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13 Facts About Mireille Eagan

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Mireille Eagan was born on 1982 and is a Canadian arts writer and curator.

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Mireille Eagan was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1982 and grew up in Whitehorse, Yukon, and in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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Mireille Eagan is a graduate of Mount Allison University and Concordia University.

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Mireille Eagan was Curator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Prince Edward Island from 2008 to 2010.

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Mireille Eagan is currently Curator of Contemporary Art at The Rooms in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Mireille Eagan was Curator of Canadian Art from 2011 to 2013.

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In 2017, Mireille Eagan was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence in Digital Publishing for her article on Christopher Pratt.

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Mireille Eagan has curated exhibitions with institutions across Canada, as well as internationally.

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In 2018 and 2019, Mireille Eagan curated Future Possible, a two-part exhibition series that explored the comprehensive art history of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Mireille Eagan is lead editor and author on the multi-author art historical publication Future Possible: An History of Newfoundland and Labrador, published by The Rooms and Goose Lane Editions in 2021.

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In 2016, Mireille Eagan co-curated an exhibition at The Rooms with Josee Drouin-Brisebois titled "enter the fog," which included Maya Beaudry, Julia Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, and Tiziana La Melia.

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At the age of 11, Mireille Eagan recorded the theme song for Katie and Orbie, an animated television series aimed at preschoolers, originally broadcast in Canada in 1994 by the Family Channel.

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The theme song as well as the music was written and composed by her uncle Edmund Mireille Eagan who had worked as a composer on several television series and films such as Cyberchase, Hoze Houndz, The Railway Dragon, The Rick Mercer Report, Monster Force and various For Better or For Worse specials as well as a synthesizer on early episodes of The Raccoons.