Peter Flemming (born 1973 in Burlington, Ontario) is a Canadian artist [1] known for his site-variable kinetic and sound installation works using electronic, mechanical and robotic technologies. [2] [3] [4] Flemming holds an AOCA diploma from the Ontario College of Art in 1997 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2001. [5] In 2004, Maclean's magazine listed Flemming as one of ten up-and-coming artists to watch in Canada. [6] Flemming has exhibited his work across Canada and internationally. [7] Flemming currently teaches electronics in the Intermedia Program at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, and previously taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Alberta and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [5]
NSCAD University, also called the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, is a post-secondary art school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was founded in 1887 by Anna Leonowens and later became the first degree-granting art school in Canada.
Pictou Academy (PA), founded in 1816 by Dr. Thomas McCulloch, is a secondary school in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a liberal nonsectarian college, a grammar school, an academy and then a secondary school. Pictou Academy's current principal is James Ryan. The Pictou Academy Educational Foundation provides additional funds to the school.
Cathy Busby is Canadian artist based in Vancouver, BC. Born in Toronto, Ontario, on April 20, 1958, Busby is an artist who has a long-time interest in posters and printed matter and their potential for grassroots communication. She worked as an artist-activist in the 80's and has been exhibiting her work internationally over the past 20 years. She has a PhD in Communication and was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University (1995–96).
Forshaw Day (1831 – 1903) was a Canadian artist known for his landscapes.
Mireille Eagan is a Canadian arts writer and curator.
Eric Aldwinckle was a Canadian war artist, designer and one of the most prominent illustrators of the 20th century. He was also a teacher at Ontario College of Art, 1936-42; Principal of New School of Design and Vice-Principal of the Ontario College of Art, 1946.
Ursula Johnson is a multidisciplinary Mi’kmaq artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work combines the Mi’kmaq tradition of basket weaving with sculpture, installation, and performance art. In all its manifestations her work operates as didactic intervention, seeking to both confront and educate her viewers about issues of identity, colonial history, tradition, and cultural practice. In 2017 she won the Sobey Art Award.
Lois Etherington Betteridge was a Canadian silversmith, goldsmith, designer and educator, and a major figure in the Canadian studio craft movement. Betteridge entered Canadian silversmithing in the 1950s, at a time when the field was dominated by male artists and designers, many of them emigrés from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. In fact, Betteridge was the first Canadian silversmith to attain international stature in the post-war studio craft movement.
Susanna Heller is a painter, currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Born in New York City and raised in Montreal, she studied art in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was a landed immigrant in Canada until 2006. She exhibits her work regularly in New York and in Toronto. She is known equally in Canada and the United States for her contributions to contemporary art as a painter. Her work is most well known for depictions of cities, primarily New York City.
Laurie Swim, BFA, is a Canadian visual artist, best known for her quilt art. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Arts and Design, the Nova Scotia Art Bank, the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, and in private collections. She won the Portia White Prize in 2013.
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth was a Canadian painter and printmaker. She was a founder of the Montreal Artist School and has work in the National Gallery of Canada. Caiserman Roth was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and the first painter to receive the Governor General's Award for Visual Media and Art.
Peggy Gale is an independent Canadian curator, writer, and editor. Gale studied Art History and received her Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Toronto in 1967. Gale has published extensively on time-based works by contemporary artists in numerous magazines and exhibition catalogues. She was editor of Artists Talk 1969-1977, from The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (2004) and in 2006, she was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Gale was the co-curator for Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection in 2012 and later for the Biennale de Montréal 2014, L’avenir , at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Gale is a member of IKT, AICA, The Writers' Union of Canada, and has been a contributing editor of Canadian Art since 1986.
Andrew Dutkewych is a Canadian contemporary artist known for his sculptural works.
Tom Sherman is an American-Canadian artist working in video, audio, radio, performance, sculpture and text/image. He is also a writer of nonfiction and fiction. He is a recipient of Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Art. He is a professor of video art at Syracuse University.
Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron is a Canadian contemporary artist working in installation, sculpture and photography.
Nancy Edell was an American-born Canadian artist, best known for her rug hooking practice that pushed the boundaries between art and craft. Her practice also included animated film, woodcut, monotypes and drawing which often expressed surrealist themes. Edell believed an artist’s work should be an expression of their own personal experience. Her work was rooted in feminism and drew inspiration from her dreams, religion and politics. Her work is recognized for its dream like qualities, art historical references, sensuality, unabashed sexuality, narrative and subversive wit.
Mary Marguerite Porter Zwicker was a Canadian artist and art promoter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Known for her watercolor paintings of landscapes and villages in Nova Scotia, Zwicker exhibited her work at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Montreal Art Association, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Together with her husband, Leroy Zwicker, she owned and operated Zwicker's Gallery; for most of the 20th century, Zwicker's Gallery was the only Halifax gallery that routinely held art exhibits open to the public. It still operates.
Lucie Chan is a visual artist born in Guyana, who is now based in Canada. Her artwork employs various techniques including large scale drawings and installation to examine issues of identity and race.
Audrey Dear Hesson is a Canadian practical craft artist, mainly working with pottery, sculpture, jewelry and textile. Hesson is a member of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative and the first black Canadian graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art. Hesson is the only living artist featured in the exhibition curated by David Woods called Discovery: African Nova Scotian Art Pioneers.
Lynn Donoghue was a painter, known for her portraits.