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Lori Deeley

Lives and works in Kippens, NL

deels123@gmail.com

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.

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/local-lifestyles/college-of-the-north-atlantic-offers-free-wellness-supports-to-the-public-435337/

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

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