Pearl Van Geest

Curation / Memberships

CURATION (With Children and Teens)

  • New Work (Love on the Rocks), James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove Foundation, NFLD, August, 2007.
  • “Follow Your Art”, a collaborative exhibition between SAGE school and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2006.
  • “The Machine”, a collaborative sculpture created cumulatively over eight months and displayed from September 22 to October 6, 2005. Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum.
  • “Technically Speaking”, an exhibition of work by the senior classes of Eastwood Collegiate Institute, Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum, Kitchener, On. December 2 – February 6, 2005.
  • “Lesser-Known Superheroes of Our Century”, an exhibition of photographs of the Waverley Public School’s Grade 4/5 Gifted Class students as their self-created Superhero personas. Guelph Public Library, October 1 – 31, 2004.
  • “Osmosis: the passage”, Guest Artist for the Young Curators program, Kitcherner Waterloo Art Gallery, 2001.

MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS AND REPRESENTAION

  • 1996- 1998: Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (1996-1997 -Chair of the Selection Committee and Executive member)
  • 1995 – present: Woman’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, ON
  • 2002- 2004: Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, ON (2003 -Programming Committee member and Web Curation Committee member)
  • June 2004 – 2005: Contemporary Art Forum/ Kitchener and Area – Organizing and Programming Committees.