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- Micheline Beauchemin was born in 1929 in Longueuil, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Journal de voyage (1961) and Femme d'aujourd'hui (1965). She died on September 29, 2009 in Canada.
- She was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on December 17, 1973 for her services to the art of Tapestry in Canada.
- In the 1960s, she began working with architects and was commissioned to create curtains and tapestries for public buildings. Her works have adorned the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Queen's Park in Toronto, York University, and the Hudson's Bay Company, as well as the US, Europe, and Japan.
- During a trip to Greece, she became interested in murals and tapestry, and experimented with new textures and colors. She learned more about weaving and dyeing in Japan, China, Burma, Cambodia, India, and Mexico.
- She studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris, and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, also in Paris. Her early works were paintings and stained glass.
- She created large tapestries using both traditional and modern techniques. Her works use wool, silk, cotton, rayon, nylon, acrylics, aluminum, gold and silver thread.
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