Micheline Beauchemin

The field of work recorded is tapestry and art of sculpture. Work by Micheline Beauchemin is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and Musée d'art de Joliette. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of Canada, Knight of the National Order of Quebec, Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts and Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

• Name — Micheline Beauchemin • Born — 24 October 1929 • Birthplace — Longueuil, Quebec • Died — 29 September 2009 • Place of death — Quebec • Field — Textile artist and weaver • Awards — Order of Canada National Order of Quebec

Beauchemin was born in Longueuil, Quebec. She studied at the Montréal's École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. In 1953, she held the first exhibit of her stained glass work in Chartres, France. A few years later, in 1955, she exhibited her first tapestries at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Chartres. Micheline Beauchemin returned to Canada in 1957.

While best known for her monumental tapestries and theatre curtains, she also worked with embroidery, stained glass, costumes and paintings. Some of Beauchemin's most famous works in Canada include the acrylic curtain that she made for the Grande Salle of the Théâtre Maisonneuve at Place des Arts in Montréal (1963–1967) and the stage curtain of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa (1966–1969). She was also commissioned to create tapestries for Queen's Park in Toronto (1968–1969), the social sciences building at York University (1970), the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg (1970), the Canadian pavilion at the 1970 World Fair in Osaka, the Department of Revenue in Quebec and Pearson International Airport in Toronto.