FUTURE EXHIBIT
DAWSON COLLEGE - MONTREAL
FEBRUARY 5TH - MARCH 12TH, 2026

I am very pleased and honoured to participate in this exhibition called
WHAT IS ART FOR?
It was a collaboration of 83 artists during the pandemic that my friend and fellow poodle lover Kathleen Vaughan, Art Professor, Undergraduate Program Director at Concordia University in Montreal who organized and successfully put together. Dawson faculty (and WiAF participant!) Natalie Olanick suggested that Kathleen at Concordia submit the whole project What is art for? to the Flowers Gallery selection committee, and to gallery director Rhonda Meier who recognized the potential of this maker space and exhibition for Dawson’s students, faculty, and staff, and the broader public as well and so it was approved.

Here are Kathleen's credentials..... not only is she a fabulous artist, also an asset to Concordia University in Montreal.

Kathleen Vaughan, MFA, PhD

Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, Coordinator of Community Art Education (BFA Major), Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/art-education.html

Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures
http://re-imagine.ca/

Principal Investigator, Learning With the St. Lawrence
https://learningwiththestlawrence.ca/

Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-members/college-members

kathleen.vaughan@concordia.ca OR kathleen@akaredhanded.com

Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal
I would like to acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of these lands and waters.
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