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Eve Apostoll
Eve Apostoll was born Evanthia Apostoll in Detroit, Michigan of a Greek/Albanian father and Swedish/American mother. Her formative years were spent in the Royal Oak area of Detroit. Apostoll studied drama at Michigan State College from 1949 to 1951 and at Wayne State University in 1952 ...B
Anna P. Baker
Anna P. Baker was born at Victoria Hospital in June 1928 and was adopted by Alfred and Roberta Baker. Throughout high school, Baker was skilled in athletics, academics, music, and especially art, for which she won the Gold Medal ...Eva Bradshaw
Eva Bradshaw was born in London and was raised as the adopted daughter of John and Marion Bradshaw. She was initially trained as a nurse, but eventually gave up this career to pursue solely her art, devoting all of her time to painting and teaching ...Josy Britton
Josy Britton knew she was an artist in Kindergarten, when she was looking at her assignment of a Fall tree hanging amongst the efforts of her classmates and decided hers was unique. Every Christmas and birthday thereafter answered the wish for art supplies ...C
Florence Carlyle
Born in Galt, Ontario (presently Cambridge), Florence Carlyle moved with her family to Woodstock in 1871. All her siblings had artistic talent, and Carlyle herself was gifted in visual arts and music from a young age ...D
Agneta Dolman
Agneta Dolman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in Stockholm and Sigtuna, Sweden. Dolman began her art education in 1964 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ School of Art and Design, where she received training in drawing, painting, sculpture, illustration, and commercial art. Arthur Lismer, of the Group of Seven, was the school’s director at that time and taught the course in illustration ...M
Johnnene Maddison
Johnnene Maddison was born in 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. At the time of her birth, her father, John, was serving overseas in World War Two and, sadly, would not return. When her father left home in 1942, her expectant mother Delphine went to live with her parents, three unmarried sisters, and young brother ...S
Wanda Sawicki
Wanda Sawicki was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 1960, her family moved to Southern Ontario, and then to London, Ontario a few years later. Sawicki’s mother used drawing as an aid to teach young Wanda to read and write Polish ...T
