Emily Withers
Phone: (647) 991 4978
Email: emilywithers4@gmail.com + emily.withers@ocadu.ca
Website: emilywithers.format.com
Instagram: emilyywitherss
Education:
2018-Present Ontario College of Art and Design University - Majoring in Cross-Disciplinary Art: Life Studies and Minoring in Social Sciences
2014-2017 Leaside High School ( French Immersion Bilingual Certificate and Ontario Scholar)
Scholarships:
2018-2022 Delaney Entrance Undergraduate Scholarship
Group Shows:
2023 Deep Down My Heart Sings, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto ON.
2023 Propinquity, Gallery 1313, Toronto ON.
2020 The New Miasma, or what to do with all this bad air?, Gallery 1313, Online.
2019 Art Expo - Winter Edition, Harbour View Tattoos, Toronto ON.
2018 The Space Between, Skylark Youth Gallery, Toronto ON. ( My piece was chosen as the theme of the show, and was used for all media coverage of the exhibition).
Publications:
2019 Art piece in Young Voices Magazine, P.49, Toronto Public Library, Toronto ON.
2018 Third Place in Senior Poetry Legion Contest
Artist Talks:
2023 Artist Talk for 'An Individual's Subjective Pathetic Fallacy' for Propinquity, at Gallery 1313.
2021 Peer Networking Session with Students at the Centre of Art & Photography at the University of Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom
Volunteer Work:
2017-Present Fostering dogs with the Toronto Humane Society
2016 Taught an art lesson and assisted in after school programs at Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office (Community Center)
Relevant Experience:
2018 Started an Art Club at Leaside High School that participated in the Canadian Centenary Art-Flag Display at the CNE, Toronto ON.
2017 Artwork shown in small Gallery/Fair at Bamboo-Bay, Toronto ON.
2017 Art used as Album Art for Wildflower by Railside (found on Spotify)
2016-2017 Worked on a Mural for Freehand School of Art
Art Teaching Experience:
2017-Present Freehand School of Art - Experience preparing and teaching lessons of many different art materials to children of all abilities; mainly children 4-5 years of age, as well as children from 4-15 years of age.
2016-2017 Co-op at Freehand School of Art - Experience preparing and teaching children art lessons, designing signs, creating decorations, working on a mural, designing a bulletin board, etc.
2015-2018 Bamboo Bay - Experience caring for children in the after-school program where I planned and taught French and Art lessons to children from 4-9 years of age.