Francine Potvin

 

 

Born in Farnham, Quebec, January 26, 1961, lives in Farnham and works in Farnham and in Montreal.

 

 

Master of Fine Arts,  Concordia University , Montreal, Quebec, 1993

Bachelor of Fine Arts Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1983 

Ceramics Certificate C.E.G.E.P.  du Vieux-Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, 1982

Fine Arts Collegial Certificate C.E.G.E.P. de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu,  Quebec, 1980

 

 

Occasional Studio work with Paule Mainguy to produce collagraphs, Atelier Circulaire, 20012-2014

Monotype workshop with Jacinthe Tétrault, Atelier Alain Piroir, hiver 2013

Woodcut / 3D installation with Libby Hague, Atelier Circulaire, October 2010

Japanese Woodcut– 6 evenings with James McDougall, Atelier Circulaire, Fall 2009

Monotype workshop with Talleen Hacikyan, Atelier Circulaire, 2008

Occasional Studio work with Jacinthe Tétrault to produce collagraphs, Atelier Circulaire, 2001-2010

Basic introduction to Herbalism with Moïra O’Reilly, offered by l’herbothèque, Institut de recherche et d’éducation en santé naturelle, Sainte-Thérèse, Winter 2005

Workshop in Herbalism, offered offered by l’Herbothèque, Institut de recherche et d’éducation en santé naturelle, C.E.G.E.P De Maisonneuve, Montreal, 2005

Pedagogical Challenges in the creative Arts Cupfa Workshop, Concordia University, 2000

Managing discussions workshop on teaching strategies offered by the Centre for Teaching and learning of Concordia University, 1997
The Collagraph with Bernice Sorge, professional printmaker, L’Estampille,Dunham,1995     
Siligraphy with the late Wendy Simon, professional printmaker, L’Estampille, Dunham, 1994

 

 

Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland Labrador, July 2008

Visual Arts Advanced Studio Program Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, winter cycle, 1986-87          

 

 

Invitational exhibition during the fundraising eventl organized by the Fondation pour la Sauvegarde des écosystèmes du territoire de la Haute-Yamaska, ,Roxton Pond, May 15, 2013

La possibilité d’une île (extraits choisis) Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 2008

Toucher le coeur sauvage de la vie • Wild mind, McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, 2007

Viriditas ou La femme est salée comme l’algue, Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 2005

Figures de Flore, Centre des Arts Contemporains du Québec à Montréal, 2004

L’Asclépiade revisitée, Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1999

Mamelles, Rhizomes & Ramifications Singulières, Petit Alep, Montreal, 1997

Les espèces insoupçonnées ou le dilemne des âmes, Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1995

Fragments de l’anatomie d’un paysage intérieur,  Bourget Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal,1993
Fruits innommables, Circa, art contemporain, Montreal, 1991

Saison d’impatience, Centre des Arts Contemporains du Québec à Montréal, 1989
Atmosphères, Centre de Céramique Bonsecours Gallery, Montreal, 1987

Paysages Portatifs, Interaction, galerie d’expressions céramiques, Montreal,  1985

 

 

Guérisons: Explorations littéraire et visuelle: Philippe More (écriture) et Nathalie Bandulet (arts visuels),  Catherine Fortin et Élisabeth Picard, Michel Côté et Francine Potvin, Isabelle MIron et Nathalie Levasseur, commissaires: Isabelle Miron, professeure en création littéraire à l’UQÀM et  Catherine Audet, administratrice des arts,du 27 octobre au 1er décembre 2013, Galerie Rouge Art Contemporain, Cowansville, publication dans la revue Contre-Jour Cahiers littéraires, No 31, automne 2013

Forces de la Nature – Artistes d’ici pour Haïti, fund raising exhibition and auction organized by ANSANM Québec-Haïti, The museum of communication and history of Sutton, Sutton, November 4 to 10, 2013

Invited guest at Galerie/boutique Coeur Nomade, Frelishburg, October 26 to November 23, 2013

Silent auction, Arts Sutton gallery, Sutton, 2011

Part-time Faculty research and creative works showcase, McConnell Library Atrium, Concordia University,   2011

International Print Exhibition, Juried Group show, Centre des Arts Shenkman, École d’Art d’Ottawa, 2009

The print exchange,Travelling exhibition,  Print Zero Studios , Seattle, États-Unis, 5th Parallel Gallery, Université de Régina , Alberta, Canada,  Mouse Print Gallery, Université Concordia, Montréal, SUNY  Buffalo in NY, United States, 2009-2010

Raw/Medium rare/Well done, FOFA Gallery Concordia University, 2009

Collectives Visions,  McClure Gallery, Montréal, 2008

Journées de la culture, Coopérative Académique du Québec, Saint-Césaire, 2008

Petite exposition organisée par Ruth Potvin, Bureau du Bloc Québécois, Farnham, 2008

La première et la dernière, Maison de la Culture Frontenac, 2008

Prêt à emporter, Atelier Circulaire, 2007, 2008

1000 Miles apart, Manitoba University, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2007

Water,Gallery Sorge, Dunham, 2006                                                                            

Dialogues des ombres/Shadow project, Gallery Sorge, Dunham, 2005

Identités nomades, Centre Culturel Place des Martyrs, Chelles, France, 2002

Identités nomades, Hôtel-Dieu, Brie-Comte-Robert, France, 2002

Identités nomades, Foyer Rural, Tournan en Brie, France, 2001

Exchange Show, Action Art Actuel  at the Niagara Artist Company, St.Catharines, Ontario, 2001

Paper: a timeless medium,  Espace Adagio, Delta Montréal, 2001

Fine arts New Faculty Exhibition,  Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, 2000

Rouge 10th anniversary, Invitational  exhibition,  Circa Art Contemporain, Montreal, 1998

ConCernant les Centres,  Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1998

ConCernant les Centres,  Verticale Art contemporain Gallery , Laval, 1997

Dix ans d’Action,  Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1997

Lumière du printemps,  Arts Sutton Gallery, Sutton, 1997

Faculty Collective Exhibition,  Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, 1997

Avoir du Cran(e) Un bref regard sur le geste, 80 ans après Marcel Duchamp, in collaboration with  Crane Canada,Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1997

Art comme Artifice & Jardin de Sculptures Arts Sutton Gallery, Sutton 1996

Diptyque, Arts Sutton Gallery , 1995

Myriam Bardoul, Claude Laviolette et Francine Potvin Arts Sutton Gallery, Sutton 1995

Les artistes de l’Estampille, Dunham  Exhibition Centre  , 1995

La Route des Arts, series of collective exhibitions, Brome-Missisquoi County summer  1994

Salon de l’Estampe de Montréal,  Shangrila Hotel , Montreal, 1994 

Faculty Collective Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, 1993

Le Nouveau Monde, Maison de la Culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, 1992

La terre a des Elles, invitational collective exhibition, Trois-Rivières cultural Centre, 1992

Fourth Biennale Nationale de Céramique de Trois-Rivières, Du Parc gallery,
Trois-Rivières, 1990, The Kosler Gallery, Toronto, 1991

Pour l’amour de Gaïa, déesse Terre, Circa, Art contemporain, Montreal, 1990  

Dieu et Diable…les artistes, Circa, Art contemporain, Montreal, 1990 

Banff in Syracuse National Council for Ceramic Art,  Syracuse, New York, United-States,  1987

Banff Centre Visual Arts,Gulf Canada gallery, Calgary, Alberta, 1987

Double Take; Provoking the image, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Chigago International New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, United-States, 1986

Flower Containers,  Prime Canadian Craft, Toronto, Ontario, 1986

Mostra delle Nazioni: Québec, Faenza, Italy, Musée Maçon  and  Paris, France,1982

 

 

Part-time Professor, Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Studio Arts: since 1993

Associate Professor, Limited Term Appointment, Concordia  University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Studio Arts :  1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2002-2003

Supplementary teacher in Art and other subjects 
Commission scolaire du Val-des-Cerfs, Montérégie, since 1994
Eastern townships Schoolboard 2000-2006

Teaching Assistant  Concordia University  Sculpture, Ceramics & Fibres Department 1990- 1992

Freelance scenic painter for theatre,cinema and television: 1987-1992

 

 

Member of Atelier Circulaire, Montréal, Québec since 2006

Member of Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu since 1996

Member of Arts Sutton

Member of Nature Printing Society, since 2011

Member of FloraQuebeca, since 20102

Member of Association de Biodynamie du Québec since 2009

Member of the jury for the McClure gallery programming, 2008

Member of the jury for the  artist-in-residency program, Atelier Circulaire, 2007

Mentorship for Audrey Lavallée’s project, perfectionnement et ressourcement (CALQ) Cadence et flânerie,  2008-2009

Responsable for the Empty Bowls/ Bols en partage project, Concordia University, in collaboration with the Ceramics Student Association; a fundraising collective endeavor to raise awareness around the issue of hunger and to create links with the community, 2002- 2008

Responsible for the Rain Sticks project with cycle one and two students, Farnham Elementary School, 2006

Responsible  for the calendar project The Parade of the wild things with kids’s drawing for a fundraising at Farnham Elementary School, 2004

Member of the School Board, Farnham Elementary School, Farnham, 2003-2005

Member of the jury for Gravure a collective exhibition organized by Atelier Circulaire and Concordia University, at Espace 418, february 2003

Member of the jury for the 2001-2002 exhibitions programming, Action Art Actuel,2000

Member of the jury for the sixth Symposium d’arts d’Iberville, 2001

Volunteer Work  with the first cycle children of Farnham Elementary School for the conception and production of the theater set for Tikki Tikki Tembo , May and June 2000

Member of the jury , C’est Art Cerart, collective extra-curricular exhibition of Ceramics students from Concordia University, Montreal, 2000

Member of the  jury , Ninth Biennale Nationale de Céramique de Trois-Rivières, 1999-2000

Writing of an essay for the catalogue of the Ninth Biennale Nationale de Céramique de Trois-Rivières , 2000

Participant as a translator for the International Event of  Performance Dérapage Controlé  organized by Action Art Actuel, 1999

Professional Active Member of  Conseil de la Sculpture du Québec : 1988-1999

Member of  Concordia University  Part-time Faculty Association , CUPFA, since 1992

Member of the Board of Directors,Centre de la Petite Enfance le Colibri de Farnham, as vice-president and president,1997 to 1999

 

 

Birth of my son Jacob on May first, 1998,  Zacharie on December 15, 1995,  and Lawrence on May 12, 1993

Regular practice of Viniyoga, since 2003

Regular studying of Buddhism and other spiritual traditions and deep ecology on an ongoing basis

 

 

Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association, Professional  Development  Grant : 2013, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2000, 1999

Canada Council for the Arts,  Quest Programme grant, 2000 

B Grant, Short Term project,Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec: 1995 and 1996
B Grant, Short Termproject, Ministère de la Culture et des communications du Québec, 1994

Honorable Distinction, Le nouveau monde,  Maisons de la Culture de Montréal, 1992                                               
Teaching Assistantship, Concordia University: 1990, 1991, 1992

Programme Jeunes Volontaires  Ministère des Loisirs, Chasse & Pêche, Quebec Government 1988-89

Artist in residence Grant,  Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, 1986-1987

Travelling Grant, Ministère des Affaires Intergouvernementales, Quebec Government 1986

Bilinguism and Biculturalism Grant, Quebec Government, 1983

 

 

Prêt d’Oeuvres d’art du Musée du Québec Collection

National Bank of Canada

Few private collections

 

 

Since 2005 ongoing acquisitions of prints made to the present by the Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec.

 

 

ANSANM Québec-Haïti

Educative foundation, Jean-Jacques Bertrand High School, Farnham, 2009
Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec, Ville Saint-Laurent, 2010
Ansaanm Québec-Haïti, 2010

 

 

Elle rhéhabilite les mauvaises herbes by Claude Hébert, Journal ds Rivières, 19 février 2013,http://www.laveniretdesrivieres.com/Culture/2013-02-19/article-3179966/Elle-rehabilite-les-%26laquo%3Bmauvaises-herbes%26raquo%3B/1

 Francine Potvin: un nouveau site Web by Yves Rivard, Journal Le Courrier, Volume 3 Numéro 20, February 5, 2013

Des expositions à voir chez Action Art Actuel  by Reine Côté, Le Canada Français, Wednesday November 26, 2008

Something wild grows at the McClure, by Ida Jorgensen, The Westmount Examiner, Thursday November 8, 2007

Roc, fruit ou fleur  Entretien avec Édouard Lachapelle, Espace Sculpture 71, Printemps/Spring, , 2005

Paul Mathieu, Sex Pots Eroticism in ceramics, Chapter 7 Growing Things: Organic formalism, Rutgers University Press, 2003, page  205

Viriditas ou la femme est salée comme l’algue,
leaflet published par Action Art Actuel, 2005

Avoir du Cran(e) leaflet published par Marie-Josée Dauphinais and Action Art Actuel, 1997

Quelques traces  catalogue published by  Action Art Contemporain, 1992

Francine Potvin : Atmosphères leaflet published  by  Centre de Céramique Bonsecours, 1987

Banff in Syracuse  catalogue published by  Contact  magazine,  Edmonton, Alberta, 1987

Double Take: Provoking the Image, published by the Walter Phillips Gallery  Banff,1986

Chicago New Art Forms Exposition catalogue published by the Centre de Céramique Bonsecours,  1986

Québec—Faenza Manifestation Internationale de la Céramique D’art published by Bonsecours, 1985 

La Manifestazioni Internazionale Della Ceramica D’Arte  published by Bollettino Del Museo Internazionale Della Ceramica in Faenza, Annata LXXXI, 1985 

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