The Artist’s Mind Lecture Series
Last spring we initiated a lecture series called The Artist’s Mind, with the first lecture by Linda Rutenberg. It was a huge success and filled to capacity, and so we’ve decided to continue the series this fall.
On Friday December 4th, we will be welcoming Victoria LeBlanc into the studio to let us take a look into her Artist’s Mind!

Victoria LeBlanc Biography
Artist, writer, curator, and art educator, Victoria LeBlanc lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She was the Director of Montreal’s Visual Arts Centre and McClure Gallery from 1996 - 2017 and Curator of Westmount’s Municipal Gallery from 1999 - 2022. While at the Visual Arts Centre, she re-established the McClure Gallery as a contemporary art venue and introduced a publication and curatorial programme as well as ARTreach, a community outreach programme. As curator and writer, she has contributed to over 50 catalogues on contemporary Canadian artists. She has taught a wide variety of subjects, from portraiture to abstraction to personal directions in painting and one-on-one independent studies. As a visual artist, she began her exhibition career in Montreal at the John Schweitzer Gallery and in Toronto with the Leo Kamen Gallery in the 80s and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Ontario and Quebec. Her work can be found in corporate and private collections in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Her creative practice is inflected by an ekphrastic impulse: a dialogue between drawing/painting and writing. Besides her curatorial and catalogue texts, she is the author of Clay Roots, the Potters’ Club and its legacy at the Visual Arts Centre (2021) as well as two poetry collections, Hold (2019) and River | Riven (2024).  Forthcoming, Iterations.