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Cynthia Nugent
resides in Vancouver BC
Cynthia Nugent is a nationally-recognized and award-winning children’s
book author/illustrator. Her 2004 juvenile novel Francesca and the
Magic Bike received rave reviews and has received numerous award
nominations, including being shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes.
All of her books have been on the Canadian Children’s Book
Centre’s Our Choice lists. Cynthia has a B.A. (cum laude)
in English literature with graduate studies in Comparative literature.
She has acted as judge for literary prizes and is a much-requested
presenter at schools and libraries. She is currently working on
an adult novel with the help of her writers' group, and writing
and/or illustrating five new children's books with Raincoast, Fitzhenry
&Whiteside, Simply Read Books and Tradewind Books. Cynthia also
teaches Writing for Children levels I and II at Langara College
in Vancouver. Author Bill Richardson and Cynthia Nugent have been
named the recipients of the second "Time to Read": BC
Achievement Foundation Award for Early Literacy for their book "The
Aunts Come Marching".
http://www.petleyjones.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=84
http://www.cynthianugent.com
http://www.bcachievement.com/read/2008/recipient.php
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Greta Guzek
resides in Gibson's BC
After
completeing a Fine Arts degree in South Africa, Greta Guzek moved
to the Sunshine Caost of BC, where she now works out of her studio
in Gibsons. Already an established feature in galleries, her images
have been seen diverse application: from book illustrations, posters
and T-shirts, to designs promoting a variety of events and festivals.
Greta illustrated the book “Down At The Seaweed Café”
by Robert Perry, published by Raincoast Books in Vancouver.
Her intricate designs and vivid colours have become a distinctively
joyful feature of her artwork, which has gained wide appeal throughout
Canada.
http://www.westendgalleryltd.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=135
http://www.rendezvousartgallery.com
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol9/no12/downatseaweedcafe.html
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Pilar Mehlis
born Manhatten, NY - raised
in Bolivia - resides in Vancouver
Pilar Mehlis was born in Manhattan, NYC and immigrated to La Paz,
Bolivia when she was just a few months old. She grew up in La Paz
until, at the age of twelve, her family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon
in Canada. There she lived and attended junior High School, and
had her first painting lessons. At the age of 17 she moved back
to La Paz where she attended the Academy of Art Hernando Siles and
later enrolled in the Fine Arts program at Universidad Mayor de
san Andres. She obtained her BFA at the University of Victoria,
double majoring in Art History and Visual Arts. After much traveling
Pilar has settled in Vancouver where she paints full time.
Pilar exhibits in Vancouver, Victoria and La PazBolivia. In 1994
she created a portrait for the Gallery of Presidents at the Banco
Central de Bolivia.
http://www.pilarmehlis.ca/bio
http://www.petleyjones.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=108
http://www.numengallery.com/artists/Pilar/Pilar.html
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Angela Morgan
born in Saskatchewan - resides
in Fernie BC
Angela Morgan
lives in the Kootenay region of BC with her husband and four children.
The completion of her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree (BFA) in April
of 2000 ended a ten year stretch of university education. Angela
attended Bismarck State College (North Dakota), Concordia University
(Montreal), University of Regina, and the University of Calgary.
She had no plans to be an artist, rather she starred on the high
school basketball team winning an athletic scholarship to Bismarck
State College in North Dakota. She took one art course and changed
her major to art. From: Magazin Art (Summer 2007) courtesy of the
publisher (Angela Morgan: From Basketball to Art). Her human figures
express the poses of life: the jubilation of dance, the contemplation
of parenthood and the melancholy of summer’s end. Angela is
represented in galleries across Canada, the US and Switzerland.
In Canada she is represented by fine art Galleries in Calgary, Whistler
BC, Winnipeg, Regina, Kelowna and Invermere.
From: http://www.angelamorgan.net/
http://www.whiterockgallery.com
http://www.adelecampbell.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=1312
http://www.assiniboia.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ArtistID=88&ExhibitID=134
http://www.woodlandsgallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=47
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Carol
Sawyer
resides in Vancouver BC
Carol Sawyer works primarily with photography and video, but has
also created multi-media installations and performance works. Since
the early 1990's her work has been concerned with the connections
between truth, fiction, performance, memory, and history. Her recent
colour photographs track the subtle traces left by people on urban
wildernesses, empty houses, workplaces, and objects. She has exhibited
widely in solo and group shows across Canada and in the US, and
has been the recipient of numerous Canada Council and BC Arts Council
grants. She has completed three photo-based projects for the City
of Vancouver Public Art Program, the most recent of which is a large
multi-panel photographic work permanently installed at the National
City Works Yard. Carol serves on the Board of Directors of Presentation
House Gallery and the Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society. Her
work is represented by the G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle Washington.
Sawyer is also a singer, and frequently performs improvised music
with her ensemble ion Zoo.
From:
http://www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=10979&artist=Carol+Sawyer
http://www.straight.com/article-149248/sawyers-images-sing-librarys-lyrical-voice
http://www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=80
http://www.ggibsongallery.com/artists/sawyer/index.html
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