Emma Lake Artist's Workshops
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The Emma Lake Artists' Workshops are affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan.
Kenneth Lochhead
annual workshops are ongoing again
Workshop Leaders by Date:
1954-1955 Beginnings: Arthur McKayArthur McKay
Arthur Fortescue McKay a Canadian painter and professor. He was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan.McKay studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary, Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris , and Columbia University in New York, and The Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania...
Kenneth Lochhead
Kenneth Lochhead
Kenneth Campbell Lochhead, was a Canadian Professor and painter. He was the brother of poet Douglas Lochhead....
- 195 Jack ShadboltJack ShadboltJack Leonard Shadbolt, OC, OBC was a Canadian painter.-Early life:Born in Shoeburyness, England, Shadbolt came to Canada with his parents in 1912...
(workshop leader) - 1956 Joe Plaskett (workshop leader
- 1957 Will BarnetWill BarnetWill Barnet is an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.-Biography:...
(workshop leader) - 1958 No Workshop
- 1959 Barnett NewmanBarnett NewmanBarnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
(workshop leader) - 1960 John Ferren (workshop leader)
- 1961 Herman Cherry (workshop leader
- 1962 Clement GreenbergClement GreenbergClement Greenberg was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century...
(workshop leader) - 1963 Kenneth NolandKenneth NolandKenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School...
(workshop leader) - 1964 Jules OlitskiJules OlitskiJules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
and Stephan Wolpe (workshop leaders) - 1965 Lawrence AllowayLawrence AllowayLawrence Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from the 1960s. In the 1950s he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US...
and John CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
(workshop leaders) - 1966 Harold Cohen (workshop leader)
- 1967 Frank StellaFrank StellaFrank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
(workshop leader) - 1968 Donald JuddDonald JuddDonald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
(workshop leader - 1969 Michael Steiner (workshop leader)
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- 1977 Anthony CaroAnthony CaroSir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...
(workshop leader) - 1978
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annual workshops are ongoing again
- 2005 Robert Christie (workshop leader)
- 2007 Monica Tapp (workshop leader)
- 2009 Kim Dorland (workshop leader)
Publications
- The Flat Side of the Landscape: the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops / curator/editor: John O'Brian ; essays, John O'Brian ... [et al.] Saskatoon : Mendel Art Gallery, c1989 (Published for the exhibition, The flat side of the landscape : the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops held from October 5, 1989 to April 21, 1991)
- Abstraction West : Emma Lake and after = Abstraction dans l'Ouest : le lac Emma et après / by Terry Fenton. Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada for the Corporation of the National Museums of Canada, 1976
- Emma Lake Workshops, 1955-1973. [Catalogue of an exhibition held from] September 21 to October 21, 1973. Regina : Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1973
External links
- Influences of Emma Lake Art School, Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- Making Friends: The Role of Friends, Mentors and Patrons in the Development of Saskatchewan Art. Exhibition May 28, 2005 to October 23, 2005. Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Curated by Timothy Long, Head Curator.
- University of Saskatchewan Archives. Search text and photograph database.
- Anthony Caro and 1977 sculpture series made at Emma Lake.