Miniprint Annual 2012

Micheline Couture, artist

Lives and works in Montreal and in the Magdalen Islands, in Quebec, Canada.



VISUAL ART FIELD

Fiber arts, handmade paper, textile printing, estampe numérique



EDUCATION



Diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (School of Fine Arts of Montreal)

Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, Concordia University in Montreal

Lithography at Desjoberts studio , Paris

Workshops at the Fiberworks Center, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

Workshop at the Canadian Embroiderers Guild, London, Ontario



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Master es arts form Concordia University, Montréal 1974

1969-1994 Teacher, Fine Arts Department at the Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM

(art education for the secondary level, colour, drawing, fiber arts)

1988-1995 Codirector, Galerie d’art Point Sud, Havre-aux-Maisons, Îles-de-la-Madeleine

1994-1996 President, Conseil des arts textiles du Québec (CATQ)

1995-2001 Director, Galerie d’art Point Sud, Havre-aux-Maisons, Îles-de-la-Madeleine

1998- Educator, silkscreen teaching to a technician at the Taller Grabador de Holguin, Cuba

2005- Director for a jury choosing residing artists at the ‹‹Centre d’artistes Ad Mare»

2006- Commissioner for the exhibition «Quelques miniatures», Centre d’artistes Ad Mare.



PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS



Conseil des arts textiles du Québec (CATQ)

Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels (RAAV)

Société des droits auteurs en arts (SODART)

Centre d’artistes Diagonale, Montréal

Centre d’artistes des Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Ad Mare)







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EXHIBITIONS



1982 2nd Biennale de la tapisserie de Montréal, Galerie de l’UQAM: «La petite fille», «Le petit théâtre»

1984 3rd Biennale de la tapisserie de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal: «Chute libre»

1986 4th Biennale de la tapisserie de Montréal, Galerie de l’UQAM: «Permutations»

Exhibition «Textile support/matière», five artists from UQAM, Galerie de l’UQAM and Centre d’exposition de Gatineau: «L’enfance», «Nous tous». Commissaire and artist

1988 Exhibition «Fiber Connections», Federal Reserve Bank, Boston in collaboration with CATQ and the Boston Seven: «Les jumelles»

Exhibition «À mon seul désir», artists from the CATQ, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges: «Les jumelles»

1989 Revue numéro 16 on the theme «Plutôt salé», Galerie d’art Point Sud, curator and artist

1990 Solo exhibition «Portraits de dames», Galerie de l’UQAM and Galerie d’art Point Sud

Artists from the CATQ, Galerie d’art Sutton and Musée régional de Vaudreuil

Revue numéro 18 on the theme «Identification héroïque», Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe

Revue numéro 20 on the theme «Ô Éole», Galerie d’art Point Sud, Havre-aux-Maisons, curator and artist

1992 Solo exhibition «Futur antérieur», Galerie d’art Point Sud

Exhibition «Tendance papier», five artists, Province of Quebec tour organized by the CATQ : « Est, est»

1994 Exhibition «Lange linceul», six artists, Province of Quebec tour organized by the CATQ: «L’enfant dans le grenier»

Exhibition «20X20», artists of the Galerie du Centre, Saint-Lambert: «Temps variable»

1995 Exhibition «Cinq artistes s’exposent», The Belgo Building, Montreal: Série «Les nuages»

Exhibition «Paysage paysage», Galerie d’art Point Sud, curator

Exhibition «Les dérives du fil», five artists from the CATQ, Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de- Grâce, Montreal, artist and curator in the Textile sismographe symposium organized by the CATQ: «La main de Lucy I, II, III»

1996 3rd Biennale internationale d’art miniature, Salle Augustin-Chénier, Ville-Marie: «Obsolète»

1997 Exhibition «Artistes de la galerie», Galerie d’art Point Sud, Havre-aux-Maisons: «Labyrinthes»

Exhibition «Femmes de cœur», le Havre Atelier-Galerie, Havre-Aubert: «Temps lourd», «Temps variable»





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EXHIBITIONS (continued)



1998 Selected to participate at the Second Biennale du lin contemporain, Musée du lin de Normandie, Routot, France, and Musée des arts et traditions populaires, Paris, France

Symposium «Mer océane», Galerie d’art Point Sud, Îles-de-la-Madeleine: «L’eau»

1999 Exhibition «Mur Mur», mural compositions with Marlène Devaux and Jean-Luc Turbide, Galerie d’art Point Sud: «Les phases de la lune», summer solstice

2000 Exhibition « Vers de nouveaux horizons », handmade paper work, l’Espace Adagio, Hôtel Delta, Montreal, January 2000 : «La main de Lucy I, II, II»

Exhibition «Passart 2000», Rouyn-Noranda: «Les phases de la lune», winter solstice 2000

Biennale de la miniature, salle Augustin-Chénier, Ville-Marie

2nd Biennale du lin contemporain, exhibition «Bleu, le lin est bleu», Galerie de la Sema-Viaduc des Arts, Paris: «La maison, le lin», «Le lit, le lin»

2001 Exhibition «D’une île, l’autre», the group Correspondance, Centre des arts contemporains du Québec 2002 à Montréal, Galerie d’art Point Sud, Îles-de-la-Madeleine: «La terre»

Les Métiers d’art textile contemporain, Centre culturel la Fontaine, Hôtel-Dieu des Halles, Brie-Comte- Robert, France: «La maison, le lin», «Le lit, le lin»

2002 Biennale de la miniature, salle Augustin-Chénier, Ville-Marie: «Arménie I, II, III»

2003 Exhibition «Tissus passés, papiers cousus» with Carole Gauron, Galerie R3 de l’UQTR, Trois- Rivières, and Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal

Province of Quebec Tour of «Penser Bildung», fiber arts disciplinary group, organized by the CATQ : «L’hiver», «La nuit, le jour»

Centre des arts contemporains du Québec à Montréal: «Les phases de la lune» (fragments)

2005 Exhibition «Blanc de blanc», Centre d’artistes Diagonale «Nuit blanche»»

Exhibition «Mosaïques 2005», Centre d’artistes Ad Mare, Cap-aux-Meules «Délivrances»

2006 Ehibition «Quelques miniatures» Centre d’artistes Ad Mare, Cap-aux-Meules,«Plume»,«Arménie 1 et 11

Exhibition «Mosaïques 2006», Centre d’artistes Ad Mare, Cap-aux-Meules, «La butte ronde»,«Go Golfe», «Couleurs des Iles», «Le message»

Exhibition «Laffaire est dans le sac» Centre d’artistes Diagonale, MONTRÉAL, «Dune du Sud1 et 11».

SCENOGRAPHY

1986 Printed canvas for the setting and costumes for the play Elizabeth by Dario Fo, by Marthe Mercure, director of the Kaléidoscope, theater L’Espace Libre of Montreal





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MENTIONS AND REFERENCES



1993 Pol Chantraine, Les Îles de la Madeleine, au pinceau et au ciseau, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, éditions Arrimage, p. 34

1994 ICC Artists’ Database, compact disc of NTT intercommunication Center (ICC), Marukin Bancho Bldg. 3F, 6-28 Rokubancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan

1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, an Internet event

The World’s Women On-Line,

Video presented on the Web by Muriel Magenta of the Institute For Studies IN The Arts, Arizona State University, Tempa, U.S.A.

1995 Femmes artistes du Canada par Phan Van Khanh, Web page on La Toile du Québec,



Textiles sismographes, catalog published by the CATQ, p. 41

2002 Virtual catalogue of the Second Biennale du lin contemporain «Bleu, le lin est bleu», FiberArt Synergy, Jaqueline Govin, curator,



PRESS RECORD



Cilou Zelkine, «Artisanat, Micheline Couture-Calvé: Une relation intime avec le textile», DecorMag, October 1977

Gilles Toupin, «Small is beautifull», La Presse, October 1981

Marie Laurier, «La biennale de la tapisserie au MAC», Le Devoir, June 28th 1984

«La Biennale de la tapisserie grands formats», La Presse, June 24th 1984

Paquerette Villeneuve, «Les arts textiles en mouvement», Vie des arts, March, April and May 1984

Gilles Toupin, «La Troisième Biennale de la tapisserie au MAC, Un art bien vivant et frondeur», La Presse, July 14th 1984

Jean Dumont, «Des mots et des choses», Le Devoir, July 20th 1991

«À la galerie de l’UQAM: Portraits de dames et Série noire», Journal de l’UQAM, February 12th 1990

«Septembre à la Galerie d’art», Le Guide de Sutton, Sutton, September 1993

Dany Quine, «Au Palais Montcalm: Neuf artistes pour sublimer le corps», Le Soleil, June 13th 1994

Diane Noël, «Lange linceul au Centre des Arts de Shawinigan», Hebdo Saint-Maurice, November 27th 1994

Johanne Chagnon, «Dossier: Îles de la Madeleine», ESSE - arts et opinions, Spring 1999

Dany Quine, «Penser bildung» chez Materia, Fibres sensibles», Le Soleil, September 21th 2002

2004

Françoise Belu, «Penser bildung», Vie des Arts #195, p.112



Micheline Couture lives in Montreal and at Havre-aux-Maisons in Les Îles-de-la- Madeleine. She has a diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (School of Fine Arts of Montreal) and a master’s degree from Concordia University. She won scholarships to participate in workshops at Les ateliers Desjoberts in Paris and the Fiber Art Center in Berkeley.

She has teached at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where she worked at the foundation of the master’s degree in the Fine Arts Department and created fiber printing workshops and computer teaching courses.

In 1997, she has teached the silkscreen printing technique to artists of the Taller Grabador at Holguin, Cuba. From 1988 to 2001, she ran the Galerie d’art Point Sud at Havre-aux-Maisons in Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine where exhibitions by Carole Piéalue, Jean-Luc Turbide, Adrienne Luce, André Lapointe, Marlène Devost, Jean-François Cyr, etc. took place.


Besides her participation at the Biennales de la tapisserie de Montréal in 1981, she worked actively within the Conseil des arts textiles du Québec where she assumed the presidency during two years. She took part in many Revue Numéro, exhibited with the artists from the CATQ, at the Galerie de l’UQAM, the Galerie du Centre in Saint-Lambert, at the Galerie d’art Point Sud in Havre-aux-Maisons, the Biennale d’art miniature of Ville-Marie, the Biennale du Lin in Normandy, France, the Galerie R3 of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and the Galerie Art Mûr in Montreal. She took part in «PENSER BILDUNG», a travelling exhibition since 2002 across the Province of Quebec.

She is working now on projects with two Centres d’artistes : Arrimage in th Magdalen Islands where she spends the summer and Diagonale in Montrèal

Une Ile, 2010, Digital Print (Estampe numerique), 15,5 x 16,5 cm – 100

Vagues, 2010, Digital Print (Estampe numerique), 18,3 x 22,5 cm – 100

Sonar, 2010, Digital Print (Estampe numerique), 18,3 x 22,8 cm – 100