Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Allan Harding MacKay has over the span of his visual arts career, accumulated extensive and multifaceted credentials as professional artist, gallery director, curator, and arts administrator. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and is represented in public ,private and corporate collections. He has served as a visiting artist, resident artist and lecturer at several Canadian universities, art colleges, public galleries and national conferences and has been awarded numerous artist grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Alberta Foundation of the Arts. His public art includes 4 commissions and he also participated in two war artist assignments in Somalia 1993 and Afghanistan 2002. Presently lives and maintains a studio in Halifax ,Nova Scotia, Canada.

see artist's web site at allanhardingmackay.ca former Executive Director of Southern Alberta Art Gallery

see Source / Derivations: Allan Harding MacKay, by R.Stacey, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1998; included in Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998, by C.Crowston/C.Mastin, pg.29, E.A.G. and Glenbow Museum, 1998

Reference: see Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.102, for biography and other examples; Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.33, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.7, Westbridge Pub., 2001; included in the University of Calgary Millenium Portfolio, 1999 as an alumna; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Petra Mala Miller is a Czech Canadian artist. She earned her MFA from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, 2008. In 2009, she received the ESSL Museum Award for Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, Vienna. She received Canada Council for the Arts and Alberta Foundation for the Arts awards for her photography and is represented in several collections including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Josef Sudek - PPF Art collection and others. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the United States and in Canada including: Portrait with Protective Facemask [Living in the Zone], Casa Gallery, Lethbridge, 2021; Portraits in Light, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2015; The Intimate Circle in Contemporary Czech Photography, Landskrona Museum, Sweden, 2015; Museum of Modern Art and the City Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic; House of Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 2013; The Voice Reached Us Through the Floor, but the Words Themselves Were Lost, Harbourfront Centre for the Arts, Toronto, 2013, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, 2012, and the Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, 2011; On the Threshold, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin, 2011; Czech It, an exhibition of modern and contemporary Czech photography presented at Space Gallery, Pittsburgh [2009].

see artist's website at petramalamiller.com

Reference: see The Father of Canadian Art, Thomas Mower Martin, by T.Graeme, T and T Enertprises, Sidney, 2009; N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.208; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.299; R.O.M. Canadian Watercolours, by M.Allodi; biographies in E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.217; MacDonald, Vol.4, pg.1113 and Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.16, Westbridge Pub.; founding member of the O.S.A. and charter member of the R.C.A.; see also Canadian Landscape Painters, by A.Robson, pg.42, Ryerson Press, 1932 and Canadian Art: Its Origin and Development, by W.Colgate, pg.24; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.271 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.255; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: see artist's website at aprilmatisz.net

April Matisz is an artist and mother living in Lethbridge, Alberta. She holds a degree in Biology [UVIC 2005] and Art Studio [UofL 2009]. She was awarded the RCA C.D Howe Scholarship for Art and Design for her undergraduate art studio work and an internship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is the recipient of two Alberta Foundation for the Arts grants. Her painting series, Bodies Birthing Bodies, was recently purchased by the AFA for their collection. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Matisz’s practice spans drawing, printmaking, painting, and ceramics. Her research interests are varied: she explores the creatures and complex processes that make up the natural world, as well as the natural processes that have created us and continue to shape our lives. Her work draws on her knowledge of the sciences, as well as environmental philosophy and phenomenology.

Reference: see artist's website at 3degreestudio.com

included in the University of Calgary Millenium Portfolio, 1999 as alumnus; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Serena McCarroll was born in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1975. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her dog, Bobby, and her cat, Mildred. She received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art in 2002 and a MFA from Ryerson University in 2011. In 2007, she co-founded a tiny art-shop / music venue in rural Saskatchewan called All Citizens. It would become the subject of her first book. Her work has been shown in galleries across Canada.

Reference: Originally from southern California, McCarroll moved to Canada in 1971 to teach art in Lethbridge, eventually becoming a Professor Emeritus at the University of Lethbridge and founding their art gallery along the way. His diverse works as a printmaker and painter range from irreverent pieces with golf as a theme to layered abstracts that emphsize pure colour and paint-handling.
See article on a 2011 show surveying 40 years of McCarroll's work at Southern Alberta Art Gallery at www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/playing-through and many more examples of his abstract works at norberghall.com/portfolio/billy-mccarroll; biography and another example in Survey Alberta 88, by A.MacKay, pg.37, Alberta College of Art, 1988; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/description-about.app?lang=en

Reference: Irene McCaugherty was a self-taught artist, writer, and poet. Her folk-art paintings explore the people and cultural narrative of southern Alberta’s pioneer days in the later part of the 19th and early 20th century. She recorded the daily happenings of life in early Alberta with humour and colour, and invited viewers to enter her world of auction sales, musical rides, road building, small town life, and ranching. McCaugherty often painted in an unusual dimension, long and narrow. That rectangular shape reflected the view she had out the window of her pick-up truck, as she drove around southern Alberta to capture the stories of the people and the places she called home. Her watercolours do not conform to traditional one-point perspective, and she found a voice that was uniquely hers, capturing the imagined past and invented history of life on the prairie. She created more than 1,000 paintings before her death in 1996, many of which have been donated by her family to the Lethbridge College Campus where they are on display in the Founders’ Square Space. For many years, McCaugherty wrote a newspaper column for the Lethbridge Herald called Diary of a Farmer’s Wife about cowboy life on her ranch in the Porcupine Hills of Alberta. She also self-published three books and one recording of her stories, poetry, and paintings. McCaugherty received an Alberta Achievement award in 1992, and an Honourary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Lethbridge in 1995, for her work preserving the history of Southern Alberta. Her art can be found at the Galt Museum and Archives in Lethbridge, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

see Irene McCaugherty, Watercolours, published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1983; Yesterday's Memories, by I.McCaugherty, pub. By the artist, 1988; A Voice in Time, by I.McCaugherty, 1990; The Ladders We Climb, by I.McCaugherty, pub. By the artist, 1994; By a Lady, Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, by M.Tippett, Penguin Group, 1992; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.21, Westbridge Pub., 2001

Reference: see artist's website at www.bronzesbygina.com

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: A is Alberta: A Centennial Alphabet Ken Tingley, Simple Truth Publications, 2005; Art Attitude: The Random Thoughts of RFM McInnis by Robert McInnis, 2021Spaces and Places - Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.106; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.4, addendum and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.24, Westbridge Pub., 2001; exhibited at Masters Gallery, Calgary; Roberts Gallery, Toronto; Galerie Klinkhoff, Montreal; see artist website www.rfmmcinnis.ca; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; the artist was elected to the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2017; Art Attitude: The Random Thoughts of RFM McInnis by Robert McInnis, 2021

Reference: Mary-Anne McTrowe was born and raised in southern Alberta. She earned her B.F.A. at the University of Lethbridge in 1998 and went on to pursue graduate studies at Concordia University in Montreal, receiving her M.F.A. in studio art in 2001. McTrowe was a member of the now retired art-ernative band The Cedar Tavern Singers AKA Les Phonoréalistes with Daniel Wong, was a founding member of Trap\door Artist Run Centre, and currently works as a technician in the Art Department at the University of Lethbridge.

Reference: CHIN

Reference: Morgan Melenka is a visual artist based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). She engages with sculpture and printmaking as she misuses architectural forms and materials to engage with history and place. She holds an MFA from NSCAD University (2019) and a BFA from University of Alberta (2014). Her 2022 exhibitions include Nonsuch, which engages with the cycle of ruin/development in the city of Edmonton, and curatorial project Equivalence of Alloyed Gold with Megan Gnansihamany at Critical Distance for Curation in Toronto. Find her work featured at the Esker Foundation’s Project Space from February 13 - June 1, at The Mall at the Mitchell Art Gallery at MacEwan University until April and in an upcoming article in Peripheral Review by Nadia Kurd. She has taught visual art sessionally at NSCAD University, University of Alberta and MacEwan University and between other contracts paints sets for film and television.

see artist's website at morganmelenka.com

Reference: biography and another example in Spaces and Places - Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.130; see also Canadian Artists at Auction - Vol.3, by A.Westbridge and D.Bodnar, p.31, Westbridge Publications, 2000

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; represented by Masters Gallery, Calgary

Reference: see artist's website davidmcmiller.squarespace.com;

David Miller’s exhibitions include Labyrinth of Things, Josef Sudek Atelier Gallery and Sol’s Light, Communication Space Skolska, both located in Prague; Das Spydermann at L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; Small World, at the Stadtmuseum, Münster, Germany; Execution at W139, Amsterdam; Markado at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City; Collecting Shadows, PlugIn ICA, Winnipeg.
David studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Sheridan College of Art and Technology, and Simon Fraser University’s Institute for Contemporary Art, among others. David is a recipient of the Canada Council’s Duchess of York Prize in Photography. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge.

Reference: Gabriel Esteban Molina is a visual artist from Edmonton, Alberta who graduated from the University of Alberta in 2013 with a BFA in Fine Arts. In 2015, he completed his Masters of Art in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, United Kingdom. His practice is concerned with the influence of technology on our perception and relationship to the natural world. His work walks the line between analog and digital, incorporating a variety of old and new media including sculpture, photography, video, and installation. He has had numerous exhibitions in Edmonton and London, including a solo at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix in London and a collaboration with Kyle Terrence for his film Berta Boys. He recently finished a residency at ArtsIceland with a solo show at Outvert Art Space in Isafjordur, and presented new video work at the Art Gallery of Alberta in The Scene

see artist's website at gabrielestebanmolina.com; Liquid Crystals exhibition was held at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 2021; recipient of the 2021 Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund

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Reference: Jay Mosher is an artist based in Calgary, Alberta. He received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include And There a Bronze Nail Stopped the Gush of Blood and Sent it Bubbling Back Inside, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton [2016], Brasilia, Untitled Art Society, Calgary [2015]. Group exhibitions featuring his work have included for the time being Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton [2017], Future Station The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton [2015], ...Landscape, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton [2014], Comfortably Warm , Glasgow International Festival [2014], Talisman [collaboration with Rory Middleton], The New Gallery, Calgary [2012].

see artist's website at jaymosher.com; graduate of the University of Lethbridge

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.50, Westbridge Pub., 2001; listed in Guide Vallee, III Edition, by F.Vallee, pg.835, pub. Le Guide Vallee, 1992; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Emily Neufeld lives and works on the unceded territories of the Squamish, TsleilWaututh and Musqueam peoples in what is currently named North Vancouver. Her practice investigates place and the layers of memory and psychic history that accumulate in our material world. She is committed to examining her own Mennonite and Scottish settler colonial histories in understanding her relationship to this place as Indigenous land. Recent solo exhibitions include Prairie Invasions: A Lullaby [2020, Richmond Art Gallery, BC], Before Demolition: Tides [2019, Eyelevel Gallery, NS], Motherlands [The Pole, Den Haag, ND] and Before Demolition [2017: Burrard Arts Foundation, BC]. She received her BFA from ECUAD in 2013. Neufeld has created and participates in community sharing gardens, and sees land as fundamental to her research process.

see artist's website at emilyneufeld.com

Reference: Morris Nguyen (he/they) is a Vietnamese-born multidisciplinary artist currently based in Edmonton, Canada. Their work, often described as "organized chaos", is deeply informed by the human senses and the duality of being simultaneously observant and in the moment. Soul-level intimacy, social justice, casual yet fleeting moments, deep exploration of the psyche, feelings of uninhibited ecstasy and profound sadness, and scent-infused memories are among the inspirations and themes in Morris’ work.
With photography and music as their mediums of choice, Morris strives to create art that goes beyond aesthetic appeals. The tendency to subtly incorporate acts of equity activism in their work comes from both a visceral understanding of the truths of those close to their heart and their own lived experience.

Reference: see Paintings and Poetry - Jim Nicoll, by L.Render and A.Oko, Glenbow-Alberta Institute 1977; Mountains and the Sky, by L.Render, pg.199 and 200 for works in the collection of the Glenbow; biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.5, by C.MacDonald, pg.1382; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg. 54, Westbridge Pub., 2001; Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.46, U. of A. Press, 1980; curator and included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

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Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website