Michelle Loughery
{{short description|Canadian muralist from British Columbia (born 1961)}}
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Michelle Loughery (born 1961) is a Canadian muralist from British Columbia.{{cite news|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2003-06-01/local/18218795_1_mural-memorial-day-terror-attack-victims|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707220703/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2003-06-01/local/18218795_1_mural-memorial-day-terror-attack-victims|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 7, 2012|title=Painters help PS 229 memorialize 9/11|last=McDonough|first=Fiona|date=1 June 2003|work=Daily News|accessdate=11 May 2012}}
Life and work
=Early career=
Loughery was born in the community of Michel-Natal in the Elk Valley in southeastern British Columbia, but her family was relocated to the nearby mining town of Sparwood when the community of Michel-Natal was dismantled by the provincial government in the 1970s.
=Work=
Loughery has created mural projects in Cuba, Missouri Route 66 Mural City,{{Cite news|url=http://cubamomurals.com/2010/10/canadian-artist-michelle-loughery-update-2/|title=Canadian artist Michelle Loughery update #2…|date=2010-10-23|work=Cuba, MO - Route 66 Mural City|access-date=2017-05-05|language=en-US}} US; Vernon, British Columbia, Heritage Murals;{{Cite web|url=http://www.vernonmurals.ca/|title=The Heritage Murals of Downtown Vernon - Home Page|last=Administrator|website=www.vernonmurals.ca|access-date=2017-05-05}} and country music themed murals in the Country Music Capital of Canada, Merritt, British Columbia.{{cite web|last1=loughery|first1=michelle|url=http://www.ccmhalloffame.com|title=Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame|website=canadiancountrymusichalloffame|accessdate=15 June 2016}} Her 9/11 mural commissioned by the Brooklyn Fire Department is on photographic display in the Smithsonian Museum.
=Awards=
References
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- [http://www.cubamomurals.com www.cubamurals.com]
- http://www.ccmhalloffame.com
Sources
- Sutherland, Jim. Murals Brighten Walls, Live. More Magazine. Summer 2008
- Grant, Paul. BC Artist to Paint Sept.11th Mural for NYC School. CBC News. March 17, 2003.
- British Columbian Achievement Foundation. Thirty Nine British Columbians Receive British Columbian Community Achievements Awards. March 15, 2005.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233957/http://www.conkie-law.ca/newsletter/december2008/loughery.html
- http://www.merrittherald.com/on-a-wall-down-under/
- http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/192597121.html
- http://www.canadashistory.ca/Great-War-Album/About-the-Great-War/Prisoners-and-internees/Dan-Koneszynigi
External links
- [http://www.michelleloughery.org Official site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706185527/http://www.more.ca/attitude/profiles/murals-brighten-walls-lives/a/180 Additional magazine articles]
- http://downtownvernon.com/things-to-do/murals
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Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:21st-century Canadian painters
Category:People from the Regional District of East Kootenay
Category:Canadian women muralists