Virginia MacDonnell Eichhorn has worked in the visual arts field for over thirty years. A professor at Georgian College (Barrie Campus) teaching in the Design & Visual Arts Department and in Sports Recreation & Hospitality. She is a graduate of the Art History programme at Queen’s University and continued her studies in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. With an emphasis on ecological, environmental and non-traditional exhibition spaces, her work as an independent curator has seen her presenting exhibitions at numerous prestigious venues including the XII Biennale of Art at Villa Nova Cerveira in Portugal. She has worked extensively with artists from across Canada and abroad, including Carl Beam, Judy Chicago, Maria Hupfield, Vessna Perunovich, Jane Ash Poitras, Jack Sures and Peter Von Tiesenhausen, developing exhibitions for high profile Canadian galleries and museums such as the Royal Ontario Museum.

In addition to curating, she has written numerous catalogue essays and has contributed articles to prominent Canadian magazines including Artichoke, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, ESPACE Sculpture and international magazines such as Ceramics Monthly and for institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, the MacKenzie Art Gallery and others.  She also has developed an art practice that is focused on alternative narratives and voices, using traditional and non-traditional art and craft forms. Her first solo exhibition The Power of the Feminine took place at the Temiskaming Art Gallery in 2023.  

In 2005 she became the Artistic Director and Curator for Green Cube Art + Environment Projects. Green Cube provides opportunities for artists to make work about and of the natural world as a way to explore new ways of relating to the landscape. The artists that we work with are invested in creating work that has an authentic interconnection with the natural world that sustains us. Whether working in traditional media or incorporating new technologies, our artists re-frame and re-contextualize our perceptions of the natural world, and how we are interconnected with it. In creating these eco-art projects, we work with environmentalists, ecologists, scientists, educators, and Indigenous knowledge keepers.