St. Catharines and Area Arts Council

New Generation Mentor Project

The new generation mentor project is meant to be a significant transformative learning experience for the participating artists (mentees) . an experience that has a positive, creative, impact on their careers. The participants are to set learning goals or objectives in consultation with the mentor and will be challenged to take some risks in
their artistic practice.

The mentor will be Judy Major-Girardin. Judy has taught in the Honours Art Program at McMaster University since 1983. She has a BFA from the University of Windsor and an MFA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Her work has examined the liminal space between abstraction and representation primarily through the exploration of landscape and biomorphic forms from nature. Distinctively, she has often hybridized painting and printmaking in her current work, seamlessly combining the media in her lyrical works. She
has exhibited her paintings and graphic works in solo and group exhibitions
throughout Canada and the U.S.A. and she is currently represented by Gallery
Moos in Toronto. http://www.judymajorgirardin.ca/

he project will conclude with an exhibition of the mentees’ works in
2012 at the Burlington Art Centre.

Applicants should be actively involved in their artistic practice . producing artworks (all media are invited), exhibiting and

– Should have completed their basic training. Basic training is meant to be
equivalent to at least three years of full-time study at a postsecondary
educational institution. – Should be willing and able to make a 12 month commitment to the project. – Should, through discussions with the mentor and other participants, set
their own learning goals and be willing to take some risks in their artistic
practice while in the project.

Participants are not charged a fee for participating.

The proposed time line follows:

– Issue the call for participants/mentees – October 1, 2010 – Deadline to receive applications – November 28, 2010 – Selection of participants – December 13, 2010 – First mentor meeting – January 9, 2011 at 1:30 pm.
Discuss participants’ goals, set meeting schedule, etc. – 10 mentor project meetings – February – December 2011 – Last mentor project meeting – t b a
Wrap up project: participant and mentor feedback, confirm exhibition plans,
etc.
(The exhibition is tentatively set for February 18 – March 25, 2012)

If you are interested in this project and want to submit an application
please send the following to the attention of George Wale, Director of
Programs, Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario,
L7S 1A9:
1. Cover letter
2. Resume
3. Artist statement
4. CD (jpeg images) or slides and slide list (no more than twenty images) 5.
Statement about why you are interested in being part of the new generation
mentor project.

Burlington Art Centre,
1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON L7S 1A9 www.BurlingtonArtCentre.on.ca