About the Artist
Danielle Fontaine
Born in St-Adelphe, Québec, Canada.
Moved fourteen times; four countries, six states.
Lives & works in Greenville, South Carolina.
My fascination with art began as a child, with the architecture of the Montreal World’s Fair. The fantastic forms, colors and stories of Expo ’67 inspired me to study architecture and later, creative writing. When I discovered encaustic in our wonderful arts community of Greenville, South Carolina, a new storytelling adventure began.
Greenville has been my home since 1999 and I joined the new Greenville Center for Creative Arts in 2015 as one of its inaugural studio artists.
Aside from my studio practice, I have long been active in various aspects of Greenville’s art scene. I initiated the pilot program for The Warehouse Theatre’s This Wooden O educational outreach and mentored the first Greenville County High Schools Art Exhibit during the inaugural year of Artisphere. I am the co-founder and curator of the SeasonArt Series, a happy marriage of visual arts and literature at The Warehouse Theatre. With my husband Bill McLendon I founded the Brandon Fellowship at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts. I currently serve on the Urban Panel of the City of Greenville’s Design Review Board.
My encaustic art can be found in various corporate and private collections in the United States and Canada.
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Education
2013 - MFA Creative Writing, Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina
1983 - M.A. Economics and Politics, Oxford University, England (on a Rhodes Scholarship)
1981 - B. Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Louis Robertson Prize in History of Architectural Theory and
Wilfred Truman Shaver Travelling Scholarship)
Grants
2018 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
The purpose of this grant is the creation and publication of a pictorial memoir based on nine years of documentary photography, four years of studio work in encaustic, and a solo exhibition of the resulting body of work at
The Venue, West Main Artists Co-op, in Spartanburg, SC, in March 2019.
The exhibit and publication will be titled Pye Pond: A Memoir.
2018 - Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, QC, Canada
An international grant for emerging artists who work in a representational style.
2018 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
This grant allowed me to attend the 12th International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA, in June 2018.
Honors and Awards
2018 - Greenville Hospital System/Clemson University and Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
Purchase Award
2017 - Shortlisted for public art at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport.
2017 - Greenwood Capital and Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
Purchase Award
2016 - Clemson University Center for Visual Arts, Clemson, SC
Out-of-the-Park 2: Bases Loaded Exhibit
Honorable Mention
2016 - Greater Greenville Master Gardeners
15th Annual Symposium
Featured Artist
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl
A memoir.
11.25"x7", color scans and encaustic on board.
Visit my studio at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts on First Fridays, the first Friday of every month (except July) from 6 - 9 pm.
(Or stop by GCCA anytime. I'm there a lot!)
Exhibition History
(+ denotes solo exhibits, * denotes juried shows.)
* 2021 - Artisphere International Arts Festival of Greenville - Artists of the Upstate Exhibition
* 2021 - Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC,
2nd place award winner
(2019-2020 was devoted to the creation of my pictorial memoir Still Time on Pye Pond, published by Clemson University Press in February 2021.)
+ 2019 - West Main Artists Co-Op, Spartanburg, SC
Pye Pond - A Memoir, Solo exhibit
* 2018-2019 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts,
Potential and Limits - Visions in Encaustic,
Five-person exhibit
2018 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts,
Conestee Mill Art Project
2018 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Flat Out Under Pressure
+ 2018 - La Galerie Vincent,
640 South Main St., Greenville, SC
Still Time, Solo exhibit
2018 - OS Retro Exhibit 2018, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
Open Studios Retrospective
* 2018 - Artisphere's Artists of the Upstate Exhibit,
The Founder's Room at Larkin's, 318 S. Main St., Greenville, SC - Juried Exhibition
* 2018 - Blue Ridge Arts Center, Seneca, SC
2nd National Photography Juried Exhibition
* 2018 - Gateway Arts Center, Westminster, SC
1st Annual Juried Show
+ 2018 - TD Bank Gallery at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce
Still Time, Solo Exhibit
* 2018 - Blue Ridge Arts Center, Seneca, SC
2018 Juried Exhibition
2017 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Open Studios Exhibit
* 2017 - Fabulon Center for Art and Education, Charleston, SC
Wax Poetic Juried Exhibition
2017 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts
Member Show
2017 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Flat Out Under Pressure
2017 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, One Stop Open Studios Retro 2017 Exhibit
* 2017- Blue Ridge Arts Center
2017 Juried Exhibition
2016 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts
10x10=100 Invitational Challenge
2016 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Open Studios Exhibit
* 2016 - Belton Center for the Arts
Eighteenth Juried Art Show
* 2016 - Artist Guild Gallery of Greenville
Small Works Juried Show
2016 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts
Member Show
2016 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Flat Out Under Pressure
2016 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, One Stop Open Studios Retro 2016 Exhibit
* 2016 - Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC,
41st Annual Juried Show
* 2016 - Clemson University Center for Visual Arts,
Out-of-the-Park 2: Bases Loaded (A SmART Series/Art Travels event.) -- Honorable Mention
2016 - Belton Center for the Arts, Hoods Up Exhibit
2016 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Artists Touched by Carl R. Blair Exhibit
2016 - The Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC, Uncle Vanya SeasonArt Series Show - Two-person Show
* 2016 - Greater Greenville Master Gardeners, 15th Annual Symposium For the Love of a Garden
Brochure Art and Featured Artist (Juried)
* 2015 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts
Unseen Greenville Juried Exhibit
2015 - The Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC,
Christmas on the Rocks SeasonArt Series Show
2015 - Clemson University Center for Visual Arts, Greenville Artists and the New Self-Portrait
2015 - Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, Open Studios Exhibit
* 2015 - Artist Guild Gallery of Greenville
Small Works Juried Show
2015 - Greenville Center for Creative Arts
Opening Exhibit
First Fridays
Visit my studio at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts on First Friday, the first Friday of every month (except July) from 6-9 pm.