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Complete
Resume
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Educational
Background
Degrees in Art from the University of British Columbia and Emily
Carr College of Art & Design and in Anthropology from The
University of Western Ontario.
Professional
Experience
As
well as being a practicing visual artist, Arthur has taught and
developed art courses in drawing, painting, animation, and design
at the college and university level. He has been involved in the
administration of the Alberta College of Art and Design in various
capacities from department Chair to Vice-president/Academic Dean
as well as serving as the Head and President of that institute.
He was the founding President of the Canadian Centre of the Arts
at Owen Sound, ON.
B.A.
History, Fine Arts: University of British Columbia
B.A.
Anthropology, Honours: The University of Western Ontario
Advanced
Diploma, Honours: Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Post
Graduate course work: University of Calgary
Major
Collections
Public
Canada
Council Art Bank
Alberta Art Foundation
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Private
Nova
Pan Canadian
Gulf
Lavalin
Trizec Corporation
Selected
Exhibitions
Mickey Meads, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, May/June 2009
For
Instance, Group Exhibition, Isabella Egan Gallery, Vancouver,
BC, March/April 2008
Mickey
Meads, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC, March 2007
mansell&meads,
Artworks, Gabriola, BC, July 2005
bioGraphics
Botanica, Alice Mansell and Mickey Meads, Evergreen Cultural Centre,
April/May 2004.
bioGraphics:
Staged Practices, Alice Mansell and Mickey Meads, Kootenay Gallery,
September/October 2000.
bioGraphics:
Staged Practices, Alice Mansell and Mickey Meads, Richmond Art
Gallery, July/August 2000.
Courbet"s
"Venus and Psyche" a Painting Lost by Alice Mansell
and Mickey Meads, in the Body Missing Web site by Vera Frenkel,
1995-6 (http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing), the National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 1996.
bioGraphics:
enGendered Positions, Alice Mansell and Mickey Meads, Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May/June 1996.
A
Cup for a Cup, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, September/October
1993.
Miniature
Art Show, juried show, Gibson Galleries, London, Ontario, December
1990.
Remy
Martin, juried exhibition, W.R. Mitchell Gallery, Calgary, Alberta,
Oct.1984.
Alberta
College of Art Staff Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, November 1984.
Alberta
College of Art Staff Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, October 1983.
The
Un-College Staff Exhibition, James Ulrich Gallery, Calgary, Alberta,
February 1983.
New
Image Alberta, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta,
traveling exhibition, November 1982.
Arthur
Meads, Mira Godard Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, July 1 to August
14, 1982.
Alberta
Now, Survey of Alberta Artists, for Alberta's 75th Anniversary,
Edmonton, Alberta, June 1980.
Alberta
College of Art Staff Show, Calgary, Alberta, January 1980.
Fifteen,
Banff Centre Gallery, Banff, Alberta, 1979.
Watercolour
Painting in Canada: A Survey of Traditional and Experimental Forms,
UW Arts Centre Gallery, (National Juried Show), University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, June 7 to August 30, 1979.
Alberta
Society of Artists Group Show, Juried Exhibition, Southern Alberta
Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, April 1979; Shell Oil Centre,
June 1979.
University
of Calgary Faculty Show, University of Alberta Gallery, Edmonton,
Alberta, March 1979.
Alberta
College of Art Staff Show, Calgary, Alberta, January 1979.
A.
Meads, A. Mansell, University of Calgary Art Gallery, Calgary,
Alberta, September 8-22, 1978.
Little
Gallery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, March 1978.
Print
and Drawing Show, University Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, November
1977.
Manisphere
1977, (National Juried Exhibit), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Fall 1977.
Faculty
Exhibition, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, October 1977.
Corner
Gallery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, March 1977.
Four
Photo Screen Printers, Gallery of Photography, Vancouver, British
Columbia, March 1975.
One-Man
Show at the Artist's Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, March
1975.
Deerlake
Printmakers, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1971.
Published
Drawing for the short story, "Hivener", in the Autumn
1966 issue of Prism International.
Art
World column for Scene Magazine.
eva,
the Electronic Visual Arts journal
The
Internet
Examples of online art work can be viewed at:
www.meads.ca/links
Associations
CAFAD (Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans), 1983-87.
ACE
(Association of Cultural Executives), 1983-87.
OCO
(1988 XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee), 1985-87.
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Member of the main Festival Committee
(12
members, budget of $10 million, responsible for Visual Arts,
Theatre, Literary Arts, Film, Music, Posters, Philately, Dance,
and Crafts).
- Chair, Visual Arts Exhibition Committee
(sub-committee
of Festival Committee), responsible for the coordination and
development of curatorial, education, and exhibition presentations
for 1988 Olympic celebration. (10 members with 4 sub-committees
and a budget of 2 million).
Arts
Advisory Committee for the City of London, 1990.
Canadian
Centre of the Arts at Owen Sound, 1988-91.
London International Children’s Festival, 1993-94.
Administrative,
Instructional, and Employment Outline
Artist:
1963 to present
Vice President: AT Conservator Systems Ltd., 1999 to 2001.
Publisher and Editor (Founding): eva the Electronic Visual Arts
journal,1993 to 1995.
This
journal has world wide connectivity through the Internet system
and enables artists in Canada to electronically interact with
the global arts community.
Consultant:
The University of Western Ontario, Department of Visual Arts,
London, Ontario, October 1, 1993 to December 1, 1994.
Responsible
for computer graphics implementation including the first SGI/PC/Mac
lab in the John Labatt Visual Arts Building.
Art
Editor: Scene Magazine, London, Ontario, April 1993 to April 1994.
Research
Assistant: The University of Western Ontario; Anthropology Department,
Faculty of Social Sciences, London, Ontario, May 1992 to April
1994.
Responsible
for bone collagen extraction for isotopic investigations of
ancient Mayan populations.
Instructor:
Beginning Drawing, Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology,
Continuing Education, London, Ontario, September 1991 to 1993.
This
course was offered in association with the London Regional Art
and Historical Museums, with the art gallery serving as the
classroom location. I wrote the course outline to take advantage
of the relevant location and the institute’s resource of
ongoing exhibitions of contemporary and historic art as well
as museum artifacts.
Instructor:
Computer Graphics Workshop for Graduate Students, Faculty of Education,
The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 1991.
Consultant:
Canadian Centre of The Arts at Owen Sound, Owen Sound, Ontario,
April 1, 1991 to August 31, 1991.
Responsible
for delivering the second year program when managerial expertise
became temporarily unavailable to the centre's Board of Governors.
This involved implementation of:
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courses in Art History, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and
Sculpture.
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seminars in criticism.
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a performance festival.
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international guest speakers program.
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accommodation for students, faculty, and guest artists.
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advertising and publicity.
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registration.
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facilities organization.
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financial accounting.
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grant applications and follow up reports.
Director
(Founding): Canadian Centre of The Arts at Owen Sound, Owen Sound,
Ontario, September 1, 1989 to October 31, 1990.
Implemented
the first year of operations and the first program. This involved
the following key responsibilities:
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budgeting.
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grant applications and follow up reports.
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day to day financial accountability.
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fund raising.
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registration.
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programming of courses in Art History, Photography, Painting,
and Illustration and Rendering.
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organization of conference and visiting artists events.
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advertising and publicity.
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initial computing facilities for the centre's database, registration,
accounting, publishing, and correspondence needs.
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initial national database of students, participants, teachers,
artists, arts groups, colleges, universities, high schools,
and funding resources.
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community liaison with other art groups.
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national and provincial liaison with other art groups and
government agencies.
Consultant:
The University of Western Ontario, Department of Part-Time and
Continuing Education, London, Ontario, June 1988 to September
1989.
Developed
a two year plan for the artistic and financial operations of
a new art centre in Owen Sound. This involved:
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a general initial program of post secondary visual and historical
art courses, conferences on the visual arts, professional
visual arts seminars, and guest artists/speakers.
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a specific outline of offerings of the above over the next
two years.
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the initial administrative structure including the membership
of the board.
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the role of The University of Western Ontario, Georgian College,
and the City of Owen Sound.
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the role of other institutes.
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possible visiting artists.
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publicity.
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capital investment required.
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sources of funding.
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operating costs and budget allocation for the initial two
years.
Presented,
as a member of the Centre Steering Committee (comprised of
representatives from community arts groups and post-secondary,
secondary education institutes, the city administrator, and
Mayor), a successful request for initial two year funding
from the City of Owen Sound Council. Grant requests to the
Ministry of Communication and Culture and the Canada Council
were also successful and enabled the Centre to begin.
Instructor:
Beginning Drawing, Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology,
Continuing Education, London, Ontario, July 1989 - November 1990.
Vice
President and Academic Dean: Alberta College of Art, Calgary,
Alberta, October 1, 1985 to June, 1987.
Key
responsibilities:
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delivery of all academic programs including studio, lecture,
and seminar courses in the major areas of Foundation, Visual
Communications, Fine Arts, Crafts, Continuing Education, and
Humanities.
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faculty recruitment and appraisal.
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program coordinators recruitment and appraisal.
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student services - registrars functions, counseling (personal,
career and academic), timetabling, loans, yearbooks, exhibitions,
student gallery, and social functions.
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the gallery - financial, programming, and personnel.
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the library - financial, acquisitions, and personnel.
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audio visual facilities - personnel and acquisitions.
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the development of a five year, college wide, plan.
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the development of a comprehensive policy manual.
Major
initiatives:
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the negotiation of credit transfers with the University of Calgary,
including initial talks aimed at the implementation of a degree
stream for interested art college students.
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five year plan.
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policy manual.
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collective agreement.
Consultant:
Samson Indian Band, Hobbema, Alberta, 1986-87.
Assisted
in the development of The Institute of Canadian Indian Arts.
Wrote the first year program with the specific goal of enhanced
student transferability to the upper years of study at the Alberta
College of Art.
'Acting'
President: Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, July 1, 1985
to October 1, 1985.
Served
on all Provincial Advanced Education Committees including the
Presidents' Council and the Committee of Senior Academic Officers.
Maintained
all academic and administrative operations until a permanent
President could be appointed.
Head:
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, July 1, 1983 to June
30, 1985.
This
position included, in addition to management of academic and
financial affairs, the transition stages to independence for
the College.
Major
responsibility at this time was as liaison between the Ministry
of Advanced Education, The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
(parent institute), the public, the faculty, the students, the
management team from the Ministry, and the appointed Minister's
Advisory Committee on transition. Highlights of duties during
this tenure include:
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responsible for providing information on all aspects of the
college (academic, financial, personnel, physical) to the
Ministry management team and to work as a partner to the Minister's
Advisory Committee in setting up the new academic structure
of the college. This included the budgets, personnel concerns
such as benefits packages and pay equity, new administrative
structures including building expansion and the hiring of
new personnel such as the financial officer, personnel manager,
computer systems manager, student services director, english
instructors, and the transfer of all academic faculty and
support staff.
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served as a member of the management team that negotiated
the first faculty contract and the first AUPE (Alberta's government
employee union representing the colleges support and technical
staff) contract.
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aided the Minister's Advisory Committee in writing the bylaws
for the Board of Governors of the college.
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served on, and helped define the terms of all in-college committees,
including the Academic Council, Program and Planning Committee,
Operations Committee, and the Organization Committee.
- assisted in the planning of the new administrative structure
and developed the initial organizational chart.
- responsible for developing and implementing new policies
for academic affairs including academic scheduling, admission,
registration and withdrawal, fees, grading system, curriculum
development including course outlines and objectives, academic
conduct including attendance, harassment policy, intellectual/academic
honesty policy, conflict of interest guidelines, student records,
appeal procedures, instructor loading, accreditation system,
program development, and the visiting artists program.
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responsible for developing the independent financial affairs
including budgeting, revenue, signing authority, purchasing,
payroll, expense claims and grant applications, accounting,
insurance and risk management, and the physical plant and
equipment.
- served on all required Provincial Advanced Education Committees
including the Council of Presidents and the Committee of Senior
Academic Officers.
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served on the Olympic Arts Festival Committee and responsible
for the visual arts events of the 1988 Winter Games.
Academic
Supervisor: Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, 1982-1983.
Responsible
for all academic functions, student affairs, and continuing
education during the term of two college Heads.
Key
responsibilities included:
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the appraisals of department coordinators (chairs).
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faculty recruitment.
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coordination and implementation of programs.
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visiting artists program.
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continuing education development.
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liaison between SAIT / Art College administration, the faculty,
and students.
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Responsible for admissions and recruitment to all years
of study at the college.
Major
initiative at this time was to developed a comprehensive Film
Animation program for the college's presentation to the Ministry
for approval (funding was not available and it was implemented
as an advanced series of option courses).
Program
Coordinator, Instructor-Senior: Foundation Year, Alberta College
of Art, Calgary, Alberta, 1979 to 1982.
Key responsibilities included:
- the recruitment, counseling, and admission of first year
students.
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implementation of Foundation programs, second year design
electives,
english
courses, and art history courses.
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college wide timetabling of instructors, students, facilities,
and classes and recruitment and counseling of potential advanced
level students.
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full time and part-time Foundation faculty performance appraisals.
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the proper delivery of the Foundation courses of two-dimensional
design, three-dimensional design, drawing, art history (at
all college levels from 1st year studies to third year studies),
english, woodshop, upper level years of specialty options
like film animation and all foundation specialty workshops
covering the major disciplines of painting, sculpture, visual
communications (commercial art), ceramics, printmaking, jewellery,
textiles, glassblowing, drawing, and english.
Major
initiative:
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wrote and developed present Foundation Program including all
organizational and educational components. This was necessary
in order to make more efficient use of personnel, financial,
and physical resources and to better serve the students in
a changing art milieu. This approach would enable them to
better meet their needs for a professional program of solid
skills and intellectual development, benefiting them in their
chosen program of advanced studies at the College.
Instructor:
Animation, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta., 1979 to
1980.
Developed
the Film Animation course for the Design Department.
Instructor:
Airbrush Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Summer 1979
(July 9-13).
Instructor:
Design (Art 231), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Winter
1979.
Instructor:
First year Drawing, 2nd year Drawing and 2nd year Design at the
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, 1978-1979.
Instructor:
Basic Drawing, Department of Continuing Education, University
of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Fall 1978/Winter 1979.
Instructor:
Drawing (Art 343) and Drawing (Art 241-243), University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, Summer, 1978.
Developed
the Anatomy Drawing course for the Fine Art Department.
Instructor:
Airbrush Techniques, Department of Continuing Education, University
of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Winter 1978.
Developed
an Airbrush Drawing course for the Department of Continuing
Education.
Instructor:
Drawing (Art 241-243) and in Design (Art 232-233), Winter 1977,
Summer 1977 and Fall/Winter 1977-78, Department of Art, University
of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
Visual
Presentation Artist: Shop and display design for The Bay (Market
Mall Store) in Calgary, Alberta, 1975 to Fall 1977.
Artist:
Sessionally employed under a LIP Grant administered by the City
of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1972 to1975.
Librarian
Assistant: During University studies, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, 1967-70.
Worked
with Bill Reid, assisting him in the making of jewellery and carvings,
Vancouver, British Columbia, 1966.
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