Chantal Gibson

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Chantal Gibson
Born Quebec, Canada
OccupationWriter, poet, artist, educator
Notable awards Pat Lowther Award (2020)
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2020)

Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and educator. [1] Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award, [2] the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, [3] and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist. [4] Gibson's art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture. [5]

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Early life and education

Born in Quebec, [6] Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, British Columbia. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia. [7]

Career

Gibson is a writer-artist-educator based on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is a lecturer in written and visual communication at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). [8] Gibson was the recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016. [9]

Awards and honours

Literary

Exhibitions

Artist-in-residence

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Fiona Tinwei Lam, "‘How She Read’: Chantal Gibson’s Anthem for Black Sisterhood". The Tyee , February 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun , May 11, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "BC and Yukon Book Prizes – Mission: To recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs" . Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. ↑ "Canadians Doyali Islam, Chantal Gibson and Kaie Kellough shortlisted for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize". CBC Books, April 7, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Gibson, Chantal. "Where Visual and literary art meet". Chantal Gibson Artist. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  6. ↑ Debates of the Senate (Hansard) Senate of Canada
  7. 1 2 3 "Chantal Gibson rewrites Canada's whites-only historical narrative | Nexus newspaper". 2019-01-23. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  8. 1 2 3 "Chantal Gibson - School of Interactive Arts & Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  9. ↑ "365 - Chantal Gibson". Penticton Art Gallery. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  10. ↑ "2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner: How She Read by Chantal Gibson – League of Canadian Poets" . Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  11. ↑ "Griffin Poetry Prize: 2020 Shortlist". Griffin Poetry Prize. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  12. ↑ "Introducing the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award Winners". Maclean's. April 12, 2021. Retrieved 20 Aug 2021.
  13. ↑ "Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art". Royal Ontario Museum. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  14. ↑ "Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia". www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  15. ↑ "Senate of Canada - The Senate is honouring Canada's Black artists". Senate of Canada. 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  16. ↑ "VAG's Where do we go from here? starts a conversation about gallery representation". vancouversun. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  17. ↑ "Human Capital". MacKenzie Art Gallery. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  18. ↑ "Visit un/settled, an exhibit at Belzberg Library | SFU Library". www.lib.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  19. ↑ "Tyranny". www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  20. ↑ "Visiting Artist: Chantal Gibson". OCAD University. 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  21. 1 2 "Gibson, Chantal". Caitlin Press. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
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