Line Dufour
Education
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1979
The Ontario College of Art, Honours Graduate, 1981-85
University of Guelph, B.A., Specialization Fine Arts, 1991
University of Toronto, Faculty of Education, B. Ed., 1992
Humber School for Writers, 2029
University of Gloucestershire, MA Creative Writing and Critical Thinking, 2022
Residencies
Fondazione della arte Seta Lisio, Florence Italy. Jacquard weaving. 2013, 2015
Centre contemporains textiles de Montreal, Jacquard weaving 2014, 2016
John Willard Residency, Art Gallery of Burlington, 2018-2019
Exhibitions/Group and Solo
World Textile Art, Miami, 2022
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, Canada 2022
11th From Lausanne to Beijing Biennial, Tsinghua University, China, 2020
Interconnections, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 2020
La Magie des Fils, La Sarre, Québec, 2020
Woven By Hand, Galerie Montcalm, QC, 2019
Worn Worlds, Art Gallery of Burlington, 2019
Tuch & Technik Textilmuseum, Neumunster, Germany. 2019
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, ReCollection & Steel Collection. Two person exhibition with Barb Hunt, Almonte, Ontario. 2018
In A Different Voice: Fiber Art In A Care Narrative, Visual Art Center, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Tuchmacher Museum Bramsche Mühlenort 6, 49565 Bramsche, Germany 2018
Re-Collection, Art Gallery of Burlington for their exhibition Holding by a Thread, 2017
World Textile Art, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2017
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, California USA. 2017
World of Threads, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. 2016
9th From Lausanne to Beijing Bienale, Shenzhen, China. 2016
Subtle Technologies mobile studio tour, May 2016
Craft Council of British Columbia, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination, March-May 2016
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, California, USA. Fiber Art VII, October 2015
Doyle and Margaret Hartman Gallery, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination August 2015
Trames, Centre de Textiles Contemporain de Montreal, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination,February 2015
The Art is the Cloth, New Hampshire Institute of Art, October 2014
Craft Ontario, Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le sort, le destin et l’auto-determinatin, Sept 2014
World of Threads, Oakville, November 2012
Wool Art, Italian Craft Council, Parma, Italy April 2012
Wholeness, Solo exhibition, Gibson Centre for Community, Arts and Culture, Alliston, Ontario, Sep 2011
American Textile Museum in Lowell Massachusetts, Jan – May 2011
Eider Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska. Sept – Nov 2010
Ontario Craft Council, Ontario Craft ’09, Toronto
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky, Sept 2008
Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, June 2008
Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario, Encounters & Departures, March – April 2008
Ontario Craft Council, Ontario Craft ’07, November 13 – December 31 2007
Burlington Art Centre, In the Making: Contemporary Canadian Tapestries: tapestries by Marcel Marois, Jane Kidd,
Barbara Heller, Sondra MacLeod and Line Dufour July – Sept 2007
John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Journeys, July 2002
Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Journeys, June 2002
MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph 2002, April - July 2002
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Juried Craft Exhibition, May 1996
Wellington County Museum, Insights, August 1993 & 1994
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Threading Through Wellington, 1990
John B. Aird Gallery, Collage: Experience Images, Toronto, Jan 1990
Region of Peel Art Gallery, Peel Heritage Complex, Collage: Experience Images, Nov 1989
Hamilton Spectator Gallery, Collage: Experience Images, Hamilton, Sept 1989
Museum for Textiles, High Touch (Sufacing), Toronto, Nov 1989
Ruth Schuer Gallery, Wildlife in Tapestry, New York, Jan 1989
Whitewater Gallery, Beyond Craft, North Bay, Nov 1988
Economic Summit, Offices of the Heads of State, Toronto, June 1988
St. Lawrence Centre, Tapestry Makers, Toronto, Mar 1987
Etobicoke Civic Centre, Tapestry Makers, Feb 1987
North York Arts Council, Tapestry Makers, Feb 1987
Homer Watson Gallery, Convergence '86, Sept 1986
McGill Club Art Gallery, Tapestry Makers, Toronto, Aug 1986
Simpson House, Convergence '86, Toronto, July 1986
Ontario College of Art, Eclectic Expressions, Toronto, 1986
Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, Jan 19
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Presentation/speaking engagements/jurying/articles/employment
1985 Ministry of Culture and Communications, Ontario bilingual administrative assistant
1986-87 Association of National Non-profit Artist Run Centres, bilingual administrative assistant
1989 Toronto Handweavers and Spinners, presentation
1995 "Tapestry Trends" - 5 Counties Seminar, Guelph Guild of Handweavers and Spinners
1997 Toronto Handweavers and Spinners
Etobicoke Guild of Weavers and Spinners
2003 Kitchener Guild of Weavers & Spinners, History of tapestry
2004 Ontario Arts Council, juror
2007 Burlington Art Centre, Presentation about my tapestry work
2011 Presentation/talk, Burr House Guild of Weavers and Spinners
2011 Presentation/talk, Nottawasaga Handweavers & Spinners
2011 Community Threads tapestries collaboration with Nottawasaga Handweavers & Spinners, Alliston, On
2011 Burlington Art Centre, juror
2011 Ontario Arts Council, juror
2012 Book review, Tapestry book, Joanne Siroka, for Fibre Focus magazine.
2013 American tapestry Alliance: articles about the Community Threads projects and three dimensional tapestry
2013 Handwoven magazine, Theo Moorman technique and project
2013 Toronto Handweavers and Spinners, “Fondazione arte della Seta Lisio”, presentation
2013 Appraisal of tapestry:
Marie O’Mahony, Professor of Advanced Fashion + Textiles, OCADU
Leslie Fink, Art Appraiser, Toronto
2013 The Woven Path: Pat Burns-Wendland, Fibre Focus 2013
2013 “Inspiring Textile Innovation: Erin Lewis, visionary” Fibre Focus, Winter 2013
2013 Article on the Community Threads tapestry project, Canadian Tapestry Network, Fibre Focus, American Tapestry Alliance
2014 Book review: The Thread’s Course in Tapestry. Mette Lise Rössing, Fibre Focus
2014 Hand/Eye magazine: Fate, Destiny and Self Determaintion
2014 The Woven Path: Nieves Carrasco, Fibre Focus, October 2014
2015 The Woven Path: Inge Dam, Fibre Focus, June 2015
2016 The Woven Path: Sayward Johnson, Fibre Focus, Jan 2016
2016 The Woven Path: Joanna Schleimer, Fibre Focus, 2016
2016 The Woven Path: Thoma Ewen, Fibre Focus, 2016
2015 The Woven Path: Jette Vandermeiden, Fibre Focus 2017
2017 The Woven Path: William Hodge, Fibre Focus 2017
2017 The Woven Path: Lucy Slykerman, Fibre Focus 2017
2017 The Woven Path: Dianne Kennedy-Cruttenden, Fibre Focus 2017
2017 The Woven Path: Krystyna Sadej, Fibre Focus 2017
Teaching Experience
1989 Brown Public School, Toronto, one day workshop, design elements and batik,
1990 Cliffwood Public School, North York, (CAIS) 10 day design and weaving workshop, grades 4-6
1990 Wellington Board of Education, After School program, grades 1-6, mutli media
1990 Ecole George Etienne Cartier, one day tie dye workshop, grades 1-3
1990, 1991 North York Board of Education, Faywood Arts Centre, a one month multi-media
workshop
1990 Canadian Heritage School, Toronto (CAIS), 10 day multi-media workshop
1990 Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute, 5 day body adornments workshop, Grade 10
1991 Faywood Public School, 12 day multi media workshop, 110 kindergarten students
1991 MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, one day multi media workshops
1992-3 Monsignor Doyle Secondary School, Cambridge, high school art teacher
1993 Canadore College, Artsperience, Colour theory and application (adults)
1993-6 St. Mary's High School, Kitchener, high school art teacher
2003-2004 Sir Sanford Fleming College, Haliburton Campus, Miniature tapestry & design
2004 Burlington Guild of Weavers & Spinners, color & miniature tapestry workshop
2008 Nottawasaga Guild of Weavers & Spinners, Tapestry Workshop
2009 OHS Conference, Fibres Unleashed, Creativity Workshop, May 2009
2011 Georgian College, Tapestry Unit, OHS
2011 Niagara Guild of Weavers and Spinners, workshops on creativity and designing for weaving
2014 Miniature Tapestry Workshop, The Creativity Conference/Elementary Teachers Federation
1996-2016 Toronto Weaving School, Fabric and tapestry weaving.
Awards/Grants
Ontario Arts Council: Project Grant, Re-Collection, 2016
Ontario Arts Council: Project Grant, Matrix 2015
Ontario Arts Council: Project Grant – Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le sort, le destin et l’auto-determination: an International tapestry installation project, 2013
Ontario Arts Council: Artist in the Community. Community Threads tapestries project, 2011
Ontario Arts Council: Individual Project Grant, February 2010
Ontario Arts Council: Individual Craft Grant, June 1989, Jan 2002
Ontario Arts Council: Creative Artists in the Schools: May 1991, Sept 1990, Jan 1990
Ontario Arts Council: Exhibition Assistance Grants: July 2002, Oct 1989, Nov 1988, Sep 2011
Sheila Hugh MacKay Foundation Scholarship, Feb 1990
Articles/Reviews/Books/Catalogues
ArTapestry 5, 2017
Fiber Art Now, June 2015
British Tapestry Group, (England) Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination, November 2014, Aruna Ready.
British Tapestry Group (Scotland), Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination, November 2014, Emma Jo Webster.
HandEye magazine, http://handeyemagazine.com/content/fate-destiny-and-self-determination
New Hampshire Institute of Art, The Art of the Cloth, 2014
American Tapestry Alliance Bienniale 2008, 2010
The Hamilton Spectator, Art Matters, Regina Haggo, August 28, 2007 “Hanging by a Thread”
The Guelph Mercury, Arts & Leisure section, " Tapestry artist's work earns title of 'contemporary master' in
book" , Deborah Davis, Studio Space column, September 26, 2002
The Hamilton Spectator, Art Matters, Regina Haggo, June 20 2002
National Post, Arts & Life section, Jeannie Maxwell, August 23 1999, "Weaving a Labour of Love"
Tapestry, M. Philips, Phaidon Press, co. 1995, "Contemporary Masters" chapter, pg. 188
Southwest Art Magazine, "Wildlife in Tapestry", Arlene Gawne, September 1989, pp70-73
Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, "Wildlife", Arlene Gawne, 1990, Vol XXI, Issue 81
Surfacing, "Threading through Wellington: A fibre survey" by Nancy-Lou Patterson, 1990
Private Collections / commissions
Carina Van Heyst, Toronto
Emily Martinello, Guelph
John and Ann Galbraith, Oshawa
Robert and Ingrid Dupuis, Toronto
Timothy and Sharon Salomma, Toronto
Kathryn Randle, Ottawa
Sophie Andrikopoulos, Toronto
Arthur Erickson, Vancouver
Christine Audet, Stratford
Elsie Fish, Medicine Hat
Freda Kurin, Toronto
Nina Raby, Guelph
Dr. Barrie Bennet, Toronto
Miriam Grassby, Montreal
Dr. James Brown, Guelph
Dr. Wayne Callaghan, Windsor
Lyle Satok and Shawn Patt, Toronto
Jane Alderdice, Toronto
Susan T. Eluard, Buffalo, New York
Krista Pain, Oro Station, Ontario
Bruce Buchanan, Toronto, Ontario
Elaine and Abe Gitalis, Toronto, Ontario
Rita Smith Lemaire, Paris, France
Dr. Vytas Velyvis, Markham, Ontario
Noella Kyser, Toronto, Ontario
Chantal Cote and Eric Dery, Gatineau, Ontario, Canada
Michael Devoy and Grace Da Silva, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Corporate collections / commissions
Co-operators, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Algoal Corporation, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Toronto District School Board, Toronto, Ontario, Canada