They soon exhibit across Canada together as the Regina Five. The Provincial Institute of Technology and Art is renamed the Alberta College of Art. Qu bec begins its activities. Buchanan plays a role in the formation of the Industrial Design Council. The Canadian Eskimo Art Committee is established.
Region first appears in London, Ontario.
Clement Greenberg has considerable impact at the Emma Lake summer workshops. Art dealer Jack Pollock gives Ojibwa artist Norval Morrisseau a solo exhibition in Toronto, opening more perspectives to contemporary native artists. Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland begin to make names for themselves in New York. David Mirvish opens his influential modernist gallery in Toronto. The largest of the provincial arts funding organizations, the Ontario Arts Council, is founded.