Card offering drawing lessons / painting lessons by Françoise Bujold. Handwritten notes added in pen.

The object bears witness to the participation of people of Acadian origin in Quebec's artistic, political, and social effervescence. Indeed, the object bears witness to the work of Françoise Bujold, an Acadian artist from Bonaventure. Throughout her work, Françoise Bujold highlights the cultural characteristics of the Gaspé Peninsula, beginning with the communities that make up the region and the richness of the Gaspé language and territory. The object bears witness to Françoise Bujold's drawing and painting, which she explores in conjunction with linocut and woodcut printing. She uses mixed media in her drawing practice: oil and dry pastels, wax crayons, acrylics, etc.

The object also reflects Françoise Bujold's teaching practice, offering courses and workshops exploring drawing and painting in Montreal and Gesgapegiag, among other places.

Françoise Bujold (1933-1981) was the daughter of Oscar Bujold and Elise Grenier. She was a multidisciplinary artist from Bonaventure, a writer, poet, and artist. Along with Marie Anastasie, she was the first woman to study at the Institut des arts graphiques de Montréal. She studied graphic arts with Albert Dumouchel, graphic design and layout with Gilles Robert, and color separation with Arthur Gladu. During her lifetime, she published nine collections of poetry, five articles, and wrote short stories. She hosted and exhibited at the Percé Art Center for nearly twenty years. She also gave engraving workshops with the Mi'gmaqs of Gesgapegiag, which resulted in two collections: Une fleur debout dans un canot (1962) and La naissance du soleil (1966). She also made a film with Jacques Godbout featuring the Mi'gmaqs of Gesgapegiag, Le monde va nous prendre pour des sauvages. In the final years of her career, in 1979, she stayed in Miguasha to draw fossils. She died in January 1981.

The donating institution, the Fondation du patrimoine laurentien, bears witness to the work of Georges-Henri Lévesque, founder of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Laval University. Lévesque was also a mentor to Eugène Bussière, deputy director of the Canada Council for the Arts, who took an interest in Françoise Bujold's work. An archival collection in the name of the Fondation du patrimoine laurentien is now kept in the archives of Laval University. It is likely that this leaflet comes from this collection. (https://quebecphilanthrope.org/fonds/patrimoine-laurentien/ and https://nouvelles.ulaval.ca/2012/04/18/creation-du-fonds-universitaire-du-patrimoine-laurentien-a:9f1ce9d3-e878-404b-86ff-327dc610b240)