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Mixed media artist Jane Ash Poitras was born in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta in 1951. Poitras’ biological mother died when she was six years old and she was raised by her adoptive mother in a German Roman Catholic household in Edmonton. She earned first…

Al McWilliams is a Vancouver-based artist who creates sculpture, installation, and photo-sculptural works. Born in Vancouver, BC in 1944, McWilliams attended the University of British Columbia (1962-1964) and the Vancouver School of Art, now known…

George Gaudette studied visual arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the University of Victoria, receiving his MFA in 1992. Interested in the narrative characteristics of photography, he recontextualizes personal photographic images into…

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1955, Marlene Davis attended the Victoria College of Art and the University of Victoria. In 1987 Davis was awarded the Province of British Columbia Scholarship Grant in 1987, followed by an honourable mention…

Fran Benton is a graduate of the Visual Arts Program at Camosun College. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now Emily Carr University), and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria (UVic).…

Richard Rondow was a mouth artist producing drawings and paintings from his home in Saanich B.C. Rondow’s work includes autobiographical themes related to physical ability and body image (Rondow was quadriplegic), and wry humour conveyed through the…

Ian Thomas’s career has been as an artist and a teacher. He received his initial training at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, going on to receive an MA in Art Education at the University of British Columbia. Thomas taught at a variety of…

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Roy Green graduated in 1980 with an Applied Communications Diploma from Camosun College. In 1984 Green graduated with honours from the Emily Carr Institute of Art (now Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC), and…

Born in Langenau, Germany in 1943, Brigitte Potter-Mäl is a multi-disciplinary artist who works creating paintings, drawings, photography, and performance art. Potter-Mäl lives and works in Quebec, Canada.

George Gaudette studied visual arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the University of Victoria, receiving his MFA in 1992. Interested in the narrative characteristics of photography, he recontextualizes personal photographic images into…

Yuri Doric is an alumnus of the Camosun College Visual Arts Program (graduated 1990) who has worked in a variety of media including painting, collage, photography, and graphic design. Doric attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now Emily…

George Gaudette studied visual arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the University of Victoria, receiving his MFA in 1992. Interested in the narrative characteristics of photography, he recontextualizes personal photographic images into…

Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1954, Greg Murdock is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture, and drawing. He attended the University of Saskatchewan (1977-1978) with a focus on studying ceramics, sculpture, and drawing;…

Linda Bedard attended the Kootenay School of Art, Nelson, BC (1967 – 1969), the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver, BC (1970 – 1972), and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1974. Despite creating primarily film-…

Born in Selsdon, Surrey, England, Robin Hopper began his art education at the Croydon College of Art, first studying printmaking until he commenced studies in ceramics in 1956. In 1968 Hopper immigrated to Canada working as a teacher and heading…

George Gaudette studied visual arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the University of Victoria, receiving his MFA in 1992. Interested in the narrative characteristics of photography, he recontextualizes personal photographic images into…

Born in Fergus Falls Minnesota in 1935, Sally Michener immigrated to Canada in 1973. An artist and educator working primarily in ceramics and sculpture, Michener holds an MSW from Columbia University (New York) and an MFA from the University of…

Mowry Baden was born in Los Angeles in 1936, and received a B.A. from Pomona College and an M.A. from Stanford University. In 1971, Baden moved to Canada, where he has both continued his art and worked as a teacher in post-secondary institutions…

Born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1937, Doris Hryciuk studied art and graphics, earning a diploma from Werkkunstschule, Wuppertal in 1958. After meeting a Canadian Air Force doctor whom she would marry and have four children with, Hryciuk moved from…

Born in Vancouver in 1915, Colin Graham was an artist, curator, and educator. Graham received a BA (Medieval History) at the University of Cambridge in 1939 and completed his MA from the University of California in Berkeley in 1948. Following…

Alison MacTaggart is an artist and educator, earning her Diploma of Fine Arts from Camosun College in 1993, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at Simon Fraser University in 1997, and Master of Fine Art (Visual Art) at York University in 2006. Her…

Artist Waine Ryzak earned a degree in Fine Arts (painting and lithography). Inspired by artworks in glass she saw while travelling in Ireland in 1970, Ryzak has been working with glass since 1974 and studied working with glass (including sandcasting…

Born in Canada, Karen Ostrom is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, animation, video, and installation. She received her BFA from the University of Victoria in 1991, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York. She is the recipient…

Henry Tsang received a BFA at the University of British Columbia (1982-1986) and MFA at the University of California, Irvine (2001-2003). He has undertaken additional professional arts development at Harvard University, Emily Carr College of Art and…

David Bowes is the President at Bowes Productions Inc. and Jibber Jabber Entertainment, and an alumnus of the Camosun College Visual Arts program (1985-1987). An experienced producer, director, creator and writer, Bowes is skilled in stop motion,…