Funding and awards

The awards, recognition, opportunities, and dollar figures below – totaling more than $50,000 in internal (institutional) and external funding –  have served to support my practice, develop infrastructural frameworks, build and enhance curriculum, disseminate my research on local, national, and international plateaux.


Artist Travel Grant 2012
  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $650 in support of travel to 100 Prints / National Printmaking Awards, Toronto, Ontario
Shortlisted Finalist 2012
  National Printmaking Awards, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
  "Run", UV and acrylic silkscreen on paper, 2012, was shortlisted from more than a hundred national submissions. 
  The award ceremony coincides with Open Studio's annual, juried, 100 Prints event, at the Palais Royale in Toronto.
Solo Exhibition Prize  2009
Okanagan Print Triennial, Vernon/Kelowna, British Columbia
   1st Prize - Solo Exhibition awarded for 2012 Okanagan Print Triennial as judged by 2009 entries.  (Images from the catalogue are here.)
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Fund 2009
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $2500 in support of research project entitled My Ether is all scratched, aka Fieldwork.
Artist Project Grant 2009
  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $3800 in support of creative project (U.V. silkscreen prints)
Research Funding  2008
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $2500 in matching research funds from the Vice-President (Research)
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Fund 2008
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $2420 in support of research project entitled Ultra-Violet Silkscreen: High Resolution Photo-Digital Integration and Expanded Colour Spaces within a
  Lower-Toxicity, Studio Printmaking Context.
Artist Travel Grant 2008
  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $500 in support of travel to artist residency at Sagamie - The National Centre for Research and Diffusion of 
  Contemporary Digital Art, Alma, Québec
The President’s Fund/SHHRC General Research Fund 2008-10
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $5000 in support of research project entitled Ultra-Violet Silkscreen: High Resolution Photo-Digital Integration and Expanded Colour Spaces within a
  Lower-Toxicity, Studio Printmaking Context.
Research Funding  2008
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $2500 in start-up research funds from the Faculty of Fine Arts
The President’s Fund/SHHRC General Research Fund 2007-08
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $5000 in support of research project entitled High Resolution Photo-Digital Integration and Expanded Colour Spaces in Hybrid Fine Art-Commercial
  Printing, within a Lower-Toxicity, Studio Printmaking Context.
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Fund 2007-08
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $2500 in support of research project entitled High Resolution Photo-Digital Integration and Expanded Colour Spaces in Hybrid Fine Art-Commercial
  Printing, within a Lower-Toxicity, Studio Printmaking Context
Visiting Speaker Assistance Grant 2007-08
  Humanities Research Institute, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $250 in support of Collaborating Printmaker/Visiting Artist Eric Mathew (Toronto)
The Dean’s Special Project Fund 2007-08
  University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
  $1250 in support of Collaborating Printmaker/Visiting Artist Eric Mathew (Toronto)
Visiting Artist Residency 2008
  Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario (Info about my residency is here.)
Visiting Researcher-Artist Residency 2008
  Sagamie - The National Centre for Research and Diffusion of Contemporary Digital Art, Alma, Québec (Info regarding my residency is here.)
  $250 plus digital facilities access + dedicated technician
Visiting Artist Residency 2007
  St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s, Newfoundland (Info about the residency programme is here.)
  $1500 plus materials and studio access
Artist Residency Fellowship 2006
  Atelier Circulaire, Montréal, QC (Info on the residency programme in .pdf form is here.)
  $500 plus studio access
Imperial Tobacco Canada Arts Grant  2004-2005
  $12,000 in support of graduate thesis project exhibition entitled Ether.
CIAM Hexagram Production Grant  2003-2004
  Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Médiatiques, <Rapid Prototyping Axis>,  Montréal, Québec
  $3,000 in support of graduate thesis project research (leading to the exhibition entitled Ether).
Finalist for New Canadian Painting Competition 2003
  RBC Private Counsel & Canadian Art Magazine
    Top 5 in Eastern Canada (over 1500 entries), and inclusion in Canada-wide traveling exhibition with colour catalogue.