Wendy Landry Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities (Interdisciplinary Studies: Fine Arts),  Concordia University, Montreal, QC, April 2011. Dissertation: How Crafts Matter: Mapping the Terrain of Craft Study.
  • Master of Arts (Art Education),Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, April 2002. Thesis: Educating Artistry: The Notion of Artistic Intelligence and Its Relevance for the Education of Artists.
  • Master of Fine Arts,Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, August 1997. Thesis: The Inside of Threads: Weaving and the Intelligence of Making.
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts,Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, 1974.
  • “Drawloom Basics”: 1 wk workshop with Becky Ashenden, Vävstuga Weaving School, Shelburne, MA, May 2014.
  • “Weaving Techniques: An Approach to Understanding”: 2 wk workshop with Milton Sonday, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, Nov 2003 & Feb 2004.
  • “Introduction to Jacquard”:  2 wk workshop with Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Montréal, PQ, August 2001.
  • “Introduction to Jacquard”:  2 wk workshop with Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Montréal, PQ, August 2001.
  • “Tapestry Jacquard”:  1 wk workshop with Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Montréal, PQ, June 2001.
  • “Curating Temporary Exhibitions”:  12 wk course with Susan Gibson Garvey, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, Spring 1995.
  • “Kasuri”: 3 wk workshop with Yoshika Wada, Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, USA, 1988.
  • “Velvet Rugs and Corded Reps”: 1 wk workshop with Bibianne Aprile Proulx, Toronto, ON, 1986.
  • “The Consummate Fabric”: 2 wk workshop with Jack Lenor Larsen and Randall Darwall, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, USA, 1984.

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Dalhousie University, Part time Academic: Cave to Café (THEA 2400), 2009-2010.
  • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1999-2012; promoted to Regular Part-time Faculty, July 1, 2010: Reconsidering Craft Education in Canada (2011-2012), MFA Research (2008-2010), MFA/MDes Pedagogy Seminar  (2007-2009), Twentieth Century Crafts History (2005), Intermediate Textiles Studio (2005), Contemporary Crafts Practice (2001), Textiles and Narrative (1999-2000, 2006), Twentieth Century Textiles (1999-2000, 2009), Philosophical Issues for Artists, Designers, and Craftspeople (1999).
  • Velvet-weaving workshops (taught in French): Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC (2008), Maison des métiers d’art de Québec, Québec, QC, (2003).

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Handweaving: shaft, drawloom, dobby & digital jacquard; textiles structures, design & analysis; historical techniques & textiles history; research specialties: velvet-weaving, Coptic textiles, mathematics in textiles.
  • Textiles analysis and interpretation in museum and archaeological contexts.
  • Computer-assisted textiles design, including Fibreworks, PROWeave, JacqCAD, & Pointcarré software, as well as vector drawing and image manipulation software.
  • Tapestry; Japanese saganishiki (woven paper); tablet weaving; beadweaving; kumihimo; & loop-manipulation braiding.
  • Dyeing, including Japanese kasuri (bound resist) techniques, natural and chemical dyes.
  • Surface design techniques, including screenprinting and resist dyeing on flat cloth, and repeat pattern design.
  • Miscellaneous other textile techniques: embroidery, knitting, quilt piecing; garment design, drafting, sewing.
  • Architectural design and drafting; graphic presentation (brochures, catalogues, conference materials).

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

  • Juror, Titanica, Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council exhibition, 2012.
  • Analysis and documentation of archaeological textiles for Parks Canada Conservation Services, Ottawa, 2008-2013.
  • Cataloguing, analysis, & documentation of Coptic Textile holdings, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 2006-2019.
  • Material Decorum [recent work by three NS textile artists], Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2004.
  • Consider the Lilies[Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers], Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1994.
  • Curatorial Committee, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1993-1995.
  • Chair of Selection Committee for Saidye Bronfman Award, Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa, ON, 1992-1995.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

  • Bridges conference workshop, Aesthetics of Colour in Mathematical Diagramming, with Dr. Eva Knoll, Dr. Tara Taylor, and Paul Carriero, 2017, Waterloo, ON.
  • Textile Society of America Symposium, Drawloom Velvet, 2016, Savannah, GA.
  • Complex Weavers Symposium, Simple Velvetand Polychrome Velvet, 2016, St. Charles, IL.
  • Bridges conference workshop, Aesthetics of Scale, with Dr. Eva Knoll and Dr. Tara Taylor, 2015, Baltimore, MD.
  • CSEA conference, Patternmaking: Practice, Concepts, Culture, with Paul Carreiro & Dr. Eva Knoll, 2014, Halifax, NS.
  • Bridges conference workshop, Mat Weaving: Towards the Möbius Band, with Dr. Eva Knoll and Dr. Tara Taylor, 2013, Enschede, Netherlands.
  • Textiles Research in Process, How Craft Matters in Textile Education in Canada, 2011, Loughborough, UK.
  • Canadian Society for Education in Art conference, Redefining Crafts Education in Canada, 2011, Fredericton, NB.
  • Bridges conference workshop, An Exploration of Froebel’s Gift Number 14 leads to Monolinear, Re-entrant, Dichromic Mono-Polyomino Weavings, in collaboration with Dr. Eva Knoll, 2011, Coimbra, Portugal.
  • Textile Society of America Symposium, The Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf: A Unique Window on Islamic Textiles, and Velvet Pick-up for Handweaving,2010, Lincoln, NE.
  • NEOcraft Conference, The Erasure of Craft: Implications for Craft Education, 2007, Halifax, NS.
  • Textile Society of America Symposium, A Study of Velvet Weaving, 2006, Toronto, ON.
  • Ars Textrina Conference, Ancient Velvet Weaving: An Unacknowledged Technical Innovation,2005, Leeds, UK.
  • Congrès des Tisserands du Québec, Les Velours aux fer, Seminar & Demonstration, 2004, Dorval, QC [presented in French].
  • Universities Art Association of Canada, Discourse on Craft Discourse: What Counts & Why, 2002, Calgary, AL.
  • Handweavers Guild of America Convergence, Linen Velvets from the Coptic Period, 2002, Vancouver, BC.
  • Historic Weaving Manuscripts Conference, Gaspard Grégoire, Paintings in Velvet, 2001, Clayton, NY.
  • Textile Society of America Symposium, Textiles, Scholarship, and Education,2000, Santa Fe, NM.
  • Ars Textrina Conference, Mary E. Black – The Key to Weaving and Beyond,2000, Leeds, UK.
  • Historic Weaving Manuscripts Conference, The Early History of Velvet,2000, Clayton, NY.
  • Historic Weaving Manuscripts Conference, Mary E. Black and the Key to Weaving,1999, Clayton, NY.
  • Ars Textrina Conference, The Early History of Velvet, Artifact and Idea,1998, Madison, WI.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Velvet on My Mind, Velvet on My Loom, Schiffer Publishing, 2020.
  • Catalogue of Coptic Textiles at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, ed. by J. Fossey, Brill Publications, 2020.
  • “Exploring Concepts From Abstract Algebra Using Variations Of Generalized Woven Figure Eights”, with Dr. Tara Taylor & Dr. Eva Knoll, 2014, Primus: Problems, Resources and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Education.
  • “Fabrications: Recent works by Vita Plume”, Surface Design Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, Summer 2012.
  • “Pamela Ritchie: Nova Scotia’s Intellectual Gem”, Metalsmith, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2012.
  • “The Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf: A Unique Window on Islamic Textiles”, Textile Society of America Symposium 2010 Proceedings, 2011.
  • “Velvet Pick-up for Handweaving”, Textile Society of America Symposium 2010 Proceedings, 2011.
  • “Frances Dorsey’s Saigon”, Surface Design Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, Winter 2010.
  • “Looking at Textiles” and “e-textiles”, Arts Atlantic, No. 74, Spring 2003.
  • “Peter Bustin”, Arts Atlantic,No.70, Spring 2002 (review).
  • “Textiles, Scholarship, and Art Education”, Textile Society of America Symposium 2000, 2001.
  • “Attempts at Grace: the video installations of Jan Peacock”, C Magazine, 67/68, Winter 2000/01.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Crafts Nova Scotia, Revolution Exhibition, 2018, Halifax, NS.
  • Complex Weavers Juried Exhitibion, Complexity 2018, Reno, NV.
  • Crafts Nova Scotia, Oh Canada Exhibition, 2017, Halifax, NS.
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council Curated Masters Exhibition, XL/EXCEL, 2016, Halifax, NS.
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council Juried Exhibition Craft Year 2015, 2015, Halifax, NS.
  • Carnagie & Handweavers’ Guild of America Tsunami, 2002, Vancouver, BC.
  • Strands of Nova Scotia, curated by Vita Plume, 2000, New Brunswick Crafts Council Gallery, Fredericton, NB.
  • Carnagie & Handweavers’ Guild of America Yardage, 2000, Cincinnati, OH.
  • Carnagie & Handweavers’ Guild of America Virtuoso!, 1998, Atlanta, GA.
  • A Celebration of Textiles curated by Joyce Chown, 1998, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS.
  • The Inside of Threads, solo MFA Graduate Exhibition, 1997, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS.
  • Small Expressions ‘96, 1996, Portland, OR.
  • Small Expressions ‘95, 1995, Tucson, AZ.
  • Tapestries by Nova Scotia Artists curated by Joyce Chown, 1994, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS.
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council A Show of Hands, 1994, Halifax, NS.
  • Small Expressions ‘94, 1994, St. Paul, MN; Taichung, Taiwan (1994); Taipei, Taiwan (1994).
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council Relics of the Future, 1993, Dartmouth, NS;  1994, Halifax, NS.
  • Handweavers’ Guild of America Convergence ‘86 Fibre Magic Fashion Show, 1986, Toronto, ON.
  • Atlantic Caucus Atlantic Visions, 1982, Charlottetown, PEI.
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council Profile ‘81, 1981, Halifax, NS.

COMMISSIONS

  • Double-size mohair blanket (1996)
  • Curtain, Shaar Shalom Synagogue, Halifax (1995)
  • 15 m. wool/mohair fabric (1986)
  • 12 m. wool/mohair fabric (1986)
  • 80 m. drapery fabric (1986)
  • 8 wool blankets over 10 years (1980-1990)
  • Custom rug-hooking backing (1983)
  • Wool cape (1983)
  • Inlaid wool dress fabric (1980) 
  • Wool cape (1980)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

  • Dorothy Hill Award of Achievement, Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers, 2016.
  • Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant, Halifax, NS, 2015.
  • Research Associate, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Nov 2013-2015.
  • Visiting Scholar, Goldsmith’s University, London, UK, July – Dec 2011.
  • Workshop Scholarship, Textile Society of America, 2003.
  • Carolyn and Richard Renaud Graduate Award for Academic Excellence, Concordia University, 2003.
  • Third prize, Virtuoso!1998 (from Carnagie Foundation).
  • Lifetime Honorary Member of Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, 1990.
  • Master Artisan (formerly Juried Status Member) of Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council since 1981.
  • Honorable Mention (Weaving), Profile ‘81, 1981.

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Crafts Nova Scotia, 1975-present.
  • Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers, 1975-present.
  • Handweavers Guild of America, 1976-2014.
  • The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, ON, 1993-2000.
  • Complex Weavers, 1997-present.
  • Textile Society of America, 1997-present.
  • Centre International d’Études des Textiles Anciens, Lyon, France, 2011-2018.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

  • Canadian Crafts Council –  Ottawa, ON –  October 1986-96.
  • Chair of Selection Committee for Prix Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts, 1992-96.
  • National Director, 1991-93: Chair of Programme Committee; Executive and CIRCUIT Review Committees.
  • Director from Nova Scotia, 1986-91, and member of Curatorial Committee.
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council  – Halifax, NS  –  1975- present; including: Member of Strategic Planning Committee (1993), President of Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council (1985-87), Co-ordinator of Canadian Crafts Council AGM/Conference, Halifax, 1984-85, Secretary of Board of Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, 1980-81, NS Representative to World Crafts Council Conference in Kyoto, Japan, 1978; also chaired Constitutional Review Committee, Nominations Committee, Personnel Committee, Weaver’s Conference Committee; several exhibition committees.
  • Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers –  Halifax, NS  – 1975- present, including: Chair of Program Committee (2009-2011);  Membership Chair (2011-2012), Co-editor LoomSong (2012-2013), Chair of Consider the Lilies Exhibition Committee (1993-94), Treasurer (1993-2002, 2015-present), President, 1983-85; also served previously as Treasurer, Membership Chair, Librarian, Co-ordinator of Annual Sale /Fashion Show, and on Mary E. Black Textile Conservation Project.

Miscellaneous

  • Chair of Atlantic Caucus, 1989-91.
  • Director, Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia Board, 1985-88;  Secretary 1987-88.
  • Public school demonstrator (1987/88).
  • supplier & volunteer, Gallery Shop, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (1989).

OTHER PERTINENT PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

  • Concordia University – Research assistant, Humanities Program, Sept 2003 – April 2004.
  • Concordia University – Teaching assistant, Art Education & Anthro/Sociology depts, Sept 2002 – April 2003.
  • Nova Scotia College of Art & Design – Teaching assistant, Art Education dept., Jan – April 1999.
  • Nova Scotia College of Art & Design – Teaching assistant, Art History dept., Sept – Dec 1998.
  • Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS – Exhibitions planner, 1993-95
  • Ledaire, Morris and Associates, Dartmouth, NS – Architectural technician, 1992.
  • URSA Residential Service Associates,  Dartmouth, NS – Architectural technician, 1989 – 1991
  • Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, Halifax, NS – Acting Executive Assistant, 1984.
  • John Preston & Associates / CBCL Limited,Halifax, NS – Architectural draughtsman, 1981 – 1982.
  • J. W. Lindsay Enterprises,Dartmouth, NS – Architectural draughtsman, 1978.
  • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,Halifax, NS – Assistant, Registrar’s Office, 1974 – 1975                   

CITIZENSHIP & LANGUAGES

Canadian, born in Middleton, NS, lifelong resident of Canada. Fluent in English and French; some reading ability in Italian.

Posted June 7, 2019 by Veloutiere

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