Jimmy Baptiste 83A ch Rockhurst, Wakefield QC, J0X 3G0 website: www.jimmybaptiste.ca Email: [email protected]

Personal Profile

Language: French, English - reading, written, spoken and Haitian Creole (spoken) Ability and Skills: Outgoing and confident personality with the ability to work independently, coordinate multiple activities and meet deadlines. Designs, installs and leads small to medium art display setups for gallery events with various community organizations to attract a diverse audience and foster greater community accessibility to the arts. Supporting the arts and community outreach through creative workshop and collective murals.

Knowledge: Mac and Windows platforms, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Internet.

Education UQO (Université du Québec en Outaouais Fall 2019 - Now Cartooning Certificate College Inter-Dec Fall 2016 Graphic Design Concordia University 2006 – 2007 Painting and Drawing Regional College Champlain St-lambert 2003 – 2006 D.I.S.A. Digital Imaging and Studio Art

Public Art

We Gone’ Be Alright Mural – Ottawa, Ontario Summer 2020 Centertown Health Centre – Ottawa, Ontario Summer 2020 Burlington Student Theatre – Burlington, Ontario Spring 2019 – , Spring 2018

Artist in Residencies http://mikwchiyam.com/the-program/ - about http://nwejinan.com

N’we Jinan Art Concentration Program Waninitawigaang Memorial School – Lac Seul – Kejick Bay – Northern Qc 3 weeks

Mikw Chiyâm Art Concentration Program - Eeyou Itstchee territory Luke Mettaweskum School – Nemaska - Northern Qc – Fall 2019 6 weeks

Wiinibekuu High School – Waskaganish – Northern Qc – Fall 2018 6 weeks

§ Facilitate the conception, creation and development of informal learning methods and creative educational activities. § Create collective mural with students and members of the community.

N’we Jinan Youth Art festival – Winnipeg – Manitoba 2019

§ Co-facilitates hands-on artistic workshops with first nations youth for all across Canada. Page 2

P. Lantz Initiative for Excellence in Education & the Arts Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 McGill University – Faculty of Education – Department of Integrated Studies - Montreal, Qc 1 year https://knowledge-through-the-arts.ca/air-projects-by-jimmy/

This artist-in-residence program is created to ensure professional leadership, expertise, mentoring, and pedagogical collaboration within the Faculty of Education, the artist and the community.

Artist Research Assistant - Art mediation – Muralist § Facilitates the conception, creation, and development of informal learning methods and creative educational activities within the fields of the arts, culture and graffiti. § Plans lessons according to the establishment pedagogy, using a combination of themes and skills to deliver workshops. Concordia University – BOLD – Intergenerational Mural Montréal – Quebec Fall 2019 Westmount Visual Art Centre Montréal – Quebec Fall 2016 to Spring 2018 (2 years) YMCA Parc Ave – Intergenerational Mural Montréal – Quebec Fall 2017 James Lyng High School Montréal – Quebec Fall 2016 to Spring 2018 (2 years)

§ http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-james-lyng-students-scour-the-hoods-for-stories-of-the- south-west § https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=816686

Roslyn Elementary School – Westmount, Quebec Fall 2015 to Spring 2018 (3 years) After school Graffiti Club Long Bay Camp Art By the Lake – Perth, Ontario Fall 2010 to Spring 2017 (7 years) Summer Graffiti Workshops Montreal Community Cares – Montreal, Quebec Summer 2016 Summer Graffiti Workshops

Instructor - Art mediation Spring 2004 to Spring 2008 and Spring 2010 to Spring 2016 Le Programme Graffiti Lachine – Quebec 10 years • Develop, create and deliver unique, fun, educational, and hands-on graffiti based workshops in schools and community center for the youth between 10 to 17 years old in Montreal. • Promoting the urban arts in a engaging way through creative workshops, cross-cultural conversations and art exhibits that helped the youth connect with emerging local artist in an official gallery setting. Murals

Hawthorn School – Ottawa, Ontario Spring 2019 Collaborative Mural project with 45 students

Philemon Wright High School – Gatineau, Ontario Spring/Fall 2019 Collaborative Mural project with 30 students

John Grant High School/James Lyng High school – Montreal, Quebec (Spring 2018) Collaborative Mural project with student with learning disability

Link High School/James Lyng High school – Montreal, Quebec Winter 2018 Collaborative Mural project with student with learning disability Page 3

Luke Mettaweskum School – Cree Land of Nemaska Northern, Quebec Fall 2017 Collaborative mural

Wiinibeku High School – Cree Land of Waskaganish Northern, Quebec Fall 2017 Collaborative mural project as part of my residency

Ymca Parc Montreal – Montreal, Quebec Summer – Fall 2017 Intergenerational Mural Project

Paul Gérin Lajoie d’ – Montreal, Quebec Fall 2017 Mural project - School Integration project with new arrival students

Ancre des Jeunes – Verdun, Quebec Summer 2017 Collaborative Mural

Ymca – Verdun, Quebec Spring 2017 Mural for new Teen Zone

McGill University – Montreal, Quebec Fall 2016 Collaborative mural between McGill students and various artists from Montreal

Saul Bellow Library – Lachine, Quebec Spring 2014 Collaborative Mural for the re opening of the Saul Bellow Library

Graphic Artist Freelance Artist (Spring 2005 to now) Ville de Montréal Programme Graffiti Lachine Montreal – Quebec (Spring 2004 to Spring 2016) Buffalo David Bitton Montreal – Quebec (Spring 2007 to Spring 2009) § Created graphics, prepared sketches, layouts and visual images for the web, email marketing, social and print media that met the client’s objectives and brand. § Conceptualised and executed written, verbal, and immaterialized ideas into visual form that aligned with client needs.

Curator

James Lyng high school Spring 2015 to 2018 Up Gallery

Ville de Montréal Programme Graffiti Lachine Montreal – Quebec Spring 2004 to Spring 2016 “Plus Que Des Barbeaux”

Art Fairs (Montreal) S.I.D.I.M. (Montreal International Design Fair) 2017 Spring 2017 FRESHPAINT MARKET 2015 #2 and #5 Spring 2015 MegaPucePop 2015 Fall 2015 MTL EN ART 2015* AND 2016 Summer 2015 - 2016 - 2017 * 3rd place winner (Peoples Choice “Coup de Coeur” 2015