Elisa Sereno-Janz
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Elisa Sereno-Janz is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, fibre and new media. An active member of the Calgary music community as a performer, educator and composer for many years, her new media project, FiddleLights synthesizes her art making in visual art and music.
Academic Background
2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Distinction), Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta
1984 Bachelor of Education, Western University, London, Ontario
1983 Bachelor of Music with Honors in Performance (violin) Western University
Offer of Residency
2015 two week residency at the NoiseBorder Multimedia Performance Lab, University of Windsor, Ontario to further develop The FiddleLights Project
Professional Development
2015 Invitation to present my paper, The FiddleLights Project: Stylistic Documentation Through Kinetic Portraits at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2015, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia
2013 Presentation of The FiddleLights Project at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts 2013 hosted by the British Computer Society, London, England
2012 Presentation of The FiddleLights Project (publication pending 2015) at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2012, University of Ulster, Ireland
2006 Presentation of Bridging Fiddle and Classical Communities in Calgary: The Baroque & Buskin' String Orchestra at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2006 at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Juried Exhibitions
2014 Visual Arts Alberta Marking the Valley, Kaasa Gallery, Edmonton and the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Gallery, Calgary
2014 Visual Arts Alberta Bread Basket Members' Show, Visual Arts Alberta Gallery, Edmonton
2014 Fourth Year Drawing Show, Alberta College of Art and Design
2013 Visual Arts Alberta Open Photo/Open Digital 2013, Kaasa Gallery, Edmonton and the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Gallery, Calgary
2013, 2012, 2011 Administration Area Exhibition ,works displayed in the administration area Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta
Other Exhibitions
2014 Athenaeum- Unpacking our Library, FINA450 group show, Alberta College of Art and Design
2013 A Shifting Balance, group show, curated by the artists, Dana Bush, Amanda Oberacher, Elisa SerenoJanz, at the Alberta Wilderness Association, Calgary
2013 Third Year Drawing Show, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary AB
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 Fibre Fortnight, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
2014, 2012, 2011 Fibre Department Miniature Show, Alberta College of Art and Design
2011, 2010 First Year Drawing Show, Alberta College of Art and Design
Awards/ Grants/ Scholarships
2015 Calgary Arts Development Artist Opportunity Grant to attend the residency at the NoiseBorder Multimedia Performance Lab, University of Windsor ON
2013, 2012 ACAD Travel Scholarship for presentations at international conferences
2013 ACAD Drawing Major Merit Scholarship for Academic Excellence
2014,2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Dean's List, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
2012 Stanford Perrot Innovative Project Award for new media project FiddleLights
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
2012, 2011 Jason Lang Scholarship for Academic Excellence
Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, Government of Alberta
2011 First Year Studies Scholarship, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
2006 Alberta Foundation for the Arts for Conference presentation at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2004, 2003 Alberta Heritage Scholarship for Career Development
Participant of the Tafelmusik Summer Institute, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, grant to help pay for a demo recording of my compositions
Academic Publications
2013 FiddleLights: Kinetic Signatures of the Bow Hand- Visualising Fiddle Tunes and Contemporary Violin Performance, Peer reviewed and published by the British Computer Society for Electronic Visualisation and the Arts 2013, London GB
2008 Bridging Fiddle and Classical Communities in Calgary: The Baroque & Buskin' String Orchestra Presented at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2006 at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Peer reviewed and published in Driving the Bow, papers from NAFCo 2006, University of Aberdeen Press
Publication Pending
2015 The FiddleLights Project - An Artist's Recording of Bow Hand Movements in Fiddle Tunes, Submitted to the University of Ulster, for the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2012, Derry, Northern Ireland.
Professional Experience
1998-2015 Founder and Director of Blue Arch Strings (formerly Baroque & Buskin’ Strings)
a community string orchestra for adults and teens in Calgary
1983- 2015 Freelance Violinist and Private Teacher in violin, fiddle and viola
1994- 2005 Founding member of Prairie Ceilidh, a four piece traditional/Celtic band,playing fiddle, singing lead and harmony vocals, composer, arranger, manager, recordings
Published Music/ Recordings
2011 35 original compositions and arrangements of traditional music for string orchestra and string quartet, published by Blue Arch Music
1998, 1999 CD's A Prairie Ceilidh Christmas, Prairie Ceilidh- Dry Island, composer, arranger, fiddle, vocals
Other Interests - gardening, traveling, studying foreign languages (French, German, Italian, Greek)