{"id":9,"date":"2024-02-26T16:08:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsite.marieleblanc.net\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:55:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newsite.marieleblanc.net\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"About Marie LeBlanc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Marie LeBlanc is a self-taught multidisciplinary, conceptual and political disability artist. Through photography, multimedia projection, short film, performance, wordsmithing and poetry she explores themes related to landscape, isolation, beauty, health (mostly Environmental Sensitivities) and nature. Capturing faces, shapes, shadows and reflections with digital and on-camera effects, often superimposing her own reflection, she seeks to embrace the present moment and the ethereal world around her. In the winter months, she travels to the U.S. desert in a cargo van adapted for safe housing to ease the symptoms of Environmental Sensitivities (ES). She advocates for those (including herself) living with Environmental Sensitivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Advanced Major) in Human Geography and Sociology from the University of Manitoba. She has participated in the Making Our Mark II Printmaking Mentorship Program at Martha Street Studio, the Artist In Residency Program at Artbeat Studio and the Art Salon Program at Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba (AANM). Her story and artwork have been featured in interviews, radio, articles and newsletters throughout Western Canada, the US, and MCS Aware (UK). She was awarded Microgrants from Mentoring Artists for Women\u2019s Art and AANM for the completion of Overdressed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie often participates and advocates in meetings and coalitions to have the needs met for those living with Environmental Sensitivities (also known as Environmental Illness).  In 2022 and 2023 Marie participated in the Accessible Parks Canada Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025 Marie spearheaded the event Illuminate Canada Yellow for Environmental Sensitivities\/Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (ES\/MCS) Awareness Month sponsored by the Environmental Health Association of Manitoba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Her 3 most important projects to date include:<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity & Environmental Illness-Awareness & Acknowledgement<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film was screened at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights  and Mentoring Artists for Women\u2019s Art (MAWA) during the art show Crip-Strength<\/em> in Winnipeg, Manitoba fall of 2022 and the Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fall of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short film features stories from people living with Environmental Sensitivities\/Environmental Illness including multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), electromagnetic hypersensitivity  (EHS) and mold illness Marie met along her journey. https:\/\/youtu.be\/xlmDrJYswxA<\/mark><\/a>. (8 mins)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards, nomination and honourable mention for the short film include:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n