Lise Melhorn-Boe has been making and exhibiting books and sculptural bookworks for over forty years. She has exhibited widely across Canada and the United States as well as Europe and South America and her work is in several public collections. She teaches bookmaking classes for adults and children. She is a member of Modern Fuel, an artist-run centre in Kingston, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, The Organization of Kingston Women Artists and CARFAC Ontario.
Born in Noranda, a mining town in north-western Québec, Lise attended high school in Copper Cliff, Ontario. Her mother, Pauline Gillmore Melhorn, was a painter who encouraged Lise's desire to draw and paint and make things as a child. She even was lucky enough to have private art lessons for a while with a wonderful painter from South Africa, named Nan Rowley. Lise studied architecture for a year and two weeks at Carleton University, because her father wanted her to be a lawyer or a doctor! (It made sense at the time.) She then came to her senses and studied art at the University of Guelph and later received M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit. She has also enjoyed the opportunity to take workshops through the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, to learn specific book-making techniques.
Lise lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Résumé
EDUCATION
- 1984 Wayne State University, Detroit - M.F.A. (Fibres)
- 1981 Wayne State University - (M.A. Fibres)
- 1977 University of Guelph - Honours B.A. Art (Printmaking)
GRANTS
- Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grants: 1986 – 2017 (x12).
- Ontario Arts Council Artists in Education Project Grants: 1996 – 2016 (x14).
- Canada Council Project Grant: 1989
- Ontario Arts Council Individual Crafts Grant: 1988
- O.A.C. Creative Artists in Schools Project Grants: 1986.
- O.A.C. Grants to Artists: 1978, 1998, 2003.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
- Appalchian State University, Beck Library, Special Collections
- Art Gallery of Cleveland
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Research Library
- Art Gallery York University Artist Book Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Augustana College Library, Special Collections
- Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Artist Book Collection
- Banff Centre for Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
- Baylor University, Crouch Library, Artist Book Collections, Waco, Texas
- British Library, North American Collection
- California Polytechnic State University, King Library, San Luis Obispo, California
- Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Duke University, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
- Florida State University, Strozier Library, Special Collections
- Georgetown University Library, Special Collections
- Grinnell College Libraries, Special Collections
- Harvard Fine Arts Library
- Indiana University, Fine Arts Library and the Kinsey Institute
- Johns Hopkins University, Eisenhower Library, Special Collections, Baltimore, Maryland
- Lafayette College, Skillman Library, Special Collections
- Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, England
- Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
- Los Angeles Public Library
- Maine College of Art, Waxman Library, Special Collections
- Manly Library Artists Book Collection, Manly, Australia
- Massachusetts College of Art, Morton R. Godine Library
- M.I.T., Rotch Library, Art and Architecture Collection
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Gallery of Canada Library
- National Library and Archives of Canada
- National Library of Scotland
- Ontario Ministry of Government Services
- Otis College of Art and Design Library
- Parson's School of Art and Design Library
- Princeton University, Whitman College, Penrose Library
- Queen's University, W.D.Jordan Rare Book and Special Collections
- Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Fleet Library
- Ringling School of Art and Design
- Sam Houston State University Library, Special Collections
- Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Library
- Scripps College, Ella Denison Strong Library, Claremont, California
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
- Smith College Library, Rare Book Room
- Stanford University, Green Library, Special Collections
- Swarthmore College, McCabe Library, Special Collections
- Tate London
- Texas Tech University Library, Lubbock, Texas
- Toronto Public Library, Rare Books
- Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, Connecticut
- Tufts University, SMFA Library, Special Collections, Medford, Massachusetts
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
- University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library
- University of California, Irvine, Spec. Coll.
- University of California, Los Angeles, Darling Bio-Medical Library
- University of California, Los Angeles, Arts Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Davison Library, Spec. Coll.
- University of California, San Diego Library, Mandeville Collections
- University of Chicago Libraries, Special Collections
- University of Cincinnati, Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections, Newark, Delaware
- University of Denver
- University of Iowa, Main Library. Special Collections
- University of Louisville, Bridwell Art Library, Special Collections
- University of New Mexico
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro, University Libraries, Special Collections
- University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries, Special Collections
- University of Pittsburgh, Frick Fine Arts Library, Artist Book Collection
- University of Puget Sound
- University of Rhode Island, Special Collections
- University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Special Collections
- University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections
- University of Vermont
- University of Washington, Special Collections Library, Seattle
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Wesleyan University, Olin Library, Special Collections
- Whitman College, Penrose Library
- Whitworth University, Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library, Special Collections
- Yale University Arts Library
REPRESENTED BY:
- Art Metropole, Toronto
- Printed Matter, New York
- Vamp and Tramp, Birmingham, Alabama