Carmen Coulombe (1946 – January 24, 2008) was a

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artist. Born in Courcelles,

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, Coulombe studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in

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until 1971. She became a certified teacher in 1972 while attending

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. Known mostly for her small-scale prints and drawings, she exhibited mostly in

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, but she came to wider attention in the early 1980s due to her participation in a group show of feminist art. In 1972 she was among the artists who cofounded the print workshop Engramme; she was the first to have a solo exhibit there. Her work is included in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

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