Gregory Ball attended the Camosun College Visual Arts Program in his early twenties, obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts honours degree in drawing and painting at Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now Emily Carr University) in 1986. Ball spent 1989 as an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts before undertaking his Master of Fine Arts (printmaking) at Concordia University in 1994. Ball has been an instructor of drawing and printmaking in the Visual Arts program at the Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina College) since 1999. In addition to maintaining his artist practice and teaching, Ball served as curator of the Nanaimo Art Gallery from 2005 – 2009, and has held administrative appointments of Visual Arts Department Chair and Co-Chair. Ball is the recipient of Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council funding, his works are featured in private and public collections, and have been exhibited throughout Canada in galleries including Open Space, Mercer Union, and the Haida Heritage Centre at Kay Llnagaay. ARTIST INFO: http://gregoryball.blogspot.ca/ (Accessed December 11, 2016)
