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Teaching, curating, running a gallery, graphic design, photojournalism, even fashion design: there are many occupations that cross over into the visual arts. This section contains profiles about Canadians whose careers started from a strong foundation in art.
Vancouver’s Kate Armstrong has an exciting practice that ranges from curating digital art at the Olympics to arranging electronic-billboard exhibitions to making sculptural installations. Find out how she grew her interdisciplinary career. read more ...
Have you ever felt restricted by the boundaries between different art-school departments? Lyn Carter, whose work melds textiles and large-scale sculpture, once was. So she did her undergrad in one genre and her master’s in the other. read more ...
A creative education doesn’t stop with graduation from art school. Digital/interactive artist Faisal Anwar knows this well; he grew his practice with post-grad residencies at the Canadian Film Centre and the Banff New Media Institute. read more ...
After graduating from a fashion program, Heather Goodchild thought she wanted to be a costume designer. But eventually, her path led to working with fabrics as a full-time contemporary artist. Here, she shares some of her career insights. read more ...
With recent shows in Berlin, London and New York, video and performance artist Jeremy Bailey is increasingly well known for his humorous works on online culture. Here, he talks about his influences in school and out. read more ...
Brendan Lee Satish Tang has gained renown in recent years for his unique ceramic sculptures, which blend influences ranging from manga to Ming. Here, he talks about his most important developmental lesson: understanding art’s context. read more ...
Award-winning designer Karim Rashid has designed more than 3,000 objects, and his works have been collected by MoMA, the Centre Pompidou and other museums. Here, he shares some of his views for art and design students. read more ...
Kelly Jazvac is a Canadian artist known for playful works made of an unlikely material: discarded advertising banners. Teaching at the University of Western Ontario, Jazvac also helps budding artists see everyday things in new ways. read more ...
Annie MacDonell is a Toronto artist who has exhibited at Mercer Union, the Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Here, she shares the most important step in an art education: determining a working process. read more ...
Will Gill is an award-winning St. John's artist who produces sculpture, painting, photography and video. Originally from Ottawa, Gill grew his career by seeking new environments and by finding ways to persevere in the face of challenges. read more ...
Jeremy Laing is a Toronto designer whose collections are shown in international fashion capitals such as New York and Paris. He graduated from Ryerson University’s School of Fashion in 2002, and launched his own label three years later. read more ...
Ali Kazimi is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His films have been screened and broadcast both nationally and internationally. read more ...
Miguel Jacob never formally studied photography, but over the past five years you’ve seen his images in magazines such as Fashion, LouLou, Wish and Fashion Quarterly. read more ...
Lindsay Jackson works at Heffel Fine Art Auction House in Toronto as the manager of appraisal services, Eastern division. read more ...
Stanzie Tooth is a painter and curator at the Lonsdale Gallery, a contemporary art space in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues in Toronto and Kingston, including a solo show at the Ministry of Health Building. read more ...
Bee Kingdom is a glass studio collective based in a backyard garage in Calgary, formed by a group of Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) students before they graduated in 2005. read more ...
Rebecca Dolen is an illustrator whose book, It’s My Sketchbook, was published in 2009. Since 2005, she has also been the co-owner of Regional Assembly of Text, a handmade gift and stationery store in Vancouver. read more ...
Victoria Page and Victoria Strange opened Halifax’s Gallery Page and Strange in 2005. Since then, they’ve shown work by artists such as Joe Fafard, Karen Kulyk and Jack Bishop. read more ...
Tami Fujimoto is a teacher in the Visual + Media Arts department at Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Toronto. She’s been teaching for 22 years, having earned an honours degree in sociology and English, and a Bachelor of Education. read more ...
Christina Zeidler is an award-winning film and video artist with more than 20 titles in distribution, many of which have shown internationally at festivals and appeared on television. read more ...
Jeremy Tankard is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations have been published in the New York Times, Guitar Player and the Boston Globe. read more ...
Jeff Hamada is an artist based in Vancouver. He is the driving force behind www.booooooom.com, a blog created to “highlight hand-made work by unknown people.” read more ...
Crystal Mowry is a practising artist and also Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. read more ...
Catherine Hallam is an artist and arts educator, and currently works as Arts Coordinator at Utahloy International School in Guangzhou, China. read more ...