education

2025 • User Experience Certificate, Concordia University.

2025 • Micro-Undergraduate Program in Web Design and User Interface. Department of Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.

2019 - 2024 • Master of Art History. Department of Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University. (Thesis)

2017 - 2019 • Bachelor of Fine Arts, major Visual Arts. Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.

2015 - 2017 • Bachelor of Fine Arts, major Visual Arts. Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina.

professional

2021 - 2023 • Artistic Direction for Parade Lunetterie.

2022 • Teaching Assistant to Professor Karen Herland for FASS392-AA: Queer Theory. Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University.

2021 • Teaching Assistant to Professor Reilley Bishop-Stall for ARTH384: Theories of Representation: Art & Activism in the Streets and Online. Department of Art History, Concordia University.

2021 • Peer Reviewer for “Reworlding,” in tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture. Department of Visual Arts, Western University.

2021 • Graphic Designer for Department of Art History, Concordia University.

2021 • Teaching Assistant to Professor Karen Herland for FFAR291/INTE398: HIV/AIDS: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University.

2020 - 2021 • Special Project Coordinator, Communication Officer, and Graphic Designer for AHGSA’s 15th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium: Empathy/Empathie, Feb 5 - 6, 2021. Department of Art History, Concordia University.

2019 • Teaching Assistant to Professor Philippe Guillaume for ARTH 267: Aspects of the History of Photography. Department of Art History, Concordia University.

2019 • Studio Assistant to Ottawa-based artist, Andrew Wright for completion of ART 4900: Independent Internship. Department of Fine Arts, University of Ottawa

2019 • Graphic Designer for Meridian/Méridien Graduating Exhibition. Exhibition Catalogue.

2016 - 2017 • Gallery Facilitator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK.

bibliography

2025 • Beck, Maegan E. “Minerals and Computation: Weaving, Metallurgy, and the Geology of Media.” In Espace art actuél vol. 141, no. 1 (2025) (forthcoming)

2025 • Beck, Maegan E. “Mending Memory: A Fabric of Absence.” Needlebound vol. 2 edited by Hayley Mortin, 2025. (forthcoming)

2024 • Beck, Maegan E. (2024) Transcending Beyond the ‘Detectable’: Queer Mourning, Memory, and Futurity in Eric Rhein’s Lifelines. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

conferences

2021 • Gaudette, Maegan E. “Precarious Possibilities: NYC’s Queer Piers.” 44th Annual Graduate Symposium, Radical (Re)worlding: Breaking and making worlds through radical lenses. 4-5 March, 2021. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2021 • “Alternatives and the Futurity of Empathy,” via Zoom. AHGSA’s 15th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium, Empathy/Empathie. 6 February, 2021. Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (Moderation)

curation

2021 • Empathy/Empathie, Art History Virtual Vitrine. Co-curated with Michelle Sones. Jan 18 - Feb 28, 2021. Virtual Exhibition. 

2019 • Constructing Utopia. Co-curated with colleagues of ART 4989: From Studio to Exhibition. Gallery 115, University of Ottawa.