Two women, born within two years of one another at opposite ends of the British Empire, spent their lives wrestling paint into meaning. Frances Mary Hodgkins, born in New Zealand in 1869, and Emily Carr, born in Victoria in 1871, shared restless, independent spirits and an uncompromising commitment…
The Island Arts and Crafts Society in Victoria, BC, formed in 1909, played a pivotal role in shaping the region’s cultural landscape, particularly with its groundbreaking 1932 exhibition. One of the most memorable aspects of this event was the inclusion of the “Modern Room,” a space dedicated to…
Emily Carr occupies a complicated, enduring place in Canadian cultural history. Celebrated as a visionary modernist painter and a fiercely original writer, she is also a figure whose life’s work is inseparable from her encounters with Indigenous peoples and cultures of the Northwest Coast. Her relationship to Indigenous…
hosted, designed & maintained by Marilyn Jones for the walks & talks, bus tours and presentations she offers on Emily Carr in-person and online from Victoria, BC.
