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kerry ferris

1949-2016•Artist
kerry ferris, who preferred in her professional artistic life for her name to be written in all lower case letters, was born and raised in London, Ontario. She attended H. B. Beal Secondary School, and then Fanshawe College where she studied cinematography ...

Carol Finkbeiner Thomas

19xx -•Artist Community Organizer Educator Oil Painting
Carol Finkbeiner Thomas is a full-time practicing artist currently residing in London, Ontario. Born in London but raised north of Toronto, she returned to London in the early 1990s after receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at York University ...

Emily Mary Gunn Fried

c.1862-1953•Artist Drawing Educator Ink Oil Painting Pen and Ink Sculpture Wood
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 ...
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Jewell Goodwyn

19xx-•Acrylic Artist Community Organizer Gallery Administrator Installation Multi-Media Painting Performance
Artist Jewell Goodwyn is a dedicated community leader with a solid track record of advocating for the non-profit arts sector. Goodwyn’s understanding of, and dedication to, the non-profit arts sector is rooted in her decades of work with grassroots arts organizations and her work as a practicing artist in visual arts, performance art, and photo-based and multi-media installation ...

Kelly Greene

1962-•Artist DF Interview Installation Mixed-Media Painting Photography Sculpture
Born in Buffalo, New York, Kelly Greene soon moved with her family to Fort Erie, Ontario, and Seattle, Washington before finally settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian heritage and a member of the Six Nations Reserve in Ohsweken, Ontario. Her multi-media work includes sculpture, installation, painting, and photography ...
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Kathleen Hart

1916-2012•Additional Media Artist Oil Painting
Kathleen Ellis, better known by her birth name, Hart, was born in Byron, Ontario in 1916. A dedicated and respected artist, Kathleen (or Kay) Hart was born without forearms and with legs that ended above her knees. Hart was not fond of using prosthetic arms and instead painted standing close to the canvas, holding the brush between her arms ...

Jamelie Hassan

1948-•Artist
Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist, writer, lecturer, activist, and independent curator, born in London, Ontario, where she continues to live and practice. Hassan’s parents came to Canada from Lebanon, and she grew up in an Arabic-speaking household as the seventh of eleven children. Hassan is known for her powerful interdisciplinary work that addresses the conflicting subjectivities arising from the disjuncture between the two cultures in which she exists ...

Mary Healey

1885-1923•Artist Oil Painting Watercolour
Mary Healey was born in 1885 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. She attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, England, developing skills in painting life-like watercolour portraits. In 1919, Healey and her brother Gilbert moved to London, Ontario ...

Fern Helfand

1952-•Additional Media Artist Photography
Fern Helfand developed an early enthusiasm for art. During elementary school she was enrolled at the Children’s Art Centre of the then Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario). Along with weekly art lessons, there were regular visits to the art gallery and occasional exhibition grand openings. Helfand’s passion for art evolved ...