Kathleen Munn

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...

Jo Manning

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...

Abraham Anghik Ruben

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Abraham Anghik Ruben. Abraham Anghik Ruben is a sculptor of partly Alaskan Native ancestry: he was born south of the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Inuvik Region east of the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories in 1951. The...

Mary Ellen Mark

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Mary Ellen Mark (1941–2015). It is difficult to imagine contemporary photography and especially photography in the United States without the contributions and legacy of Mary Ellen Mark. She was an American photographer known for her...

Yves Gaucher

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Yves Gaucher (1934 – 2000). Gaucher worked in both paint and printmaking (the latter being the space where he first established himself as an artist), and his work is marked by an ongoing exploration of abstraction. In the...