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NEWS: Women’s Art Association’s Secret Postcard Society (Fall 2023)

December 4th, 2023 · Comments Off on NEWS: Women’s Art Association’s Secret Postcard Society (Fall 2023)

One of many unique exhibitions put on by the association

A crafty response to the isolation of Covid. Postcards made and sent during lock down. COURTESY INGRID HAMILTON

By Hailey Alexander


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ON THE COVER: Bird Seeded (Spring 2022)

April 11th, 2022 · 1 Comment

Coming up April 20 to 30 at the Women’s Art Association of Canada (WAAC) is the Barbara Feith Memorial Exhibition. Feith, who passed away on Feb. 11, 2021 was an inaugural member of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a long-time member of WAAC. In recognition of a very generous bequeath, WAAC has designated her former studio as the Barbara Feith studio for their artist-in-residence program. COURTESY WOMEN’S ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

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CHATTER: Go behind closed doors in your own neighbourhood (Aug./Sept. 2018)

September 11th, 2018 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Go behind closed doors in your own neighbourhood (Aug./Sept. 2018)

Discover some of the area’s architectural treasures in the third annual tour of houses and cultural groups organized by the Annex Residents’ Association (ARA). The guided tours will run from noon to 4:30 p.m. on September 23, and explore streets bounded by Bedford and Avenue roads, and Prince Arthur and Bernard avenues.

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NEWS (JULY 2017): Women’s Art Association of Canada celebrates 130 years

August 1st, 2017 · 1 Comment

Nurturing unexplored and unexpressed talent

PHOTO BY NEILAND BRISSENDEN/GLEANER NEWS: The Women’s Art Association of Canada has called 23 Prince Arthur Ave. home since 1916. A gem in the heart of the Annex, features of the nineteenth-century house include an art-filled president’s room, where founder Mary Dignam’s 1893 Peonies hangs in pride of place above the fireplace.

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