55 Notable alumni of
OCAD University
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OCAD University is 1032nd in the world, 377th in North America, and 23rd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from OCAD University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Michael Ironside
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterfilm directortelevision actorvoice actor
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Frederick Reginald Ironside, known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. A prominent character actor with over 270 film and television credits, he is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters. He is best known for his roles in action and science fiction films, and had his breakthrough performance in the 1981 David Cronenberg film Scanners.
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Peter Ho
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- film actortelevision actortelevision writerfilm directortelevision director
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Peter Ho is an American-Chinese singer, actor, producer and director. Active across Greater China, he is known for his roles in TV series Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Wind and Cloud, One Meter Sunshine, Goddess of Mercy, The Young Warriors, Three Kingdoms, King's War, Summer's Desire, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and in films Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost and Sword Master.
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Aimee Chan
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- modelactorgraphic designer
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Aimee Chan Yan Mei is a Canadian born actress based in Hong Kong. She was the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2006 and was offered a TVB contract shortly after.
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Richard Williams
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- film producervisual artistscreenwriterfilm directoranimator
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Richard Edmund Williams was a Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and painter. A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- for which he won two Academy Awards—and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). His work on the short film A Christmas Carol (1971) earned him his first Academy Award. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator. Other works in this field include the title sequences for What's New Pussycat? (1965) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade, and the intros of the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films. In 2002 he published The Animator's Survival Kit, an authoritative manual of animation methods and techniques, which has since been turned into a 16-DVD box set as well as an iOS app. From 2008 he worked as artist in residence at Aardman Animations in Bristol, and in 2015 he received both Oscar and BAFTA nominations in the best animated short category for his short film Prologue.
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Clark Johnson
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- film produceractorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Clark Johnson is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in Night Heat (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in E.N.G. (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008). He is an Emmy Award and two-time Genie Award nominee.
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Floria Sigismondi
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- photographerfilm directormusic video directorcinematographerscreenwriter
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Floria Sigismondi is an Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer.
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Michael Snow
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- multimedia artistvideo artistartistphotographermusician
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Michael James Aleck Snow CC RCA was a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are Wavelength (1967) and La Région Centrale (1971), with the former regarded as a milestone in avant-garde cinema.
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Lee Patterson
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- actortelevision actor
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Lee Patterson was a Canadian film and television actor.
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Martha Ladly
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- designersingeracademic
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Martha Jane Ladly is a Canadian academic, designer and musician. She is a professor of design at OCAD University. Ladly also has had a long career as a musician and became famous internationally as part of rock band Martha and the Muffins. She had a solo career in the mid-1980s and then worked in design and education.
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Seth
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- comics artistscreenwritercomics creatorcartoonistdraftsperson
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Gregory Gallant, better known by his pen name Seth, is a Canadian cartoonist. He is best known for his series Palookaville and his mock-autobiographical graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (1996).
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Franklin Carmichael
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- painter
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Franklin Carmichael RCA was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other media to capture the Ontario landscapes. Besides his work as a painter, he worked as a designer and illustrator, creating promotional brochures, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and designing books. Near the end of his life, Carmichael taught in the Graphic Design and Commercial Art Department at the Ontario College of Art (today the Ontario College of Art & Design University).
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A. J. Casson
- Enrolled in OCAD University
- Studied in 1918-1921
- Occupations
- painter
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Alfred Joseph Casson OC RCA was a member of the Canadian group of artists known as the Group of Seven. He joined the group in 1926 at the invitation of Franklin Carmichael, replacing Frank Johnston. Casson is best known for his depictions in his signature limited palette of southern Ontario, and for being the youngest member of the Group of Seven.
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Bruce Mau
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- scenographerdesignergraphic designer
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Bruce Mau RCA is a Canadian designer and educator. He began his career a graphic designer and has since applied his design methodology to architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, education, and conceptual philosophy. Mau is the chief executive officer of Massive Change Network, a Chicago-based design consultancy he co-founded with his wife, Bisi Williams. In 2015, he became the Chief Design Officer at Freeman, a global provider of brand experiences. Mau is also a professor and has taught at multiple institutions in the United States and Canada.
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Simon Wilcox
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- composersingersongwriter
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Simon Wilcox is a Canadian poet and songwriter, based in Los Angeles, California. Her songs have been recorded and released by Blink 182, Britney Spears, Carly Rae Jepsen, Enrique Iglesias, Miranda Lambert, The Used, Nick Jonas, Camilla Cabello, Selena Gomez, Fever 333, Royal and the Serpent, Five Seconds of Summer, Goldfinger, Demi Lovato, Charlie Puth, Steve Aoki, Rita Ora, Liam Payne, Nessa Barrett, Zella Day, Paris Hilton, Josh Groban, Natasha Bedingfield, Petula Clark, Don Felder, Three Days Grace, Lennon Stella, Albert Hammond, Jr. and Poppy, among others.
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Rebecca Belmore
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- photographerpainterperformance artistartistinstallation artist
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Rebecca Belmore RCA is a Canadian interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and a member of Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation). Belmore currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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Jack Bush
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- painterartist
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Jack Hamilton Bush OC RCA was a Canadian abstract painter. A member of Painters Eleven, his paintings are associated with the Color Field movement and Post-painterly Abstraction. Inspired by Henri Matisse and American abstract expressionist painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, Bush encapsulated joyful yet emotional feelings in his vibrant paintings, comparing them to jazz music. Clement Greenberg described him as a "supreme colorist", along with Kenneth Noland in 1984. Bush explained that capturing the feeling of a subject rather than its likeness was
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Charles Officer
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- screenwriterice hockey playerfilm directoractor
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Charles Officer was a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player.
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Karl Schroeder
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- writerscience fiction writer
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Karl Schroeder is a Canadian science fiction author and a professional futurist. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality, and interstellar travel, and are deeply philosophical. More recently he also focuses on near-future topics. Several of his short stories feature the character Gennady Malianov.
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James Archibald Houston
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- writerchildren's writer
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James Archibald Houston OC FRSA was a Canadian artist, designer, children's author and filmmaker who played an important role in the recognition of Inuit art and introduced printmaking to the Inuit. The Inuit named him Saumik, which means "the left-handed one".
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Doris McCarthy
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- painterautobiographer
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Doris McCarthy, CM OOnt RCA LL. D. was a Canadian artist known for her abstracted landscapes. In a 2004 interview with Harold Klunder, the artist remarked:
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Yank Azman
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- actortelevision actor
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Yank Azman is a Canadian television and film actor.
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Grant Munro
- Enrolled in OCAD University
- Studied art of sculpture
- Occupations
- film actordirectorfilm directortechniciananimator
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Grant Munro OC LL. D. was a Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor. In 1952, he co-starred with Jean-Paul Ladouceur in Norman McLaren's Neighbours. His film, Christmas Cracker, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965.
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Noreen Young
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- puppeteer
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Noreen Isabel Young CM is a Canadian producer, puppeteer and puppet builder. She grew up in Old Ottawa South, Ontario, with her two younger brothers, John and Stephen Brathwaite, then studied drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto.
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Aanchal Malhotra
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- historian
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Aanchal Malhotra is an Indian oral historian, author and artist, known for her work on the Partition of India. Her research and writings focus on the oral histories of individuals affected by the Partition, capturing their memories and the tangible remnants of that period.
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Monte Kwinter
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- politician
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Monte Kwinter was a Canadian politician in Ontario. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 until 2018. He represented the ridings of Wilson Heights from 1985 to 1999, and York Centre from 1999 to 2018. Kwinter was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson from 1985 to 1990 and also in Dalton McGuinty's government from 2003 to 2007. Kwinter was the oldest person ever to be an MPP in Ontario, although at his death, Raymond Cho (politician), was seven months shy of surpassing him.
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Carlos del Junco
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- jazz musiciansculptor
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Carlos del Junco is a Cuban-Canadian harmonica player.
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Greg Curnoe
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- painterartist
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Greg Curnoe was a Canadian painter known for his role in the Canadian art movement labeled London Regionalism, which, beginning in the 1960s, made London, Ontario, an important centre for artistic production in Canada. While his oeuvre chronicled his daily experience in a variety of media, it was grounded in twentieth-century art movements, especially Dada, with its emphasis on nihilism and anarchism, Canadian politics, and popular culture. He is remembered for brightly coloured works that often incorporate text to support his strong Canadian patriotism, sometimes expressed as anti-Americanism, as well as his activism in support of Canadian artists.
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Penelope Umbrico
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- 1957-.. (age 68)
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- photographer
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Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.
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Emanuel Hahn
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- visual artistsculptor
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Emanuel Otto Hahn RCA was a German-born Canadian sculptor and coin designer. He taught and later married Elizabeth Wyn Wood. He co-founded and was the first president of the Sculptors' Society of Canada.
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Max Gimblett
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- sculptorpainterdraftsperson
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Maxwell Harold Gimblett, ONZM is a New Zealand and American artist. His work synthesizes postwar American and Japanese art using abstract expressionism, modernism, spiritual abstraction, and Zen calligraphy. Gimblett’s work was included in the exhibition The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1869-1989 at the Guggenheim Museum and is represented in that museum's collection as well as the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, among others. Throughout the year Gimblett leads sumi ink workshops all over the world. In 2006 he was appointed Inaugural Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, Auckland University. Gimblett has received honorary doctorates from Waikato University and the Auckland University of Technology and was awarded the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM). He lives and works in New York and has returned to New Zealand over 65 times.
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Maya Kulenovic
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- painter
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Maya Kulenovic is a Canadian artist and painter. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and exhibits internationally.
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Elizabeth Wyn Wood
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- sculptor
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Elizabeth Winnifred Wood RCA, known as Elizabeth Wyn Wood, was a Canadian sculptor and advocate of art education. A notable figure in Canadian sculpture, she is primarily known for her modernist interpretation of the Canadian landscape in her works.
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Artis Lane
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- paintersculptor
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Artis Lane is a Canadian sculptor and painter. Her bronze bust of Sojourner Truth is on display in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C.. It was unveiled in 2009, and was the first statue in the Capitol to represent an African-American woman. Lane's sculpture of Rosa Parks was on display in the Oval Office during the presidency of Joe Biden.
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Cleeve Horne
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- painter
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Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, OC OOnt RCA, was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor.
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Jumana Emil Abboud
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- artist
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Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem.
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George Walker
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- graphic designer
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George Alexander Walker RCA is a Canadian artist and writer best known for his wood engravings and wordless novels.
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Barbara Astman
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- photographer
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Barbara Anne Astman RCA is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.
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Louie Palu
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- photographerphotojournalistwar photographer
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Louie Palu RCA is a Canadian documentary photographer and filmmaker known for covering social-political issues, including war and human rights. His first major body of work was Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt with writer Charlie Angus, followed by working for The Globe and Mail for 6 years as a staff photographer (2001–2007). In addition to this, he covered the war in Kandahar, Afghanistan, between 2006 and 2010 and the drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border between 2011 and 2012.
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Manly MacDonald
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- war artistpainter
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Manly Edward MacDonald was a Canadian impressionistic painter who was born in Point Anne, close to Belleville, Ontario.
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Eli Ilan
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- sculptor
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Eli Ilan was an Israeli sculptor.
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Florence Helena McGillivray
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- painter
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Florence Helena McGillivray RCA, also known as F H. McGillivray, was a Canadian landscape painter known for her Post-Impressionist style. Her family home was in Whitby, Ontario. She lived in Ottawa from 1914 to 1928. She was also a teacher. In 1916, on a visit to his studio, she encouraged Tom Thomson.
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Rae Johnson
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- painter
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Rae Johnson was a Canadian painter who lived in Toronto, Canada.
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Jo Manning
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- painter
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Joanne Elizabeth Manning was a Canadian etcher, painter and author.
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George Douglas Pepper
- Enrolled in OCAD University
- Studied in 1920-1924
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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George Douglas Pepper RCA was a Canadian artist.
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Wallace Edwards
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- illustrator
- Biography
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Wallace Edwards was a Canadian children’s author and illustrator whose imagination transformed the world of animals and strange creatures for a generation of children. His illustrations don’t condescend to children, they engage the imagination on multiple levels, blending childhood whimsy with adult sophistication."
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Ron Baird
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- artist
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Ronald Arnott Baird RCA is a Canadian artist. He is best known for his stainless-steel sculptures. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1978 and the 1971 recipient of the Allied Arts Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
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Clara Isabella Harris
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- painter
- Biography
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Clara Isabella Harris was a Canadian artist. She worked in the media of painting, watercolours, sculpture, sketching, and wood carving.
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Sydney Strickland Tully
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- painter
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Sydney Strickland Tully RCA was a Canadian painter. She is known for her pastel and oil portraits, landscapes and genre pictures, and for her success in a number of exhibitions. Tully kept a studio in Toronto from 1888 until her death. Her major works include The Twilight of Life (1894), an oil painting in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Tracey Johnston-Aldworth
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Tracey Johnston-Aldworth is a Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur, based in the Waterloo region of Ontario, who is known for her public service and environmental activism. Her firm Traces Printing, founded in 1985 and emphasizing employee profit-sharing, was lauded for its efforts to recycle materials, reduce energy consumption, save water, and use ink efficiently. She was recognized by the Government of Ontario for her work promoting environmentalism and sustainability. Her firm was featured in a 1995 documentary Stop Waste From Adding Up.
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Emily Louise Orr Elliott
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- artist
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Emily Louise Orr Elliott was a Canadian artist and fashion illustrator.
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Lillian Sarafinchan
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- production designerart directorlocation manager
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Lillian Sarafinchan is a painter and teacher, production design, continuity & art director and locations director.
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Eva Brook Donly
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- painter
- Biography
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Eva Brook Donly was a Canadian artist living in Ontario.
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Irene Loughlin
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- performance artist
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Irene Loughlin was born on May 20, 1967, in Hamilton, Canada. Loughlin is known for her performance artwork, writings, drawings and cultural work.
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Harriet Mary Ford
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- painter
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Harriet Mary Ford or simply Harriet Ford was a Canadian artist who worked as a painter, muralist and jeweller. She has been described as epitomizing "the Canadian New Woman". Ford was active as a critic, writer, and lecturer, and was known in academic circles as an authority on Renaissance art and artists. Ford belonged to a number of societies and organizations and founded the Society of Mural Decorators in 1894.
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Henrietta Hancock Britton
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- painter
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Henrietta Hancock Britton was an English-born Canadian artist and educator.
