curriculum vitae

E-mail Lois

Education

Toronto School of Art, Sculpture 1998-1999
University of Toronto, Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Forestry, 1994-1997
York University, Masters of Environmental Studies, 1992-1994
University of Alberta, Bachelor of Science in Forestry with Distinction, 1975-1979

Site Works

2002 Dialectic: 3 concrete forms embedded in a rock outcropping. Muskoka
2000 Monoliths: 2 rammed earth monoliths. private garden. Toronto

Community-Based Site Works

2002 untitled: 3 rammed earth walls with concrete relief artifacts. Rick Hansen Secondary School, Mississauga. Collaborators: Susan Elliott, Rob Lompart, Grade 12 and OAC Visual Art students.

2002 How I See My School: concrete relief tiles installed in area of interlocking brick pavement on school grounds. North Toronto Collegiate. Collaborators: Susan Brown, Grade 10 Visual Art students.

2001 Community Totem: concrete tile mosaic. Cy-Townsend Park (Vaughan & Winona Roads), Toronto. Collaborators: Reinhard Reitzenstein, Oakwood community residents, Art Starts.

Group Shows

2003 Four Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts. Toronto
2002 Artist Garden Cooperative. Curator: Susan Brown. North York Public Library
2000 Latitude. Curator: Reinhard Reitzenstein. Catalogue. Toronto

Virtual Galleries

2003 Featured Artist @ www.greenmuseum.org.

Awards & Grants

2003 Ontario Arts Council Artist-In-Education Grant
2002 Ontario Arts Council Artist-In-Education Grant
2002 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant

Experience

2002 Workshop Leader: OSEA (Ontario Society for Education through Art) Conference

2002 Visiting Artist: Rick Hansen Secondary School, Mississauga
Ontario Arts Council Artist-In-Education Grant

2002 Community Workshop Facilitator: Gardiner East Public Art Project
I worked with John McKinnon, the lead artist on the City of Toronto sponsored Gardner East Public Art Project, to design and lead tile-making workshops for the community of south Riverdale. The 114 tiles made by the residents will be cast in bronze and installed (spring 2003) at the intersection of Leslie Street and Lakeshore Boulevard to create an in-ground mosaic.

2001 - 2002 Visiting Artist: North Toronto Collegiate Institute

2000 - 2001 Community Totem Project
The Community Totem is a concrete tile mosaic created by the community and installed in a City of Toronto Park at Vaughan and Winnona Roads. It was a millennium project sponsored by Art Starts, a community-based arts organization. I was hired as the lead project artist. My role included collaborating with Reinhard Reitzenstein to produce a conceptual design for the installation; designing and leading a series of grass-roots workshops in which over 500 residents, from teens to mothers of new-born babies to senior citizens, were invited to make “expressions” in clay slabs; casting the concrete tiles from these clay slabs; designing the layout of the tiles; and overseeing the installation.

2000 Studio Assistant to Marla Hlady

2001 Workshop Leader: Artist Garden Cooperative

1999 - established my own garden design company, Connected Spaces

Related Experience: Forestry

1980-1992 Forestry career with B.C. Ministry of Forests
Deputy Chief Forester
Manager, Forest Productivity Research
Deputy Director, Forest Inventory Branch
Manager, Resource Analysis
Timber Supply Analysis Forester

1988-1993 Adjunct Professor, Renewal Resource Management Program, Simon Fraser University

Selected Papers and Publications

Dellert, Lois. 1998. “Sustained Yield: Why Has It Failed to Achieve Sustainability?” in The Wealth of Forests: Markets, Regulation and Sustainable Forestry. Chris Tollefson, ed., UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C.

_____. 1995. Forest Industry Focus Report: Synthesis Paper. Prepared for the Social Investment Organization. Toronto, ON.

_____. 1995. From Solution to Barrier: The Evolution of Forest Tenure in British Columbia. Paper presented at “Who Owns America” a conference sponsored by the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

_____. 1994. Forestry and the Failure of Technocracy. University of Alberta Industry Lecture. Edmonton, AB.

_____. 1994. “Evolution of Forest Policy in British Columbia”. Feature chapter in the 1994 Forest and Range Resource Analysis. Ministry of Forests. Victoria, B.C.

_____. 1993. “BioDiversity”. Feature chapter in the 1993 State of the Forest Report to Parliament. Forestry Canada, Ottawa,ON.

_____. 1993. History of Sustainable Forestry in Europe and North America. Research paper for the keynote address given by the Canadian Deputy Minister of Forests at an international workshop of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Montreal, Que.

Selected Awards

1992 York University Scholarship
1994 University of Toronto Open Fellowship
1995 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
1995 Edward Elsworth Johnson Award
1979 Canadian Institute of Forestry Gold Medal

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