Françoise Bujold

Françoise Bujold studied at École des beaux-arts de Montréal. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art of drawing and print. Work by Françoise Bujold is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Musée acadien du Québec, Musée d'art de Joliette and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

She was born in Bonaventure and was educated there and in Montreal. Bujold was one of the first female students admitted to the Institut des arts graphiques de Montréal. She studied graphic arts with Albert Dumouchel. In 1959, she began teaching visual arts at the Centre d'art de Percé. She also taught Mi'kmaq children on the Maria reserve. She earned a Bachelor of Education from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.

Bujold published her first poems at the age of 22. In 1959, she published L'île endormie, a story which included prints produced by her young students. Around 1960, she created her own publishing company, Les Éditions Sentinelle. During the 1960s, she continued to write and exhibited her prints. In 1964, with Jacques Godbout, she directed the short documentary Le monde va nous prendre pour des sauvages for the National Film Board of Canada about young Mi'kmaqs in the Chaleur Bay region. Between 1959 and 1961, eight radio plays by Bujold were presented on Radio Canada. In 1961, with her husband, she opened a boite à chansons, which also included an art gallery. In 1974, the Guilde Graphique published her poem Ah ouiche t'en plain.