Education
1981, Summer Program, The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
1979, Textiles Major Diploma, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta

Selected Awards

• The World Who's Who of WomenInternational Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1996
• Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1995
• Alberta Who's Who, 1994
• Canadian Who's Who, 1991
• 1991 The Canada Council Explorations Program, The Calgary Region Arts Foundation,
• The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, for "Soulcatchers Too" invitational group show
• Honorable  Mention  Award,  Reflections  on  Three  Plains, Winnipeg Art  Galler, 1984

Public Collections

• The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
• Alberta Craft Coucil, Edmonton, Alberta
  
• Alberta Energy
• Alex Chapman Design
• Bass Ticket Services Ltd
• British Petroleum  Canada Ltd.
• Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
• Candadian Resources Ltd
• Charles Bronfman Collection, Montreal, Quebec
• Claridge Investments
• Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
• Esso Canada Resources Ltd
• Franklin Silverstone Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
• Home Oil Canada
• Imperial Oil Ltd, Toronto, Ontario.
• Kanesko Holdings Ltd 
• MacKimmie Matthews
• Macleod Dixon
• Marshall Cummings & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
• Norcen
• PanContinental
• Rice Brydon
• Rockyview Hospital, Rockyview, Alberta
• Trizec Equities
• University of Alberta Bruce Peel Special Collection
  
• University of Calgary Special Collection

Represented by

• Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
• Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
• The Canadian Craft Museum Gallery Store, Vancouver, British Columbia
• North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia

Bibliography

• Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000
• "Moon Nibbler The Art Of Pat Strakowski",  book by Andrew Oko, photography by John Heintz, publisher Frontenac  House
• 1984 Fables From The Women's Quarters, Claire Harris' book of poetry
• 1983 Dandelion Magazine vol X  No.1

Solo Exhibitions

• Silent Stories and Personal Visions, Alberta Craft Council Discovery Gallery, Edmonton, 2000
• 2000 Love Follies, Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1995
• Revival
  Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1994
• Window Project Installation
  Calgary Centre for Performing Arts, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• Small Sculptures
  The Gallery, Banff, Alberta
  1990
• Paper Routes
  The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1989
• Private Spaces, Public Spaces
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1989
• Small Sculptures
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• Collectanea - Installation
  Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1987
• Feature Artist
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1986

Group Exhibitions

• Visions of Wellness
  McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
  2002
• 70th Anniversary Millennium Show, The Alberta Society of Artists South Branch
  Leighton Foundation Museum and Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  2001
• Go Figure
  Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  2001
• Friends and Mentors Revisited
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1999
• Triple Take: Past, Present and Future
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1999
• Six Degrees of Separation, Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the AFA Collection
  The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
  1998
• Saints and Sinners - Presented by the Alberta Society of Artists
  The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
  1998
• Alberta Society of Artists 65th Anniversary Exhibition
  Leigton Centre, Calgary, Alberta
  1996
• Miniatures
  Triangle Gallery Art Rental, Calgary, Alberta
  1996
• Five Corners - Meeting Point Artists Association 9th Annual Exhibition
  Seoul Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1996
• Oppertshauser Gallery, Stony Plain, Alberta
  1996
• Transit of Venus - Alberta Society of Artists Invitational Group Show
  Performing Art Centre, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Spring Values - Alberta Society of Artists Juried Group Show
  Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Apocrypha
  North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
  1995
• Hearts & Flowers
  Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1995
• ARK
  Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Vital Passages
  Commerce Place, Edmonton, Alberta
  1995
• Do the Art Thing II - Alberta Society of Artists
  ART WALK: ART WEEK, Mount Royal Village, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Focus In - Meeting Point Artists Association
  ART WALK: ART WEEK, Mount Royal Village, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Alberta Fibrations
  Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Masks & Magic
  Old Court House Art Gallery, Red Deer, Alberta
  1995
• Apocrypha II: Mythic Images Outside Orthodoxy
  North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
  1994
• Group Show by Canadian Women Artists
  Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1994
• Diversity In Action
  Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1994
• Hong Kong Visual Artist Society & Meeting Point Artists Association
  Fung Pingshan Museum, Hong Kong
  1994
• Art at Terminal 3
  Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario
  1994
• Calgary's Civic Art Collection: Selected Works From The Last Quater-Century
  Old City Hall, Calgary, Alberta
  1994
• Wild Things
  ManuLife 1 Place, Edmonton, Alberta
  1994
• Meeting Points Artist Association Annual Group Exhibition
  Chinese Culture Centre, Calgary, Alberta
  1994
• Intenational Organ Festival Invitational ASA Group Show
  Doll Building, Calgary, Alberta
  1994
• Intenational Monoprinters guild
  Max Bell Theatre, Calgary, Alberta
  1993
• Apocrypha - Mythic Images Outside Orthodoxy
  North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
  1993
• The Canadian Painterly Print
  International Monoprinters Guild, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
  1993
• Figurative/Portrait Exhibition
  Bowman Arts Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
  1993
• Nursery Tales and Fairy Rhymes 11
  Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
  1993
• CollAlbertaoration: Squeeze and Stretch
  Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1993
• Good Things Come In Small Packages
  Alberta Craft Council Group Show Travelling Alberta
  1993
• Way Out West
  The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
  1993
• Western Art
  Oppertshausr Gallery, Stony Plain, Alberta
  1993
• Meeting Point - The Meeting Points Artists Association
  Nova Garden Court Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1992
• Off The Wall
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1992
• Magic and Mythology
  North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
  1992
• Return to Exceptional Pass
  Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
  1992
• Vision Scapes
  International Monoprinters Guild, Red Deer Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
  1992
• Canadian Flags Revisited
  Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1992
• Comedy in 3D
  Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1992
• Miniature Group Show
  Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1992
• Whimsey
  Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1992
• Myth and Magic, Alberta Society of Artists
  The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
  1991
• Our Own Back Yard, Alberta Society of Artists
  Nova Garden Court Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• Soulcatchers Too
  Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• Art Magic II
  Calgary Winter Festival, Nova Centre, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• ARTLOTTO
  Glenbow Museum Acquisitions Society 8th Annual Invitational, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• The Opera Ball
  Edmonton Opera Invitational, Edmonton, Alberta
  1990
• Soulcatchers: An Exhibition of Masks
  Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
  1990
• Made in Canada, ASA
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1990
• Art Magic 1990 (Art You Can Really Get Into)
  Calgary Winter Festival, Nova Garden Court, Calgary, Alberta
  1990
• Polarities: North/South and In Between
  Prairie Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta
  1989
• The Works, Celebration of Women in the Arts and The Alberta Society of Artists
  Edmonton, Alberta
  1989
• Alberta Sculpture Survey '89
  Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1989
• First Impressions: Recent Acquisitions of the Alberta Art Foundation
  Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1989
• Beaten to a Pulp, Contemporary Paper Sculpture and Basketry Invitational
  International Gallery, San Diago, California, USA
  1989
• Imagine This
  Gulf Canada, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• Deception and Revelation: The Art of the Mask III
  International Gallery, San Diago, California, USA
  1988
• Visions of Alberta
  Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• The Works - Celebration of Women in the Arts
  Manulife Place, Edmonton, Alberta
  1988
• Alberta Ambience, ASA
  Western Canadian Place, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• Nocturnes
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• Olympic Arts Festival Winter Group Show
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• The Individuals, Celebrating a Decade of Alberta Art
  Muttart Art Gall