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Rachelle LeBlanc


     

Artistic History

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2011  Floors not Required Exhibition,  Fiberworks Gallery, Sunshine Coast BC.

 (June 15th to July 31 2011)

2010    Hooked Rugs- Solo Exhibition : The Multicultural Heritage Centre, Stony Plain, Alberta      ( September to December 2010)

2010    For the Love of Craft Exhibition : Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, Canada

( July to September 2010)

2008    Focus on Fiber Art Biennial Competition: Alberta Crafts Council Main Gallery, Edmonton  

2008    Hooked Rugs   Musee des Maitres et Artisans du Quebec,  Montreal, Canada.

2007    Pushing the Limits   New concepts in Rug Hooking   Newtown Rug Hooking Show, Newtown, Connecticut, Juried Show

2006   2007    Hooked in the Mountains Show   Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, Shelburne, Vermont.

2006   2007    Hooked Rugs   Solo Exhibitions at the Saint Julie Public Gallery, Ste-Julie, Quebec.

2006   2007    Saint Henri Hooked Rugs   Saint Henri annual group exhibition, Montreal, Canada.

2006    Hooked Rugs   Solo exhibition at the  Musee de Kent , Bouctouche, New-Brunswick.

2005    Hooked Rugs    Hooked Christmas Stockings : Solo exhibition Saint Julie Public Library, Ste-Julie, Quebec.

 

COLLECTIONS 

Musee de Kent, Bouctouche, New-Brunswick, Canada.

Numerous private collections

 

AWARDS

2007 – 1rst place: Jurors choice  Pushing the Limits:  New concepts in Rug Hooking : Newtown Rug Hooking Show, Newtown, Connecticut

 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY/BOOKS:

2008 -Exhibition Catalogue-   Hooked Rugs : Musee des Maitres et Artisans du Quebec, Montreal, Canada.

2006 –  Hooked Rugs Today: Strong Women, Flowers, Animals, Children, Christmas, and Miniatures , by Amy Oxford

2006 -  Hooked Rugs Today 2006: Holidays, Geometrics, People, Animals, Landscapes, Accessories, and More , by Amy Oxford

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PERIODICALS:

2010 -  Edmonton Journal Arts Section, July 23 2010

2009 - A Needle Pulling Thread Magazine

2005 2006   Saint Henri Rug Hookers Newsletter

2006    Etoile de Kent , published in the Times and Transcript Newspaper in Moncton New-Brunswick, article written by Isabelle Hebert (see article page)

2006    Les Idees de ma Maison , December issue (French Canadian Decorating Magazine)

2006   Article by Suzanne Conrod founder Hooked Rug Museum of North America

 

MEDIA

2006  TVA Television,  VIA TVA , hosted by Francine Hebert

 

MEMBERSHIPS

  

 Alberta Craft Council

 Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild

Hooked Rug Museum of North America : Western representative