Marlene Cox-Bishop
Marlene Cox-Bishop is a Canadian Metis artist and educator. She earned a Doctorate in Arts Education from Illinois State University (Normal, IL); a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI); and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC). Many of her works of art on paper and textiles are housed in public and private collections in the United States and Canada. Cox-Bishop has travelled with graduate students to conduct fieldwork and to collect textile artifacts in Japan, India and Africa. Her students have won prizes for textile designs in competitions sponsored by the International Textile and Apparel Association. She is now a Professor Emeritus of the Human Ecology department at the University of Alberta, and resides in Kaleden, British Columbia.
The role of the Arts in health and healing is central to Marlene’s work, as is the utilization of the Arts within a holistic medical treatment model to improve the wellbeing of individuals. The effects of computer-assisted design, the development of visual literacy, textile design and dyeing, the medicine wheel, drumming, and visual communication skills on wellbeing are the primary foci of Marlene’s research and teaching. Her creativity is seen as process as well as product.
The role of the Arts in health and healing is central to Marlene’s work, as is the utilization of the Arts within a holistic medical treatment model to improve the wellbeing of individuals. The effects of computer-assisted design, the development of visual literacy, textile design and dyeing, the medicine wheel, drumming, and visual communication skills on wellbeing are the primary foci of Marlene’s research and teaching. Her creativity is seen as process as well as product.