Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

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 showcasing for the first time ‘modern art’ in Victoria, a radical departure from the more traditional works that dominated at the time. Read…

Paintings by Emily Carr received international attention for the first time in one of the biggest and most influential art exhibitions in the world. In an unprecedented event for a Canadian painter, seven oil on canvas paintings by Carr from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection were included at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany in 2012. During its 100-day run dOCUMENTA attracted more than 750,000 people who paid to see works by more than 70…

Emily Carr’s People’s Gallery was a deeply personal and innovative initiative she launched in late 1932, in the middle of the Great Depression. At the time, she was living in her boarding house, the House of All Sorts in Victoria which she operated as a sole source of income. She had given up her annual pottery sales and was letting her paintings go for $5 or $10 a piece. She had almost stopped breeding…