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Award-winning Métis visual artist Amy Malbeuf has been named Artist in Residence of the Native Arts & Culture department at Portage College for the 2017/18 academic year.
Malbeuf is from Rich Lake, Alta. and will be sharing her knowledge, skills and experience with the college’s art students as well as local communities.
Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as Art Mûr, Montréal; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; and Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand.
Currently Malbeuf is working alongside Portage College instructor Ruby Sweetman to create works of art for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. This Commemorative Art Project tied into the College's Museum of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts is titled 'Hide Tanning: Tradition Inspiring the Present and Future'.
This is not the first residency Malbeuf has participated in. She has been chosen for many international artist residencies, including at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; The Banff Centre; and The Labrador Research Institute.
In 2015, she was one of two Canada Council for the Arts fellows at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico.
Malbeuf holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan and is a past graduate of the Native Arts and Culture program at Portage College.
In 2016 Malbeuf received a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and a William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists in Canada from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.
To learn more about the Artist in Residence Program please follow this link:http://www.portagecollege.ca/Programs/Native-Arts-and-Culture/Artist-in-Residence