Pam Hall appointed artist-in-residence at med school

In a unique partnership, Memorial University's medical school and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador (AGNL) have established and funded an innovative, one-year, part-time visual artist-in-residence project in the Faculty of Medicine.

Following a public competition, Pam Hall has been appointed as visual artist-in-residence. Ms. Hall holds a master's degree in education, has taught in schools and art colleges, and her work experience includes serving as visual arts consultant to the provincial Department of Education. Her work is in a number of public, private and corporate collections, with a major group of works from The Coil series acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in 1996.

Ms. Hall has exhibited extensively, provincially and nationally. A current group exhibition, Fertile Ground organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, includes pieces from an on-going series new readings in female anatomy. Her work also includes an award-winning film, Under the Knife -- Personal Hystories. As part of her research for recent work, she audited first-year medical classes at at the medical school.

The proposal for the artist-in-residence was initiated by AGNL director Patricia Grattan. "It enables us to use Canada Council Programming Assistance funds in a way that moves the AGNL outside its own walls, broadens visual art audiences and integrates art more into people's everyday lives."

Ms. Grattan said that in addition to being involved in the teaching program at the medical school, the artist-in-residence is expected to carry out her own artwork at the school and create work with some relationship to medicine or the hospital/medical school environment. Depending on the nature of the artist's projects, some of the work may be presented publicly at the Health Sciences Centre during the year.

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