2017 • upcoming this December: 2 day Stop Motion Puppet and Animation Workshop at the Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture https://www.facebook.com/events/2062112674075349/ 2017 • exhibition tour led by Jacob Huffman, of Mary Anne Barkhouse ‘Le reve aux loups’; Postcommodity ‘A Very Long Line’; and Veronica Verkley ‘Second Nature: FERAL’ at the Esker Foundation. https://www.facebook.com/events/938968309604591/ 2017 • a … Read More
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The Problematic Orchestra – Drift
Daniel Janke and the Problematic Orchestra performed a live score to my animated film Drift in the Palace Grand opera house, Dawson City – 2018
Thinking Animals
Olga Korper Gallery Toronto: Thinking Animals: curated by John McEwen August 4- 25, 2018
Stardust and Time
Durham Art Gallery – Star Dust and Time with John McEwen curator: Corinna Ghaznavi Durham, Ontario Both John McEwen and Veronica Verkley think with animals. Animals are the primary protagonists in Verkley’s animation, shaping and being shaped by their environment. McEwen’s figures are formed by an envelope of stars, stars that both contain the figure … Read More
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation grant for Thinking Animals – 2018
Stop Motion Animation Workshop
Stop Motion Animation workshop (host) Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture Dawson City – 2018 Inspired by her lush stop motion animation Second Nature: FERAL, join sculptor and filmmaker Veronica Verkley in creating your own ‘animate-able’ needle-felted animal (real or imagined) with an internal, poseable wire armature; then shoot short animation sequences with the puppets … Read More
Staff Infection
Staff Infection: Yukon School of Visual Arts Faculty Show, Confluence Gallery, Dawson City Yukon – April 11, 2019 Includes work by Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling, Ange Bonnici, Aubyn O’Grady, Nate Jones, John Steins, Veronica Verkley, Jeffrey Langille, Bill Burns, & Nicole Rayburn.
Meet the artist helping to save the Yukon School of Visual Arts
G Globe and Mail : article on the Yukon School of Visual Arts where I teach – June 15, 2019 “Canada’s northernmost fine-arts institution, SOVA, offers up to 20 students a change to study a fully accredited foundation year. But it can be ‘hard to find students who want to study in a small town … Read More
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant for Suspended Animation
Yukon Advanced Artists Award
Yukon Advanced Artists Award for Suspended Animation – 2019
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