53 Notable alumni of
OCAD University
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OCAD University is 1032nd in the world, 378th in North America, and 23rd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 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
- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actorvoice actor
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Frederick Reginald "Michael" Ironside is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters.
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Peter Ho
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- television actortelevision produceractorsinger
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Peter Ho is an American-Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer, actor, television producer, director, screenwriter and model based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Since his debut in 1998, he has released seven albums and has starred in over 25 films and television series, most notably Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Wind and Cloud, One Meter Sunshine, Goddess of Mercy, The Young Warriors, Three Kingdoms, King's War, Summer's Desire, and Nothing Gold Can Stay.
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Aimee Chan
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- graphic designeractormodel
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Aimee Chan or Chan Yan-mei (Traditional Chinese: 陳茵媺) 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 directorscreenwritervisual artistfilm produceranimator
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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) and 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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- television actorfilm directorfilm actoractorfilm producer
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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).
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Floria Sigismondi
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- cinematographerfilm directormusic video directorphotographerscreenwriter
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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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- printmakertelevision producerpaintersculptorcomposer
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Michael James Aleck Snow 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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- television actoractor
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Lee Patterson was a Canadian film and television actor.
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Martha Ladly
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- singerdesigneracademic
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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 achieved international fame 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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Franklin Carmichael
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- painter
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Franklin Carmichael 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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Seth
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- comics writercaricaturistdrawercartoonistcomics creator
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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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A. J. Casson
- Enrolled in OCAD University
- Studied in 1918-1921
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Alfred Joseph Casson 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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- graphic designerdesignerscenographer
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Bruce Mau 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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- songwritersinger
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Simon Wilcox is a Canadian poet and songwriter, currently based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked with many well-known musicians, with frequent collaborators including Lennon Stella, Albert Hammond, Jr. and Poppy.
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Rebecca Belmore
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- installation artistartistperformance artistpainterphotographer
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Rebecca Belmore D.F.A. 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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- painter
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Jack Hamilton Bush 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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James Archibald Houston
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- children's writerwriter
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James Archibald Houston 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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- autobiographerpainter
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Doris McCarthy, 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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- television actoractor
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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
- technicianfilm directordirectorfilm actoranimator
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Grant Munro 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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Charles Officer
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- film directorice hockey playerscreenwriteractor
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Charles Officer was a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player.
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Noreen Young
- Occupations
- 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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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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- sculptorjazz musician
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Carlos del Junco is a Cuban-Canadian harmonica player.
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Penelope Umbrico
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- 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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Greg Curnoe
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- painter
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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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Emanuel Hahn
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- sculptorvisual artist
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Emanuel Otto Hahn 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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- paintersculptordrawer
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Maxwell Harold Gimblett, is a New Zealand and American artist. His work, a harmonious postwar synthesis of American and Japanese art, brings together 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 thee 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. Through out 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, 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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- sculptorpainter
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Artis Lane is a Black 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 is on display in the Oval Office of President Biden.
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Cleeve Horne
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- painter
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Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne,, was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor.
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George Walker
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- graphic designer
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George Alexander Walker 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 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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- photojournalistphotographerwar photographer
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Louie Palu 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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- painterwar artist
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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, 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 was a Canadian artist.
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Wallace Edwards
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- 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 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
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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 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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- businesspersonentrepreneur
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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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Dany Pen
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- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- artist
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Dany Pen is a Khmer-Canadian human rights activist, artist and educator.
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Eva Brook Donly
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- painter
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Eva Brook Donly was a Canadian artist living in Ontario.
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Lillian Sarafinchan
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- location managerart directorproduction designer
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Lillian Sarafinchan is a painter and teacher, production design, continuity & art director and locations director.
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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.
