ROBERT GREENWOOD, ACTOR, DIRECTOR, VISUAL ARTIST
130 SUNSET WAY, PRIDDIS GREENS, ALBERTA, CANADA T0L 1W3 403-931-1527
bob.greenwood@sunergos.com www.robertgreenwoodgallery.com
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, and now a dual citizen of Canada and the United States with Native heritage of both countries, Robert Greenwood, Bob, attended Hanover High School, graduated with Honors and won the First Ina A. Bolser Scholarship for four years at Dartmouth College where he studied Art History, Painting and Sculpture under Paul Sample, Richard Wagner, Winslow Eaves, Churchill Lathrop, Hugh Morrison, Lloyd G. Mc-
Neill, Robert Rauschenberg, Rosarti, David Porter, Thomas Huxley-Jones and Gwynneth Holt. He received the Alberta Ames Award for Art History, the Marcus Heiman Award for Theatre Arts and, as a Rufus Choate Scholar for three of the four years at Dartmouth, graduated with Highest Honors in the Major and a BA cum laude in 1963.
Bob’s first one-man exhibition was at the Rogues Gallery in Hanover in 1966, having been in collected exhibitions during his years at Dartmouth. Most recently in May, 2015, he had a one-man exhibition at the Galerie Ame-Art du Mile End, Parc Avenue, Montreal, Quebec. This exhibition at GALLERY M will be his first one-man exhibition in Calgary, Alberta. Bob has taught visual arts in 20 of the 26 countries to which he has travelled with Sun.Ergos, A Company of Theatre and Dance., teaching Rhythm, Vector, Portrait, Pathway drawings, connecting them with theatrical and literary arts as he also holds an MFA in Acting, Directing and Design from the Yale University School of Drama
where he received Full-Tuition Scholarships for three years, graduating in 1967 with High Honors. He is also the Artistic and Managing Director of Sun.Ergos, a position he has held since 1977.
MISSION STATEMENT – WHY I AM INVOLVED IN THE ARTS
During my lifetime, I have found that the arts give us so much more perspective, so much more joy, conviction and commitment to everything that is human, that is compassionate and empathetic. Whatever we share in the arts, it makes us all so much richer for the experience. Valcav Havel said it best, “A country with no culture, is no country.” I think we can safely say, “A person with no culture, is not a whole person, certainly not a civilized one.”
During the Great Depression in the United States, my parents lost everything. My father ended up selling apples in the streets of a small city in New Hampshire. One of the ways Mom and Dad kept warm on the weekends was to go to the Opera House, where for 10 cents they could both sit in the warm theatre and see a vaudeville show, a matinee, a vaudeville show and the evening film. As they were getting back on their feet, I was born in 1941. We didn’t have pre-schools, kindergartens, day-care centers, so as a babe-in-arms, I went to the theatre. I saw people in color doing wonderful things, dancing, singing, telling jokes, doing acrobatics, then they’d get big in black and white on the screen and they’d go on remarkable adventures, get involved in dramatic relationships, in intrigue, battles,
I got involved in community theatre, church theatre, singing on a local radio station and in churches by the time I was six, and on the 4th of July in the Dartmouth Stadium, then in school theatre, college and university theatre. I got a full scholarship to Dartmouth College for four years, graduating in 1963, cum laude, and full-tuition scholarships to the Yale School of Drama, graduating in 1967 with an MFA in Acting, Directing and Design with High Honours.
After graduate school, I went to New York City, did five shows, got involved in repertory theatre, and got jobs chairing Acting-Directing Programs at the Universities of Oklahoma and Calgary. Former students are Ed Harris, Larry Drake, KT Sullivan, Lynne Backus, Catherine Tambini, Tom Crutchfield, Carlene Jones, Lana Skauge. In all that time, I was drawing, painting, designing, writing poetry, creating characters on stage, radio, television.
Then, in 1977, I founded Sun.Ergos, A Company of Theatre and Dance, with Dana Luebke from the Minnesota Dance Theatre and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Works are in the collections of Sheila Miller Manning (Switzerland), Carolyn Stanford Adams (Florida), Jay Hayes (Pennsylvania), Dr. Richard Cardozo (Florida), Sandra Carpenter (Colorado), Steven L. Bailey (California), Carroll Dawes (Jamaica), Mr. and Mrs. Tom Turgeon (Massachusetts), Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Weening (New York), Lou Gorman (Vermont), Mr. and Mrs. Roger Gillim (Vermont), Monika Tietsort (Sweden), Doreen Dubritsky Johnson (New York), Jean Squillace (New York), Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson (Oklahoma), Mrs. J. Michael Finley (Oklahoma), Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Loucks (Ontario), Dr. and Mrs. Richard Johnston (Alberta), Neal Luebke and Carol Joyce (Minnesota), Sharon
See (Oklahoma), Thomas Crutchfield (New York), David and Sheena Bean (Alberta), Fred and Sheila Rayer (Alberta), Iris and Don Ferguson (Alberta), Ruth and David Kressler (Michigan), Jeremy and Helen Ives (Oregon), Jasenka Ramljak (Croatia), Valentia Roman (Romania), Marcelo Tcheili and Ivana Kunzler (Brazil), Lisa Marcovici (Quebec), Diamanto Tsitouras (Quebec), Khalid and Rachel Zuman (UK), Jane Setka (Alberta), Farshad Nadee (Iran), Rae and Linda Manville (Alberta)