Our next Artist You Need To Know is Kathleen Munn (1887– 1974). Munn received little recognition during her life for her art, often being “on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fred Herzog (1930 – 2019). Fred Herzog’s artistic practice was an extension of his walking the streets of Vancouver (and almost forty other countries) with his Leica camera. Using colour slide film almost exclusively,...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is artist, activist and art educator Ruth Asawa (1926 – 2013). She is often described as a modernist sculptor, but her works are more nuanced than that. Her works have an ephemeral quality (perhaps an element from how the...
Our next person of note in our continuing Artist You Need To Know series is Alan Jarvis (1915 – 1972). Similar to when we featured Norman McLaren, Jarvis is important for his legacy of fostering spaces and communities that were – and still are –...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jo Manning (1923-2022). Manning was a Canadian etcher, painter and author. Manning was one of Canada’s foremost printmakers, specifically in terms of her etchings over a career that spanned several decades and garnered her several...
