Art and Culture
Current Position
Kamloops Art Gallery
Assistant Preparator / Art Instructor (PT/Permanent) March 2023-Present
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Working with artists and curators to execute solo, group, and touring exhibitions
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Preparing and installing 2D, 3D, Audio-Visual, and large scale installation artworks
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Building plinths, displays, and environments
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Leading installation technicians in construction and installation tasks
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Developing and teaching public workshops and exhibition tours
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Creating lesson plans, budgets, and marketing material for workshops and programs
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Sourcing and maintaining art supplies and materials
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Curating and coordinating the Open Gallery community exhibition space
Curatorial
Parkside Art Gallery
Curator, Body Experience: Life Drawing February 15 to March 15, 2025
Kamloops Art Gallery
Curator, So Long As They're Friends: Queer Safety On This Side of the Rainbow August 10 to September 7, 2024
SFU Galleries
Curatorial Intern (course credit) 2021
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Assisting the Director of SFU Galleries and staff in curating Guadalupe Martinez:
Sensorial Visualities: Embodying Together and Alone
Skoden! Indigenous Film Festival, SFU
Program Co-Lead (course credit) April 2022
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Co-leading the programming committee of a professional, student led, Indigenous film festival
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Curating film programs for a two day film festival
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Facilitating a public filmmaker Q&A
Engagement
Kamloops Art Gallery
Gallery Attendant (PT / Permanent) July-December 2024.
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Hosting visitors to the Gallery, including educating about exhibitions and managing memberships and renewals
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Tracking number of visitors to the gallery and public programs.
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Processing sales in the gallery store, tracking inventory, and fulfilling online orders
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Maintaining the security and safety of staff and artwork
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Answering phone calls, emails, and other inquiries
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Gallery Attendant (volunteer) 2018
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Greeting visitors to the gallery
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informing guests about current exhibitions
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managing memberships
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assisting with daily administration tasks
fifty fifty arts collective
Gallery Attendant (volunteer) 2018
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Greeting visitors to the gallery
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informing guests about current exhibitions
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taking applications for exhibitions
Chris Harris Studio and Gallery
Gallery Assistant (FT/Permanent) 2008-2010
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Hosting clients and visitors
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Art handling
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Managing art sales
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Marketing and promotion
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Event planning
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Framing and finishing photographic prints
108 Mile Heritage Site
Heritage Interpreter (FT/Contract) June-August 2008
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Leading tours of a public museum
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Cleaning and maintaining permanent exhibits
Writing
SFU Galleries Blog, September 8, 2023
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Reflection on Sensorial Visualities as a student who participated in its conception, and as the curatorial intern on the project
“Game Changers; Angelic Goldsky” and “Game Changers; Veronique West” Stir Fall Arts Guide, September 2022
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Two profiles of local performing artists
“Peace Country confronts tensions between Northern and Southern B.C.” Stir, April 26, 2022
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Preview of a new play by rice and beans theatre
“Q&A with Governor General’s award winner Kim Senklip Harvey.” SADmag, June 23, 2021
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Interview with Syilx, Tsilhqot'in, Ktunaxa, and Dakelh actor, playwright, and director, Kim Sinklip Harvey
“Exploring image agency in exhibit: images that take, images that give.” SADmag, April 27, 2021
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Exhibition review of third year visual art show at SFU Galleries
“Review: Scott Massey’s A Marker to Measure Drift, at the KAG.” Kamloops This Week, March 23 2021
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Exhibition review
Programming
Instructor, "A Practice in Attentiveness: Photography and Poetry" Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, April 10, 2025
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Creating and delivering an interactive workshop
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Leading 10 participants through exercises on curating a photographic art presentation
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Facilitating in person
Facilitator, “Experience Life Drawing! Life Drawing Workshop” Parkside Art Gallery, 100 Mile House BC March 8, 2025
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Coordinating exhibiting artists to give short artist talks
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Moderating and facilitating a life drawing class with an undraped model
Instructor, “Queer Time” Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, November 2024 to March 2025
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Creation and facilitation of a thematic studio program for 2SLGBTQIA artists
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Managing studio time, scheduling, funding, and supplies
Co-Presenter, "Approaching Classic Art Movements Through Photography” Chris Harris Studio and Gallery; 100 Mile House BC September 22, 2024 and March 2, 2025
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Collaborative presentation creation
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Giving an in-person, semi-formal presentation series
Workshop Leader, "Art Project Curation" as part of "Develop Your Creative Vision" Montreal, QC 2022
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Creating and delivering an interactive workshop
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Leading 10 participants through exercises on curating a photographic art presentation
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Facilitating in person
Workshop Leader, "People Need People; Building Relationships in the Arts Community" as part of ArtSkills; Vancouver, BC 2022.
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Creating and delivering a workshop
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Facilitating remote learning over Zoom
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Providing a learning outcome of obtaining skills and confidence for networking with the arts community in Vancouver, BC
Photography
Exhibition Documentation of the following:
Ithin-eh-wuk--we place ourselves at the centre: James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2025
Dream ; Nàte, Casey Koyczan, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2025
Stories That Animate Us, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2024
every day is a day at the races when you're mentally and physically ill, Adrian Romeo,
Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2024
Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capitol, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2024
Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory, Gambletron, Johnny Forever Nawracaj, zev tiefenbach, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2024
Ancestral Dreams and Other Premonitions, Cindy Mochizuki, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2024
ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ DOUBLE VISION, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2024
Pieces: Victoria Kjargaard, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2024
Sleeping in Skins: Life in Inuit Nunangat, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2024
Patrick Lundeen, Bluto's Cave: Allegory to the Man Cave, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2024
Deanna Bowen, Black Drones in the Hive, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2023
Paula Ducharme, Tob Tob Kin, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2023
echoes, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, 2023
Mallory Tolcher, The Fadeaway, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops BC, 2023
Production Photographer, Studio 58, Langara College (volunteer); Vancouver, BC 2015
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Providing professional studio headshots for actors
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Documenting a live theatre performance
Event Photographer, TEDx YVR (volunteer); Vancouver, BC 2015
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Capturing flattering images of speakers, audience reactions, and candid images of attendees and volunteers.
Education
Post-secondary
Berlin Field School (SFU); Berlin, GER.
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Documenta 15
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12th Berlin Biennale
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Studio visits with Berlin-based artists
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Self-directed studies.
Simon Fraser University; Vancouver, BC — BA (with Distinction) Art, Performance, and Cinema Studies Major; Indigenous Studies Minor, 2022.
Langara college; Vancouver, BC — Diploma of Professional Photography, 2015.
Awards/
Scholarships
Scholarship — British Columbia Arts Council, 2022
Undergraduate Open Scholarship — Simon Fraser University, 2020, 2021, 2022
SFU Service Award, School for the Contemporary Arts — Simon Fraser University, 2019
Other Experience
Outdoor
Silviculture Technician, Brinkman & Assoc; Barrier, BC 2017-2019
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Planting trees
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Living remotely outdoors
Assistant Guide, Pathways Canada; The Bowron Lakes, BC 2018
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Guiding clients on a wilderness canoe circuit
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Preparing meals
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First aid
Management
Shift Supervisor, Wildfire Bakery; Victoria, BC 2017-2018
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Providing knowledgeable assistance to customers
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Training staff
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Overseeing shift responsibilities are completed
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Packing wholesale orders
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Distributing food donations to community
Assistant Manager, The Cookie Guy; Victoria, BC 2017
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Baking
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Order packaging and delivery
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Quality control
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Serving customers
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Daily opening and closing
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Cash out responsibilities
Campaign Manager, Rita Giesbrecht; 100 Mile House, BC 2016-2017
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Hosting community and fundraising events
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Volunteer coordinating
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Creating social media content
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Political strategizing
Manager, Our Town Café; Vancouver, BC 2015-2016
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Daily opening/closing
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Staff training
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Product ordering
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Overseeing product consistency and quality
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Event planning
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Preparing specialty beverages
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Cash tending and light bookkeeping