Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
E. M. Alysse Bowd
Phone: 403-318-2026
email: e.m.alyssebowd@gmail.com
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Education
2016 Masters of Fine Art, NSCAD University
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts (with distinction), Alberta College of Art and Design
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts transfer diploma, Red Deer College
Selected Exhibition Record
2024 UPCOMING - Solo Exhibition: One Milk, Two Sugar, Art Gallery of St. Albert, AB
UPCOMING - Sugarcoated, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa, Latvia
2023 Lawn Ornament, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Feature Artist
2022 Sweet Tooth and Baby Teeth, Riverlands Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB.
Duet (Don't Wake the Baby), Nuit Blanche Saskatoon, SK
Pumphouse Movement Exchange, Ensemble Performance with Katarina Eriksson/ KSAMB Dance Company, Pumphouse Saskatoon, SK
Sweet Tooth and Baby Teeth, Buinho Creative Hub, Messajana, Portugal
2021 Ross Street Residency, Occupied an outdoor art studio for 100 days, Red Deer, AB
- Meet the Street, inclusive arts and culture experience
- Live Art Night, 7 Albertan artists presented live art works
- Presented 3 new performance art pieces
Fractal Art Lab, 12 ft yellow circle, Red Deer Arts Council Art Initiative
2020 Birth of Coco Lovely Williams Bea Lambert / COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2020 Currency of Love, Venice International Art Week, Venice, Italy
Floating Pink Cloud, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB (solo)
Pocket Full of Poesy, Parallel Space, Edmonton, AB
RDC Faculty Exhibition, Welikoklad Gallery, Red Deer, AB.
2019 Like a Saw in a Birthday Cake, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK
Nursery Log and Potential Wishes, dc3 Arts Projects, Zero Gravity Performance
Festival, Edmonton, AB
Every Lipstick I’ve Ever Worn, Parallel Space, Edmonton, AB
The Butter Dish, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB
RDC Faculty Exhibition, Welikoklad Gallery, Red Deer, AB.
2018 The Pink Cloudless, Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB (solo)
Pretend its Just a Hat, Okotoks Art Gallery, Okotoks, AB (solo)
IKG LIVE 2: The Scream Catcher, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
Shoebox Show: travelling exhibition, beginning exhibition Applehouse Gallery, Guldagergaard, Skælskør, DK. (invited)
RDC Faculty Exhibition, Welikoklad Gallery, Red Deer, AB.
2017 The Secret Eater, The Works Art and Design Festival, Festival performance and
Featured Gala Performance, Edmonton, AB.
RDC Faculty Exhibition, Welikoklad Gallery, Red Deer, AB.
2016 Project Network, Applehouse Gallery, Guldagergaard, Skælskør, DK.
Mise en Scene, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB.
Prairie Contemporary, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB.
As is and will be again, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
The Scream Catchers, Masters Thesis Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NS.
2015 The Thing is, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
The Maiden's Tragedy, Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax, NS
They sang to overcome their loneliness, Lumiere Cape Breton, Sydney, NS
They danced to overcome their melancholy, Art in the Open, Charlottetown, PEI
The Peddler, The Works Art and Design Festival— Exhibition, Festival performance and Feature Gala Performance, Edmonton, AB
Taming a Daydream, Leighton Arts Centre, Calgary, AB (solo)
Dear Little Friends, Kiwanis Gallery, Red Deer, AB (solo)
2014 Klebelsberg Cultural Centre, International Eco-Design Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Progress in Work, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S
Between You and Me, Untitled Art Society: Mountain Standard Time Performance Festival, Calgary, AB, (solo)
Once + Future: Canadian Contemporary Ceramics, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery
Spoon Me: Medalta International Spoon Show, Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB
Koszonom, Thank you, Kiitos, Kapolna Galleria, Kecskemet, Hungary
PIECESes and BOXESes, travelling exhibition
Applehouse Gallery, Skælskør, Denmark
blås&knåda, Stockholm, Sweden
Institute of Design Kielce, Kielce, Poland
Ewha Women's Institute, Seoul, South Korea
Byrdies Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
Port Loggia, NSCAD, Halifax, NS, Canada
Window 107, Copenhagen, Denmark
In the Making-Commission for Lunch with Strangers, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
Potworks, travelling exhibition: Alberta Craft Council (Edmonton, AB), Medalta (Medicine Hat, AB)
2013 World Cup: Project Network, Applehouse Gallery, Guldagergaard, Skælskør, DK
Dear Little Friends, Okotoks Art Gallery, Okotoks, AB (solo)
Please Wait to be Seated, Lithus, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
Hot Mud: A National Survey of Contemporary Canadian Emerging Ceramists, The Burlington Arts Centre, Lee-Chin Family Gallery, Burlington, ONT
Children Should be Heard but not Seen, Art Gallery of St. Albert (solo)
Where We Would Have Lived—Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Awards Gala Legacy Artwork,
Red Deer City Hall, Installation, Red Deer, AB
All Treasure Needs a Map, Red Deer Artwalk Festival, Performance, Red Deer, AB
Happy Anniversary Ms. Austen, Performance, Red Deer College, AB
2012 The Bistle and the Whell, Australian National University, Canberra, AUS (solo)
Exaggerated Adventures and Frequented Daydreams, Corridor Gallery, Red Deer, AB (solo)
Little to Wish For, Harris Warke Gallery, Red Deer, AB (solo)
The I Love Lemonade Stand, Open Engagement, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
The Letter Carriers, The Ballroom, Borris House, Co. Carlow, Ireland (solo)
International Cup 2012 Exhibition, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, Montana
Deep Freeze, Nina Haggerty Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2011 Material Matters, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT, AUS
The Blanket Banquet, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB (solo)
Coming Up Next, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB
The Hill Project - Public Art Grant, ACAD, Calgary, AB (solo)
ACAD Grad Show, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
We’re Mirror Friends, In Cahoots Gallery, Calgary, AB (solo)
Selected Awards
2023 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Independent Project Grant
2021 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Independent Project Grant
2018 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Independent Project Grant
2017 Ceramic Shots Photography Competition: My CERAMIC WEARS, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, April Issue Vol 56 No 1
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Independent Project Grant
2015 Starfish Student Art Award Finalist, NSCAD University
2014 Red Deer Emerging Artist Award, Red Deer Allied Arts Council
2013 Alberta Foundation For the Arts Independent Project Grant
2012 Alberta Foundation For the Arts Independent Project Grant
2011 Cup of Merit- National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
Board of Governors Finalist, ACAD
Stanford Perrott Innovative project Scholarship, ACAD
Rondi Lee Johnson Memorial Ceramics Scholarship, ACAD
2010 Mobility, Exchange and Travel Scholarship, ACAD,
Legacy Scholarship Third year, ACAD
National In-Course Millennium Excellence Award, Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
2009 Michener Medal for the Creative Arts, Red Deer College
Affair of the Arts Legacy Scholarship, Red Deer College
Louise McKinney Post-Secondary Scholarship, Provincial Government
2008 Louise McKinney Post-Secondary Scholarship, Provincial Government
Golley Ceramics Scholarship, Red Deer College
Ian and Hope Cook Sr. Art Study Travel Scholarship, Red Deer College
2007 Centennial Scholarship-Red Deer and District Allied Arts Council
Publications
2024 Giving Type Meaning: Context and Craft in Typography, Mia Cinelli, Bloomsbury
2017 The Journal of Australian Ceramics, April Issue Vol 56 No 1
2013 500 Teapots, Lark Books.
Residencies
2024 UPCOMING Zentrum Fur Keramik (Centre for Ceramics - Berlin Residency Program)
UPCOMING Klondike Institute For Arts and Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
2022 Buinho Creative Hub Residency, Messejana, Portugal
2020 Co-Creation Live Art Factory, Venice International Art Week, Venice, Italy
2018 Nelimarkka Museum Artist Residency, Alajarvi, Finland,
2017 Ewart Duggan House: The Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB
2016 Guldagergaard Ceramic Research Centre, Project Network, Skaelskor, DK
2014 International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary
2013 Guldagergaard Ceramic Research Centre, Project Network, Skaelskor, DK
Listhus, Artist in Residence, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
2012 Australian National University, Jr. Visiting Artist, Canberra, AUS
2011 Red Deer College, Artist in Residence, Red Deer, AB
Collections
Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
City of Red Deer, Culture Services, Red Deer, AB
Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra, AUS
Guldagergaard: Ceramic Research Centre, Travelling collection, Skaelskor, DK
Selected Professional Services
2023 UAAC/ AAUC, Presenter, Room For Everyone: Opening Doors for Artist -
Parents and Their families Chaired by Sarah Cullen and Kerri-Lynn Reeves, Banff Centre, AB
2023 Central Alberta Teachers Convention, Presentation + Workshop, The Necessity
of Failure in the Visual Arts Classroom, Red Deer, AB
2023/2024 Sessional Instructor Red Deer Polytechnic, Sculpture 381/383/481/483,
Drawing 241/243/341/343, Creative Think Tank CREA 2001, Art 101
2022/2023 Part Time Instructor Red Deer Polytechnic,
Drawing 241 (2 classes), 243, 341/343, 431
2021/2022 Part Time Instructor Red Deer Polytechnic, Drawing 241 (3 classes), 341, 343
2019/2020 Part Time Instructor Red Deer College, Drawing 241, 243, 341, 343
2019 Sessional Instructor Alberta College of Art and Design, Ceramics 216
2018/2019 Part Time Instructor Red Deer College, Drawing 241, 243, 341, 343
2017 Part Time Instructor Red Deer College, 3D Fundamentals 233
2011 - 2023 Program Leader, Community arts programs, Culture Services, Red Deer, AB
Introduction to Drawing
Survey Art Courses
Introduction to Ceramics
2022-24 Instructor, Summerscapes, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2015-18 Instructor, Summerscapes, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2016 Chalk Artist, Alberta Culture Days, Red Deer AB
2015-16 Teaching Assistant, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
Introduction to throwing (2 Classes)
Visual Culture
Ideas and Process
2014-20 Viewpoint Gallery Committee Member, Red Deer, AB
2012-20 Committee Member Harris Warke Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2009-2019 Program Leader, Cultural Services Visual Art Camps, Red Deer, AB
2012 Instructor, Extended Studies Introduction Ceramics Workshop,
Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2011 Program Assistant, Community Arts Programs, Culture Services, Red Deer
Instructor, ACAD Children’s Hospital Program Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, AB