Résumé
of Lynda Faulks
1)
Education and Degrees
a) Vancouver
School of Art 1960-61
b)
Bachelor
of Secondary Art Education 1968 – UBC (Vancouver, BC)
c) Master of Art Education – 1986 – University of Victoria (Victoria, BC)
2)
Work Experience
a)
Artist
and Designer for BC Provincial Government – Summers 1961 – 64, 1968
b)
Interior
Designer – Ottawa, 1964 – 65
c)
CUSO
Volunteer – Jamaica (Art teacher) 1965 – 67
d)
Post Secondary Art Education
and part-time Painting Instructor for
i)
Centre des Artes Visuels, Montréal 1970 – 72 v) Maple Bay
Painters - 2006
ii)
Simon Fraser University 1974
– 78 vi) Crofton Painters - 2007
iii)
Malaspina College 1980, 81,
85, 88, 89, 07-09 vii) Private art instructor –2005 to 2007
iv)
University of Victoria, 1987, 88
e)
High School Art Teacher
i) Vancouver, BC 1968 – 70, 72 –
74, 1980: Windermere Secondary and John
Oliver Secondary
ii)
Duncan, BC 1980 – 1988: Mount Prevost Middle School
iii)
Duncan BC 1988 – 2005: Cowichan Secondary School
iv)
Nanaimo BC – Summer 2005 -
2007: Malaspina International High School
v)
Duncan BC – Spring 2006:
Cowichan Valley Alternate School
3)
Exhibitions
i)
West Vancouver Studio Gallery
1976 v)
ii)
University of Victoria – 1986
iii)
Duncan – 1994, 95, 96, 97, 98
iv)
UBC – 1964
v)
Centres des Artes Visuels, Montréal 1970 – 72
vi)
Harrison Gallery, Vancouver
1980
vii)
BC Art Teachers Conference –
Hyatt Regency Hotel 1998
viii)
University of Victoria,
Maltwood Gallery 1998 & 2009
ix)
Nanaimo Art Gallery - 2009
4)
Media and Subject Matter
i)
Figurative sculpture in clay
ii)
Oils – Large portraits and
landscapes
iii)
Watercolour and Mixed Media –
landscapes, still life, figures, boats, building & whimsical subject
matter(see website: www.lyndafaulks.com)
5)
Special Projects in Education
Orchestrated, with art students, over 270 murals in
the community (schools, hospitals, care facilities, etc).
Most prestigious murals have been for the Commonwealth Games (a Leonardo Da Vinci Commemorative) &, three for Royal BC Museum,
a mural for a school in Japan, a Labrador mural (2006), a Peace Mural in Montreal 2009
6) Special
Honours
a)
PRIZE WINNER
i)
BC Regional Art Shows – 1981,
82, 84, 85, 86, 99
ii)
BC Festival of the Arts –
work chosen for this show in 1988
b)
TELEVISION SHOWS
i)
Cable TV, Montreal 1972
ii)
Cable TV, (Cowichan) –
Featured Artist (twice) in 1985 on cable TV
c)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
i)
BCATA presenter – many times
over past 20 years at Provincial & National Conferences
ii)
Presenter at CSEA conferences
– Regina, Fredericton, Vancouver, Halifax (1987 & 1999). Labrador.
d)
VOLUNTEERING
i)
Past co-president of Cowichan
Valley Arts Council
e)
AWARDS AND SPECIAL HONOURS
i)
1990 - invited Speaker at the
ECHA International Conference, Budapest, Hungary
ii)
1994 - co-recipient of the
Fitzhenry & Whiteside Award of
Excellence for Canadian Art Education
iii)
1994 -
BC Art Teacher of the
Year Award
iv)
2003 - Perpetual Arts Trophy recipient, City
of Duncan
v)
2004 – keynotes speaker, BC
Art Teachers’ Conference, Richmond, BC
vi)
2004 - Woman of Distinction
nominee – Arts & Culture for Southern Vancouver Island
vii)
2004 - keynote speaker – “
Faces of Aboriginality” CSEA Conference – Goose Bay Labrador
viii)
2004 - C.S.E.A Art Teacher of
the Year National Affiliate Award
ix)
2005 - Woman of Distinction
Nominee – Arts & Culture for Southern Vancouver Island
x)
2007 - invited keynote speaker
Arts Educators’ Conference – Aug 29-30 Kelowna, BC
xi)
2008 – portrait artist –
North American Aboriginal Games (NAIG) – Aug 9-16 Duncan, BC
xii)
2008 – CSEA National Award
for Art Teacher of the Year for Canada
xiii) 2009 – portrait artist Vancouver Island University re. First Nations elders