Amy Audet-Arcand is an art educator and textile artist. She received a BFA in Studio Arts (Painting and Drawing) from Concordia University in 2021, and an MA in Art Education from Concordia University in 2024. She has been teaching visual arts courses to youth at a non-profit organization for multiple years in Montreal, Canada. Her teaching and research practices focus on environmental conservation.
Research
In hopes of conserving our ecological system, she researches the societal need to be exposed to elements of the outdoors, and suggests paths to take to proactively embody environmental practices. She observes how an environmental practice consisting of growing, foraging, and harvesting indigenous plants of North America, primarily milkweed, can translate into an environmental art practice, as well as an environmental art education within the classroom. Audet-Arcand specializes in teaching students aged 4-8 within the extra-curricular and community sectors. She uses observations drawn from her teachings in order to study integrative education, art-making, and environmental conservatism.
She is captivated by work that is labour-intensive. She focusses on processing the fibre from plants she has grown and foraged, for textile art. The educator’s intention to focus on plants that are native to the land she has lived on her whole life is to concentrate her thoughts, energy, and time on what is here, what is from here, what is—from appearance—believed to be supposed to be here, which is linked to environmental conservatism (Scruton, 2012).
Scruton, R. (2012). How to think seriously about the planet: The case for an environmental conservatism. Oxford University Press.
Contact
amyaudetarcand@gmail.com
Experience
2026 Group Exhibition, 5 ans dans le Mile-End, Atelier Retailles.
2023-2025 Visual Arts Teacher, Visual Arts Centre.
2024 Co-presenter, Arts-based Education to Facilitate Dialogue on Environmental Justice, Canadian Society for Education Through Art National Conference.
2024 Co-presenter, Educating on Environmental Conservation Through Textile-Making and Photography, Canadian Society for Education Through Art National Conference.
2024 Presenter, The Symbiotic Relation of Milkweed Fibre and Environmental Art Education, Canadian Society for Education Through Art National Conference.
2022-24 MA in Art Education with thesis, Concordia University.
2024 Solo Exhibition, Milkweed Papers, Art Education Vitrine, Concordia University.
2024 Group Exhibition, Bold, Italics, and Underlined, Popop Gallery.
2024 Presenter, Papermaking Workshop, ArtEDU Workshops, Concordia University.
2024 Teaching Assistant, Concordia University.
2024 Visual Arts Teacher, McEntyre Project, École St-Léon de Westmount, The Priory, Visual Arts Centre.
2023 Group Exhibition, Renouveler, McClure Gallery.
2023 Outreach Visual Arts Teacher, Royal Vale.
2022 Teaching Assistant, Visual Arts Centre.
2018-21 BFA with Distinction, Major Painting and Drawing, Concordia University.
2018 Public Piano Painting Contract, Ville de Laval.
