Malcolm Zander - Resumé

Education
M.Sc. (New Zealand, 1964)
Ph.D. (Toronto, 1967)

Former career
Professor and program coordinator, Algonquin College, Ottawa, 1969-1999.
Taught courses in biochemistry, organic chemistry, toxicology & occupational safety, in English and in French. Coordinated program producing biochemical technologists. Retired in 1999.

Woodturning career
2000 - Began turning.
2001 - Toronto 'One of a Kind' juried show.
2002 - Toronto 'One of a Kind' juried show.
2003 - Ottawa Signatures 'Originals' juried show

Awards
2002 - Ottawa Wood Show.
First competition. Entered in Intermediate and Senior categories, against several turners of long experience. Received first and second in Intermediate, first and second in Senior, People's Choice Award (for the turning voted most popular by the public), and Best of Show.

2003 - Ottawa Wood Show.
Second competition. Entered in Senior and Master categories. Received second and third in Master, first in Senior hollow forms and first in Senior bowls.

2004 - Canada Council for the Arts: 2004 Travel Grant.

2004 - Ontario Arts Council Craft Artist's Grant

Exhibitions & Articles
2003 & 2004 - Two-man show with watercolour artist Charles Spratt at Charles Spratt Gallery.

2004 - "From Sea to Odyssey", juried AAW Exhibition; Orlando, Florida and St.Paul, Minnesota.

Featured in the Summer 2004 American Woodturner, p.13

2005-7 - "Small Treasures" Exhibition, del Mano gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2006 & 2007 SOFA Exhibitions, New York and Chicago.

Featured in the September 2005 American Woodturner. p.37

Featured in Woodturning, November 2005, p.19.

Featured in the September 2006 American Woodturner. p.16

Featured in “Woodturning Tips and Techniques” by Carol Rix, GMC Publications, 2006, pp. 5,8,159,170

Featured on the cover of the DVD of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Association of Woodturners, and also in the Instant Gallery critique. Click here for a short video clip (reproduced by permission from the AAW).

2007 “Northern Exposure: Works in Wood by Canadian Artists”, Invited Exhibition, Canadian Consulate, Los Angeles, California.

Featured in Craft Arts International No.69, 2007, p.72

2007 - "Turning Green", juried AAW Exhibition; Portland, Oregon, and St.Paul, Minnesota.

Featured in the September 2007 American Woodturner, p.20

Featured in the December 2007 American Woodturner, p.47

Publications
American Woodturner, September 2005, pp.54-56

Woodturning, August 2006, p. 57.

Professional Development
2002 - Two-day one-on-one workshop with Rolly Munro in New Zealand. One-day one-on-one workshop with Graeme Priddle in New Zealand. Ottawa seminar and one-week stay by Rolly Munro. American Association of Wood-turners Annual Conference, June 2002, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

2003 - One-day seminar with Art Liestman. One-day seminar plus one-day one-on-one workshop with Michael Hosaluk. One-day one-on-one workshop with Giles Gilson. Adirondack Woodturners Association Conference, October 2003, Albany, N.Y., with Bin Pho, Alan Lacer & John Jordan.

2004 - 25th Utah Woodturning Symposium, Provo, Utah; Annual Conference of the AAW, Orlando, Florida, July 2004; TotallyTurning conference, Albany, NY, October 2004.
Competition Coordinator, Ottawa Woodshow, November 2004.

2005 - CollaboratioNZ, Whangarei, New Zealand, March 2005; Annual Conference of the AAW, Kansas City, July 2005; two-day workshop with Jean-Francois Escoulen, September 2005. Competition Coordinator, Ottawa Woodshow, November 2005.

2006 Annual Conference of the AAW, Louisville, Kentucky, June 2006. Demonstrator, Totally Turning symposium, Albany, NY, October 2006.

Collections:
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa/Gatineau, Canada
The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii
Her Excellency Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada

To date (2007), my work has been bought by collectors in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Quebec, and Australia.

Galleries
Snapdragon Gallery, 791 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, KIS 3V7.
Tel. (613) 233-1296. E-mail: info@snapdragongallery.com

del Mano Gallery, 11981 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA.
Tel. 1-800-335-6266. E-Mail gallery@delmano.com