Our Instructor’s.

Kyle Bustin is an art technician and multi-disciplinary artist who has been working in arts institutions for over 10 years. He has a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Memorial University in Newfoundland. His artistic practice focuses on his relationship to online and digital culture. When he is not working at Carleton he works on his own art practice and teaches a New Media Art course at the Ottawa School of Art.

Wendy earned her MA in art history from Carleton university and a BAH in art history and English literature at Queen’s University. She is passionate about art education and has taught visual literacy in Kingston, Halifax and Ottawa since 2003.

Wendy teaches Canadian and contemporary art history in the fine arts diploma program. In both courses, emphasis is placed on decolonization, decentering whiteness, and dismantling the hierarchy inherent in traditional western art history canon.

Since 1999 Farouk Kaspaules taught Integrated Processes and Silk Screen & Beyond courses to students enrolled in the Diploma program and General program. Farouk teaches Van Dyke Brown and Cyano processes, as well as Silk Screen and Photo Silk Screen techniques

Adrian Gor’s work combines writing, egg-tempera painting, relief printing, and hand-crafted organic materials. His medieval-inspired multi-processed techniques of line making and gilding, drive him to question todays symbols of human desire and containers of truth in our visual culture. For details of his artistic vision see his latest essay, “Reimagining the iconic in New Media Art,” published in Theory, Culture, and Society, SAGE Journals (2019). Adrian has completed his PhD in the Humanities (Interdisciplinary) Program at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2015) combining studies in Theology/Philosophy, Art History, and Studio Arts. He also has an MFA in Drawing/Painting from the School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor (2010).

Patti Normand has been a professional artist for over twenty years. She has worked professionally for many years as a sculptor and model maker for area museums, notably the Children’s Museum and the Canadian Museum of Civilization where her creations can be seen throughout the museum. She has also maintained her own artistic practice of painting and sculpting, exhibiting in local galleries, and has a love of teaching and teaches on a regular basis for the Ottawa School of Art’s Outreach Program.

Maria Moldovan was born in Romania. She started her visual education in the High School of Arts, Sf. Gheorghe, her hometown, in a class specialized in painting. After 4 years of painting she has chosen to study ceramic art at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj Napoca. She made this decision because she was attracted by three-dimensional art but she couldn’t give up the colors. So it seemed to be the perfect solution to have ceramic art and painting at the same time.

Painting and ceramic art fluctuates through her life since then. There are longer periods of time dedicated for painting and than for ceramic art.

Starting from 2008 she is involved in projects related to children’s illustration as well. There are five books so far published with her illustrations.

Maria moved with her family in Canada in 2013.

Artist. Jeweller. Educator.

https://www.galiliellisjewelry.com/

David Barbour teaches Introduction to Photography in the Diploma program as well as other photography classes in the adult general interest. Highlights to his career include a Mid-Career Canada Council Grant to continue his project in Havana (1999) as well as a World Press Award (1985) for a photograph he took in Egypt. His current work primarily balances beauty and environmental issues that are found in both rural and urban environments. One can see his work at www.davidbarbour.ca

Brendan de Montigny is a creative strategist, art director, visual artist, and former art dealer with over ten years of experience working in private and public cultural sectors at the intersection of art and design. De Montigny holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa, a BFA from Concordia University, and a DEC from Heritage College. His artistic practice and research is concerned with visual forms of technological utopianism,

www.brendandemontigny.com

Andrew Morrow is an award-winning, contemporary Canadian artist. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Ottawa. Morrow’s work has been widely exhibited and reviewed throughout Canada and abroad. In addition to his practice as an artist, Morrow is a professor in painting and drawing at the University of Ottawa, and a founding member of the Ottawa Arts Council Young Artist Award Committee. Morrow lives in Chelsea, QC, with his wife and two sons.

Lucia De Marinis graduated from a five-year Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1984, where she majored in Painting and minored in drawing. She was given advanced standing to third year upon admission to the program and was selected for the National Dean’s List in 1984. She was a finalist for the prestigious Gund Award competition at graduation. Her painting teacher, thesis advisor, and mentor at the Cleveland Institute of Art was Julian Stanczak, a renowned colourist and student of Josef Albers at Yale University. Lucia also has a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Literature from Carleton University and studied briefly at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome with the assistance of a scholarship from the Italian government. She completed several years of private study with Ugo Chyurlia, a graduate

of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice (1932). Lucia has exhibited her work in solo, group, and juried shows in Canada and the USA and is represented in corporate, public, and private collections. She has been teaching art at the post-secondary level for over thirty years.

Kathryn Drysdale’s artistic practice is based in drawing and is inspired by observing the natural and industrial Canadian landscape. Her large-scale drawings are a means to notice, interpret and express the visual complexity of her immediate surroundings. She also has a keen interest in the fibre arts which led her to explore the world of colour through hand dyeing yarn. She founded a small craft business, Riverside Studio. in 2012 where she produces beautiful hand-dyed yarns and sells them around the world. More recently she is experimenting with rug tufting and finding connections between her drawing and fibre art practices.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Her work can be found in private and public art collections including the City of Ottawa and Loto-Quebec.

She has maintained a studio in Wakefield, Quebec since 1991 and is a founding member of Place des Artistes de Farrellton, a cooperative artist studio north of Wakefield, QC. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University and also studied at the Ontario College of Art.

Carla Whiteside’s work is centered on the viewer. She researches the structural conditions producing effects of meaning in art in general and specifically through her drawing, installation and sculpture practices. She has been questioning and challenging disciplinary boundaries for over four decades. Her work is included in both public and private collections and can regularly be seen locally.

Sarah Tompkins’ paintings emerge from the tensions of uncertainty and ambivalence which are made manifest in the abstracted image. The paintings prioritize process over outcome as they submit to creative and destructive forces. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sarah Tompkins & Katie McDonald, Galerie Z Art Space, Montreal, QC (2022), SPECTRAL FLORA, Skeir Gallery, Toronto (2016) and VEILED, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON (2016). Her work was also featured in XL, Gatineau, QC, AXENÉO7 (2023), Foire Plural, Montreal, QC with Lalani-Jennings Contemporary Art (2023), and It’s Not Fair, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON (2022). Tompkins is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including the Stonecroft Scholarship, the Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship, and the Robert Shotton Memorial Scholarship. Her work has been featured in numerous publications in Canada, the US and the UK. Her new work will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at Lalani-Jennings Contemporary Art, Guelph, ON, in November 2023.

Deidre received her B.A. and Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University. After graduation, she received a bursary from Graff Centre de Conception Graphique in Montreal where she worked as an artist in residence for one year. She continued her printmaking studies in Japan, learning Japanese wood art from Akiru Kurosake. Recently she spent one month printmaking at Sparkbox, and 4 months in Northern Ireland as an artist in residence . She has exhibited her prints in Japan, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. Deidre has been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art since 1988, in the Diploma, General, and Children’s Program. She is currently the Coordinator of the Children’s/teen Department.