Curriculum Vitae
Janice Rahn
Education
1995- 1998
M Ed/PhD, Concordia University, Montreal
PhD thesis: Evolution and change: hip hop graffiti subculture in Montreal
Video documentary: Painting under pressure
Fellowships: McConnell Fellowship for doctorate
1992 –1995
MFA, Concordia University, Montreal
MFA exhibition and paper: She Cast Herself Adrift. A man and babies
anchored her there. Exhibited at Bourget Gallery, Montreal, and at Dare
Dare Gallery, Montreal.
1981-1982
B Ed, University of Toronto
1976-1980
BFA, Queens’ University, Kingston, Ontario
Reviewed Publications
Books
2010
2002
Co-Editor: Viewfinding: Perspectives on teaching new media in the arts.
New York: Peter Lang
Single Author: Painting without permission. Westport, CT: Bergin &
Garvey
Chapters in Books
2010
2010
2010
2009
2003
Introduction Viewfinding: Perspectives on teaching new media in the arts,
New York: Peter Lang.
New Media taught as art material: Tableau as inquiry, Viewfinding:
Perspectives on teaching new media in the arts, New York: Peter Lang.
Video sketchbook. In Viewfinding: Perspectives on teaching new media in
the arts, New York: Peter Lang.
Digital content: video as research. Handbook of quantitative image-based
research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Press.
Crossing over: negotiating specialization in an interdisciplinary culture.
Keynote Address presented at Interdisciplinary Conference, 20 pages.
Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Centre.
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Published Juried and Invited Articles
2005
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1997
Painting under pressure. Calgary, AB: Art Gallery of Calgary catalogue.
White, B. (Ed.). New media, curriculum and audience. National Symposium
for Art Education catalogue, 10 pages. Montreal: McGill Press.
Emme, M. (Ed.) Technology, contemporary art, and education. Canadian Art
Teacher. Canadian Studies Education through Art.
White, B. (Ed.). Community, collaboration, and dialogue: New media
curriculum and change. Canadian Review of Art Education, 28 pages.
Montreal: McGill Press.
White, B. (Ed.). Video as ethnography and teaching resource. CSEA Journal.
Montreal: McGill Press.
Art without permission. Material Culture Review. Ottawa: Museum of
Science and Technology.
Zimmerman, E., & Sacca, E. (Eds.). Autobiography as a tool in artmaking
and teaching practice. Herstories, Ourstories, Future Stories. Reston, VA:
National Art Education Association.
Outside art, hip-hop graffiti subculture. Halifax, NS: Catalogue of Folk Art
symposium.
Exhibitions
Juried Solo Exhibitions
2000
1997
1996
1996
1995
1994
1991
1991
1991
1990
& Garden (Audio/Video installation), Stride, Calgary.
She Cast Herself Adrift, A Man and Babies Anchored Her There, Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NF.
Compulse, Galerie Glace, Storefront window gallery, Montreal.
She Cast Herself Adrift, Dare Dare, Parallel Gallery, Montreal.
She Cast Herself, Bourget Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.
Transforming Narratives, Bourget Art Gallery, Montreal.
Paper Marriage, Art Dialogue Gallery, Toronto.
Paper Marriage, Malaspina Print Society Gallery, Vancouver.
Paper Marriage, Yukon Territorial Gallery, Whitehorse, YK.
From my sketchbook, Cultural Centre, Sienna, Italy.
Group Exhibitions (Recent)
2011
2011
2010
2008
Sauna, Video installation, Penny building, Lethbridge, Fine Arts Faculty
Exhibition.
Chateau D’Eau audio/video installation, Galerie de la Vidourle Prix. Sauve,
France
Monoprints, Galerie de la Vidourle Prix. Sauve, France
In collaboration with Michael Campbell, Elephant’s Graveyard, 30 degrees
Portside List, at Groundwater Institute for Contemporary Art and Culture,
Courtney, B.C.
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1998- 2009
1998
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Elephant’s Graveyard, 30 degrees Portside List in Current,
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
Elephant’s Graveyard, 30 degrees Portside List in the Alberta Biennial,
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton;
National Art Gallery in Ottawa.
A Look at Graffiti, Calgary Art Gallery, Calgary. As Assistant Curator,
selected graffiti writers from across Canada and screened my four videos on
hip-hop culture as part of the exhibition, December – May.
Pause, Assistant Curator of 5 storefront window exhibits in collaboration
with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
I couldn’t put it into words in Pause, storefront window exhibits in
collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB,
The End of the World (as we know it), audio installation, ARTWEEK,
Calgary, curated by David Garneau.
Exhibited new work each year at Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, in the
annual U of L Fine Arts Faculty Show. For example: The Garden Show
(audio video installation), Stumble, From my Sketchbook, Best in Show,
Painting – 24 panels, etc.
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal
Made, Quartier Ephemere, Montreal.
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal.
The Delinquent Print, 372 Belgor Bldg., Montreal.
Finalistes du prix Albert-Dumouchel. La Bibliotheque Mille-End de la Ville
de Montreal, Montreal.
Conseil Quebecois de l'estamp, Montreal.
ENVOYS (a web site of my work accompanied this exhibition), Lopdell
House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Mobiliers d'artistes, Galerie Optica, Montreal.
False River, in collaboration with Michael Campbell, Bourget Gallery,
Montreal.
International Papermaking Conference, Montreal.
The 2nd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan. Won
award for best print, was published in catalogue.
Awards and Grants
2009
2005
2001
2000
2000
1999
1999
Canada Council Initiative Grant
Alberta Fine Arts Council Media Grant
Alberta Fine Arts Council Media Grant
Canada Council Quest Grant
REE (Research Excellence) Grant, University of Lethbridge
AACES Grant
(to make a series of videos on artist-in-the-school projects)
University of Lethbridge Teaching Development Grant
(for videos)
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Curriculum Vitae
1999
1998
1996-1997
1995
1992
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1988-1989
1986-1987
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University of Lethbridge Research Grant
(to make documentary video)
Artist Development Grant Dickinson State University, ND.
McConnell Fellowship, Concordia University.
Ontario Arts Council, Artist in Education
Ontario Arts Council, Artist in Education
The 2nd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan. Won
award for best print, was published in catalogue.
Yukon Advanced Artist Grant for Studies Abroad (Italy).
Explorations, Canada Council Grant, Northwest Territories Arts Advisory
Council Grant
Northwest Territories Art Advisory Council Grant
Juried and Invited Paper and Video Presentations
2006
2005
2003
2001
2001
2001
Keynote speaker, studio visits, one-week artist residency: MFA program at
Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax. They invite two presenters a
year, pay all expenses, per diem and $1,500 honorarium.
Art Now, dinner and honorarium, University of Lethbridge
Keynote speaker: Crossing Over: Negotiating Specialization in an
Interdisciplinary Culture, Canadian Plains Research Center: University of
Regina, Interdisciplinary Conference, all expenses paid and $450
honorarium.
Lecture in scholar series at the University of British Columbia, and again at
the Vancouver East Side Community Centre. All expenses paid and $1,500
honorarium
Vancouver Mayor and City Council invited me to present my video
Underpressure and to organize a meeting with local graffiti “writers” and the
city engineer to discuss legal walls
Where the Sidewalk Ends, video screening of Under Pressure at EM media,
Calgary
Conference Presentations
2009
2008
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
NAEA, Advertising and art, Concordia University, Montreal
CSEA, Digital Content, McGill University, Montreal
Critical Thinking and Interpretation of the Visual in Everyday Life, Alberta
Fine Arts Conference
Mass-Produced One of a Kind Pop Sculpture, Canadian Studies in Education
through Art, Edmonton
Video Sketchbook, Alberta Fine Arts Conference
Visual Literacy, CSEA
Semiotics and Silk Screening T-shirts, Alberta Fine Arts Conference
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Curriculum Vitae
2001
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Teaching Through Online and Face-to-Face, Canadian Society for Education
through Art Conference, Toronto
Media Literacy, National Art Education Association conference
Hip-hop Culture and Ways of Learning, Canadian Society for the Study of
Education conference, Edmonton
Artist in the School Projects, University of Victoria, B. C. Fine Arts
Conference
Hip-Hop and Artist in the School Projects, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Fine Arts Conference
Hip-hop Culture and Ways of Learning, Canadian Studies in Education
through Art conference, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design Video
Screenings and Presentations (Recent)
Toronto CSEA conference, online teaching using video
Seattle American Education Research Association conference video
screening of Women and Hip-Hop
Documentary Under Pressure broadcast on ACCESS Networking and
Canadian Learning Channel.
New Orleans American Education Research Association conference video
screening of Under Pressure
New York NAEA conference video screening of Women and Hip-Hop
Victoria, B.C., Renaissance conference video screening of LOST
Antimatter Film Festival, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC. Screened: REST STOP
(collaboration with Michael Campbell)
University of Lethbridge screening of Under Pressure
Video screening, LOST, shown at Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Curated Shows and Artist Residencies (Recent)
2005 - 2006
2001
2000
1999
1999
Curated exhibition of graffiti writers from across Canada at the Art Gallery
of Calgary: A look at Graffiti. December – May.
Curated artist residency with audio video artist Ken Dorin at Catholic Central
High School, exhibited at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery; created
educational video of process
Curated Under/over Exposure of artist-in-the-school projects with PSIII
students
Curated student show from artist in the school project, University of
Lethbridge Gallery to coincide with workshops for the AFAC
Curated artist residency with David Hoffos, U of L education students, and
students at Catholic Central High School, Lethbirdge, AB, exhibited at the
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; created video of process
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