{"id":1900,"date":"2014-07-30T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2020-01-21T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:32:52","slug":"alumni-profile-catherine-sinclair-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/2014\/alumni-profile-catherine-sinclair-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile\u2014Catherine Sinclair (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Deputy Director, Chief Curator<br \/>\nOttawa Art Gallery<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1903 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-catherine-sinclair-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"catherine sinclair\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I first heard about the Bachelor of Humanities when I was at Dawson College CEGEP in Montreal taking a Liberal Arts DEC (Dipl\u00f4me d&#8217;\u00c9tudes Coll\u00e9giales) in 1997. I soon beelined it for Ottawa, where I began at the College of the Humanities, and embarked on my journey of obtaining\u00a0a strong foundation in a solid, classical education, and\u00a0making what are now life-long friends.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little different right off the bat: I used my artwork as a portfolio, and convinced the founder, Professor Peter Emberley, to allow me to take a visual arts class as an elective at the University of Ottawa to round out my Liberal Arts concentration. Four years later, I graduated with a Bachelor of Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>I always knew I would end up in the visual art field, and so, following a year in Japan and another in Montreal, in 2003 I went back to Carleton and\u00a0earned a Master\u2019s Degree in Canadian Art History. This program included internships and placements, and I managed to secure a 2-day a week job at the <a title=\"Ottawa Art Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawaartgallery.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Art Gallery<\/a> (OAG) as a curator focused on a 20th-century historical Canadian art collection.<\/p>\n<p>I am now Deputy Director, Chief Curator at the OAG, and my Humanities education certainly contributed to where I am today. My curatorial work involves selecting artists for exhibition, both historical and contemporary, organizing those exhibitions and providing the research to back up those ideas, and assessing and growing the Gallery&#8217;s Permanent Collection.<\/p>\n<p>A major part of my job is research and\u00a0analytic\u00a0writing, and these skills really began for me in those B.Hum years. At the OAG, I have contributed essays to numerous\u00a0exhibition catalogues, including most recently<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCircling the Essential: Alma Duncan, Abstraction and a Quiet Feminism\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Miriam and Hudson Sargeant Art Collection\u201d (2014)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNatural Motif: Lorraine Gilbert and Natasha Mazurka\u201d (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have curated many exhibitions, such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Alma: The Life and Work of Alma Duncan (1917-2004)<\/i> (forthcoming in 2014)<\/li>\n<li><i>Sell Out? <\/i>(2013)<\/li>\n<li><i>Explode: Marcelle Ferron and Rita Letendre<\/i> (2013)<\/li>\n<li><i>Pat Durr: Persistence of Chaos<\/i> (2012)<\/li>\n<li><i>Wally Dion: Star Blankets<\/i> (2011)<\/li>\n<li><i>Wyse Works: Exposing the Inevitable<\/i> (2011).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have presented on a variety of Canadian art historical topics in forums including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University Art Association Conference (UAAC) (Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 2012)<\/li>\n<li>Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ottawa, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>An Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) panel at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (2011)<\/li>\n<li>University of Ottawa (2009 and 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference (CWAHI) (Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 2008 and will again in 2015).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, here is some <a title=\"ottawa editorial portrait photographer\" href=\"http:\/\/jvlphoto.com\/ottawa-editorial-portrait-photographer-catherinesinclair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent coverage<\/a> of the type of things I am involved with at work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine Sinclair is Deputy Director, Chief Curator at the <a title=\"Ottawa Art Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawaartgallery.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Art Gallery<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>More about Bachelor of Humanities Alumni<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Careers\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/careers\/\">Careers<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Alumni testimonials\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/careers\/alumni-testimonials\/\">Alumni Profiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"linkedin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=6525318&amp;goback=%2Enpv_347849011_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_nav*4responsive*4tab*4profile*4pic_*1&amp;trk=prof-groups-membership-logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linkedin Group for Bachelor of Humanities Alumni<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Director, Chief Curator Ottawa Art Gallery I first heard about the Bachelor of Humanities when I was at Dawson College CEGEP in Montreal taking a Liberal Arts DEC (Dipl\u00f4me d&#8217;\u00c9tudes Coll\u00e9giales) in 1997. I soon beelined it for Ottawa, where I began at the College of the Humanities, and embarked on my journey of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41,48,40],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alumni Profile\u2014Catherine Sinclair (2001) - Bachelor of Humanities &mdash; 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