(both in-person & Zoom, 6 sessions)

Instructor: Kathleen Silverman, MacEwan University

Light Breakfast included

When you think of Canadian visual artists, who comes to mind? You are not alone if you thought of Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven. This cohort of painters came together to develop distinctly Canadian art to express the nation and its people. But while their pristine, untamed, empty wilderness works were exhibited and marketed to embody a Canadian identity, who and what was missing? In this lecture series, we will briefly examine the art of the Group of Seven, followed by a more in-depth exploration of the art of some of the group’s unheralded contemporaries, including women artists, Indigenous artists, and those from other regions of the country.