Lynn Beavis is appointed Gallery’s new interim director

Lynn Beavis has been appointed Interim Director of Concordia’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, while a search is conducted for a permanent occupant of the position. She brings more than 15 years’ experience in the art world to the job.

She has extensive experience as a curator and teacher, much of it at Concordia, where she organized several independent curatorial projects at the Ellen Gallery and was curatorial assistant in 1997-98.

She was also visual arts director, then artistic director, of Artspace, in Peterborough, Ont., and director curator of the Temiskaming Art Gallery.

Lynn Beavis holds an Honours BFA in Art History from Concordia. She has taught at White Mountain Academy of the Arts in Elliott Lake, Ont., and the University College of the Cariboo in Kamloops, B.C., as well as doing research and teaching work at Concordia.

She has also been active on several arts councils and boards in Ontario and has produced a number of brochures and catalogues.