Lori Deeley
Lori Deeley
Lives and works in Kippens, NL
Represented by The Leyton Gallery in St. John's, NL and The Glass Station in Rocky Harbour, NL
Education/ Certification
2020 Post Graduate Certificate in Art Therapy -Toronto Art Therapy Institute, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Post-Secondary Teaching Certificate - Newfoundland Department of Education
2010 Master of Education: Literacy - Mount Saint Vincent University — Halifax, Nova
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts/Art Education -Nova Scotia College of Art & Design — Halifax, Nova Scotia
Exhibitions
2023 7th Annual Summer Group Show, Blue Crow Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Trails, Tales & Tunes group exhibition, Sugar Hill Inn, Norris Point, NL
2023 LAWN Cultural Memories Exhibition, Corner Brook Arts & Culture Centre, NL
2023 For the Love of Landscape, The Leyton Gallery, St. John's, NL
2023 Small Works Big Impact, Hew & Draw, Corner Brook, NL
2022 fare & SQUARE 2022, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, NL
2023 The HeArt of the Holidays Annual Art Exhibition & Sale, Corner Brook, NL
2022 Member's Show, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, NL
2022 Home, traveling juried group exhibition, LAWN, NL
2022 Trails, Tales & Tunes group exhibition, Sugar Hill Inn, Norris Point, NL
2022 The Newfoundland Show, Group Show, 14 Bells Fine Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
2022 Salt & Fresh, Solo Show, Tina Dolter Gallery, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL
2021 Writers at Woody Point Art Show, Woody Point, NL
2021 5th Annual Summer Group Show, Blue Crow gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 Pop Up Exhibition, The Glass Station, Rocky Harbor, NL
2020 Newfoundlandscapes, solo exhibition, Round Hill Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
2017 Arts and Letters Awards Exhibition, The Rooms, St. John's, NL
Awards/Grants
2022 Professional Project Grant, Arts NL
2007 Art Educator of the Year for Newfoundland and Labrador
Publications
Kippens woman completes 100 swims in 2021 and documents them in a series of landscape paintings, The Telegram, NL. https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/lifestyles/local-lifestyles/kippens-woman-completes-100-swims-in-2021-and-documents-them-in-a-series-of-landscape-paintings-100733569/
The Mindful Loop: Employing Mindfulness-based Art Therapy in Recovery, Envisage: Canadian Art Therapy Association Online Magazine, vol. 2, issue 1 https://www.canadianarttherapy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CATA-Envisage-2.1- winter-2019.pdf
College of the North Atlantic offers free wellness supports to the public. 08/04/2020. Saltwire Network.
Professional Experience
2023 Smart Aging Project - Western Health, Corner Brook, NL. Online artist workshop for seniors with mild to moderate frailty or dementia. Working with chalk pastel, looking at artists who feature
food in their work, and the idea of communion with tea time.
2021/23 Cabox Geopark Video - contract to create backdrop landscape images for an educational, geological animation project.
2019- Art & Design Essentials Instructor - College of the North Atlantic, Bay St. George Campus, NL Present
2020 Smart Aging Project - Western Health, Corner Brook, NL. Online artist workshop for seniors with mild to moderate frailty or dementia utilizing watercolour and memories and thoughts around the idea of home.
2017/20 Art Therapy Practicum - Toronto Art Therapy Institute Distance Learning Stephenville, NL.
700 practicum hours at several locations in the Bay St. George and provincially using art as a vehicle to improve their emotional, mental and physical well-being.
2019 Employee Wellness Program Developer – College of the North Atlantic, Bay St. George Campus,
Stephenville, NL
2014/18 Visual Arts Program Developer and D2L Video Game Art & Design Instructor - College of the North Atlantic Bay St. George Campus Stephenville, NL. Development and delivery of an Art & Design Essentials Certificate
2011/14 Visual Arts Instructor - College of the North Atlantic Bay St. George Campus Stephenville, NL
2003/10 Art Teacher - Stephenville High School Stephenville, NL
2002/03 Art Teacher - Appalachia High School St. George’s, NL
Collections
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
The City of St. John's, Newfoundland
BSG Long Term Care facility, Western Health, NL
Eastern Health, NL
Professional Associations
Visual Artists of Newfoundland and Labrador
CARFAC
Eastern Edge Gallery
League of Artists of Western Newfoundland