A gifted artist and internationally known curator, author, and art critic, Terry Fenton has excelled throughout his art career spanning more than thirty years. He has held positions as Director of the Edmonton Art Gallery, Artistic Director of the Leighton Foundation near Calgary, and Director of the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. An artist’s artist, [...]
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Nationally and internationally acclaimed artist Joe Fafard was born to French-Canadian parents in the small agricultural community of Ste. Marthe, Saskatchewan. He attended both the University of Manitoba (BFA 1966) and Pennsylvania State University (MFA 1968). He attended the University of Saskatchewan from 1968 to 1974 and, as a visiting lecturer, the University of California [...]
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Among his many honours, Ivan Eyre was elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1974, received the Queen’s Silver Jubilee medal in 1977, the University of Manitoba Alumni Jubilee Award in 1982 and was the subject of several films and books. He has held solo exhibitions from 1962 to the present and participated in many group shows. His works hang in numerous private and public collections in Canada and abroad. Winnipeg is the home to the Pavilion Gallery which houses the largest permanent collection of Eyre’s paintings representing 170 works on canvas and over 5000 drawings. Eyre is also known for his graphite, crayon studies, and woodcuts.
Ivan Eyre lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba and continues to be an essential part of the Prairie art scene where he has lived most of his life.
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Victor Cicansky (Czekanski) was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan (B.Ed.) in 1964, subsequentially the University of Regina (B.A.) in 1965 and the University of California at Davis (M.F.A.) in 1970. He also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Art at Deere Isle, Maine.
Cicansky taught at the University [...]
