Marion Bond

Marion Bond Artist Bio: Marion Bond (1900-1965) Marion Bond was born in Antigonish, and live in Nova Scotia all of her life. At the age of nine, she began to draw and paint in watercolour. She studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art (currently known as the Nova...

Mark Berens

Mark Berens Artist Bio: Mark Berens Mark Berens grew up on the Shores of Georgian Bay when he first came under the influence of the Canadian landscape painted so often by the members of the Group of Seven. He attended the Ontario College of Art where he learned to...

Markoosie Papigatok

Markoosie Papigatok Artist Bio: Markoosie Papigatok (b. 1976) Markoosie began carving as a teenager and is largely self-taught, but learned a lot of his skills by observing his uncle Ashevak Tunnillie , who was a skilled carver. His mother, Komajuk Tunnillie, and...

Mary Pratt

Mary Pratt Artist Bio: Mary Pratt (1935-2018) Mary Pratt was born in Fredericton, NB, in 1935. In 1961 she graduated in Fine Arts from Mount Allison University, where she was taught by Alex Colville, Lawren P. Harris, and Ted Pulford – all teachers who greatly...

Mayoreak Ashoona

Mayoreak Ashoona Artist Bio: Mayoreak Ashoona (b. 1946) One of the most important Inuit artists, Mayoreak Ashoona was born in South Baffin Island at Saturituk. She married a well-known Inuit carver, Kaka Ashoona. Following Kaka’s early death, moved to Cape...