• Bachelor of Fine Art 1987 Honours - University of Manitoba

 

• Awards

     2016 - Rising Star - Uniquely Manitoba

     2013 - First Place Poetry, 2013 Winnipeg Free Press/Writers Collective Poetry Contest

     2011 - Nominee YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Awards the Arts

     2007 - Lunar Award for outstanding artistic achievements & support,

                promotion of arts & culture from Prairie Ocean Centre for the Arts

     2007 - Nominee Manitoba Foundation for the Arts

     2005 - Nominee Above & Beyond Manitoba Arts Award

     1997 - Visual arts grant ‘A’ Manitoba Arts Council

 

• Cultural Community Activities

     2017/18 - Drawing with Helma. Flow Yoga Studio, Winnipeg Beach. SCAPE project

     2012-18 - SCAPE/ Stronger Communities with Art Participation for Everyone, board member

     2011/12/13 - Secretary, LAKE WINNIPEG WRITERS GROUP

     2002-10 - Director of WINNIPEG BEACH ART + CULTURE Co-op

     2002-8 - Coordinator The WAVE artists Studio Tour

 

• Selected Exhibitions Solo

     2018 - ‘UEBER CODDIWOMPLES’. The Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg June 3 to 27

     2017 - ‘CODDIWOMPLES’, The Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg April 2 – 26

     2013 - 'Lake and Marsh', paintings.  Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg

     2011 - 'Goat Boy Stories'  H. RogueRaiders Studio Gallery, Winnipeg Beach

     2008 - Minis, not quite miniatures, paintings, Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg

     2008 - ASPiRE, paintings Wayne Arthur Gallery

     2001 - Launch Poetry chapbook Lake Agassiz Suite, First Edition, Martha Street Print Studio, Winnipeg

     2000 - Lake Agassiz Suite, paintings, SITE GALLERY, Winnipeg

     2000 - Markmakers Gallery, Gimli, paintings

     1996 - My Beautiful Niagara Falls, Piano Mobile, Winnipeg

     1993 - ‘Mes belle chutes du Niagara, CCFM St Boniface

     1993 - ‘Rogues of our Marshes, ZONE, Winnipeg

     1990 - ‘Paper Mission’ Gallery of SW Manitoba, Brandon

     1988 - ‘Paper Mission’ installation Main/Access, Winnipeg

 

• Selected Group

     2002-2018  - WAVE Interlake Artists’ Studio Tour, 2 annual weekend events

     2018 - Light & Shadow, Exhibit WAVE ARTISTS , Manitoba, NIHM Sept. 28 – Oct. 28

     2017 - Our Canada, Exhibit WAVE ARTISTS, Manitoba, NIHM Sept. 15 – Dec. 30

     2014/16 - ART*SCAPE Fine Art/Fine Craft, summer pop-up gallery, Winnipeg Beach. Manitoba

     2014 - ART*SCAPE Fine Art/Fine Craft, summer pop-up gallery & sales, Winnipeg Beach. Manitoba

     2014 - 'Art in Heart' Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gift Shop/gallery

     2013 - CONFRONTATIONS/WINNIPEG ARTISTS INCORPORATED

     2013 - 'THAW' Winnipeg Art Gallery shop

     2011 - 'LAKE' WINNBAC Co-op, New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli, Manitoba

     2000/12 - CONFRONTATIONS

     2011/12 - INTERLAKE JURIED ART SHOW

     2009 - STONE AGE, St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg

     2003/5 - Mennonite Heritage Gallery

     1997/4/1990 - Manitoba Society of Artists

     1996 - Gallery 111, Univ. of Manitoba, curator Bob McKaskell

     1992/3 - Grand Jury, Winnipeg Art Gallery

     1991 - Terrance Sulymko Fine Art, Toronto

     1988 - SAW Gallery, Ottawa

     1985 - ‘Women & Peace, Mount Saint Vincent Univ.NS

 

• Video Production

      2018 - Artist’s Talk ‘Revisiting Paper Mission 1989, From Angst to Whimsey’, in conjunction with

                 Light & Shadow exhibit, NIHM Gimli

      2017 - Traditional lino print demonstration: multiples, in conjunction with WAVE exhibit our Canada, NIHM

                  Gimli

      2016/17/18 Official WAVE Brochure launch Winnipeg

     1996 Curator ‘SEIZING THE FRAME’, painter Stephanie Van Nest and photographer Renate Gravert

     1989 - ‘Paper Mission’ producer director H. Rogge Rehders

 

• Mural Works

     1998 - ‘Vikings return to home fjord’, Gimli, MB demolished for a new Gimli Credit/Noventis Union Bldg.

 

• Literary Activities (Performance Art)

     2018 - Poetry Reading, June 14, Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg

     2017 - Poetry Reading, April 13,  Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg

     2017 - 2nd place ‘Elf”, ekphrastic poetry contest, Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg

     2015/16/17 – Spoken Word Performance, Ship & Plough, Gimli , LWWG

     2013 - A tribute to Kathy Hastie’s poetry, Bard at FOLKNIGHT, November 2013, Winnipeg Beach

     2013 - Reading: Stories from Lake and Marsh, Wayne Arthur Gallery, Winnipeg

     2013 - Bard, Selkirk Rotary Club, Selkirk, Manitoba Interlake

     2012 - Bard, Hammer Music and Art Centre, Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba Interlake

     2012 - Bard, Gimli Ice Fest,  Gimli, Manitoba Interlake

     2011/12 - Poetry Reading, Matlock Music and Art Festival, Manitoba Interlake

     2011 - Bard, ASPIRE THEATRE, Gimli, Manitoba Interlake

     2011/12 - VOICES  launch reading, McNally Robinson book store, Winnipeg

     2002 - Poetry Reading Lake Agassiz Suite, Rogue's Gallery, Winnipeg

     2002 - Reading Lake Agassiz Suite, Site Gallery, Winnipeg

 

• Selected Reviews & Print

     2000 - Nature Sweet, by Marnie Butvin, UPTOWN, Feb.10, 2000,p.9; ‘Stellar show opens in Portage, by

                 Patrick Caron, The Daily Graphic

     1998 - ‘Romancing the Sails’, by Linda M. Goodman, Gimli Today, July 23, p.3

     1999 - Art Collective active’, Scott Carman, Interlake Spectator, July, 5, 99

     1997 - ‘Mural a Drawing Card‘, by Christine Landry, The Interlake Spectator, July 6

     1993 - ‘Rehders Praises Niagara’s Beauty’, by Alison Gillmor, Winnipeg Free Press, July 14, p. B5

 

• In Print & Cover Art

                 VOICES Magazine LWWG Vol. 17 No.1&2; Vol. 18 No. 1&

                 VOICES Magazine LWWG Vol.16 No.1&2; Vol.15 No.1&2; Vol.14 No.1&2

    2014 - Winnipeg Free Press January 2, 2014, A 13 poem A killdeer calls

     2013 - Winnipeg Free Press/Writers Collective Poetry Contest, Winnipeg Free Press, December 10, 2013,

                "An unfamiliar place produces award winners, p. C2"

                The Interlake Enterprise, January 22, 2014, Writers benefit from group’s focus on the craft, p.22

     2012 - 'Katzen journal' Interlake Arts, Life and Leisure Magazine, Vol.1. No.2, p.26, and 'H.RogueRaiders

                 interview' p.27

     2005-12 - VOICES Journal of the LAKE WINNIPEG WRITERS' GROUP/LWWG Anniversary edition ISSN

                    1710-1239 LWWG VOICES Journal front cover Nov. 2006

     2001 - LAKE AGASSIZ SUITE, selected poems, 38 pages, 9 lino print images, Front End Loader Press,

                    Toronto

     VOICES LWWG Vol. 12. No. 1 front and back cover

     VOICES LWWG Vol. 10. No. 1

     VOICES LWWG Vol.   9. No. 2, front cover

     VOICES LWWG Vol.   6. No. 2