Marion Nicoll
Subtitle: Silence and Alchemy
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781552387078
Subjects: Artists, canada; Women artists
Description: Marion-Nicoll (1909 1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of dedication to her vision regardless of professional or personal challenges. Nicoll became the first woman instructor hired at the Provincial Institute of Art and Technology (now the Alberta College of Art and Design) and although limited to teaching craft and design, she became a significant mentor for generations of artists. Contributions by Ann Davis, Elizabeth Herbert, and Jennifer Salahub.