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Claudine Ascher

Claudine Ascher has an established reputation in the areas of artistic practice that most interest her: creation, exhibition, education and administration. As a professional artist, she has had numerous solo exhibitions. Her works are part of private and corporate collections nationally and in various cities overseas, and she has represented Canada in exhibitions in such places as the Czech Republic, China, and Japan.

Her principal practices are in drawing and sculpture, her media include pencil and clay, and her themes focus on exploring aspects of the human condition to convey the temporality of ‘being’. She has more than forty years experience teaching art techniques to all levels of students independently, in the school system and at not-for-profit art centres, in Montreal notably at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, the Visual Arts Centre and the Dollard Centre for the Arts-where for 32 years she was Director of Adult Art Education. Her administrative and managerial experience includes sitting on numerous management committees and boards of not-for-profit art centres, as well as having served as Department Head. Her practice as a Curator spans nearly 40 years both independently and in-house. From 1988 until her retirement from the position in 2020, she was Director/Curator of Galerie de la Ville for the Dollard Centre for the Arts and the City of Dollard.

In addition to her personal creation practice, she regularly conducts lectures, workshops, presentations, and critiques, sits on juries for arts associations, and creates and organizes group exhibitions and projects. She currently also teaches art techniques at the CEGEP level to computer animators. In this lecture for the Montreal Council of Women, she will present her own work and touch on the ways one might enrich one’s art experience either as a viewer or as a maker. Her web address: www.claudineascher.com