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Laurie Rolland graduated from Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design (Mississauga, Ontario) with honours. She is a professional potter and instructor, and has been active in the arts community as an instructor, artist in residence (Medalta…

Qin Huilong is a self-taught artist known for his detail-oriented traditional realistic Chinese brush paintings and bolder free-hand brushwork pieces. Originally from Han Cheng in the Northeast Shaanxi province, his works, based on memories of his…

Born in London, England, Mandy Williams is a photography and video artist. Williams attended Goldsmith’s College where she studied Communications (film). Her work explores the psychology of place, the influence of environment on identity, and how…

David Neel, born in 1960, is a professional photographer as well as a hereditary Kwakwaka'wakw artist. He works in a number of mediums including wood sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting. He specializes in traditional mask about…

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,…

Art Thompson was born in 1948 in Whynac, an isolated reserve of the Ditidaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) located in the south-western region of the Pacific Coast on Vancouver Island. His father and grandfather were both carvers, producing totem poles, masks,…

Qin Huilong is a self-taught artist known for his detail-oriented traditional realistic Chinese brush paintings and bolder free-hand brushwork pieces. Originally from Han Cheng in the Northeast Shaanxi province, his works, based on memories of his…

Patrick (Pat) George is an artist who works primarily in printmaking, and to a lesser extent in sculture and photography. George has exhibited his work since 1968, showing in the USA, Canada, Australia, and at international exhibitions including the…

Gregory Ball attended the Camosun College Visual Arts Program in his early twenties, obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts honours degree in drawing and painting at Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now Emily Carr University) in 1986. Ball spent…

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…

James Fenwick Lansdowne (Order of Canada, Order of BC, Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts), was an internationally renowned wildlife artist and author. Born to British parent in Hong Kong in 1937, Lansdowne grew up in Victoria, BC and was taught to…

Art Thompson was born in 1948 in Whynac, an isolated reserve of the Ditidaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) located in the south-western region of the Pacific Coast on Vancouver Island. His father and grandfather were both carvers, producing totem poles, masks,…

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).…