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are related works completed by Dwayne Harty.
 PBS “Journeys of an Artist – Dwayne Harty”. Thirty minute television documentary filmed in Algonquin Park (Ontario), Georgian Bay(Ontario), Toronto(Ontario), Regina(Saskatchewan), Billings(Montana), Yellowstone Park(Montana, Wyoming), Jackson Hole,(Wyoming), New York City, New Jersey. 2004.
WPBS to begin showing program across North America and Britain in May, 2005.
Long Point Company, Long Point, Lake Erie, Ontario. Invited guest to hunt waterfowl. Twenty members worldwide. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Frank Benson, Ogden Pleissner amongst previous artist guests. 2004
“Deceased Masters of the Wildlife Genre”. Presentation at Prix de West Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 2004.
Participant in panel discussion on the life and work of Carl Rungius. Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Los Angeles, California. 2003.
Assisted in repatriating to Canada 54 Robert Lougheed paintings. These paintings, depicting early Canadian rural life, were exhibited at Mayberry Fine Art Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. December, 2003.
“Masters of the Wildlife Genre” lecture and slide presentation. Canadian McMicheal Collection Museum, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada. 2002.
Co-founder of the Algonquin Academy of Wilderness and Wildlife Art. Mandated to educated in the classical realist tradition. Headquartered in Huntsville, Ontario. Canada. 2000.
Explorer’s Club Journal. Author of text discussing the Explorer’s Club W.R. Leigh African landscape painting: their present context to the African landscape and their significance in context to the dioramas in the Carl Akeley African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. 2003.
 Nicholas Fine Art. Develop and create initial contacts for Dr. Paul Knolle of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede Holland for concept of touring their wildlife art collection throughout European and North American art museums. Liaisons include Dr. Allan Ellenius (Uppsala, Sweden, world authority on Bruno Liljefors), Dr. Bjorn Fredlund (director - Goteborg Fine Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden), Karin Siden (curator - National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden), Mrs. Nina Ohman (director and curator - Thiels Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden), Ms. Kirsten Evenden (curator Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta), Dr. Vincent Varga director - McMichael Canadian Collection Museum, Kleinburg, Ontario), Dr. Francine Carrara (director National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming), Ms. Diane Jones (curator- Genesee Village and Country Museum, Mumford, New York), Mrs. Kathy Foley ( Curator - Leigh Hawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin), Mr. Stephen Quinn ( manager of exhibitions, American Museum of Natural History, New York City), Michael Anderson (manager of exhibitions, Peabody Museum, Yale campus, New Haven, Connecticut), Don Luce (manager of exhibitions, Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, Minnesota), Mrs. Kate Davis (director of MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan), Ms. Amy Scott (curator of visual arts, Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage). Billings, Montana. 2001.
Artist/Curator of Nicholas Fine Art. Billings, Montana. Since September 2000. Responsible for locating and bringing to Billings, Montana major works by Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bruno Liljefors, Richard Friese and Heinrich Von Zugel. Secured the estate of Mr. Robert Lougheed.
Lecture. “Masters of the Wildlife Genre”. Glenbow Museum. Calgary, Alberta. Accompanying tour through contemporary wildlife art exhibition with George McLean. September 2000.
Lecture. “Impressionist Colour Theory as Applied to Plein Air Painting”. Masters of the Wildlife Genre. University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge, Alberta. September, 2000.
Wildlife Art International annual exhibition 2000. “The Group of Sevens’ Canada - A Millennium Celebration”. Accompanied by “Masters of the Wild” featuring the finest wildlife artists from North America and Europe. Algonquin Gallery. Algonquin Park. Ontario.
Produce two hard ground copper plated etchings: “Summer Velvet”, “Resting Grizzly”
Produce one soft ground copper plate etching: “Bull Moose”. 1999.
Wildlife Art International annual exhibition 1999. “Wilderness Reunion – Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven” and Masters of Wildlife Art. Featuring the finest wildlife artists from North America and Europe.
Wildlife Art International annual exhibition 1998. “Algonquin Memories - Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park”. Catalogue and poster production. Accompanied by Animal Art in the Park wildlife artists from across North America. Algonquin Gallery. Algonquin Park, Ontario.
 Lecturer and judge for the 9th annual “Reflections of Nature” wildlife art exhibition and sale. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Feature painting “Algonquin Wolves”. October 23-25, 1998.
Genesee Village and Country Museum. Guest lecturer and demonstration painting from live Barn Owl. Painting used as fundraising feature. Mumford, New York. 1997.
Wildlife Art International Inc. Organize and host “Living Legends and Young Brushes”. Brought together
masterworks from Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, The Genesee Village and Country Museum, Mumford, New York. Algonquin Park. Canada. 1997.
Wildlife Art International Inc. Organize and host “Art of the Coin/ Art of the Stamp”. Brought together for the first time the wildlife art collection of the Royal Canadian Mint and Wildlife Habitat Canada. Algonquin Park, Canada. 1996.
Founder and Principal of Wildlife Art International Inc. Mandate to bring to Algonquin Park the finest wildlife art, past and present. Incorporated 1996.
Initiated and invited wildlife artist and scholars lecture symposium. Speakers included Bob Kuhn, Bill Kerr, George McLean, Ken Bunn, Robert Bateman, Joan Murray, David Lank, Martha Hill, Randy Dutra and Dwayne Harty. Huntsville, Ontario. 1995.
Lecturer and emcee at wildlife artists and scholar’s symposium. Content of lecture on life and work of Robert Lougheed and Heinrich Von Zugel. Huntsville, Ontario. 1995.
Spearheaded Society of Animal Artists 35th Annual Exhibition hosted in the Algonquin Park Education Centre. First time in Canada and first international tour of the Society of Animal Artists. Sponsorship by the Friends of Algonquin Park and Huntsville, Ontario. 1995.
Elected to Advisory Board of “ART IMPRESSIONS” magazine. Canadian art journal dedicated to Canadian realism. Toronto, Canada. 1995.
Elected to Executive Board of the Society of Animal Artists. New York City. 1994.
Paseo Fine Arts. Workshop instructor. Tucson, Arizona. 1994.
Guest to Canadian Salmon Club to fish the Bonaventure River for Atlantic salmon. St. Alphonse, Quebec.
Guest to the Wilson Camp to fish the Miramachi River for Atlantic salmon. Doaktown, New Brunswick. 1993.
Initiated concept and assisted in establishing steering committee to have Algonquin Park host the Society of Animal Artists 35th Annual Exhibition. 1993.
 Judge Saskatchewan Wildlife Art competitions 1988,1989.
Completion of first bronze sculpture of North American elk, titled “Challenged”. 1986.
Instructor of Life Drawing and Anatomy classes through University of Regina, Saskatchewan. Extension Department. 1987-89.
Judge and lecture for the Canadian Taxidermy Association. Annual show held with Sportsman’s Show, Toronto. 1985-86.
Judge and lecture for Taxidermy International conferences in Edmonton and Saskatoon. 1984-85.
Instructor of Animal Drawing classes through the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Art in the Park. Winnipeg. 1984.
Travel with Dr. Robert Wrigley (Director of Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature) visiting major museums across the western United States: Minneapolis, Seattle, Washington, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. 1983.
Employment for Lawson Graphics Inc. Under Jack Lea. Advertising art and production. Winnipeg. 1982.
Instructor of: Drawing the Human Figure, Painting in oil, Animal Painting and Drawing. Through the University of Regina, Extension Department. 1980, 1981,1987,1988.
“Take 30” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) one-half hour documentary on my work titled “Painting from Life”. Film appears across western Canada and segment on the evening CBC National Journal.
Assistant Instructor, Okanogan Game Farm in Penticton, British Columbia. Okanogan Summer School of the Arts Wildlife Drawing classes held by Clarence Tillenius and assisted by Jan Sharkey Thomas. 1979.
Artist/Taxidermist on staff. Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, working with Chief Dioramist Fred Lahrman, artist Jack Pickering and taxidermist Ron Tillie. 1975-1976.
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