BA Studio Arts/History of Art and Architecture (Highest Honours), ASA

Gwendolyn (“Wendy”) Borglum is an award-winning artist and pianist, a published travel writer and photographer, the mother of three children, and much more.

She was born in the university town of Champaign, Illinois to immigrant parents (her father a professor of civil engineering from Northern Ireland, her mother a nurse from Canada). Further exposure to the international atmosphere of a large, world-class university helped to expand her outlook and shape her esteem of education from an early age. Since that time she’s earned three degrees and worked professionally in writing, editing, corporate management, graphic design, art, and photography—and lived in three diverse states and two countries. The call to Canada came from the alternative energy industry, and with a calm and confident sense of fate she landed in Calgary over eighteen years ago (with her scientist husband, toddler son, and three cats). She is today a dual citizen of Canada and the US.Wendy holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Arts and the History of Art and Architecture (double major, highest honours, University of Pittsburgh) as well as English (high honours, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts).  She began her university studies as a piano major though, a year early, at the age of 17. In her first year she competed for and won a full four-year music performance scholarship (University of Illinois).  

She enjoys art as an adventure and journey of expression—experimenting with different techniques and exploring many media. Within a notable range, she strives to create work that is contemporary yet timeless, personal yet universal, characterized by an elegance of design, and, at times, haunting ambiguity.
 
To date, her work has been selected for over thirty juried regional, national, and North American exhibitions in gallery, art institute, and museum settings.