Convergence: Work by Canadian and U.S. Women Artists

Wendo Van Essen
• fibre art • felting • animation

Prescott, Ontario, Canada
wendov@qwest.net
www.wendo.ebsqart.com
www.wendofibredesign.com

Fibre Artist
Nov. 17-20, 2004: The Moose Show, CBC atrium, Toronto, ON
Nov. 5-7, 2004: The Maker’s Hand Show and Sale, Picton, ON
Oct. 29-31, 2004: Inspirations Needle Craft Show, Ottawa, ON
Oct. 25-Nov. 3, 2004: Out of the Box group exhibition, Carlen Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Oct. 1-2, 2004: Seaway Autumn Colour Studio tour, Prescott, ON
Sept. 18-19, 2004: Distillery Historic District Art Show, Toronto, ON
Sept. 1-30, 2004: Tay River Gallery Fibre Arts Exhibit, Perth ,ON
Aug. 28-29, 2004: Distillery Historic District Art Show, Toronto, ON
July 9-12, 2004: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON
June 19-20, 2004: Distillery Historic District Art Show, Toronto, ON
May 30-: By The Locks, Port Carling, ON
May 30-: Silver Bridge Gallery, Bracebridge, ON
May 21-30, 2004: Naked in May, Silver Bridge Gallery, Bracebridge, ON
May 15-16, 2004: Distillery Historic District Art Show, Toronto, ON
May 7-9, 2004: Common Threads, Ottawa, ON
May 1, 2004: Remember Our Affair, Brooklin, ON
Mar. 31-Apr. 4, 2004: One of a Kind Spring Show, Toronto, ON
Feb. 4-Mar.18, 2004: Keffer Gallery, Almonte, ON
Nov. 27-Dec.7, 2003: One of a Kind Christmas Show, Toronto, ON
Nov. 8-Jan.8, 2004: Art Squared, Toronto, ON
Oct. 12-13, 2003: Seaway Valley Autumn Colour Studio Tour, Prescott, ON
Sept. 27-Oct.11, 2003: Philip K. Woods Gallery, Almonte, ON
April 11-13, 2003: Fine Arts Show, Ottawa, ON
April 24-: Textile Museum Shop, Toronto, ON
Mar. 26-30, 2003: One of a Kind Spring Show, Toronto, ON
Sept. 28, 2002: Brighton Applefest, Brighton, ON

Education

July 2002: I took a 5 day class called “Fabulous Feltmaking” with Maggie Glossop
teaching at the Mississippi Mills School of the Arts, Algonquin College, Almonte, ON

My experience as an animator, though, gave me the underlying structure
of design and discipline that I find necessary in my work as a fibre artist.

Key Clean Up/ Animation

Accreditation’s

Features

• Happily Never After
• Titan AE
• Bartok, the Magnificent
• Prince of Egypt
• Anastasia
• The Goofy Movie
• Thumbelina
• Ferngully: the Last Rainforest
• All Dogs Go to Heaven
• The Land Before Time

Television
• Rescue Heroes
• 6 Charmin commercials
• Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
• Here Comes Mumfie
• Rupert the Bear
• For Better or For Worse
• The Nutcracker Prince
• The Admiral and the Princess
• The Evergreen Raccoons
• Dragon’s Lair
• Curious George
• Where’s Waldo
• Babar

Education
Animation Degree achieved at Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, 1981

Awards
Emmy Award for Where on Earth is Carmen San Diego?
Outstanding Animated Children’s Program.
Emerging Artist Scholarship One of a Kind Spring Craft Show, 2003
Honorable Mention for entry in the Strawberry competition,
One of a Kind Spring Craft Show and Sale, 2003
3rd prize for Trend Tex challenge quilt art held at the Inspirations Show, Ottawa, ON

Ann Bird Ann Kuckelman Cobb Laurie Culling Diana Dunkley Jan Gaumnitz Maggie Glossop Missy Hamilton Roberta Huebener Susan Rennick Jolliffe Susan Jordan Maryse Maynard Liz Minnes Nan Renbarger Margaret Rose Chandler Swain Cathy Tisdale Wendo Van Essen Yvonne Wiegers