A Virtual Walk of
The Boreal Poetry Garden

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News

Broadcast media
The Nature of Inspiration, a documentary film by 291 Film Company directed by Ian Toews, features interviews with David Alexander, Dempsey Bob, Edward Burtynsky, John Chalke, Marlene Creates, Aganetha Dyck, Takao Tanabe, Peter von Tiesenhausen, and Robert Wiens, who discuss their work and its relationship to the environment. (45 min, 2012)
Broadcast premier on May 28, 2012 on the CBC Documentary Channel.

Recent articles and reviews

"Marlene Creates: Of Words and Woods" by Robert Finley, Canadian Art,
September 15, 2011

"Garden poem," by Tara Bradbury,
The Telegram, St. John's, July 15, 2011

"Into the Woods and Out of the Gallery," by Marlene Creates, The Osprey, journal of Nature Newfoundland & Labrador, vol 42 no 4, Fall 2011, p. 5-7

Festivals
visiting artist project in collaboration with local paricipants, Award Ribbons for Places in Pictou County, as part of the W(h)ere Festival, curated by Mary MacDonald, a multi-site, performative event on the relationship between community, place and art in Pictou County, Nova Scotia,
June 26-30, 2012

Artist-in-residence
Polyglot Plot colloquium/workshop,
Full Tilt Creative Centre, McIvers, Newfoundland
August 27-31, 2012

Presentations
plenary speaker at Space + Memory = Place, the biennial conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC), UBC Okanagan and Okanagan College, Kelowna and Penticton, British Columbia,
August 7-12, 2012

Tuning and Being Tuned By
the Boreal Forest and a Rural Community in Newfoundland

at the international conference Culture, Place & Identity at the Heart of Regional Development
Delta Hotel
St. John's, Newfoundland
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Marlene Creates’s Eco-consciousness as Land Artist, Photographer and Poet,
a paper presented at Green/Vert/Verde Canada, an international conference of Canadian Studies at the University of Naples,
by Carmen Concilio, Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Turin, Italy.
Friday, September 9, 2011, 3:45-5:00 pm

Exhibitions
25 for 25: A celebration of the Provincial Art Bank Program’s 25 years of collecting
Mary March Provincial Museum – a division of The Rooms,
Grand Falls, Newfoundland
April 21 - October 10, 2012

Recent & Forthcoming Publications
–Liz Wells. Land Matters: Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity,
I B Tauris, London (UK), 2011

–Patricia Grattan. City Seen: Artists’ Views of St. John’s, 1785-2010, Winter Place Projects, St. John's, 2011

–Andrea Kunard. "Between Two Points," BlackFlash, vol. 28.2, Saskatoon, winter 2011, p. 20-22

–James Opp and John C. Walsh, ed. Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada, UBC Press, Vancouver, 2010

–Pierre Dessureault et al. Nordicité,
Éditions J’ai VU, Vu centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie, Québec, 2010

–Ursula A. Kelly and Elizabeth Yeoman, ed., Despite This Loss: Essays on Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, 2010

–Sue Sinclair, A Place to Lay Your Head, Essay on Tim Lilburn and Marlene Creates, Arc Poetry Annual 2011, Ottawa

Interview
"Impermanence and Temporality,"
Marlene Creates interviewed by Leah Oates,
NY Arts Magazine, November 2008

The artist gratefully acknowledges her long-standing gratitude to The Canada Council for the Arts, the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council, and the Cultural Economic Development Program of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

copyright (c) Marlene Creates, 2011