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c/v of Deborah Wiles

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Education:

2007 Attended Tad Hardgrave's Marketing Workshop for Entrepreneurs

2005  Graduate of YMCA' Self Employment Program

2003 Graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design with AOCAD major in sculpture

Teaching Credits:

2009 - Sept.-Oct.  Delivered a  4 week Memoir Writing Program at The Lillian H. Smith Library

2004 - present  Founded by Ms. Wiles in the winter of 2004  Marks of Perception; You neighborhood Art School is in it's forth year of operation.

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2006, July 14th  Guest lecturer @ S.T.E.P.U.P. (Speech that Enlightens People uplifts Places) The Youth Dub Poetry Experience, Toronto. 

2005, Summer/ Autumn sessions Taught  Introduction to Art Appreciation  at the Learning Annex, Toronto

2004  Taught  seniors art classes with Creative Hands Art Corp. and  children @St. Albans boys and Girls Club.

Curatorial Experience:

2008, Sept. 27-Oct.27 Thinly Veiled at 69 Olive Gallery.

2008, June The Little People's Show at 69 Olive

2007, Dec.1-Dec.9  69 Olive presented A Show of Faith ( the work of 20 artists). 

2007, Oct. 6-21  69 Olive presented Visual Works of Jim Christy.

2008, April 12 Silent Art Auction fundraiser for Tibet @ 69 Olive Gallery. (20 artists participated) 

2005, Jan 29-Feb 5 911 1/2 Art Attack (20 artists participated). Art Attack was an was impromptu art installation project which exhibited the work of twenty local artists for a period of seven days in an abandoned apartment in Toronto. The address  was 911 1/2 Bathurst St.

Community Service:  

2008, Guest Speaker at YMCA's Self Employment Program

2007, April 11 Coordinator of Voices, Versions and Visions; a creative writing at OCAD event. 

2005-2007 volunteer at The Lighthouse center.    

2004 - 2006 produced Galaxy Magazine by Kids for Kids. 

2006 Cycling to the Moon, a once a month summer reading series which showcased local poets. It was held @ The Grapefruit Moon, Toronto.

1989 The Festival for Survivors of Assault in Kensington Market. The festival was an interdisciplinary arts festival in celebration of the spirit of survival.

Exhibitions of Visual Work

2009  Aug. 22 - Sept. 16th  Solo Exhibit at The Cameron, Toronto

2009  Feb. 27- March 29  Solo Exhibit at the Sublime Cafe,  Toronto

2008, September 27 - October 27   Solo Exhibit Thinly Veiled at 69 Olive Gallery

2008 ,Feb / March Solo show  Incoming : 52 Ladies for Tea at ARTsPLACE in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.   press about this show  

2006,   Dec. 13  YMCA trade show

2006,  Dec.9  Oakville trade show

2006,  Dec. 2 – 22  Loop Gallery Art: to ease crappy conversation  miniature sculpture show Toronto

2006,  Nov. 21-26  OCAD Mystery Art Sale whodunit? Show @ OCAD

2005, Dec. Toronto   XXXmas show @ Engine Gallery, Toronto

2005,  Dec  Annex Christmas Show @ the Transzac  Club

2005,  Jan/ Feb  911 ½ Art Attack - a more than urgent Group exhibition @ 911/2 Bathurst

2003  52 Ladies @ Tea in league with The Future League of Champions  @ 401 Richmond, Toronto

2003 Alchemical Exercises: The Redemption of Shame  @ The Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto

2002  The Pink Show  @  Art System, Toronto

2001 Collected Works  @ The Grapefruit Moon, Toronto

1994 Hung Out to Dry  SOLO  @ Theatre Passé Muraille, Toronto

1993 Works in Collage  SOLO @ The Jet Fuel, Toronto

1993 Works in Collage SOLO @La Hacienda, Toronto

1989 A Purple Institute Show   @ The Purple Institute, Toronto,1988  Lies across metro Toronto

Awards: 

2003 Louis Odette Sculpture Award, 2003 Machanics in Motion

Press:

2008, April 4th  69 Olive presents: A fundraiser for the Tibetan Women's Association Annex Guardian coverage Auction Raises Funds for Tibetan Women

2008,  March15  Incoming; 52 Ladies @ Tea at ARtsPlace in Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia was covered by the Chronicle Herald Newspaper A Rather Intimate Exhibition

2007, Oct 4   69 Olive presents : New visual Works of Jim Christy  was Critics Choice in the  Toronto Star  Critic's Choice

2007, May 21  Feature in MacLeans magazine  Tea,  Ladies? Oh , and by the way...

2004, Sept 23   Eye magazine  The Panalist by Guy Leshinski 

2003, May 29 Xtra magazine no.485    Xposed by Johnny Paparazzo

2003, Apr. 24-30 NOW magazine  vol.22  no.34  Sculptors Score by Thomas Hirschmann

Publications:  

2007, February  ISBN 978-0-9730869-2-8  Recipes for People Who Like to Eat Food from the kitchen of artist Deb Wiles: 2006

2006  ISBN 0-9730869-1-2  I.Title.  PS8645.143F54 2006   C811’.6   C2006-901827-8  Fleshy Life:  poems of Deborah Wiles: (extracted fromAug.2004-Mar.2006 journals).

2004, autumn  Eye Dust  - poems of Deborah Wiles  – Wiles,  Deborah. 1964-    Poems. ISBN 0-9736588-1-9   I. Title. PS8645. I43E94       2004 C811L6    C2004-905964-5

2002  ISBN 0-9730869-0-4 Requisite Housekeeping in Measure of Line  poems of Deborah Wiles from 1986-2002 2003  

2003, Feb.  ISBN 0-9734284-0-6  The Anthology of Begin – Red  -  A Collection of poems by Canadian poets published in by Tobin Stuart Shaken and Stirred - a publication of the OCAD women’s collective

2002 Unherd - voices of emerging women poets in Canada  Fall/Winter .volume 1. issue 2

2002 Toronto Perspective Tension,  An Anthology  

2002   Toronto Small Press Book Fair Instant Anthology

2002 Element Magazine

1995, Nov. Don’t Touch Me Comix vol.1,No.3,Summer/95

1994, Oct.29 Don’t Touch Me Comix vol.1,#5 1995 also in Toronto Comic Jam comics:     

1990 Matriart  a Canadian Feminist Art Journal Spring  issue1 /no.1

Appearances:

  

      2007, July 27 Lyrical Myrical writers festival @ Cerejaria, Toronto.

      2007,  March  @ Ontario College of Art and Design

      2006, Summer  Reading Tour of Nova Scotia  4 shows : Eye level Gallery, The Economy Shoe Shop,  Art Can,  ArtSPlace

      2006, March 24  @ Dub Poets Collective, Toronto

      2006, March 24   @Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto

2005, July 27th  participant in The Lyricalmyrical writers festival @ Cervejaria, Toronto

2005,  June 9 Solo reading @ Le Gourmand, Toronto

2005, May 14   With The Dub Poets Collective @ Ellington’s, Toronto

2005, Feb 19  @ at the launch of Eye Dust , The Victory Café, Toronto

2005, Jan @ Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto.

2004, Sept @ the launch of the 2nd issue of The Anthology of Begin, Clintons, Tor.

2004 @  Trane  studio at Reg E.Gains workshop, Toronto.

2003 @ the first The Anthology of Begin release party, Clintons, Toronto.

2003@  Poetry night, Clintons,  Toronto.

2003 @  Sistering  with Lillian Allen , Toronto.

2003 @ The Red Dog , Peterborough, On.

2003 @ The Poor Alex, Toronto.

2003 @ Unherd  launch,  The Rhino, Toronto.

2003 Cycling to The Moon Series-a reading series  @  The Grapefruit Moon, Tor.

2002 read twice at The Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto.

2002 @ Mayfest  event at The Red Spot, Toronto.

2001 Clintons

2000 Shakespeare's cafe, Toronto

2000 / 2001 @ Palmerston Parents Night Out

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