BIO
Regular Part-Time
Chantel Gushue
Regular Part-Time Faculty
Division of Craft, Jewellery
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: cgushue@nscad.ca
Background
MFA 2020 – Massachusetts College of Art & Design (MFA)
Graduate Gemologist 2018 – Gemological Institute of America (GG-GIA)
MasterValuer 2011 (RMV)
Fellow 2009 – Canadian Gemological Association (FCGmA)
BFA 2004 – Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (BFA)
CURRENT RESEARCH AND/OR CREATIVE PRACTICE
My current research focuses on drawing comparisons between crystallography and three-dimensional geometry with perfection and failure. In the ongoing jewellery series What Remains, juxtaposed bone and laboratory-grown crystal masses create a conversation between the actual and the desired.
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS/EXHIBITIONS
| Interview | Art Pays Me podcast | 2020 |
| Interview | MetalAid Check-In | 2020 |
| Panel: The New Vernacular | New York City Jewelry Week | 2019 |
| Panel: Creating Space: Artist & Gallery | Perspectives CCF Annual Conference | 2018 |
| A ROOM WITH A VIEW | Myday-Byday – Rome, IT | 2020 |
| ARTIST OF THE MONTH | Envision Arts – Dallas, TX | 2020 |
| WHAT REMAINS | Virtual Exhibition – Halifax, NS | 2020 |
| WHAT REMAINS | MassArt – Boston, MA | 2020 |
| PLACEMENT | Visual Space Gallery – Vancouver, BC | 2020 |
| QUARANTINE FOLK | Calico – Brooklyn, NY | 2020 |
| EMERGE | Gallery 263 – Cambridge, MA | 2020 |
| GRIT TO GOLD | University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA | 2020 |
| CRAFT IN CONTEMPORARY ART | Site:Brooklyn – Brooklyn, NY | 2020 |
| PLACEMENT | Mary E. Black Gallery – Halifax, NS | 2020 |
| MASTERS | Scollay Square Gallery – Boston, MA | 2020 |
| ANONYMOUS BROOKLYN | Brooklyn Metalworks – Brooklyn, NY | 2019 |
| THE NEW VERNACULAR | Canadian Consulate – New York, NY | 2019 |