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Veronique d’entremont (Artist)
Veronique d'Entremont(they/them) is a Los Angeles-based artist and teacher. They were born on January 14, 1983, in Boston, Massachusetts. They are an Interdisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles involved in collaborative practice, critical pedagogy, and community outreach. They received their BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and their MFA in Art Education from UCLA.Their work has been displayed in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, among other cities. Their work includes devotional sculpture, audio installation, film, performance, and an interrelationship with a wild beehive colony. Their work examines the healing process following personal trauma and mental illness. With formerly imprisoned artists, they co-founded the Liberated Arts Collective in 2016. Joan Mitchell Foundation, Ford Foundation, California Arts Council, and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs have all supported their work. They have collaborated on An Index of Fire at the Mesa Refuge, a multidisciplinary project analyzing California's interwoven link between wildfires, state government, and the environment.

Life and Education
In 2005, they obtained their BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art, and in 2012 their MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) in Art Education from UCLA. Veronique is a visiting lecturer in the Studio Foundations and Art Education departments at Massachusetts College of Art. They've worked as a guest artist at places including UCLA, CalArts, Chuco's Justice Center in South Los Angeles, and the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, California. In 2014 Veronique and a partner founded Widgets Etc., a collective studio and exhibition facility which houses 15 artists' workspaces and organizes community programs. In 2016, Veronique co-founded the Liberated Arts Collective (LAC) with Manuel Barrios, Denis Durbin, Paul Macias, and Walter Wilson, all of whom were freed from California State Prisons whom were reentering society after serving time in state prison for a variety of offenses. They continue to build venues where people can recuperate from the effects of institutionalization via art through Liberated Arts. Their work looks at how social and structural settings shape and influence us. They derive their inspiration from other artists and academics who educate themselves on racism and social injustice and utilize their platforms to challenge these systems.

Acocomplishments
Here are some of Veronique's accomplishments
 * After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, Veronique d'entremont was the 2012 MFA Grant recipient of the Joan Mitchell MFA Fellowship 2012
 * A Social Practice Art Grant 2016
 * A Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs AIR Grant 2018
 * A California Arts Council Re-Entry Through The Arts Grant 2018
 * Received a Career Opportunity Grant for $2,000 to assist with the project "WHAT'S WORKING IS BROKEN/City of Lost Angels"

Exhibitons & Art Installations
Art Installations Some more recent art installations Television, furniture, rope, and clothing were scavenged following a home fire in the artist's single-room occupancy rooming house. Three-channel audio and sculpture installation made of Televisions, antennas, radios, rosaries made of telephone wire, spiritual artifacts, photographs and letters, psychiatric hospital files, bricks, roofing shingles, clothing, and recordings taken from various sites associated with home or family. Altar with cast candle, Holy Bible, and book "Final Exit," couch filled with rosaries, prayer cushions, telephones playing conversations between the artist and her mother and grandmother about prayer and suicide. 
 * After the Fire2015
 * What I Mean When I Say I’m Going Home2016
 * Prayer for an Unkind Mother2018

Exhibitions Some of the Exhibitions under the Joan Mitchell Foundation
 * 1) The Space Between Us 2011
 * 2) Needs Support 2011
 * 3) Been Through Fire Process 2011
 * 4) Piecing it all Back Together; by and Means Necessary 2012
 * 5) The Light Left 2017
 * 6) Been in the Family for Generations 2017
 * 7) Family Blueprint 2018
 * 8) Prayer for an Unkind Mother 2018