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for further information contact Caffyn Kelley at
cjk@saltspring.com
Summary
Caffyn
Kelley’s work in various media is united by a concern for social
issues and community process. Her art links issues of identity and
difference to environment and society. In public projects, plus writing
and publishing, she explores these issues in community contexts. Kelley
has written on art and ideas for a variety of scholarly and general
interest publications, spoken at academic conferences, and facilitated
many workshops on social and public art.
Selected
Community Projects
ongoing. Caffyn is a
founding director of the
Islands Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies where she facilitates
projects, designs and teaches courses and moderates dialogue.
2005.
Japanese Garden Project. (ongoing) Caffyn is a founding director
of this community project to create a public
space on Salt Spring Island where the history of Japanese Canadian
pioneers is acknowledged, and the transforming power of Japanese design
is celebrated. This project has involved working with a high school
class to create artworks documenting the history of the Japanese
Canadian community on Salt Spring, coordinating over 60 volunteers, and
other aspects.
2005. Life
Mapping Project. A community art research project undertaken for
the first-ever Salt Spring Island Pride Celebration, addressing the
question: "How can gay and lesbian lives be mapped and shared in a
way that is empowering for participants and the community?"
2002. Tideline. Artist in
residence project for the Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver.
This project engaged two hundred participants in exploring the shoreline
of False Creek, documenting its history and imagining its future in a
mixed-media environmental art installation.
2001. Trout
Lake Community Mapping Project. Artist in residence project for
the Trout Lake Community Centre,
Vancouver. This project involved working for over a year with school and
community groups to map nature and natural history at Trout Lake,
creating 30 complex artworks and a 400-foot environmental sculpture
commemorating a buried creek.
2001-2.
Islands in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project, Mapmaker
and Project Coordinator, Salt Spring Island.
The book which documents this project has been nominated for a BC Book
Award.
1997-2000.
Freedom from Fear. Salt Spring Women Opposed to Violence and Abuse,
Artist on community project working with young people to produce a book
on violence prevention.
1998.
Union. Project for
the Office and Professional Employees International Union to create a
quilt and a design for two pamphlets celebrating the power of collective
action.
1995-6.
Social Fabric: The Kensington Community Quilt. Artist
in residence project for the
Kensington Community Centre in Vancouver. This project involved many
workshops at local schools and at the centre, resulting in the
production of a huge quilt created with the involvement of hundreds of
community members.
Selected
Articles and Publications
ongoing: Web design and writing for the
Islands Institute
2007. Virtual
Team Leader, producing instructional website on
Adopting a
Pound-Hound
2006.
Art and survival: Patricia
Johanson’s environmental projects.
Islands Institute.
2005.
Queer
Cartographies: Mapping Gay and Lesbian Lives.
2005. Thinking
Nature
2005. Looking
at shoes: critical postmodernism in visual art.
2005. Addressing Homophobia through
Distance Education: Possibilities for BC Schools
2004. “Diana Thompson’s Alluvion.”
Catalogue essay on this environmental artist.
2004. A
Dictionary of Symbols
2003. Orientation:
Mapping Queer Meanings
2002. “Spirit, Faith Religion: Queer Views.” Pink Sheep News, Salt
Spring Island.
1999. Gay And Lesbian Health on
Salt Spring Island: A Resource for Healthcare Providers.
1995. “Creating Memory: Contesting History:
Inside the Monstrous Fact of Whiteness.” Matriart. Vol. 5 #3.
The publication omitted a crucial section of the essay which has now
been restored (2006).
1995. “Family.” To
Sappho, My Sister: Lesbian Sisters Write About Their Lives. Ed. Lee
Fleming. Charlottetown: gynergy books.
1995.
“Art and Life,” Rethinking
Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society. Spring.
1995. “Broken Silence, Visible Wounds: Canadian Artists Explore Social
Space with Contradictions Intact.” High
Performance, Los Angeles, #69/70, p. 48-53.
1994. “Queer / Nature: Be Like Water.” Undercurrents: a Journal of Critical Environmental Studies. June.
1994. Editor: Give Back: First
Nations Perspectives on Cultural Practice. North Vancouver: Gallerie
Publications.
1994. Editor: Forbidden Subjects:
Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists. North Vancouver: Gallerie
Publications.
1993. “Feminism and Art in Vancouver: Time for Change,” Modernism
and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest. Eds. Laura
Brunsman and Ruth Askey, Midmarch Arts Press: New York, 1993.
1992. “Sexual Subject, Sexual Object.” Resources for Feminist Research (Rfr/drf), Vol. 19, No. 3/4.
1992. “Art for the living world: a conversation,” Art and Survival: Creative Solutions to Environmental Problems by
Patricia Johanson, Gallerie Publications.
1992. “Pricing fine art.” The
Artist’s Magazine. July.
1991. “An artist’s guide to finding the right dealer.” The
Artist’s Magazine.
1991. “Failure and rejection: making it through the hard times.” Artists’
News. June 1991.
1991. Editor: In My Country: Artists on
Canada, North Vancouver: Gallerie Publications.
From 1988 to 1993, Caffyn Kelley edited and
wrote numerous articles for a
quarterly publication of women artists, Gallerie. From
1989 – 1993 she edited and wrote for Artists’
News. She currently edits and writes articles for Pink
Sheep News, the Salt Spring Island queer community newsletter.
Selected
Conferences, Workshops and Lectures
2003. “Queer Alchemy: Using Homophobic Stereotypes as a Source of
Power,” talk and interactive collage-making workshop given at Rainbow
Visions: Building a Pan-Canadian Queer Agenda, Montreal, hosted by
EGALE Canada.
2002. “Tideline” workshops including False Creek History, Creating a
Personal Iconography, Mapping. Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver.
2001. “Trout Lake Community Mapping Project” workshops including
What is a Map?, Barefoot Mapping, Lake Stewardship, Queer Nature,
Natural History of Trout Lake, Bowl as Map / Bowl as Metaphor, Habitat
Restoration. Workshops given at the Community Centre and two Vancouver
schools (Grades 4-6; Grades 8-10).
1995. “Culture without borders, culture without location – Gay and
Lesbian Art Books in Canada.” Lecture on publishing as public art, San
Antonio, Texas, College Art Association.
1995. “Lesbian / lesbian.” Women’s Caucus for Art, College Art
Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
1995. “Social Fabric: the Kensington Community Quilt” workshops
including Design and Drawing with Fabric, Photography on Fabric,
Appliqué, Self-Portraits. Given as part of the community interaction
process at the Kensington Community Centre and 3 Vancouver schools,
classes from kindergarten to Grade 7.
1995. Lecture, “Creating Memory: Contesting History,” on issues of
race and whiteness in public art memorials, Simon Fraser University,
Conference on Fascism.
1994. Art and Healing: workshop presented at Simon Fraser University
conference on Healing and the Creative Arts.
1994. Social Art/Public Art, 5-week workshop for senior artists
presented at the grunt gallery, Vancouver.
1993-4. “Women Artists and cross-cultural collaborations,” workshop
and discussion group at the Seymour Art Gallery.
1990. “Tracing Threads: Persistent Themes in Women’s Art,” lecture
at the Rosemont Gallery, Regina. Facilitator: “Feminist / Artist,”
daylong workshop for women artists.
1990. “Creating a Small Magazine.” Selkirk Community College,
Castlegar, B.C.
Selected
Exhibitions
2001-2003. Islands in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project, exhibited in 17
venues including several Gulf Islands, Vancouver and Sidney.
2002. Free
Flow. Curated by Elizabeth Kidd. Roundhouse Community Centre,
Vancouver.
2001. Trout
Lake Community Mapping Project. Exhibition at the Trout Lake
Community Centre, Vancouver.
2000, 2001. Fibrations. Artspring, Salt Spring Island.
1994-2001 Giving
Voice: A monument in Progress. Plans and drawings for a public art
project included in an exhibition that traveled across Canada to various
venues including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Nickel Arts Museum,
Calgary, Vancouver Art Gallery, and many other public institutions.
ongoing.
Caffyn Kelley is represented by the J. Mitchell gallery on Salt
Spring Island.
Selected Artist’s
Books
2002. Trout Lake Atlas: Report on
the Trout Lake Community Mapping Project, 120 pages. Published with
the assistance of the Vancouver Parks Board.
1996. Social Fabric: the
Kensington Community Quilt, 80 pages. Published with the assistance
of the Vancouver Parks Board.
1995. Like a Rock: Meditations on
Place, 80 pages. Published with the assistance of the North
Vancouver Community Arts Council and the Canada Council Explorations
Program.
1995. Social Fabric: Art and
Community, 250 pages. Produced with the assistance of the Canada
Council Explorations Program.
Education and
Employment
Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Athabasca
University: current student
Simon Fraser University, Bachelor of General Studies, 1982. Graduating
Thesis in Fine Art and History. (Winner, Open Scholarships for academic
achievement, each semester of full-time study.)
Vancouver Community College, Certificate in Printing Production, 1983
(Winner, Printing House Craftsmen’s Award for all-round excellence)
Continuing Studies including: Studio Courses on Salt Spring Island, at
Capilano College and Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver,
and the Olden Photography Workshops, New York; Art Writing Intensive,
Vancouver Art Gallery; Teaching Techniques and Conflict Resolution, The
Justice Institute, New Westminster, B.C.; Barefoot Mapping,
Saltspring Conservancy Workshop with Briony Penn; Mapmaking
Fundamentals, special workshop for Islands in the Salish Sea project
coordinators.
Work as a business writer, editor and graphic artist (1980 to the
present); printing estimator and production planner for a large
Vancouver commercial print shop (Hazeldine Press, 1983-1988). Teaching
Printing Production at Vancouver Community College, 1984-1988.
Selected
Awards
Canada
Council Explorations Program Grant
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