Board of Directors 2012
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Julie McIntyre President & National Representative Julie McIntyre, President & BC Representative for CARFAC BC, Treasurer for CARFAC National & CARCC, studied at the Banff Centre, Alberta in 1986 and received her BFA from Queen’s University with a major in printmaking. She has had solo shows in 18 public galleries in Canada and participated in well over 40 juried exhibitions, including 21 international credits to date. This past winter, Julie facilitated two community quilts with the Ismaili Muslim Association and Tricity Transitions for “The F Word: Exploring Feminism in the 21st Century ” exhibition at Leigh Square Arts Village, Port Coquitlam. She is just finishing up her fifth artist in residency for this year with the Vancouver School Board and a stone lithography workshop at Malaspina Printmakers Society, Granville Island where she is past president. An active volunteer member for Craft Council of BC, Main Street Drift, Vancouver Fringe Festival and Public Dreams Society, this is Julie’s fourth year as President of CARFAC BC. A sample of her work can be found on her website www.juliemcintyre.org |
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Bill Horne Vice President was born in Vancouver and studied painting and drawing at the Banff Centre, and film animation at UBC. He works primarily in silkscreen, as well as PainterÒ, digital photography, and installation. He has taught silkscreen printing at the Vancouver Native Education Centre, Kakali Handmade Papers and Island Mountain Arts, and papermaking at the National Art School in Managua, Nicaragua. He wrote a biweekly Arts column for the Quesnel Cariboo Observer from 1997-2003, is a Past President of Island Mountain Arts (Wells) and an active Director of the Wells & District Chamber of Commerce. Bill held the post of CARFAC BC President and National Representative, as well as being a member of CARFAC National’s Executive for numerous years. In 2009 he won third prize in the Alcuin Society’s annual design awards in the Limited Editions category. He lives in Wells, BC where he and Claire Kujundzic have converted a former Catholic church into “Amazing Space Studio”. Bill is the creator of “The Solidarity Series: Linking BC’s cultural & wage workers http://www.claireart.ca/solidarity_splash.htm. A sample of his work can be found on his website www.claireart.ca |
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Andra Jurzyniec Treasurer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in both Visual Arts and Theatre Design. She also has a Bachelor of Education After Degree in Arts Education from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. She has worked as a gallery facilitator and art instructor at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, and as a substitute teacher for the Prairie Spirit School Division, Saskatchewan. In 2010, Andra moved to British Columbia and is currently working part-time with the Burnaby Art Gallery. She has been a CARFAC member for several years and, as soon as we found out she was in town, we scooped her up as a Director. |
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Peter Lojewski Member at large was born in Berlin, Germany in 1947. He emigrated with his family to Canada in 1957. He was discharged from the Canadian armed forces in 1969, and works in the health care field as an orderly LPN. He started painting and drawing in 1989. He has no formal art training but attended the Art Centre in Atlin, BC several times. He has received awards in BC arts festivals and exhibited in 3 solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions. He currently volunteers at Gallery Gachet in Vancouver. As well as two dimensional art, he enjoys creating assemblages from found material and objects. |
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Suzo Hickey Member at large Suzo Hickey is a painter and multidisciplinary artist living in Vancouver, BC. Born in 1959, she migrated from coast (Prince Rupert) to desert (Kamloops) before settling in Vancouver in 1991. She graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1994, and has exhibited around BC and the US on themes of urban landscapes, queer mothering, namecalling, narrative and death in the family. |
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Holly Armishaw Board Member Holly Armishaw received her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2000. As a student she was very active, serving on various councils and committees and curating several student exhibitions. Over the years she has volunteered at non-profit galleries such as Dynamo, the Contemporary Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Holly is now a member of the Leadership Circle at the Vancouver Art Gallery and an active member of the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver. She is an avid traveler, investigating international, historical and contemporary art trends. Throughout the past decade her artwork has been exhibited in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Boston and Sao Paulo, amongst others. Holly’s photographs have appeared in various publications, including gracing the cover and being featured in an art theory book that defined the presence of digital imaging in photography as a contemporary art trend. Her photographic work is based on the premise of creating photographs of the unphotographable in order to create visual hypothesis, glimpses of metaphysical realities, psychological phenomena, projections of the future or re-creations of history. “With the advent of digital imaging, we are creating meaning through the restructuring of “reality and are able to hint at the unknown.” Holly is currently represented by Galerie Rabouan Moussion in Paris. |
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Lawrie Dignan Member at Large – Victoria Born in Victoria B.C., Lawrie is a self-taught artist whose unique drawing style has developed through his years working as a technical draftsman in British Columbia’s civil service. He has always fostered an interest in the arts and has been encouraged through the artistic community. In 1990, Dignan apprenticed with a stained glass artisan in Vernon, B.C. who would become his mentor. This relationship had a very positive influence on Lawrie as it encouraged, supported and gave him the confidence to explore his own direction in drawing with pen & ink. That experience, and his years spent as a technical draftsman have strongly influenced the stylization of his landscape works. The crowning jewel in Dignan’s art career so far has been his award of a solo show in 2001 at the prestigious BC Festival of the Arts. This helped advance his notability amongst fellow artists and collectors throughout British Columbia. Today, his artworks are found in private and corporate collections around the globe. A sample of his work can be found on his website www.changing-realities.com |
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Richard Reid Member at large was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, now lives in Christina Lake, BC, 300 miles east of Vancouver. He received his BFA at the University of Manitoba in 1955. He lived and worked in Mexico and then for 5 years in Europe, returning to Canada in 1964. From 1970-79, he was Assistant Professor and Chair of the BFA Program at the Fine Art Department at UBC. After leaving Vancouver, Richard became the founding Director of the Grand Forks Art Gallery (1984-2003) and a teacher in ECCAD’s Outreach Program. He has received 3 Canada Council awards, and was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in 78 solo and group exhibitions. |
