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 ...

Emily Mary Gunn Fried

Emily Mary Gunn was born in London, Ontario c.1862. Although she married John Fried (sometimes spelled Freed) in 1898, many sources refer to her by her unmarried name. Emily M. Gunn attended the Western School of Art and Design in London, Ontario. In 1889 she graduated from Hellmuth Ladies College, also in London, Ontario, with the gold medal in art ...

Connie Jefferess

Born in London, Ontario, Connie Jefferess graduated from South Secondary School before spending two years studying art at H. B. Beal Secondary School, where local artist Herb Ariss was one of her teachers. Over the years, in addition to painting and pottery, she studied fabric printing and stitchery at Sheridan College in the 1950s ...

Gillian Saward

Born in England in 1934, Saward and her sister came to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan during World War Two, where they lived with a Canadian foster family from 1940 to 1945. While interested in art from childhood, it was not until return to England ...