Molly Lamb Bobak  OC   RCA   ONB
born Vancouver BC on February 25, 1922 -
Molly Lamb's father was a geologist by profession but he also had a profound interest in the arts and the circle of family friends included many Canadian artists. This family association was no doubt a welcoming atmosphere for a young artist who studied at the Vancouver School of Art. During this time, she met the artist A.Y. Jackson, with whom she had “wonderful talks in his studio about war and peace and painting.” In November 1942 she enlisted in the Canadian Women's Army Corp. Her talents did not go unnoticed and she became the first woman to be officially designated as a Canadian war artist. After VE-Day she went to Holland to record the devastation of the war. Her official art work is in the Canadian War Museum. It was during her service years of World War II that she met her future husband. In 1950, with a grant from the French government she painted her impressions of this European country. In She would return often to paint in France. At home in Canada, she remained busy at the design department at the Vancouver School of Art, the University of British Columbia and the Art Centre at the University of New Brunswick, where she settled in Fredericton. She also illustrated several books including her own Wild Flowers of Canada. Bobak is now most widely recognized for her depictions of crowds and her work from WWII. Her paintings of crowds serve to record public events and visual experiences of large numbers of people sharing the same space. From:
http://famouscanadianwomen.com/famous%20firsts/artists.htm
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/pdfs/Canadian%20Women%20Modernists%20Guide.pdf
http://www.nanaimoartscouncil.ca/umbrella/NACJUL08.pdf
http://section15.ca/features/people/1999/11/01/remembrance_day/
http://www.gallery78.com/mlbobak.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Lamb_Bobak

Angela Grossman
born in 1955 in London England - resides in Vancouver BC
Angela Grossman immigrated to Canada in 1970, receiving a BA in Journalism from Ryerson before graduating from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver BC , where she met fellow "Futura Bold" artists Douglas Coupland, Attila Richard Lukacs, Derek Root and Graham Gillmore. She then received an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal Québec. "You could say I come from an artistic family, both my parents were painters and my grandmother was an art collector in Dusseldorf before she was murdered in the Holocaust." She has devoted much of her career to examining the themes of displacement and social margins, indicating at once that an interest in the Holocaust and European history has effected her subject matter. In the series (sign)ifying the END of the 2nd World War, images of those lost in the war make the connection obvious. Affaires d’Enfants is a series that involved painting on the insides of suitcases abandoned by an agency in Paris that sponsored summer camp holidays for orphans. Scapegoats was based on mug shots taken of prisoners in the BC Penitentiary during the 1940s. With their lives robbed of dignity, they echo in their own way the atrocities of the Holocaust and the treatment of Jews during the same decade. She has taught art at a number of post-secondary institutions including Concordia, the University of Ottawa, UBC and at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In June 2006 she was recognized by The Art Newspaper as one of 100 artists who have most influenced students in British art schools. Grossman is now represented by five major galleries in Canada and abroad, and exhibits across Canada, the US and Europe. Her work is in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Appelton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida, the Abteilberg Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany, the Vancouver Art Gallery and in the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver. In 2006 she was instrumental in creating the widely acclaimed "Vancouver School" installation in the AfK Gallery with the Futura Bold collective. From:
http://www.artists4kids.com/artist.php?artist_id=GROSSMANN
http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/grossmann.html
http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/grossmann/biography.htm
http://www.galeriedeste.com/html/ArtistBio.asp?artnum=78
http://www.artnet.com/artist/7476/angela-grossmann.html

Bev Binfet
resides in Penticton BC
Beverley Binfet's formal art education began at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, where she received a diploma in Visual Communications. After that she worked for a time in retail display. Beverley then continued her studies at Okanagan University College and she obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Beverley now works in a home-based studio in Penticton. Her art is represented by: the Tumbleweed Gallery in Penticton, the Hambleton Gallery in Kelowna, the White Rock Gallery in White Rock, and the Art Works Gallery in Vancouver. Beverley's art has been featured on the cover of the 2002 Penticton & Area Map and the 2002 Penticton Wine Country Directory.
Contact Beverly at (250) 492-0705 or Email beverleybinfet@shaw.ca
http://www.whiterockgallery.com/Bev_Binfet.htm#binfet%20bio
http://www.penticton.ca/gallery/artists/BeverlyBinfet.asp

Meghan Hildebrand
born in the Yukon - resides in Powell River BC
Meghan Hildebrand: "I left my hometown of Whitehorse, Yukon, following my mom's footsteps to the Kootenay School of the Arts, in Nelson BC. There was a year in Halifax at NSCAD, and in 2004, I staked my claim in Powell River, historical mill town on BC's Sunshine Coast. My paintings have dealt with the world of the industrial, borrowing colour from the natural world. Inspiration in Powell River comes in the form of the ocean and forest landscapes, local and world events, radio, music and music making. My painting practice is "intuitive" - paintings have no set design, instead I take my cues from the first random strokes, washes and collage items. My paintings can now be found in galleries in Vancouver, Kelowna, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Sidney, Whitehorse and Kaslo, and are collected throughout Canada and internationally.
http://www.meghanhildebrand.com
http://www.lookatart.com/mhildebrand.html
http://www.mstreetgallery.com/artist/82/
http://www.effusionartgallery.com
http://www.mayberryfineart.com/artist/meghan_hildebrand.html
http://www.dabgallery.com

Sally Michener
1935 Born Fergus Falls, Minnesota - resides in Vancouver BC
Vancouver artist and educator Sally Michener inspired three generations of ceramists in BC when she served on the faculty (she was also the Dean) - at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her education includes a BA from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota; a MSW from Columbia University, New York; and studies with potter Warren Mackenzie at the University of Minnesota and ceramic sculputor Roy Cartwright at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio where she received her MFA. Michener moved away from functionalism and the pottery wheel early in her career. For 25 years, she has been hand building sparse and anthropomorphic ceramic columns, pyramids and arches. Her groundbreaking feminist work emphasized the personal and the body politic, as depicted in her sombre self-portrait clay masks or through her slim, sparse phallic shafts. Indigenous symbols have been a strong feature of her work, particularly those taken from motifs found in Pre-Columbian Mexican pottery, artwork from India and the ceramics of Japan. Michener traveled on fourteen research field trips to Mexico, southern Europe, Turkey, India and Nepal (1991) to view pre-Columbian, terra cotta and other ceramic arts, temples, museums, pottery villages and terra cotta gardens. She has exhibited widely, including Tokyo Japan, Mexico, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Ontario.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Fire_Earth/Artists/Michener/MichenerBioEn.html
http://www.preview-art.com/previews/99-11/7.sallymichener.html
http://www.ecuad.ca/taxonomy/term/18/all?page=1
http://www.canadiancraftsfederation.ca/craft_year_2007/gallery/albums/userpics/10062/debrasloan_heathercairns.pdf