Jane Ash Poitras

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jane Ash Poitras. Jane Ash Poitras is a Cree painter and printmaker : her work is focused upon expressing the experience of Aboriginal people in Canada in ways that are both personal but also address larger issues. Poitras’...

Jeff Thomas

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jeff Thomas. Governor General Award winner Jeff Thomas is a photographer, curator, and cultural theorist. Self identifying as Urban-Iroquois, Thomas’ photographic practice re-contextualizes historical images of Indigenous...

Joyce Wieland

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joyce Wieland (1930 – 1988). A painter, mixed media artist and filmmaker, Wieland began her career in Toronto in the 1950s before relocating to New York City in 1962. This spurred her to begin working with new materials (in...

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He is one of the most outspoken and important – both in terms of his artwork and activism – contemporary Indigenous artists in Canada. Yuxweluptun is of Cowichan / Syilx First Nations heritage....

Paraskeva Clark

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Paraskeva Clark (1898 – 1986). A Russian – Canadian painter, Paraskeva Clark was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters (1936); the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (1937); Canadian Society of Graphic Art...