{"id":3,"date":"2012-04-01T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:02:18","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/","title":{"rendered":"About Carmel Brennan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Painter, Photographer, Printmaker, Writer, Walker, Student for Life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Carmel Brennan, <\/strong>B.A., B.Ed.,M.A.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Birmingham, UK, Carmel holds a master\u2019s degree in Contemporary Art and Archaeology. A retired teacher of Visual Arts, she is a Past President of the Ontario Society of Artists and has curated major exhibitions for the Uxbridge Artist Collective from 2009 to 2018, called, Work from Heart Mind &amp; Hand. In 2020 she curated an exhibition called, <strong>Beyond the Walls <\/strong>at the Aurora Cultural Centre, and the 2021 exhibition, <strong>The Conversation<\/strong>. In 2022, she curated <strong>Breath.Heart.Spirit OSA 150 years<\/strong>, at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario at Queens Park, Toronto. Her other exhibitions are focused on a project, organized and curated by Carmel, <strong>Letters to the Earth: Between Despair and Hope <\/strong>at the Aurora Cultural Centre, (2023) the Georgina Centre for Arts &amp; Culture (2024), the Station Gallery in Whitby (2024) and Newmarket&#8217;s Old Town Hall in 2025. Future curated exhibitions are scheduled for the Agnes Jamieson Gallery in Minden, Ontario in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>What would you say in a Letter to the Earth? Send me your letter to Dear Earth and join in our\u00a0 campaign to keep the conversation about climate change in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Carmel Brennan&#8217;s studio in Sunderland, Ontario, is open to visitors annually, on the third weekend of September, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uxbridgestudiotour.com\/site\/home\">Uxbridge Studio Tour .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact: Carmel Brennan: <a href=\"mailto:cbrennan@sympatico.ca\">cbrennan@sympatico.ca <\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=\"mailto:imagesontherun@gmail.com\">imagesontherun@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1438\" src=\"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Paper-thin-Pandemic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter, Photographer, Printmaker, Writer, Walker, Student for Life. Carmel Brennan, B.A., B.Ed.,M.A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1545,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":103,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelbrennan.com\/carmel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}