Sarah Holtom / Fougere is an accomplished plein air painter. Her project, entitled "100 Portraits of Calgary Artists" was completed after her graduating year from the Alberta College of Art and Design with funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and subsequently added to the Glenbow Museum's permanent collection. Since then she has spent time in both New York City and small town Saskatchewan, where she successfully co-ran the "National Gallery of Saskatchewan" for two years, contributed work to several nationally touring shows and instructed art lessons out of the Godfrey Dean Gallery. It was during this time that she created and stared in a TV show airing on Access 7 called "The Painting from Life with Sarah Holtom Show!"; graciously funded by the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Holtom has recently moved to Vancouver, she continues to teach at Collage Collage and plein air paint from her new '92 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon/Studio.

Sarah Jane (Holtom) Fougere

Email: sarahjfougere@gmail.com
sarahholtom.com

Born in Terrace, British Columbia in 1980
Raised in Jasper, Alberta
Lives in Canora, SK

EDUCATION
2004BFA, Drawing; Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
2003Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Paintings from The Painting from Life with Sarah Holtom Show; Godfrey Dean Art
Gallery;Yorkton, SK
Portrait Artist in Residence; Black and Yellow Gallery; Vancouver, BC
2011 Paintings from Life in Vancouver; Collage Collage; Vancouver, BC
2009 The Painting from life with Sarah Holtom Show; Access 7 TV, SK
2008 All dogs go to heaven; Lucky's Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006100 Portraits of Calgary Artists; The Living Arts Center, Calgary AB
100 Portraits Performance; Truck Gallery's "C.A.M.P.E.R Van", Calgary, AB
Board of Governor’s Award of Excellence; Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
Mayor's Luncheon for Business and the Arts; Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, AB
2005Portrait Show; Downstream, Jasper, AB
2003Sarah Holtom's Art Show; Downstream, Jasper, AB
2002Open House Gallery; 37 Patricia Place, Jasper, AB

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Enchanted Down by the Sea; artbank, Vancouver, BC
Cheaper Show; Broadway & Kingsway, Vancouver, BC
Drop In Drop Out Video Show; W2, Vancouver, BC
2010 Blind Contour; OSAC (Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils), SK
Here is Now; 304 Dunlevy, Vancouver, BC
200923rd Annual Fall Show; Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC
23rd Annual Fall Show; Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Frenzy; Bird Dog Video, Calgary, AB
Mind the Gap; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
PRADO 1; Melville Community Works, Melville, SK
Speak, Memory; Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, SK
2008 Portrait of the Artist; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Miracles; Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK
Landscape & Memory : Portraits; Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK
Creature; Elephant Artist Relief, Calgary, AB
2007Selections from the gallery's permanent collection; the National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, SK
Short Shorts; Circa, Calgary, AB
Russian Construction; Bird Dog Video, Calgary, AB
100 Portraits of Calgary Artists; Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary AB
Inaugural Show; 807, Calgary AB
Hit or Miss: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Curated by John Will and Chris Cran; The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary AB
2006Flux League Hockey; Flux Factory, Long Island City, Queens, New York, NY
Art City, 100 Portraits of Calgary Artists; The Royal Legion, Calgary AB
Heavy; The HiFi Club, Calgary, AB
Graduate Show: Alberta College of Art & Design; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
Sarah’s Show: Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB
Mutton Busting; The Epcor Center for performing arts, Calgary, AB
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, AB
2003TKO; Space Gym, Calgary, AB
Drawing Show; 371, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
Delusions of Grandeur; The Stride Gallery, AB
Art Swap; 371 Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
Post Cards; Queensland College Of Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2002A Beastiary; The Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
1998Jasper on Display; Jasper Municipal Museum, Jasper, AB
Jasper on Display; Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, Edmonton, AB

COLLECTIONS
2009 Saskatchewan Arts Board; Permanent Collection "Painting from life with Sarah Holtom Show", SK
2007 Glenbow Museum; Permanent Collection "100 portraits of Calgary Artists", Calgary, AB

AWARDS / GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2012 Art in the Park, Ivvavik National Parks Artist in Residency; Parks Canada, Inuvik, YT
2009 Emerging Visual Independent Artist Grant; Saskatchewan Arts Board, SK
2009 Project Grant; The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, SK
2006Fine Art Project Grant; Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB
2004Award of Academic Excellence; ACAD, Calgary, AB
Student’s Choice Award, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Ignac & Karla Herskovic Memorial Scholarship, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Millennium Bursary, Canada Student Loan, CA
2003Jason Lang Scholarship Award, ACAD, Calgary, AB
2001Friends of Jasper Scholarship, Parks Canada, AB

PRESS
2008 Access television; "Miracles" Yorkton, Sk
CBC radio; Blue Sky, December 7th
2006Juxtapose Magazine; SaidAndDone.com, October
Calgary Herald; Nancy Tousley, "Author puts artists in picture"; October 20 2006
CJSW radio; Jenny Conaway-Fisher, September
Fast Forward; Hugh Graham, "The faces of Calgary's arts scene"; September 7-13, V. 11 No. 39, Calgary
BeatRoute Magazine; Kim Neudorf, "100 Portraits by one busy painter"; September, Calgary
CBC radio; August 5th
Swerve Magazine; August
City TV; Calgary, August
Akimblog Calgary; August
Truck Gallery; August
2005BeatRoute; Richard Clements, "Sarah Holtom"; Calgary, May

MEMBERSHIPS
2010 The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK
Tourism Comity, (Chair), Canora, SK
2009 The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, SK
2008 The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, SK
2007 The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, SK
2006 Quickdraw Animation Society Calgary, AB
2005 Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary, AB
2003 The Print Club, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
2001 Jasper Artists Guild, Jasper, AB

Work Related
2012 The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Art Teacher, Yorkton, SK
Store Artizia
2011 Painting on perfume bottles, Holt Renfrew, Vancouver, BC
2010 Collage Collage, Art Teacher, Vancouver, BC
-11 Roy Arden, Artist assistant, Vancouver, BC
2007-10 Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Art Teacher, Yorkton, SK
2007 ABC Disney; "Holiday in Handcuffs" Lead Dresser-art department.
Aaron Young, Artist assistant, New York, NY