{"id":72,"date":"2013-08-27T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwardhagedorn.ca\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:41:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edwardhagedorn.ca\/?page_id=72","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/h2>\n<p>My art is inspired by everyday life experiences: light illuminating the lilies on the pond, a striking photo in the news, a certain facial expression, a dream or insight. When these visions, ideas, or desires unite with a possible technical solution, a new work gestates in my imagination. The creative impulse merges and is altered by adaptation to the art material; a dynamic dialogue develops between the easel and my mind in the special time\/space of the studio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Membership &amp; Selected Exhibitions<\/h2>\n<p>Colborne Art Gallery, Colborne, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colborneartgallery.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.colborneartgallery.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2024 \u2013 Present \u2013 Member<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02008, 2017, 2022 \u2013 Anniversary Group Shows<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2013-2019 \u2013 Juried Shows<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2003-2006 \u2013 Member<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2003 \u2013 Solo Show \u201cPlaying with Realities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Juried Shows 1998-2025<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spirit of Hills Juried Shows 2014, 2022, 2024 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritofthehills.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.spiritofthehills.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">John M. Parrott Art Gallery, Belleville ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2019 \u2013 Juror\u2019s Award<\/p>\n<p>Northumberland Hills Studio Tours 2013 &amp; 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandstudiotour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.northumberlandstudiotour.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rail\u2019s End Gallery, Haliburton, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Summer 2009 \u2013 Faculty Show &#8211; Haliburton School of Arts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Professional Work and Development<\/h2>\n<p>1967-1969 \u2013 Columbus College of Art &amp; Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA<\/p>\n<p>1969-1974 \u2013 Patmos Workshop and Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p>1979-1987 \u2013 Art Teacher, Toronto Montessori School, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p>1990-1993 \u2013 Diploma of Art Therapy \u2013 Toronto Art Therapy Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p>1997-2000 \u2013 Masters of Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass., USA<\/p>\n<p>1992-2019 \u2013 Artreach, a private practice in Expressive Therapies, Cobourg, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p>2001-2018 &#8211; Instructor \u2013 Sir Sanford Fleming College\/Haliburton School of Arts, ON, Canada &#8211; Expressive Arts Certificate Program<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cI have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Joni Mitchell<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement My art is inspired by everyday life experiences: light illuminating the lilies on the pond, a striking photo in the news, a certain facial expression, a dream or insight. 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