, AB

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, Privately Owned Galleries:

  • Alberta College of Art, Calgary.  Faculty exhibition

  • Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB.  Faculty Exhibition

  • Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.  Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition

  • Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB

  • The Banff Centre, Banff, AB

  • Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB

  • Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

  • Triangle Gallery, Calgary

  • Red Deer Museum, Red Deer, AB

  • Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

  • Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB (Travelling Exhibition)

  • Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

  • Summerland Art Centre, Summerland, BC

  • Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC

       and

  • Corporate galleries in Calgary:  Gulf Oil, Suncor, Mobiloil, Esso, and PetroCanada Galleries.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AT PUBLIC GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS:

  • Nominee. YWCA Women of Distinction, Arts and Culture Category, 1991

  • Purchase Awards (3) Alberta Art Foundation, 1988. 1989, 1991

  • Diploma With Distinction, Alberta Art College, Calgary

  • The Louise McKinney Scholarship, Alberta College of Art, Calgary

  • The Nat Christie Scholarship, Banff School of Fine Art, Banff, AB

  • Purchase Award, Alberta Wilderness Association

  • Travel Grants (3) Alberta Culture Visual Arts Branch (Paris, Chicago, and Toronto)

  • Purchase Award, Sunshine Village Ski Resort, Banff National Park, AB

  • CBC Radio Interview Re: Clearcut Logging, with CBC host Jeff Collins, which led to a CBCtv mini-documentary

  • CKUA Radio Interview, Banff, AB

  • CBC Radio Interview, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

  • CBCtv mini-documentary featuring four Alberta artists on a painting excursion to create paintings for a travelling art exhibition in support of protests by residents of the Caroline, Alberta area that was threatened with plans for vast areas of clearcut logging.

  • Rental of Paintings for the Sets of tv drama series Fargo and The X Files

HONOURS AND AWARDS:
GROUPS AND COMMITTEES:

  • Member, Alberta Society of Artists

  • Executive Member, Burns Visual Art Society (BVAS), Calgary, AB

  • Advisory Board, and Executive Board, Muttart Gallery, Calgary

  • Executive Board, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC

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  • Numerous large-scale paintings in the collections of corporate, public and private clients, and commissions for corporate and private clients.

TEACHING CAREER:

  • Alberta College of Art, Adult Extension Department, Calgary.

  • Painting:  Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour, Pastel

  • North Island College, Elder College, Campbell River, BC.  Painting

  • City of Calgary, Arts and Recreation Department, Painting

  • Numerous Painting Workshops in Calgary, Campbell River, Whitehorse.

​PUBLICATIONS:

Multiple MAGAZINE ARTICLES, NEWSPAPER ART CRITIQUES, CATALOGUES and OTHER PUBLICATIONS regarding my work, including the following: 

 

  • Canada Year Book 2001, featuring paintings by four artists, including Laurel Cormack

  • Dissertation by Mary Sainsbury, Ph.D. (nee Sainsbury) The Teacher As A Reader of The World (A Fearful Reading Of Red), University of Calgary

  • Thesis by Mary Sheridan (nee Sainsbury) Dancing With The Bears: An Interpretation Of A Teaching/Learning Situation In A Painting Studio, University of Calgary

  • Dissertation by Verna Maud Reid, Ph,D., Occupying The Threshold:The Construction Of Self In The Work Of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Meigs and Mary Pratt, University of Calgary.

  • ARCTIC INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA (12 artists) Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory.  Subsidized by S. Robert (Bob) Blair of Nova Corp., Calgary

  • ARCTIC INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA (4 artists) (three times), Subsidized twice by Bob Blair and a third time by James Hanley, partner in the Law firm of Macleod Dixon, Calgary)

  • HORSE PACK TRIP (12 artists) Sheep River Country, Alberta.  Subsidized by Bob Blair, Nova Corp., Calgary

  • ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, (2 artists, twice) Columbia Icefield Area near Jasper, AB, hosted by Brewster Transportation

  • ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, (3 artists) Rocky Mountain Ranch, hosted by Leighton Centre, Priddis, AB

  • ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, (2 artists) Gushal Studio and Cottage, Blairmore, AB

  • LAZY M RANCH, (4 to 12 artists multiple times), Caroline, AB

SELECTED WORKSHOPS:
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