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Michelle Mackinnon

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​Michelle Mackinnon, MFA, BFA (York)

Visiting assistant professor - Visual Arts 

Email: mmackinnon@grenfell.mun.ca

Website:Link

Social media/LinkedIn: michelleleahmackinnon (IG)


Research interests/expertise

I explore how the notions, rituals and routines of home can endure and evolve within objects and what its existence beyond spatial and temporal boundaries may be. In a fragmented state that exists between the real and remembered, the objects I draw are intimately preserved to create a mapping of sorts—a rendering of the once familiar. They drift between the deconstruction and adoration of things and place in an attempt to (re)familiarize and fit myself into a new understanding of what was, or still could be, home.


Teaching

Drawing & Painting


Representative scholarly contributions

For 2020

  • Straight Outta Corner Brook, Fall 2020, Feature Article by Ian McKay, Art North Magazine, Scotland  
  • In Practice: Michelle MacKinnon, interview with Mireille Eagan, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL, September 2020
  • Corner Brook’s Morning Show, CBC NL, Pandemic Portraits, Interview Bernice Hillier, St. John's, NL, 28 August
  • CBC, Online Interview, Corner Brook painter highlights pandemic productivity in portraits, St. John’s, NL, 30 August
  • St. John’s Morning Show, CBC NL, Pandemic Portraits, Interview with Ramraajh Shrvendiran, St. John’s, NL, 28 August
  • Visual Arts News, Summer 2020, New Exhibitions by Michelle MacKinnon, written by Jane Walker, NL
  • Riddle Fence, Issue #35, Cover Image and Featured Artist, St. John’s, NL, March
  • Hit List, Akimbo Feature, ON 
  • (em)brace, a response by Jane Walker, Jane Walker, Exhibition Publication, Eastern Edge Artist Run Centre, St. John’s, NL, January

Current research projects and grants

Exhibitions (Solo & Group)
  • 2020 — Pandemic Portraits, Grenfell Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL
  • Present Tense: Michelle MacKinnon – Pandemic Portraits, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL
  • (em)brace, Eastern Edge Artist Run Centre, St. John’s, NL
  • 2019 - Pop-Up Exhibition, Union House Arts in association with the 
  • Bonavista Biennale, Port Union, NL
  • Labour Laws, Union House Arts, Port Union, NL
  • 2018 — A Rendering of the Once Familiar, Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • Touch, Trace, Feel with Andrew Testa, 180 Projects, Sault Ste Marie, ON

Residencies
  • 2021 — (upcoming) Artist in Residence, CASA, Lethbridge, AB
  • Artist in Residence, The Gathered Gallery, NL
  • 2019 - 2020 — Visiting Artist in Residence, Grenfell Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Corner Brook, NL (in progress 2019-2020)
  • Artist in Residence, Union House Arts, Port Union, NL

Grants
  • 2020 — Professional Projects Grant, ArtsNL (Visual Art), NL 
  • 2019 — Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Visual Art), ON
  • 2019 — Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, QC 
  • 2018 — Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Visual Art), ON 

Collections
  • 2020 — The Rooms, St. John’s, NL
  • Hew & Draw, Corner Brook, NL


Invited Talks
  • 2020 — Pandemic Portraits, Creative Practice in the Age of Coronavirus, Universities Art Association of Canada, Vancouver, BC (online)
  • between textiles and drawing…and a pandemic, Artist Talk, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
  • (postponed due to Covid-19)In An Absent Existence, Artist Talk, Grenfell Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL
  • (em)brace, Artist Talk, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL
  • 2019 — (em)brace: Between Textiles and Drawings, Domestic Encodings through Craft Objects, Universities Art Association of Canada, Quebec City, QC
  • Nooner, Artist Talk, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
  • 2018 — Home, Invited Talk, Parmenius Society, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
  • I know what you did last summer, Pecha Kucha, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
  • Artist Talk for Drawing III, Department of Art, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
  • 2017 — Speaker: Faculty Q&A, Independent Projects in Studio Art VART 4951, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL.


Awards and recognitions

Awards
  • 2020 — Arts in Education Award, Finalist, ArtsNL, St. John’s, NL
  • 2019 — Professional Development, for travel and costs associated with presenting at UAAC, Lecturers’ Union of Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL.

Chair, Visual Arts

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A2H 5G4, Canada

Office: FA 412
Phone: (709) 639-7645
Email: atesta@grenfell.mun.ca



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