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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramArtist BiographiesGrant LeierGrant Leier was born in Lloydminster, Alberta in 1956 and was educated at the Alberta Collegeof Art in Calgary and the Illustrator’s Workshop in New York City. Grant Leier has had numeroussolo exhibitions of his paintings in Western Canada and California, as well as textile andassemblage works featured in important group exhibitions organized by public art museums.Grant Leier is known for his sense of colour and design. His intent is to create “happy visualmemories” that contribute to the perception of a happy place and time.Dale Auger (1958-2008)Born a Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, Dale was a highlytalented speaker, educator and visual artist. His vividly coloured and highly provocative paintingscaptured the attention and imagination of audiences and are included in numerous high-profilepublic and well-known private collections throughout the world. Auger began working towardcapturing the deeper, more spiritual complexities of Native life in the contemporary world. Dalewas an award winning children’s book author and illustrator. His book, Mwakwa – Talks to theLoon: A Cree Story for Children, was illustrated and written in English and Cree and won theaward for “Aboriginal Children’s Book of the Year” at the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festivaland Book Awards in 2006. He studied education at the University of Calgary and graduated witha doctoral degree in 1999.Thelma Manarey (1913-1984)Born in Edmonton, Manarey was educated at the Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary (nowthe Alberta College of Art). Actively involved in the arts in Edmonton, Manarey was a memberof the Alberta Society of Artists and a member of the Canadian Society of Painters-Etchers-Engravers.In 1973, she was awarded the Performing and Creative Arts/Visual Arts award from hercity for her “outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Edmonton”. Manarey worked in manygenres including realism, impressionism, cubism and abstract impressionism as well as manymediums including watercolour, acrylic and oils. However, she is perhaps best known for herminiature etchings.June MontgomeryJune Montgomery works in watercolour, primarily interpretive studies that are inspired by Northwestcoast carving and myths. Deeply moved by the stories and myths told around the campfireon a field trip in her early childhood, Montgomery has shown a sensitive and sympathetic understandingof the Northwest coast heritage through her medium.“It is the artist’s need to translate what he finds beautiful, poetic or socially significant; then totranspose that concept to canvas not only for himself, but for others to share.”Her work is well represented in a large number of private and corporate collections in thewestern provinces and Ontario.John WillTwo of a Feather is an early work reflecting influences referring to a printmaking teacher of JohnWill’s at the University of Iowa. Will is distinguished in the fields of printmaking and painting andhis works often incorporate photography and video into his diverse practice. John Will was bornin 1939 in Iowa and until recently has taught at the University of Calgary.AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramArtists BiographiesPat StrakowskiBorn in 1937, Strakowski attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary where she received adiploma in Textiles in 1979. Her work is found in the many public collections across Alberta. PatStrakowski’s source of inspiration for her work comes from life and the diversity of its forms,incorporating myths, legends, beliefs and traditions. She leaves her sculptures open ended toenable the viewer to personally relate to them according to their own life experience.Betty Price (b.1917)Betty Price trained at the University of Calgary Fine Arts faculty, her major interests being in ArtHistory and Anthropology. She was a founding member of the Calgary Artists Society whom shehas exhibited with throughout the province. Her interest in design and primitive art is noticeablein her work, which has been the subject of five shows in Calgary and is in a number of corporatecollections.“I have always been fascinated by colour, and the property of its changing relationships in juxtapositionto other colours. It is a form of manipulation on my part of play that excites me…I amstrongly drawn to abstract forms, but try to contain my bent, and make my images familiar to theviewer. I feel I will never exhaust the possibilities that are open to me.”Robert Hope (b.1948)Robert Hope studied Fine Art at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the University of Calgary, andthe Alberta College of Art in Calgary. He has exhibited his work across Alberta, in Regina andVancouver. Robert Hope is a member of the Alberta Society of Artists and his artwork is innumerous private collections in Canada, the U.S.A., England, and Australia.Marcia PerkinsCalgary artist Marcia Perkins was born 1946 in Washington, D.C and has been a resident ofCanada since 1976. “How does one paint awareness, absurdity, love, irrationality, the inevitablenessof death? …I think of my portraits as a different kind of mirror, one anchored in form, butwhich leads to a world that is not pictorial. “Harry SavageBorn 1938, Harry Savage received training at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, majoring inprintmaking. Savage is primarily interested in portraying the prairie landscape in watercolour.He also produces photo-serigraphs, usually in a series, which are often political or environmentalstatements. Savage was one of the pivotal members of the group producing the “Let It Be”series of posters on wildlife conservation.Dorothy Henzell Willis (b. 1899-1985)A self taught painter, Dorothy Henzell Willis was president of the Edmonton Art Club for manyyears.AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479youraga.ca
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