Micheline Beauchemin

Micheline Beauchemin, OC CQ RCA (French pronunciation: [miʃlin boʃ(ə)mɛ̃]; 24 October 1929 – 29 September 2009) was a Canadian textile artist and weaver.

A few years later, in 1955, she exhibited her first tapestries at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Chartres.

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 work 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).

[2] 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.