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Robin Laurence, the
Georgia Straight s visual-arts critic and writer for three decaades, has won the 2021 Max Wyman Award for Critical Writing.
The annual award, jointly administered by the Yosef Wosk Family Foundation (philanthropist Wosk established the honour in 2017) and the Max Wyman Award Committee, carries a $5,000 prize and an emerald and gold pin by Vancouver artist Robert Chaplin.
The award celebrates arts critic and author Max Wyman, who began his journalism career at age 14 in England, moved to Canada in his late 20s, then became books editor and arts critic for Vancouver s two daily newspapers and authored several books during a three-decade career on the West Coast.
“[It’s a] multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of form,” she says about her artistic technique.
Her journey began in her home state of California where she acquired a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley followed by a Master of Arts from Stanford. After immigrating to Canada in 1967 she discovered her gift of creating when taking a clay course at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1968.
“I was doing work for the psychiatry department in research at McMaster [University] and took a clay course and that was the end of my life in academia because I discovered I had a gift.”
Author of the article: Eric Volmers
Publishing date: Jan 22, 2021 • January 22, 2021 • 5 minute read • Scotsguard, 1994 by George Webber from Saskatchewan Book. jpg
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Twenty-six years ago, George Webber was in Scotsguard, Sask., on one of his many image-scouting expeditions through the province’s small towns.
By 1994, Scotsguard had long been considered a ghost town. In fact, Webber remembers only one man living there at the time. At one point, the Calgary photographer went into a long-shuttered general store and took a picture of a slowly disintegrating magazine lying on the floor. A portrait of a young Queen Elizabeth was on the cover, which also revealed that 10 pages of pictures from her 1953 coronation were featured inside. The magazine’s regal cover photo was sti
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