Phyllis Grant
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Phyllis Grant is a Mi’gmaq artist from Pabineau First Nation, New Brunswick, Canada
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Her artwork was exhibited in Canada at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (2007), and in the US with Honor the Earth’s “Impacted Nations” which toured New York City, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and Chicago (2005–2008). Her work is currently exhibited with “Irréductibles Racines“ -an exhibition partnered with Le Congrès Mondial Acadien (2009–2010).
She is a Canada Council
grantee for Writing and Publishing, and a multiple grant recipient of the New Brunswick Arts Board. Her memberships include The Writer's Guild of Canada, The East Coast Music Association and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN.
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In 2004, Phyllis was nominated for an East Coast Music Award for her work with rap artist Red Suga. She is also a rap and spoken word artist. Her first solo cd titled "Up Risin'" was nominated for a 2009 ECMA.
In 2006, she completed her first film, “Maq and the Spirit of the Woods” -a children’s animation produced by the National Film Board of Canada
. It was selected and screened at several festivals, including the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts
Festival in Toronto, the American Indian Film Institute’s Film Festival
in San Francisco, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles and Washington DC. It was also screened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
in New York City.
Phyllis's work is also featured in Pearson Canada’s “Literacy In Action” textbooks, launched Autumn, 2007. In 2008, she was a finalist in the 4th Atlantic Ulnooweg Development Group's Aboriginal Entrepreneur Awards in the category of Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.
She released her second animated film
"Waseteg" with the NFB in 2010. The film premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival, 2011, and recently selected and screened at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival (2011).
Phyllis is also one of 15 artists across Canada who designed and painted a 6 foot Coke Art Bottle for Coca-Cola Canada’s “Aboriginal Art Bottle Program” for the Vancouver Olympics 2010.
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
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Her artwork was exhibited in Canada at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (2007), and in the US with Honor the Earth’s “Impacted Nations” which toured New York City, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and Chicago (2005–2008). Her work is currently exhibited with “Irréductibles Racines“ -an exhibition partnered with Le Congrès Mondial Acadien (2009–2010).
She is a Canada Council
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
grantee for Writing and Publishing, and a multiple grant recipient of the New Brunswick Arts Board. Her memberships include The Writer's Guild of Canada, The East Coast Music Association and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN.
Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada
SOCAN is the Canadian copyright collective for the right to communicate to the public and publicly perform musical works...
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In 2004, Phyllis was nominated for an East Coast Music Award for her work with rap artist Red Suga. She is also a rap and spoken word artist. Her first solo cd titled "Up Risin'" was nominated for a 2009 ECMA.
In 2006, she completed her first film, “Maq and the Spirit of the Woods” -a children’s animation produced by the National Film Board of Canada
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...
. It was selected and screened at several festivals, including the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts
New media art
New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
Festival in Toronto, the American Indian Film Institute’s Film Festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
in San Francisco, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles and Washington DC. It was also screened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum operated under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution that is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native Americans of the Western Hemisphere...
in New York City.
Phyllis's work is also featured in Pearson Canada’s “Literacy In Action” textbooks, launched Autumn, 2007. In 2008, she was a finalist in the 4th Atlantic Ulnooweg Development Group's Aboriginal Entrepreneur Awards in the category of Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.
She released her second animated film
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
"Waseteg" with the NFB in 2010. The film premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival, 2011, and recently selected and screened at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival (2011).
Phyllis is also one of 15 artists across Canada who designed and painted a 6 foot Coke Art Bottle for Coca-Cola Canada’s “Aboriginal Art Bottle Program” for the Vancouver Olympics 2010.
External links
- Watch films by Phyllis Grant at NFB.ca (requires FlashAdobe FlashAdobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
) - Phyllis Grant's NFB Artisan Profile
- http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Mo3
- http://soundcloud.com/phyllisgrantmusic
- http://popstart.ca/en/members/phyllis-grant