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TITLED: I NEVER PROMISED YOU A RARE GARDEN -WORK 16 X 12 INCHES - FRAME 24 X 20 INCHES
Herménégilde Chiasson OC
Herménégilde Chiasson, OC, ONB, artist, poet, playwright, film director, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick (born 7 April 1946 in Saint-Simon, NB).
Herménégilde Chiasson, OC, ONB, artist, poet, playwright, film director, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick (born 7 April 1946 in Saint-Simon, NB). An Officer of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and New Brunswick's 29th lieutenant-governor, Chiasson is considered the father of Acadian modernism and is one of Canada's foremost advocates of Acadian culture and the arts. He is also notable for his insistence upon Acadian culture being a living culture rather than a persecuted and exiled one.
Education and Early Career
Of Acadian descent, Chiasson was born and educated in Saint-Simon, New Brunswick. He earned a BA from the Université de Moncton in 1967, a BFA from Mount Allison University in 1972, a master’s degree in aesthetics from the Université de Paris 1 in 1976, an MFA from the State University of New York in 1981, and a doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1983.
Chiasson has actively pursued a career in the Canadian arts both during and following his graduation from five degree programs. His first placement was as the director of the Galerie d'art de l'Université de Moncton in 1974, and he assumed the position of president at Galerie Sans Nom in 1980. From that time onward, Chiasson began to found and chair arts organizations, including Éditions Perce-Neige in 1984, the Aberdeen co-operative in 1985, the Imago workshop in 1987, and Productions du Phare-Est in 1988. In 1994, Chiasson assumed the position of curator of the Marion McCain exhibit at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and he served as president of the Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick from 1993 to 1995. Chiasson was also employed by Radio-Canada as a director, playwright, journalist and researcher intermittently from 1968 to 1985, and served as a member of the teaching staff at the Université de Moncton's fine arts department from 1988 to 2003.
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