Vesa Peltonen

Vesa Peltonen is well multi-faceted well known Canadian Artist, Creative Art Director and Art/Design, History and Media Instructor living in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada.
He is also a qualified guidance counsellor.

For 30 years, Vesa has had a rewarding career in the arts.
As well as teaching University and College, he has served as an advisor for the Ontario Arts Council. He has also taught High School for aboriginal students, having been immersed into the aboriginal culture. Whether through art or music, Vesa enjoys challenging the limits of all media. He is an active photographer, writer, and musician.

Vesa has had many art exhibitions, with the most extensive one for the Regional Artists series, being a solo retrospective show in 2004 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.  He has his artworks of watercolours and prints in many Canadian and world for
corporate and private collections such as the Aquatic Museum of Canada to several Provincial government offices.

Vesa Peltonen is known for helping to fundraise for many  local and national organizations and special event, creating limited edition artworks as commemorative prints. He has won several awards from best watercolour at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery Juried Art Exhibition in 1998, and the 'City of Thunder Bay Culture and Heritage Award for 'Visual Art' for 2006, which was a juried selection. He received it for his years of dedicated work volunteering and helping promote the  city and North Western Ontario through his many art endeavours.

His focus has been that “Art must be an integral part of community". He has been a 'artist in residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scota, in 2003 and helped the community art society there raise funds for a new art gallery. He also was there to do some lectures on art in N.W. Ontario, and workshops as a part of his purpose being there. He has also done a well a bi-national art exchange with a group of native art students in Northwestern Ontario with peers in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 3 combined shows of north groups art work in three cities. This was well published through the media including seven national newspapers and magazines, and caught the attention of the Ontario Arts Council with providing grant money for the city of Thunder Bay and establishing an aboriginal O.A.C. office in Thunder Bay to making it easier to assist native artists in Aboriginal Funding for Northwestern Ontario.

 

 

Limited edition prints are available at Lake Superior Store
http://lakesuperiorstore.com/store/shop/category.asp?catid=356

 

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Highway North	Trees in the Forest	NorWester Sunrise