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and Gender in Victoria, 1850s-1920s
Community
Partners:
BC Heritage Branch, Province of British Columbia
http://www.heritage.gov.bc.ca
Project
Directors:
Jennifer Iredale, Curator, BC Heritage Branch
E-mail: jennifer.iredale@gems4.gov
Carol Gibson-Wood, Department of History in Art, University of
Victoria
E-mail: cgibson@finearts.uvic.ca
Karen Finlay, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria
E-mail: kafinlay@uvic.ca
Student
Researchers:
CURA Student Assistantships: Adrienne Munro, Cultural Resource
Management; Marla Stevenson, History in Art
HA
499 Seminar: Christine Currie, Stephanie Doerksen, Shelby Gilraine,
Alexis Jensen, Corinne Lefebvre, Ayla Lepine, Claudia Lorenz,
Suzanne Mir, Tusa Shea, Michelle Smith, Kathryn Squires, Marla
Stevenson, Deborah Turnbull and Linda Zajac
Directed Studies: Linda Bedese, Ayla Lepine, Tusa Shea aand Marla
Stevenson, History in Art; Tina
Lowery, Cultural Resource Management
UVic Work Study: Anna Borstad and Marla Stevenson, History in
Art
UVic Arts & Writing Co-op: Adrienne Munro, Cultural Resource
Management
British
Columbia Historical News, Fall 2002 cover
The collections of womanly arts held at Helmcken House, Emily
Carr House and Point Ellice House in Victoria, BC, provide important
information about the lives of women in the post-confederate era.
In partnership with the Royal BC Museum, BC Archives and the BC
Heritage Branch, researchers at the University of Victoria are
exploring the interpretive value of the womanly arts produced
by Emily Carr and her four sisters, Dolly Helmcken, Kathleen O'Reilly,
Martha Douglas, and Rose Mullins.
Research is focusing on the cultural and social significance of
the art produced, as well as the importance of the individual
artists, with the goal of providing increased knowledge about
women's history in BC.
The
results of the research will be presented in a major exhibition
to be held at the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery at the University
of Victoria in the spring of 2004. To coincide with Women's History
Month, a small project exhibition entitled Naming
the Artist was on display at the Emily Carr House in October
2002. In addition, the British
Columbia Historical News published several student essays
in a special edition of the Fall 2002 issue entitled Womanly Arts:
Expressions of and Creations by Women in Victorian British Columbia.
Emily
Carr House Collection and Exhibit Photos
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