Ensemble nomad.e has been a project Gail Bourgeois and Emily Rose Michaud conceived in 2017. We designed monthly nomadic residencies to take us throughout the region to different bodies of water. We have been doing these process-based residencies on-site since…

View the Project Summary for a grant to realize a collaborative residency with my project Ensemble Nomad.e (est. 2017). Our plan is for the outdoor residency to take place from July-October 2022. This is  my third grant application to the…

Click the link to view the Project Summary for a grant to create a new collaborative work called Transmutations, using porcelain, ephemeral sculpture and light installation to take place from November 2021-June 2022. It includes some visual samples of the…

"H2O as Personal: A Panel Discussion and Public Conversation" was a multidisciplinary panel as part of my Tributaries exhibit. We explored the physical, emotional and spiritual roles of water in our lives. Panelists for whom water is central to their professions will…

Click the link to view the Project Summary for my solo exhibit at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, 2018. It includes some visual samples of the proposed works. I just completed my first grant application to the Canada Council for the Arts…

The students of my intro to acrylic painting class are proud to announce their Spring show. I'll have a big new piece up too. This exhibition is the culmination of a ten week Winter course of painting study and practice, done by a variety…

“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.” - Anne Truitt, sculptor. Quote from The Writing Life, the agonies…

Supremely stoked and proud to announce that the Youth Art Nature Camp my friend Carol Goodman and I have been stewarding for the past 8 Summers at 100 Mile Farm in Wakefield, Québec will be stepping into a partnership with…

Too few words to express how much is underway as I've been preparing for this multi-year, water-based art project for a gallery show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (community consultation; intuitive site work; research; grant-writing, as well as the…

Grateful for any chance to open minds on the different forms art can take. I've been preparing for two art and ecology themed workshops geared to hundreds of students travelling to Ottawa this Thursday and Friday from across the province…

Last Friday, November 4th, the InterconnectedWatershed project headed to Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation (confluence of the Désert + Gatineau Rivers). I was grateful to be able to spend time with Water and Youth from the area I consider to…

Full conversation and recording here. Join us for a conversation at the Ottawa Art Gallery on Thursday, September 15, 6:30-8:30 pm. Artists Gail Bourgeois and Emily Rose Michaud will take a closer look, with the public, at the exhibition Correspondence from roots…

Alongside Cecilia Chen, I'll be speaking at this Dissections event in Montreal next Wednesday -- themes inspired by Joan Jonas: From Away, currently on view at DHC/ART. Water's on our agenda. See information below. Jonas is an American visual artist…

Call for participation from the community: Come one and all! This is a drop in, all ages, free drawing workshop held outdoors, by the shores of the Gatineau River on Saturday, August 20. Materials provided. Facilitated by Emily Rose Michaud…

Join us for InterconnectedWatershed: two visual artists reflect upon their surrounding watershed, sourcing their work from the Gatineau River and Chelsea Creek in Western Quebec. All welcome to the vernissage on Friday, August 19th, 6-8pm. Show runs until Thursday, September…

It's been two months. Still basking in the glow of the talented humans whom I had the pleasure of working alongside, as artist in residence at Star & Snake, in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. For two weeks, I made art and was lodged in a…

Saturday evening. Back to the dust for this one, where he belongs (thanks to 100 Mile Farm for fire space). The last time this old tapestry saw light was a super 8mm film projection of the River at Gallery 101.…

So many thanks and much respect to be given. To the Youth who have shown us how reconciliation is done, and most especially to Water for bringing us together. “Reconciliation is about healing relationships, building trust and working out our…

Plastic & plant matter getting it on in my parking lot this afternoon. Preparing for a week of work / camping at 100 Mile Farm. Also, a time to get this baby back to the dust to whom he belongs.…

Tent City: Inconvenient Shelter / Invisible People (in progress). Been thinking about life circumstance lately. How, despite the grandest of plans, we are brought to places we did not imagine ourselves to be. The last few Saturday afternoons, I have gone…

Hey people. If you're curious, here's a link to a CKUT interview I did in Montreal with Vincent Tinguely (of the Kitchen Bang Bang Law show). Scroll forward, to 0:20:00. See Vince's blog/playlist. Nous allons avoir un jardin très bientôt! L'atelier…

And it's live! Welcome to my new website and blog! I am excited to FINALLY have a place where my project archives can live, as well as a blog in which I will be sharing my writings, works in progress, and experimental…