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Michelle Loughery (born 1961) is a Canadian muralist from British Columbia.[1]
Life and work
[edit]Early career
[edit]Loughery was born in the community of Michel-Natal in the Elk Valley in southeastern British Columbia, but her family was relocated to the nearby mining town of Sparwood when the community of Michel-Natal was dismantled by the provincial government in the 1970s.
Work
[edit]Loughery has created mural projects in Cuba, Missouri Route 66 Mural City,[2] US; Vernon, British Columbia, Heritage Murals;[3] and country music themed murals in the Country Music Capital of Canada, Merritt, British Columbia.[4] Her 9/11 mural commissioned by the Brooklyn Fire Department is on photographic display in the Smithsonian Museum.
Awards
[edit]- BC Community Achievement Award[5]
References
[edit]- ^ McDonough, Fiona (1 June 2003). "Painters help PS 229 memorialize 9/11". Daily News. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ "Canadian artist Michelle Loughery update #2…". Cuba, MO - Route 66 Mural City. 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
- ^ Administrator. "The Heritage Murals of Downtown Vernon - Home Page". www.vernonmurals.ca. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
- ^ loughery, michelle. "Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame". canadiancountrymusichalloffame. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "BC Community Achievement Awards". www.bcachievement.com. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
Sources
[edit]- Sutherland, Jim. Murals Brighten Walls, Live. More Magazine. Summer 2008
- Grant, Paul. BC Artist to Paint Sept.11th Mural for NYC School. CBC News. March 17, 2003.
- British Columbian Achievement Foundation. Thirty Nine British Columbians Receive British Columbian Community Achievements Awards. March 15, 2005.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233957/http://www.conkie-law.ca/newsletter/december2008/loughery.html
- http://www.merrittherald.com/on-a-wall-down-under/
- http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/192597121.html
- http://www.canadashistory.ca/Great-War-Album/About-the-Great-War/Prisoners-and-internees/Dan-Koneszynigi
External links
[edit]Categories:
- Canadian muralists
- 20th-century Canadian painters
- 21st-century Canadian painters
- Living people
- 1961 births
- Canadian women painters
- People from the Regional District of East Kootenay
- 20th-century Canadian women artists
- 21st-century Canadian women artists
- Canadian women muralists
- 20th-century women painters
- 21st-century women painters