Michelle Loughery
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Michelle Loughery (born 1961) is a Canadian muralist from British Columbia.[1]
Life and work[]
Early career[]
Loughery was born in the community of in the Elk Valley in southeastern British Columbia, but her family was relocated to the nearby mining town of Sparwood when the community of Michel-Natal was dismantled by the provincial government in the 1970s.
Work[]
Loughery has created mural projects in Cuba, Missouri Route 66 Mural City,[2] US; Vernon, British Columbia, Heritage Murals;[3] and country music themed murals in the , Merritt, British Columbia.[4] Her 9/11 mural commissioned by the Brooklyn Fire Department is on photographic display in the Smithsonian Museum.
Awards[]
- BC Community Achievement Award[5]
References[]
- ^ McDonough, Fiona (1 June 2003). "Painters help PS 229 memorialize 9/11". Daily News. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ "Canadian artist Michelle Loughery update #2…". Cuba, MO - Route 66 Mural City. 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
- ^ Administrator. "The Heritage Murals of Downtown Vernon - Home Page". www.vernonmurals.ca. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
- ^ loughery, michelle. "Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame". canadiancountrymusichalloffame. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "BC Community Achievement Awards". www.bcachievement.com. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
Sources[]
- Sutherland, Jim. Murals Brighten Walls, Live. More Magazine. Summer 2008
- Grant, Paul. BC Artist to Paint Sept.11th Mural for NYC School. CBC News. March 17, 2003.
- British Columbian Achievement Foundation. Thirty Nine British Columbians Receive British Columbian Community Achievements Awards. March 15, 2005.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233957/http://www.conkie-law.ca/newsletter/december2008/loughery.html
- http://www.merrittherald.com/on-a-wall-down-under/
- http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/192597121.html
- http://www.canadashistory.ca/Great-War-Album/About-the-Great-War/Prisoners-and-internees/Dan-Koneszynigi
External links[]
Categories:
- Canadian muralists
- 20th-century Canadian painters
- 21st-century Canadian painters
- Living people
- 1961 births
- Canadian women painters
- People from the Regional District of East Kootenay
- 20th-century Canadian women artists
- 21st-century Canadian women artists
- Women muralists