Artist Curriculum Vitae Edward Epp

The Art of Edward Epp

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The artist

Edward Epp Canadian artist Edward Epp, has painted for over 30 years. For the last decade

he has captured the spirit of BC’s Northwest. His lyrical paintings reflect the

landscape, the people and the icons of Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii, and the

Inside Passage. His art has been widely acclaimed and shown throughout BC

and Canada.

Edward currently resides in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. He has taught in

universities and colleges in western Canada and in Africa for 20 years. Inspired

by his environs and the unifying vision of the Baha’i faith, Edward continues to

paint and show his work.

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Summer light, freighter

Edward Epp Artist Professional Experience ART INSTRUCTION, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT • Curriculum design for Cultural Leadership Development Project, University of Waterloo, Ont., Cultural

Management Department (1993-1994) • Formal academic teaching experience in Canada, Africa and China:

• Recent teaching experience: Introductory Art History ART 151, Northwest Community College, Terrace, B.C. Prince Rupert, Painting Art 105/106, May 2000, 2001 Hazelton’s, Fall 2000, Winter 2001, Terrace

• Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, co-instructor in painting: travel In China (summer 1993) • Cuttington University/College, Liberia, West Africa, Assistant Professor of Art (1982-1989) • World University Service of Canada, Selebi Phikwe, Botswana, Senior Secondary School, art

instructor (1989-1990) • University of Saskatchewan, art instructor, part time (1975-1988) • Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, art instructor, part time (1986-1987) • National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, gallery educator (1985-1986) • College of New Caledonia, Prince George, B.C., art instructor (1978-1981) • Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta, art instructor (1977-1978) • Parkland Community College, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, art instructor (1976-1977)

• Courses taught: Drawing, Painting, Silk screen, Etching Lithography (multi-media), Western Art History, African Art History First Nations Art History

WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES I view these workshops and lectures as an important component of my professional growth and as opportunities for interaction with others in a variety of art and therapeutic disciplines.

• "Watercolour landscape" (adults), "text and art" (children)", Eagle Arts Academy, Shawnigan Lake, B.C., July 14 - 18, 2003.

• "Watercolour painting", Art Workshop, Studio 2880, Prince Ceorge, B.C., Sept 6-8, 2002.lecture: "Diary artisit/therapist working with First Nations Communities, NW B.C"

• “Symposium de peinture figurative do L’Etang-Du-Nord”, Iles de la Madeleine, Que. Painter-participant, July 31 – Aug 6, 2000.

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• “Art in Action-All About Drawing-A Workshop with Edward Epp, Mus. of Northern B.C. Prince Rupert, B.C. January 31, 1998.

• Maxwell International Baha’i School, Shawnigan Lake, B.C. Baha’i Summer School, 1997, with Leanne Boschman-Epp, ( MA- poet) text and visual art workshop: “The arts and the Fundamental Verities”

• Leighton Centre, Calgary, Alberta-May 11 -12, 1996: “Art and Healing (self-expression)”: narrative • Kitimat School District, Kitimat, B.C. • Kitimat Village, Kitimat, B.C. • Island Mountain Arts School program, Wells, B.C. • Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, B.C. • Emily Carr College Outreach Program (locations throughout B.C.) • Fort Qu'Appelle, Kamsack, Kelvington, Saskatoon, Saskachewan Sasksatchewan • Centennial Museum, Kitimat, B.C. • Queen Charlotte Islands Museum, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.

Lectures

• Traditional Art of Africa, Landscape as a Metaphor, Religion and Aesthetics, Integration of Landscape, Nature and the Study of Self — Locatiqons:

• Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, B.C. • Capital Normal University, Beijing, China • University of Saskatchewan Anthropology Department • Northwest Community College, Terrace, B.C. • Art Gallery of Victoria, B.C. • Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, B.C.

VOLUNTEER WORK AND ADVOCACY I served as an advocate for the arts on several boards and committees including membership on the B.C. government-appointed "Status of the Artist" committee. I organized a weekly youth art workshop in Prince Rupert for the last two years, under the guidance of the Roosevelt Community School. The program is called "Night's Alive" (youth art). I am a member of the Arts Council and founding member and on steering committee of the Northcoast Artists/ Co-operative in Prince Rupert. I have also been a board member for the Northwest Development Education Association and for the Terrace Art Association EDUCATION

• M.Ed (Counseling), UNBC 1995-1996. • Thesis topic: “Narrative Therapy (Brief Therapies) and Art Therapy” • M.A., Studio Art, University of Saskatchewan, 1975, thesis topic: "Commentary on Pictorial Space" • B.F.A., Studio Art (with distinction), University of Saskatchewan, 1973

CONTINUING EDUCATION: WORKSHOPS

• "Emma Lake professional artist workshop", Emma Lake, Sask. (University of Saskatchewan) 2005 • "Artists/' Workshop", Blue River, B.C. July 2002. • “Narrative Conversations-4”, Toronto, Ontario, May 1998 • “Healing and the Creative Arts”, May 3-5, 1996, Vancouver, B.C. • Triangle Art Workshop, New York, N.Y. (1987)

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• Emma Lake Professional Art Workshops (1991, 1981, 1980) • Banff School of Fine Art (lithography, 1979) • Leighton Foundation landscape painting workshops (1992, 1990) • University of Saskatchewan (print making, paper making, 1978) Charles Ringness • Cuttington University/College, Botswana (Research methods, Islam in West Africa, 1983-1984 —

primary ethnological research into traditional African art)

Freighter – Tuck Inlet

ONE-MAN SHOWS (a selection)

• “Two Perspectives-Visions of Haida Gwaii”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, June 23 – July 30 2006 • “Edward Epp: The Figure (Paintings 1990 – 2005)”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver BC, April 23 –

May 22, 2005 • Of Northern Extraction, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George BC, July 22 – September 26 2004 • Freighters, ships and planes: Paintings from Prince Rupert Harbour – The Work of Edward Epp, Terrace

Art Gallery, Terrace BC, January – February 2003 • Edward Epp: Acrylic and Watercolour Paintings, Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg MB, June 23 – July 7 2001 • “Freighters, ships and plans: Paintings from Prince Rupert Harbour: The Work of Edward Epp”, Terrace • Art Gallery, Terrace, B.C. Jan - Feb 2003. • “Edward Epp: Acrylic and Watercolour Paintings”, Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Man. June 23 - July 2001 • “Who is writing (painting) the future?” Museum of Northern B.C., Prince Rupert, B.C May 2000 • “Edward Epp: Water Spirits”, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C. summer, 2000. • “A Painter’s Paradise” Edward Epp Gallery One, Toronto, Ont. July 17 – Aug 8, 99 • “Figure, landscape: dialogical conversation”, Terrace Art Gallery, Terrace, B.C. Sept. 11 – Oct 4,98 • “Two Seas”, collaborative exhibition (with Leanne Boschman-Epp), Island Mountain Arts, Wells, B.C.98 • “Radiant Landscapes: Paintings of the Northwest”, University of Northern B.C.,Prince George, B.C. 3/98 • “Kincolith-A Painter’s Diary”, Museum of Northern B.C. Prince Rupert, B.C. Jan. 12-Feb.14/98 • “Kincolith: A Painter’s Diary”, Haida Gwaii Musuem, Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands. May 21-June

13, 1999 • “From Beijing to B.C.” The Upsitairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. April 1997 • “North of the Yellowhead-recent landscapes by Edward Epp”, R.E.M. Lee Theatre,Terrace, B.C. Jan. ‘97 • “Edward Epp - Landscapes”: Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, B.C. June 6 - July 21 1996 • “China Diary”-Paintings from China: organized by Mendel Art Gallery: Swift Current National

Exhibition Centre, Mendel Art Gallery, Moose Jaw Art Gallery Oct 1995 - 1996

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• “Edward Epp-Landscapes” WORKS Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton, Alberta July 1995 • “Watercolours — Edward Epp in China” Queen Charlotte Islands Museum, Skidegate, B.C Feb. 1995 • “West Country — landscapes by Edward Epp” Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta Jan 95 • "Edward Epp-from his journey to Chnia and travels through the West country", Loading Bay Gallery,

Calgary, Alberta May 6 - June 16, 1995 • “Edward Epp — B.C. Landscapes” Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna B.C. June-July 1994 • “Treescapes-landscapes by Edward Epp” Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C. December 1993 • “Paintings from Northwestern B.C.” Nanaimo Art Gallery, Malaspina College, Nanaimo B.C. Jan 1992 • “Paintings from Africa” (a nine-year perspective), PERSPECTIVES, Chatham, N.Y.. Aug. '90 • “Out of Botswana” Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan June 1990 • “Out of Liberia” Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. July 1989 • “Paintings from Botswana” Alliance Francaise, Gabarone, Botswana October 1989 • “Recent Paintings — Edward Epp” Bau-xi Gallery, Toronto, Ont July 1988 • “Edward Epp: New Work from Liberia” Robert Vanderleelie Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alta June 1985 • “Edward Epp — Watercolours” Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton. Alta Nov. 1983-Jan. 1984 • "Paintings from Monronvia” University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia 1981

GROUP SHOWS (a selection)

• "Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society 10th Anniversary Exhibition", Edmonton Art Gallery, curator: Kenworth Moffat, 2002

• “Landscape Redefined: Six Contemporary Approaches”, Nanaimo Art Gallery, May, 1999 • “The Charactered Landscape”, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. Curator: Robert Enright 1996 • “Plain View”: landscape symposium, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask., 1996 • “Twenty-fifth Anniversary exhibition-Shoestring Gallery”, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. 1996 • “Artists in Botswana” National Museum and Art Gallery, Gabarone, Botswana — first place 1990 • “Living Nature, ‘87”, National Museum of Science, Ottawa, Ont. 1986, 87, 88. • “Saskatchewan Open”, juried exhibition, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.1988 (Greg Curnoe

cur.) • “The Second Generation — Fourteen Saskatchewan Painters” Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,

Regina, Sask 1985 • “Printed Matter” Juried print show, Sackville, Nova Scotia 1974

PUBLICATIONS (a selection)

• *Haida Glee – Transitions in Northwest Coast Art” Robin Lawrence, Border Crossings, Issue No. 100, ‘06.

• Cover: Rhubarb literary publication, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sept. 2005 • “Kincolith”, poem, published in “Creekstones”, Anthology, Smithers, B.C. Sept 2000. • *Border Crossings, Summer 1996 (art journal): “A Canuck in the Chinese Wilderness of People,” Text

and watercolours by Edward Epp • *Points North, literary journal, University of Northern B.C. — “Treescapes” (artist’s statement).1994 • *The Second Generation — Fourteen Saskatchewan Painters, Norman Zepp/Michael Parke-Taylor,

Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask. 1985 • *Vie Desarts, Fall 1984 — “Edward Epp — Watercolours”, Liz Wylie • *Update, Edmonton Art Gallery — “Edward Epp — Watercolours”, Russell Bingham 1983