Janet Kvammen

Janet is a published poet, mixed media, and lens-based artist who lives in New Westminster on the unceded ancestral territories of the Qayqayt and Coast Salish peoples. A founding RCLAS board member in 2012, Janet is the President of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. Busy on the literary and arts scene of New Westminster, Janet is a host and coordinator of local reading events, and New West Artists’ exhibits. Janet has won awards for both her poetry, and artography. She was the recipient of a 2016 Nehru Humanitarian Award, 2014 World Poetry Empowered Poet Award and Writer’s International Network Distinguished Poet and Artist Award in 2012. It was her great honour to be nominated for the Bernie Legge Cultural Award in 2019.

“Through my art in both visual and literary mediums I explore the many layers, nuances and textures of life, building a world beyond the mundane every day, seeking the spaces between time and place where creativity resides, a place we each have inside of us. It is our prerogative to seek it out. Every moment can be a unique opportunity to live an artful life.”

Janet Kvammen