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Professional visual artist in the following medium: acrylic, oil and water colour.

The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.

Mireille St-Cyr began painting art at age 12 and developed an eclectic style. Her life, much like her art has taken many different directions. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mireille was the 8th of 12 children. She became a teacher in her adult years and founded an elementary school in Haiti before moving to North America in the 1960's. She eventually settled in Montreal where she raised her 4 children and taught high school for 25 years.

In 1999, her husband, Edwing St-Cyr died of cancer and Mireille moved to Toronto, Ontario to renew her career as a visual artist and be closer to her children and grandchildren. Her incredible journey is one of hope. Mireille has generously donated her paintings throughout her career to several charitable organizations such as Visionled.

She mastered colours and styles while studying Rembrandt and the French Impressionist painters. Her favourite were Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh and Degas. Though she studied the Impressionists, she also dabbles in abstracts, "tachiste" then "splashiste".

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Always seeking to create beauty through colours, landscapes and shapes, she can find a way to bring us into space and everything is new. She redefines our paradigms when it comes to art and its essence. She somehow changes the world her way by her artistic presence. Splash, one of her last exhibits, featured new spatial and winter sceneries full of nuances, only seen by the artist. Her earliest works concentrated on depicting and study of black culture through Art, which still fascinates her to this day.

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Exhibits

2008 A l'occassion des 400 ans du Quebec, July 10-August 10
Group exhibit, Bibliotheque Centre Multiculturel, Chomedy, Laval, Quebec

2007 The Lost Art of Motherhood, February 3-28
Solo exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2006 Children of the World, March 15-April 5
Solo exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2006 The Music!, March 1-14
Group exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2005 Splash
Solo exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2005 Fenêtre
Bravo Sud exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2004 Éclaboussure
Bravo Sud exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto Ontario

2004 Faire et Défaire
Bravo Sud exhibit Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2004 Le Mur
Bravo Sud exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

<2004 The History of A Black Revolution, The Hall of fame
Solo exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

2004 Haiti after 200 years of Independence
Oasis Restaurant, Toronto, Ontario

2004 Rythme
Bravo Provincial exhibit, Gallery Nouvelle Scène, Ottawa, Ontario

2003 Noir sur Blanc, Black on White
Bravo Sud exhibit. Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2003 Déà-vue
Bravo Sud exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Omtario

2003 A Selection
Solo exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2002 Laughing Until you Cry
Bravo Sud exhibit, Céline Allard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1988 Solo exhibit
Gérard Filion High School, Auditorium, Longueuil, Québec

1987 Solo exhibit
Polyvalente Gérard Filion, Auditorium, Longueuil, Québec

1987 Rencontre Parallèle
Yearly National Contest, Cercle des artistes peintre du Québec

1986 Solo exhibit
Polyvalente Gérard Filion, Auditorium, Longueuil, Québec

1986 Solo exhibit
Maison Hyppolite Lafontaine , Rive Sud, Québec

1986 5e Festival International des Arts
Palais des Congrées, Montréal, Québec

1985 Les Lauréats du concours annuel du cercle des artites peintres
Aline Dallaire Gallery, Complexe Rive Sud, Longueuil, Québec

1985 International Contest, Cercle des Artistes peintres du Québec
Montréal, Québec

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2008 Art Workshop Academie La Moraine, Richmond Hill, Ontario
Art workshops with students and teachers from kindergarden to 8th grade.

2006 Elementery school Academie La Moraine, Richmond Hill, Ontario
Art project with students from kindergarden to 8th grade. Three murales.

2005 Selection Committee, Arts Counsel of Ontario
Professional Development Bursary

2004 St Mary’s School’s Magazine, Toronto, Ontario
Art project with 6 grade students, subsidized by the Art council of Ontario

2004 Holy family School’s Murale, Thornhill, Ontario
Art project with 8th grade students subsidized by The Art Council of Ontario

1997- 1972 Polyvalente Gérard Filion, Longueuil, Quebec
Teacher English as a second language, Chambly School Commission

1972-1968 Montréal Catholic School Commission, Montréal, Québec
Subtitute teacher, Art, Math and languages

1968-1965 Boston, Mass. USA
Computer and English Student,
Key punch Operator and data processing

1965-1956 Haiti, Ministry of Education
7 grade Math and History Teacher

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1997- Masters in Theology, thesis not yet finished
Faculté de Théologie, Sherbrooke University
Sherbrooke Québec

1994 Certificate in Bible Studies and Theology
Faculty of Theology, Acadia University
Montréal Campus, Montréal, Québec

1992 Post-Graduate degree in Research in Education
Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM, Montréal, Québec

1982 Certificate in Animation of the Student Life
Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM, Montréal, Québec

1979 TESL, High School level
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

1974 Bachelor in Education
Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM, Montréal, Québec

1956 Bachelor of Arts and Languages
Université d’Haïti
Port-au-Prince, Haïti

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The artist has dedicated her art, and studies, on teaching art to children, and painting people of different generations, races, regions and cultures; appreciating all aspects of their daily lives and landscapes. Concentrating primarily on the Haitian, Africans. She has done a series of work on youth, and will soon concentrate her work on the aging through art.

She is also an active participant of the Art in the schools project sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council

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Services Offered

• Member of the Art in the schools projects
• Art classes, seminars, workshops and conferences for groups or individuals
• Murals for homes, schools or offices
• Immortalizing an historical or important landscape
• Custom works in oil, acrylic or water color
• Customizing cloths, clothing with artwork
• Oil and acrylic paintings
• Illustrations (books, calendars and greetings cards)

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