The Energy Futures Portfolio Project

Eveline Kolijn, project curator and contributing artist, experienced an international childhood that exposed her to remote places, where she learned to love unspoiled parts of nature.

Combining her experience as a visual artist and a Fellow, Eveline Kolijn (BFA '18, Print Media) invited submissions from 40 Alberta printmakers, writers and poets. The artists and writers were free to choose their subject matter. Many go back to basics: the priority of having access to clean air, the soil of the earth, and water. 

The roster of Alberta-based printmakers participating in this project includes Sylvia Arthur, Kate Baillies, Carole Bondaroff, Katie Bruce, Hannah Gelderman, Jamie-Lee Girodat, Jill Ho-You (Associate Professor, Print Media), Jacqueline Huskisson (BFA ’11, Print Media), Liz Ingram, Mary Kavanagh, Eveline Kolijn, Kasia Koralewska, Heather Leier, Tara Manyfingers, Nadia Perna, Stan Phelps, Jessica Semenoff, Jared Tailfeathers (BFA ’15, Painting), Alex R. M. Thompson and Heather Urness.

The group of Alberta-based writers and poets contributing to this project includes Lori Claerhout, Emma Gammans, Rosemary Griebel, Maggie Hanna, Richard Harrison, Mark Hopkins, Barb Howard, Larry Kapustka, Shannon Kernaghan, Monica Kidd, Alexis Kienlen, Michael J. Leeb, Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, Alice Major, Kim Mannix, Natalie Meisner, Mar’ce Merrell, Peter Midgley, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, and Donna Williams.

The portfolio is accompanied by a book publication titled “Reimagining Fire. The Future of Energy."