The Kay Meek Centre in partnership with The West Vancouver Art Museum presents an in-person and live-streaming event celebrating artists of West Vancouver.
West Vancouver has long been home to many important Canadian artists and creatives. West Vancouver in the 1960s was home to important Canadian artists such as Gordon Smith, B.C. Binning, and Alistair Bell, among many others. These artists sought to celebrate the community’s stunning natural landscape and the intersections occurring between art and design. These earlier generations of modernist artists have encouraged and taught younger generations of artists, some of whom continue to call West Vancouver home. Our community of artists has been amplified further by those who have moved here, some from other parts of Canada and even internationally. In this talk, we will explore the ways in which these multiple generations of artists have shaped West Vancouver.
Image credit: B.C. Binning, Untitled (Sketch for Night Regatta), c. 1953-5, oil on board, 55.5 x 45.5 cm. Collection of West Vancouver Art Museum. Gift of the Estate of Jesse Binning.
Hilary Letwin is Museum Administrator/Curator at the West Vancouver Art Museum. She holds a PhD in Art History from Johns Hopkins University. Letwin has held curatorial fellowships at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the British Museum, and has worked at the Burnaby Art Gallery, the Richmond Art Gallery, and the Seymour Art Gallery. Recent exhibitions that she has curated include Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci (2021); Saints, Sinners and Souvenirs: Italian Masterworks on Paper (2019) and Talk of the Town: Molly Lamb Bobak (2018).
The event will take place in person and live-streamed from the Grosvenor Theatre – Kay Meek Arts Centre 1700 Mathers Avenue West Vancouver, BC, V7V 2G7 Canada.
To register for in-person or live-streaming, please visit the Kay Meek Arts Centre website.