Curriculum Vitae
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(Last full update - May 10, 2013)
Education
2016 to present - SSHRC funded Post Doctoral Research Fellow at McGill University
2010 - 2016 – PhD student in Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal
2014-2015 - Visiting researcher, Tokyo University, Japan.
2009 - Master of Arts in Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal.
Hart, L. M., (2009). Life as they know it: Teaching photography to teens for cross-cultural understanding and identity development within community art education. (Master's dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (Publication Number: MR63019.)
Available from: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976555/1/MR63019.pdf
2006 - Bachelor of Education, Major Art Education at UBC. Included a three month
practicum teaching art 8, Art 9, and Art 10-12 at Earl Marriott Secondary in Surrey.
2004 - Bachelor of Art, Major Studio Arts, from the University of British Columbia.
LINKED PUBLICATIONS. (Recent publications available free online) (A partial list of other publications from up until 2013 is provided below, for full information please see other profiles listed above, or contact me.)
Hart, L., & Carter, M. (2015). Wade in the Water: Participatory Theatre and Performance Art at the Water’s Edge, In M. Carter, G. Belliveau, & M. Prendergast, [Eds.]. Drama and Theatre Education: Canadian Perspectives. Polygraph Book Series, Canadian Association of Teacher Education
Hart, L. (2013). Instant Analysis: Mobile Photography as a Research Method. Canadian Art Teacher. 12(1), 24-27. (4 pages).
Hart, L. M., (2009). Life as they know it: Teaching photography to teens for cross-cultural understanding and identity development within community art education. (Master's dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (Publication Number: MR63019.) (170 pages).
Awards and Certification
May 2011-2014
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral Studies). Value $35,000 per year for three years.
May 2011
Concordia Conference and Exposition Award Competition. Value: $600.
March 2011
AERA Student Travel Stipend. Value: $200.
“…with over 100 highly qualified students submitting to Division G. We are please to inform you that you have been selected as one of the 20 recipients of this award. We commend you for your hard work and achievements, and hope to see you continue to be involved with the Division.”
September 2010-2012:
Laura Gainey Graduate Award for Excellence in Art Education. Presented by the Art Education Admissions Committee. Value: $20,000 for 2010-12.
November 2008-2009:
Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Irish Studies, together with Deanna Del Vecchio. Granted by St. Patrick's Society, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University.
Value $5000 for an installation art piece investigating the history of Griffintown. Created and conceptualized the visual and audio components of the work, including: photographs, video, and the recorded oral histories of past residents - Irish immigrants who settled in Montreal - and present day residents.
September 2006
Teaching Certification, granted by the British Columbia College of Teachers.
2004-2006
Arts Grant. Provided by the Peninsula Arts Foundation for individuals pursuing careers in the visual arts. Value: $2000
2004
University of British Columbia bursary in Art Education. Value: $4,600.
D and C Stedman Bursary. University of British Columbia. For a woman working towards a professional career in education. Value: $1,300.
2000-2001
Surrey Metro Savings Community Scholarship. Presented by Surrey Metro Savings. Awarded based on grades, community involvement and essay component. Value: $1,000.
“Passport to Education” Government Scholarship. Awarded by the Government of British Columbia. Value: $1,000.
Volunteer Work, Employment and Work Experience.
November 2012 - March 2013
Higher Education (Committee Member & Organization) On the organizing committee for the Emerging Scholars Symposium on Oral, Digital, and Public History, taking place March 22, 2013.
September 2012-Feb 2013
Higher Education (Committee Member & Organization) Member of the Symposium Planning Committee, helped to organize the Art Education Graduate Student Symposium: Making to thinking, Feb 28-March 1.
April 2012 and 2013
Museum (Teaching) Provided a workshop for Alter-Écho at the McCord Museum. “Getting creative with photography, how to take great photos.”
August 2012:
Community Art (Leadership, Volunteer, Programming) Designed the Instagramers Photo Tour and Documentation of the NDG Arts Week, in association with Instagramers Montreal.
Fall 2011:
Higher Education (Teaching) Professor, ARTE 201: Art in Early Childhood, Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education. Pre-requisites for this introductory Art Education course include enrolment in the specialization in Early Childhood or Major in Child Studies. Course objectives include: 1) To introduce students to a variety of art materials, techniques, as well as their presentation, organization, and health and safety considerations in an early childhood context. 2) To learn how to design and implement visual arts lessons, and develop skills for arts curriculum planning in early childhood and elementary settings. 3) To learn about how art is organized and presented in the classroom, including developing vocabulary for response and evaluation. 4) To develop an understanding of children’s developmental stages in the visual arts, including an implementation and observation of a child’s art making activity. 5) To learn about topics and pedagogies at play in contemporary art education. 6) To consider and form a personal conception of the roll that the arts play in society, schools, childhood and in development of the whole person.
September 2010 to March 2011:
Higher Education (Committee Member & Organization) Art Education Symposium Planning Committee. Helped to organize the symposium and designed the posters for the annual Art Education Symposium, taking place March 2011.
January 2011:
Higher Education (Teaching) Invited Lecturer for ARTE 340, Concordia University. Teaching art education to adolescents in a community setting: Project Tête-à-Tête as an example of community-based research.
September 2010 to January 2011:
Higher Education (Research) Research Assistant for Professor Anita Sinner, Concordia Faculty of Art Education.
July 2009 - 2012
Community Art (Teaching) Community Art Educator at Explorations (a program out of McGill University). Created and taught the courses “Fabric Fantastic,” “Hand Made Art Books” and “Luminous Lanterns”. These courses consisted mainly of children ages nine to fourteen. Several of the fiber arts media covered included: silk painting, shibori, hand sewing and designing, crazy quilting, natural dyeing, and more. http://www.education.mcgill.ca/explorations/Intermediate/fabric_fantastic.html
Gazette article: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Rockin+robots+This+school/3294735/story.html
September 2010 to December 2010:
Research Affiliation & Arts Dissemination (Collaborative Creating). Web designer on SSHRC funded Knowledge Synthesis project, with Professor Steven High of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University. Created “The Oral Historian’s Digital Toolbox” website: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistorianstoolbox/.
January 2010 to December 2010:
Higher Education, Community and Museum (Teaching, Research & Organization)
Digital Projects Coordinator at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Responsibilities include: researching and developing curriculum in cutting edge locative media technologies (including applying digital storytelling to the mediascapes, which are location-activated programs played on mobile GPS enabled devices such as android cell phones and iPhones); teaching workshops geared to Master’s and PhD level students, staff, faculty, and community affiliates (including local museum program coordinators); developing interactive websites for conferences, staff, and special projects; assisting in development, troubleshooting and community liaison for the Stories Matter application; assisting with grant applications; consultations with Centre affiliates for individual new media projects; teaching occasional new-media focused classes for Dr. Steven High; technical training and providing individual and group tutorials for students; and developing new media resources made available through the Centre’s website.
June 2006 to June 2007, intermittently to June 2010:
Public School (Teaching Art, Photography and Technology) Employed as a teacher on call by the Surrey School Board. Several long term teaching placements include secondary visual arts, ESL, special education, drama, yearbook and photography courses. Teacher Certification obtained through UBC Bachelor of Education and the BC College of Teachers.
June 17 to September 5 2010
Teaching Exhibition & Community Organization: Student’s work from the grassroots cross-cultural, cross-generational program “Tete-a-tete” exhibited the Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition title: Tête-à-Tête: A Cross-cultural and Intergenerational Project at the Museum of Fine Arts.
February 2010
Higher Education (Teaching) Photoshop consultant for Professor Kathleen Vaughan.
February 2010
Independent Art Community (Creation, Volunteering & Organization) Organizing Committee Member and volunteer graphic design and poster design for Griffintown: Developing Culture, New City Gas. Part of Montreal’s Nuit Blanche cultural crawl.
October 2008 to August 2010:
Grass-Roots Community (Teaching, Organizing, & Research) Working with Stan Chase of L.O.V.E. on project Tête-à-Tête; a social-justice, community art project involving inter-cultural and inter-generational exploration in conjunction with The Musée des Beaux Arts in Montreal. www.tete-a-tetemtl.org I functioned as the organizer for the new media arts component of the project, and also designed and taught a curriculum utilizing video, photography, and digital storytelling, with the purpose of aiding identity formation, community cohesion and cultural understanding within a group of inter-cultural adolescents.
October 2009:
Higher Education (Teaching) Invited Lecture. ARTE 352. Teaching photography to teens in tete-a-tete.
July 2009 to November 2009:
Higher Education (Organizing) Conference Coordinator for SSHRC funded conference “Teenage Cultural Practices: Setting a Research Agenda,” organized by Dr. Lorrie Blair.
September 2008 to May 2009
Higher Education (Teaching) Teacher’s Assistant. Oversaw pre-service teachers in community art education practica around Montreal, for courses ARTE 320/330/432/434.
September 2007 to May 2009
Higher Education (Teaching) Assistant in ARTE 352 (light based media). Taught technical elements of the course including darkroom and digital photography, as part of 4 semester assistant position at Concordia University. Served as a consultant to professor in 2008 for developing the course, following the request of the department head. (*note, this assistantship was renewed after the first year.)
2007-2008 & 2008-2009:
Higher Education Community Leadership. Co-President of Art Education Graduate Student Association at Concordia University, for two terms. Played a key role in establishing this young student organization, creating and encouraging new student initiatives, such as an annual Art Education art exhibition at the VAV gallery, regular community events, establishing a studio and collective work space at the University, and securing exhibition space for students in and around the University.
Early 2007
Professional Development Education (Teaching) Invited to present a Pro-D workshop entitled “Introduction to Photoshop” for Earl Marriott Secondary School.
July-August & May 2006:
Community Art (Teaching) Community Educator for the Surrey Art Gallery. This included teaching summer art camps for ages ranging from 5 to 14, including a clay workshop. Frequent guest educator for the Surrey Art Gallery’s “Family Day” events. Workshops taught include: 1" mini-art button workshop, and a lantern making workshop for all ages.
August 2006 to 2008
Community Art (Teaching, Grass Roots Organization) Established a community art collective and gallery in Peace Portal Alliance Church in Surrey, B.C.
June - May 2006:
Public School (Teaching) Taught Art 9, Art 8, and Art 10, 11, and 12 at Earl Marriott Secondary School in Surrey.
2005
Professional Development Education (Teaching) Lead a workshop on “culture jamming” and creative “subvert-isments” at the BC Art Teacher’s Association’s conference entitled ARTworks.
2004
Community / University Partnership (Organizing Committee, Artist, Volunteer) Participated in Hasting Elementary School Project to design a mural on “Health and Wellness” http://www.learningexchange.ubc.ca/trek_program/reading/project2004.html
Presentations and Publications
Most Recent: 2013
Upcoming. Insta.nalysis: Using social media photography applications as part of inductive artistic and qualitative research methodology. Graduate Student Symposium, CSEA/CAGE. Montreal, QC, 10-11 May , 2013. Montreal, QC.
Upcoming. Picturing #mymontreal: Using social media & Instagram as inductive methodology & analysis to create a digital story of urban experience in pictures and poetry. CSEA/CAGE, 10-11 May , 2013. Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. (2013). Virtual–Urban Limbo: Five projects highlight the path to producing virtual spaces that teach art, local history and engage culture in Montreal. Differential Mobilities Conference, 8-11 May, 2013. Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. (2013). “I am the Future Ghost” – A walk through the process of community based art & research creation as an avenue for strengthening neighborhood activities. Art Education Gradute Student Symposium: Making to thinking. Feb 28 - March 1, 2013. Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. (2013). Picturing #mymontreal: Using social media & Instagram as inductive methodology & analysis to create a digital story of urban experience in pictures and poetry. COHDS Emerging Scholars Symposium. March 22, 2013. Montreal, QC.
2012 and Earlier
March 2012
Hart, L. (2012). Night-Lights: Creating collaborative urban art installations to engage hope, learning, and spark community dialogue. NAEA National Convention, 1-4 March 2012. New York, NY.
October 2011
Hart, L. (2011). Map mashups and mediascapes: Teaching digital media at the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. CSEA/SCÉA National/Provincial Conference, 13-15 October 2011. Fredericton, NB.
April 2011
Hart, L. (2011). Life As They Know It: Second-Generation Canadian Teens Employ
Photography in Cross-Cultural Explorations of Identity. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 8-10 April 2011, New Orleans, LA.
March 2011
Hart, L. (2011). Crossing Cultures: Teaching digital photography for cross-cultural understanding and empowerment within community art education. NAEA National Convention, 17-20 March 2010. Seattle, WA.
Hart, L. (2011). Artful Storytelling: Teaching digital media at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. NAEA National Convention, 17-20 March 2010. Seattle, WA.
Kenny, Z., Hart, L. (2011). Eco-art and meaning making: Honouring material arts educators Sue Bartley and Stan Horner. NAEA National Convention, 17-20 March 2010. Seattle, WA.
May 2010
Hart, L. M, Kenny, Z. (2010). Waste not, make art: An homage to material art educators Sue Bartley and Stan Horner. Eco Art 2: BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, (52)1.
March 2010
Hart, L. M. (2010). Personal insights into social justice action-research in art education from teaching photography within “Crossing Cultures.” In Engaging Conversations: Art, Education & Social Consciousness: Art Education Graduate Student Symposium 2010. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
November 2009:
Hart, L. M. (2009). To See, know, and be. An action research project teaching photography to teens for cross-cultural understanding and identity formation. In Inside_Out: CSEA National Conference, 22-24 October 2009. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia.
Hart, L. M., Vaughan, K. (2009). A Story for a picture - A collaborative study into student engagement in an undergraduate art education photography course. In Inside_Out: CSEA National Conference, 22-24 October 2009. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia. (Lead author.)
September 2009:
Hart, L. M. (2009). To be, know, and see: Investigating identity, cross-cultural interactions and photography in community art education. Canadian Art Teacher, 8(1).
May 2009:
Hart, L. M. (2009). To be, know, and see: Teaching photography to inter-cultural adolescents in a Montreal based community art program. (2009) Transformation Through Learning Symposium, Concordia University. 7 May 2009. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
November 2008 and prior:
Hart, L. M., & Thomson, C. (2008). Of roots and synapses: Artful insights from a collaborative exploration of life history research. Hart, L. In Changing Connections, Communities and Contexts: A Research Symposium on Art Education, Visual/Consumer Culture, and Related Issues. 6-8 November 2008. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
Hart, L. M. (2008) Media round table discussing Tête-à-Tête Montreal. Teenage Cultural Practices: Setting a Research Agenda. SSHRC sponsored conference. 7-8 November 2008. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
Hart, L. M. (2005). Culture Jamming: creating 'subvert-ismenets. ARTworks: BC Art Teacher's Association conference entitled ARTworks. Burnaby, B.C.
Exhibitions, Curation & Awards
2013
Hart, L. M., (Lead Artist, Collaborative Work). (April 8-15 2013). 生きている街 Living City Vivre sa ville. [Participatory/Community-based Performance Art, Installation & Online Exhibition]. Online location (see hyperlink above). Physical location: Design Festa Gallery HARAJUKU: Gallery WEST/3-20-18, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Hart, L. M., (Lead Artist, Collaborative Work). (January 2013). The living city: Exploring urban memories and relationships together. [Participatory/Community-based Performance Art & Installation]. Nuit Blanche at //In Beteween\\ a juried exhibition with The Art Matters Festival, the MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festival, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (2013). The bittersweet truth. [Participatory performance work with memory book.] Beyond the Edge–Artistic Celebration. Invited Artist, Montreal, QC.
2012
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (November 2012). Searching for the universe: 71 weeks. (Select images from ongoing public Instagram journal, @laurelhart). [Digital Photographs with social media archive]. ARCHIVES AND THE CITY in ART EDUCATION. Invited Artist- curated exhibition. “…presented in dialogue with the Universities Art Associations of Canada (UAAC) 2012 Conference from November 1-3 and inspired by Contested Site: Archives and the City at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery from October 22 - November 16, 2012.”Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). What a single strand of lights can do. http://instagram.com/p/HDYD3/
Series: Instagram journal @laurelhart . Date: 68 weeks. July 5, 2011.
[Digital Photograph reproduced on exhibition Postcard]. ARCHIVES AND THE CITY in ART EDUCATION. Invited Artist- curated exhibition.” Distributed at UAAC conference and FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (2012). A moment's exchange. [Relational artwork including photo installation and online component] On the Edge: Taking Risks in Art Education. 2012 Art Education Symposium Exhibition. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
2011 & earlier
March 2012
Hart, L. M. , (Artist). (2011). Night-Lights: www.night-light.ca, a public participatory art project. Online and installed around the city of Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (2011). Untitled. Montreal Loves You Japan. Ctrllab, Montreal art house, QC.
Hart, L. M., and Del Vecchio, D. (2010). I am the future ghost: Memories of Griffintown past and present [An immersive installation using sound, stories, and projection.] Griffintown: Developing Culture, New City Gas, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2010). Journal 2009 [Digital multimedia installation]. Dialogix: Art and Society, VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2009-2010). Memory door [Sculpture]. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist, invitation design & co-curator). (2008). Memory door and Identity in hand [Two photographic installations]. Space and Displacement, VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2008). Mail art [Mixed media artwork]. Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB.
Hart, L. M. (Artist & curator). (2006). In the beginning [installation]. PPAC Art Gallery, Surrey, BC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2006). Breathe [Exhibition: Photographs and paintings]. Steam, Vancouver, BC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2004). Journal 2003-2005, 1,023 self portraits, and Orpheum [Photography installation]. Misc.conceptions, Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC. (Undergraduate work.)
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2004). Ophelia [Photo]. Turnbridge Well, White Rock, BC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist & curator). (2005). Innocence & Wash over me [Paintings]. Reflections of Wonder Exhibition, PGCC, Vancouver, BC.
2003-2004 Participated in four group exhibitions of undergraduate work at various UBC Galleries.
2004 and earlier : Exhibited work in many different gallery shows in conjunction with the University of British Columbia. This included two photography exhibitions, two sculptural/installation exhibitions, a fiber-arts exhibition, and several more. Mediums of the art works exhibited include: digital art, textile art, darkroom photography, digital photography, and installation sculpture with screen-printing.
Involved in organizing the graduate show entitled Misc.conceptions and played an integral role in the production and creation of the Misc.conceptions catalogue.
Other Projects
2013
Vivre sa ville. Living City. A collaborative participatory performance artwork that takes place live in performance and storycollecting spaces, and in the virtual space of the internet. Living City began with a collaborative art project that involved over 12 artists, performers, video editors and skilled individuals, who together collected over 35 stories from audience members in Montreal. This event took place as part of Montreal's biggest night of culture and visual art - Nuit Blanche, on March 2nd, 2013. It took place at the MainLine theater as part of Art Matter's //IN BETWEEN\\ festival: https://www.facebook.com/events/465811323491691/ (application included a juried competition.) The original Living City, Nuit Blanche event' page on Facebook can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/112591055592699/
The artwork took place in three spaces: a cinematic space, with a video projected and theater seating, a mysterious reception room, where guides invited audience members to participate, a secret backstage story collecting room, and live collective video creation onsite. There were 3 cycles which included intermittent screenings of collected stories and 3 storycollecting participatory performance rounds.www.cityalive.info
2012
Night-lights. A relational work involving urban art installations. http://night-light.ca
That takes place in person, online, and in dark corners and alleys throughout select cities, with a primary focus in the cities of Montreal and Vancouver. Quotes of life lessons learned are gathered by the artist and collaborators (anyone who wants to help), from which phrases are selected and one at a time are made into "night light" installations throughout the city. It may become someone's light in the night.
2009
Created the web-resources “Virtual Art City,” for use as part of a curriculum teaching digital and web-based art to senior level secondary art students, or within continuing education. See: www.virtualartcity.com
2008
Created a community-involed art project to bring attention to the invisible interactions and people whom we engage with every day in public transit, and our distance from one another. Public participation was requested, in an effort to bring about further awareness and social connection. See: http://identityinhand.weebly.com
For a more up to date CV, please visit my linkedin profile
Also, some publications can be downloaded for free through my academia.edu profile.
(Last full update - May 10, 2013)
Education
2016 to present - SSHRC funded Post Doctoral Research Fellow at McGill University
2010 - 2016 – PhD student in Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal
2014-2015 - Visiting researcher, Tokyo University, Japan.
2009 - Master of Arts in Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal.
Hart, L. M., (2009). Life as they know it: Teaching photography to teens for cross-cultural understanding and identity development within community art education. (Master's dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (Publication Number: MR63019.)
Available from: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976555/1/MR63019.pdf
2006 - Bachelor of Education, Major Art Education at UBC. Included a three month
practicum teaching art 8, Art 9, and Art 10-12 at Earl Marriott Secondary in Surrey.
2004 - Bachelor of Art, Major Studio Arts, from the University of British Columbia.
LINKED PUBLICATIONS. (Recent publications available free online) (A partial list of other publications from up until 2013 is provided below, for full information please see other profiles listed above, or contact me.)
Hart, L., & Carter, M. (2015). Wade in the Water: Participatory Theatre and Performance Art at the Water’s Edge, In M. Carter, G. Belliveau, & M. Prendergast, [Eds.]. Drama and Theatre Education: Canadian Perspectives. Polygraph Book Series, Canadian Association of Teacher Education
Hart, L. (2013). Instant Analysis: Mobile Photography as a Research Method. Canadian Art Teacher. 12(1), 24-27. (4 pages).
Hart, L. M., (2009). Life as they know it: Teaching photography to teens for cross-cultural understanding and identity development within community art education. (Master's dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (Publication Number: MR63019.) (170 pages).
Awards and Certification
May 2011-2014
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral Studies). Value $35,000 per year for three years.
May 2011
Concordia Conference and Exposition Award Competition. Value: $600.
March 2011
AERA Student Travel Stipend. Value: $200.
“…with over 100 highly qualified students submitting to Division G. We are please to inform you that you have been selected as one of the 20 recipients of this award. We commend you for your hard work and achievements, and hope to see you continue to be involved with the Division.”
September 2010-2012:
Laura Gainey Graduate Award for Excellence in Art Education. Presented by the Art Education Admissions Committee. Value: $20,000 for 2010-12.
November 2008-2009:
Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Irish Studies, together with Deanna Del Vecchio. Granted by St. Patrick's Society, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University.
Value $5000 for an installation art piece investigating the history of Griffintown. Created and conceptualized the visual and audio components of the work, including: photographs, video, and the recorded oral histories of past residents - Irish immigrants who settled in Montreal - and present day residents.
September 2006
Teaching Certification, granted by the British Columbia College of Teachers.
2004-2006
Arts Grant. Provided by the Peninsula Arts Foundation for individuals pursuing careers in the visual arts. Value: $2000
2004
University of British Columbia bursary in Art Education. Value: $4,600.
D and C Stedman Bursary. University of British Columbia. For a woman working towards a professional career in education. Value: $1,300.
2000-2001
Surrey Metro Savings Community Scholarship. Presented by Surrey Metro Savings. Awarded based on grades, community involvement and essay component. Value: $1,000.
“Passport to Education” Government Scholarship. Awarded by the Government of British Columbia. Value: $1,000.
Volunteer Work, Employment and Work Experience.
November 2012 - March 2013
Higher Education (Committee Member & Organization) On the organizing committee for the Emerging Scholars Symposium on Oral, Digital, and Public History, taking place March 22, 2013.
September 2012-Feb 2013
Higher Education (Committee Member & Organization) Member of the Symposium Planning Committee, helped to organize the Art Education Graduate Student Symposium: Making to thinking, Feb 28-March 1.
April 2012 and 2013
Museum (Teaching) Provided a workshop for Alter-Écho at the McCord Museum. “Getting creative with photography, how to take great photos.”
August 2012:
Community Art (Leadership, Volunteer, Programming) Designed the Instagramers Photo Tour and Documentation of the NDG Arts Week, in association with Instagramers Montreal.
Fall 2011:
Higher Education (Teaching) Professor, ARTE 201: Art in Early Childhood, Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education. Pre-requisites for this introductory Art Education course include enrolment in the specialization in Early Childhood or Major in Child Studies. Course objectives include: 1) To introduce students to a variety of art materials, techniques, as well as their presentation, organization, and health and safety considerations in an early childhood context. 2) To learn how to design and implement visual arts lessons, and develop skills for arts curriculum planning in early childhood and elementary settings. 3) To learn about how art is organized and presented in the classroom, including developing vocabulary for response and evaluation. 4) To develop an understanding of children’s developmental stages in the visual arts, including an implementation and observation of a child’s art making activity. 5) To learn about topics and pedagogies at play in contemporary art education. 6) To consider and form a personal conception of the roll that the arts play in society, schools, childhood and in development of the whole person.
September 2010 to March 2011:
Higher Education (Committee Member & Organization) Art Education Symposium Planning Committee. Helped to organize the symposium and designed the posters for the annual Art Education Symposium, taking place March 2011.
January 2011:
Higher Education (Teaching) Invited Lecturer for ARTE 340, Concordia University. Teaching art education to adolescents in a community setting: Project Tête-à-Tête as an example of community-based research.
September 2010 to January 2011:
Higher Education (Research) Research Assistant for Professor Anita Sinner, Concordia Faculty of Art Education.
July 2009 - 2012
Community Art (Teaching) Community Art Educator at Explorations (a program out of McGill University). Created and taught the courses “Fabric Fantastic,” “Hand Made Art Books” and “Luminous Lanterns”. These courses consisted mainly of children ages nine to fourteen. Several of the fiber arts media covered included: silk painting, shibori, hand sewing and designing, crazy quilting, natural dyeing, and more. http://www.education.mcgill.ca/explorations/Intermediate/fabric_fantastic.html
Gazette article: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Rockin+robots+This+school/3294735/story.html
September 2010 to December 2010:
Research Affiliation & Arts Dissemination (Collaborative Creating). Web designer on SSHRC funded Knowledge Synthesis project, with Professor Steven High of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University. Created “The Oral Historian’s Digital Toolbox” website: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistorianstoolbox/.
January 2010 to December 2010:
Higher Education, Community and Museum (Teaching, Research & Organization)
Digital Projects Coordinator at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Responsibilities include: researching and developing curriculum in cutting edge locative media technologies (including applying digital storytelling to the mediascapes, which are location-activated programs played on mobile GPS enabled devices such as android cell phones and iPhones); teaching workshops geared to Master’s and PhD level students, staff, faculty, and community affiliates (including local museum program coordinators); developing interactive websites for conferences, staff, and special projects; assisting in development, troubleshooting and community liaison for the Stories Matter application; assisting with grant applications; consultations with Centre affiliates for individual new media projects; teaching occasional new-media focused classes for Dr. Steven High; technical training and providing individual and group tutorials for students; and developing new media resources made available through the Centre’s website.
June 2006 to June 2007, intermittently to June 2010:
Public School (Teaching Art, Photography and Technology) Employed as a teacher on call by the Surrey School Board. Several long term teaching placements include secondary visual arts, ESL, special education, drama, yearbook and photography courses. Teacher Certification obtained through UBC Bachelor of Education and the BC College of Teachers.
June 17 to September 5 2010
Teaching Exhibition & Community Organization: Student’s work from the grassroots cross-cultural, cross-generational program “Tete-a-tete” exhibited the Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition title: Tête-à-Tête: A Cross-cultural and Intergenerational Project at the Museum of Fine Arts.
February 2010
Higher Education (Teaching) Photoshop consultant for Professor Kathleen Vaughan.
February 2010
Independent Art Community (Creation, Volunteering & Organization) Organizing Committee Member and volunteer graphic design and poster design for Griffintown: Developing Culture, New City Gas. Part of Montreal’s Nuit Blanche cultural crawl.
October 2008 to August 2010:
Grass-Roots Community (Teaching, Organizing, & Research) Working with Stan Chase of L.O.V.E. on project Tête-à-Tête; a social-justice, community art project involving inter-cultural and inter-generational exploration in conjunction with The Musée des Beaux Arts in Montreal. www.tete-a-tetemtl.org I functioned as the organizer for the new media arts component of the project, and also designed and taught a curriculum utilizing video, photography, and digital storytelling, with the purpose of aiding identity formation, community cohesion and cultural understanding within a group of inter-cultural adolescents.
October 2009:
Higher Education (Teaching) Invited Lecture. ARTE 352. Teaching photography to teens in tete-a-tete.
July 2009 to November 2009:
Higher Education (Organizing) Conference Coordinator for SSHRC funded conference “Teenage Cultural Practices: Setting a Research Agenda,” organized by Dr. Lorrie Blair.
September 2008 to May 2009
Higher Education (Teaching) Teacher’s Assistant. Oversaw pre-service teachers in community art education practica around Montreal, for courses ARTE 320/330/432/434.
September 2007 to May 2009
Higher Education (Teaching) Assistant in ARTE 352 (light based media). Taught technical elements of the course including darkroom and digital photography, as part of 4 semester assistant position at Concordia University. Served as a consultant to professor in 2008 for developing the course, following the request of the department head. (*note, this assistantship was renewed after the first year.)
2007-2008 & 2008-2009:
Higher Education Community Leadership. Co-President of Art Education Graduate Student Association at Concordia University, for two terms. Played a key role in establishing this young student organization, creating and encouraging new student initiatives, such as an annual Art Education art exhibition at the VAV gallery, regular community events, establishing a studio and collective work space at the University, and securing exhibition space for students in and around the University.
Early 2007
Professional Development Education (Teaching) Invited to present a Pro-D workshop entitled “Introduction to Photoshop” for Earl Marriott Secondary School.
July-August & May 2006:
Community Art (Teaching) Community Educator for the Surrey Art Gallery. This included teaching summer art camps for ages ranging from 5 to 14, including a clay workshop. Frequent guest educator for the Surrey Art Gallery’s “Family Day” events. Workshops taught include: 1" mini-art button workshop, and a lantern making workshop for all ages.
August 2006 to 2008
Community Art (Teaching, Grass Roots Organization) Established a community art collective and gallery in Peace Portal Alliance Church in Surrey, B.C.
June - May 2006:
Public School (Teaching) Taught Art 9, Art 8, and Art 10, 11, and 12 at Earl Marriott Secondary School in Surrey.
2005
Professional Development Education (Teaching) Lead a workshop on “culture jamming” and creative “subvert-isments” at the BC Art Teacher’s Association’s conference entitled ARTworks.
2004
Community / University Partnership (Organizing Committee, Artist, Volunteer) Participated in Hasting Elementary School Project to design a mural on “Health and Wellness” http://www.learningexchange.ubc.ca/trek_program/reading/project2004.html
Presentations and Publications
Most Recent: 2013
Upcoming. Insta.nalysis: Using social media photography applications as part of inductive artistic and qualitative research methodology. Graduate Student Symposium, CSEA/CAGE. Montreal, QC, 10-11 May , 2013. Montreal, QC.
Upcoming. Picturing #mymontreal: Using social media & Instagram as inductive methodology & analysis to create a digital story of urban experience in pictures and poetry. CSEA/CAGE, 10-11 May , 2013. Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. (2013). Virtual–Urban Limbo: Five projects highlight the path to producing virtual spaces that teach art, local history and engage culture in Montreal. Differential Mobilities Conference, 8-11 May, 2013. Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. (2013). “I am the Future Ghost” – A walk through the process of community based art & research creation as an avenue for strengthening neighborhood activities. Art Education Gradute Student Symposium: Making to thinking. Feb 28 - March 1, 2013. Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. (2013). Picturing #mymontreal: Using social media & Instagram as inductive methodology & analysis to create a digital story of urban experience in pictures and poetry. COHDS Emerging Scholars Symposium. March 22, 2013. Montreal, QC.
2012 and Earlier
March 2012
Hart, L. (2012). Night-Lights: Creating collaborative urban art installations to engage hope, learning, and spark community dialogue. NAEA National Convention, 1-4 March 2012. New York, NY.
October 2011
Hart, L. (2011). Map mashups and mediascapes: Teaching digital media at the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. CSEA/SCÉA National/Provincial Conference, 13-15 October 2011. Fredericton, NB.
April 2011
Hart, L. (2011). Life As They Know It: Second-Generation Canadian Teens Employ
Photography in Cross-Cultural Explorations of Identity. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 8-10 April 2011, New Orleans, LA.
March 2011
Hart, L. (2011). Crossing Cultures: Teaching digital photography for cross-cultural understanding and empowerment within community art education. NAEA National Convention, 17-20 March 2010. Seattle, WA.
Hart, L. (2011). Artful Storytelling: Teaching digital media at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. NAEA National Convention, 17-20 March 2010. Seattle, WA.
Kenny, Z., Hart, L. (2011). Eco-art and meaning making: Honouring material arts educators Sue Bartley and Stan Horner. NAEA National Convention, 17-20 March 2010. Seattle, WA.
May 2010
Hart, L. M, Kenny, Z. (2010). Waste not, make art: An homage to material art educators Sue Bartley and Stan Horner. Eco Art 2: BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, (52)1.
March 2010
Hart, L. M. (2010). Personal insights into social justice action-research in art education from teaching photography within “Crossing Cultures.” In Engaging Conversations: Art, Education & Social Consciousness: Art Education Graduate Student Symposium 2010. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
November 2009:
Hart, L. M. (2009). To See, know, and be. An action research project teaching photography to teens for cross-cultural understanding and identity formation. In Inside_Out: CSEA National Conference, 22-24 October 2009. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia.
Hart, L. M., Vaughan, K. (2009). A Story for a picture - A collaborative study into student engagement in an undergraduate art education photography course. In Inside_Out: CSEA National Conference, 22-24 October 2009. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia. (Lead author.)
September 2009:
Hart, L. M. (2009). To be, know, and see: Investigating identity, cross-cultural interactions and photography in community art education. Canadian Art Teacher, 8(1).
May 2009:
Hart, L. M. (2009). To be, know, and see: Teaching photography to inter-cultural adolescents in a Montreal based community art program. (2009) Transformation Through Learning Symposium, Concordia University. 7 May 2009. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
November 2008 and prior:
Hart, L. M., & Thomson, C. (2008). Of roots and synapses: Artful insights from a collaborative exploration of life history research. Hart, L. In Changing Connections, Communities and Contexts: A Research Symposium on Art Education, Visual/Consumer Culture, and Related Issues. 6-8 November 2008. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
Hart, L. M. (2008) Media round table discussing Tête-à-Tête Montreal. Teenage Cultural Practices: Setting a Research Agenda. SSHRC sponsored conference. 7-8 November 2008. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
Hart, L. M. (2005). Culture Jamming: creating 'subvert-ismenets. ARTworks: BC Art Teacher's Association conference entitled ARTworks. Burnaby, B.C.
Exhibitions, Curation & Awards
2013
Hart, L. M., (Lead Artist, Collaborative Work). (April 8-15 2013). 生きている街 Living City Vivre sa ville. [Participatory/Community-based Performance Art, Installation & Online Exhibition]. Online location (see hyperlink above). Physical location: Design Festa Gallery HARAJUKU: Gallery WEST/3-20-18, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Hart, L. M., (Lead Artist, Collaborative Work). (January 2013). The living city: Exploring urban memories and relationships together. [Participatory/Community-based Performance Art & Installation]. Nuit Blanche at //In Beteween\\ a juried exhibition with The Art Matters Festival, the MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festival, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (2013). The bittersweet truth. [Participatory performance work with memory book.] Beyond the Edge–Artistic Celebration. Invited Artist, Montreal, QC.
2012
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (November 2012). Searching for the universe: 71 weeks. (Select images from ongoing public Instagram journal, @laurelhart). [Digital Photographs with social media archive]. ARCHIVES AND THE CITY in ART EDUCATION. Invited Artist- curated exhibition. “…presented in dialogue with the Universities Art Associations of Canada (UAAC) 2012 Conference from November 1-3 and inspired by Contested Site: Archives and the City at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery from October 22 - November 16, 2012.”Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). What a single strand of lights can do. http://instagram.com/p/HDYD3/
Series: Instagram journal @laurelhart . Date: 68 weeks. July 5, 2011.
[Digital Photograph reproduced on exhibition Postcard]. ARCHIVES AND THE CITY in ART EDUCATION. Invited Artist- curated exhibition.” Distributed at UAAC conference and FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (2012). A moment's exchange. [Relational artwork including photo installation and online component] On the Edge: Taking Risks in Art Education. 2012 Art Education Symposium Exhibition. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
2011 & earlier
March 2012
Hart, L. M. , (Artist). (2011). Night-Lights: www.night-light.ca, a public participatory art project. Online and installed around the city of Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M., (Artist). (2011). Untitled. Montreal Loves You Japan. Ctrllab, Montreal art house, QC.
Hart, L. M., and Del Vecchio, D. (2010). I am the future ghost: Memories of Griffintown past and present [An immersive installation using sound, stories, and projection.] Griffintown: Developing Culture, New City Gas, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2010). Journal 2009 [Digital multimedia installation]. Dialogix: Art and Society, VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2009-2010). Memory door [Sculpture]. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist, invitation design & co-curator). (2008). Memory door and Identity in hand [Two photographic installations]. Space and Displacement, VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2008). Mail art [Mixed media artwork]. Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB.
Hart, L. M. (Artist & curator). (2006). In the beginning [installation]. PPAC Art Gallery, Surrey, BC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2006). Breathe [Exhibition: Photographs and paintings]. Steam, Vancouver, BC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2004). Journal 2003-2005, 1,023 self portraits, and Orpheum [Photography installation]. Misc.conceptions, Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC. (Undergraduate work.)
Hart, L. M. (Artist). (2004). Ophelia [Photo]. Turnbridge Well, White Rock, BC.
Hart, L. M. (Artist & curator). (2005). Innocence & Wash over me [Paintings]. Reflections of Wonder Exhibition, PGCC, Vancouver, BC.
2003-2004 Participated in four group exhibitions of undergraduate work at various UBC Galleries.
2004 and earlier : Exhibited work in many different gallery shows in conjunction with the University of British Columbia. This included two photography exhibitions, two sculptural/installation exhibitions, a fiber-arts exhibition, and several more. Mediums of the art works exhibited include: digital art, textile art, darkroom photography, digital photography, and installation sculpture with screen-printing.
Involved in organizing the graduate show entitled Misc.conceptions and played an integral role in the production and creation of the Misc.conceptions catalogue.
Other Projects
2013
Vivre sa ville. Living City. A collaborative participatory performance artwork that takes place live in performance and storycollecting spaces, and in the virtual space of the internet. Living City began with a collaborative art project that involved over 12 artists, performers, video editors and skilled individuals, who together collected over 35 stories from audience members in Montreal. This event took place as part of Montreal's biggest night of culture and visual art - Nuit Blanche, on March 2nd, 2013. It took place at the MainLine theater as part of Art Matter's //IN BETWEEN\\ festival: https://www.facebook.com/events/465811323491691/ (application included a juried competition.) The original Living City, Nuit Blanche event' page on Facebook can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/112591055592699/
The artwork took place in three spaces: a cinematic space, with a video projected and theater seating, a mysterious reception room, where guides invited audience members to participate, a secret backstage story collecting room, and live collective video creation onsite. There were 3 cycles which included intermittent screenings of collected stories and 3 storycollecting participatory performance rounds.www.cityalive.info
2012
Night-lights. A relational work involving urban art installations. http://night-light.ca
That takes place in person, online, and in dark corners and alleys throughout select cities, with a primary focus in the cities of Montreal and Vancouver. Quotes of life lessons learned are gathered by the artist and collaborators (anyone who wants to help), from which phrases are selected and one at a time are made into "night light" installations throughout the city. It may become someone's light in the night.
2009
Created the web-resources “Virtual Art City,” for use as part of a curriculum teaching digital and web-based art to senior level secondary art students, or within continuing education. See: www.virtualartcity.com
2008
Created a community-involed art project to bring attention to the invisible interactions and people whom we engage with every day in public transit, and our distance from one another. Public participation was requested, in an effort to bring about further awareness and social connection. See: http://identityinhand.weebly.com