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How do today’s leaders move from playing it safe to playing for great?In a volatile time of climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies, leaders may find themselves clinging to fear-based mindsets that favor individualism over collectivism – inadvertently controlling their teams rather than inspiring genuine commitment in them. To navigate uncertainty and seize emerging opportunities, leaders must move toward a more facilitative, enabling approach that centers on purpose before profit and the team before the individual.In Safe to Great, consultant, keynote speaker, and author Skip Bowman outlines an integrated organizational and leadership development process for implementing a growth mindset based on psychological safety. Grounded in more than 25 years of experience working with global organizations, Bowman’s model unites theory and practice in a set of practicable principles designed to meet the opportunities and challenges of leading and organizing in the twenty-first century and beyond.Bowman looks to the concept of psychological safety, as described in Amy C. Edmondson’s work on fearless organizations, to examine how a workplace that tolerates risk and exhibits a willingness to experiment can facilitate high levels of innovation. The tenets of a growth mindset, as popularized by Carol Dweck, also serve as a guiding philosophy: Bowman urges organizations to take a generative approach to managing people and resources, putting at least much back as they extract. In this relational model, success rests on the combined achievements and developmental growth of the collective rather than on the accumulation of power and wealth by a single executive or small group of stakeholders.Conversational in tone and packed with big hopes and uncomfortable truths, Safe to Great makes an impassioned appeal for a new standard of leadership that will move people and organizations from a place of relative comfort and little risk to a space of daring curiosity, engagement, and collaboration.

From international best-selling author and futurist Doug Stephens, Resurrecting Retail is not just a riveting story of the unprecedented crash of an industry but a roadmap for its rebirth. Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as the Covid-19 pandemic. Every market, industry, profession, service, and category of product was in some way rocked by its impact. Researched in real time from inside the crisis, Resurrecting Retail provides a comprehensive and surprising vision of how it will reshape every aspect of consumer life, including the very essence of why we shop. Above all, it provides an inspirational and actionable future vision for any business leader looking not only to survive but thrive in a very different post-pandemic retail world.

BELOVED DESIGNERS: With their two past TV shows on HGTV, their current regular appearances on Cityline (Canada/select U.S. markets)), 71,500 followers on Instagram and 47,500 on Twitter, this celebrity couple has a big following in the design community. They know how to market themselves in thoroughly charming Scottish fashion and will go all-out in promoting this book.VARIETY: Colin and Justin have featured 24 different projects in the book, each of which will get eight beautiful photographs. The projects are in the following locales: Bozeman, Montana; Yellowstone Club, Montana; Jackson, Wyoming; Haliburton, Ontario; Drimnin, Scotland; Vancouver, British Columbia; Krokskogen Forest, Norway; Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Carbon-de-l'Est, Quebec; Filly Island, UK; Georgian Bay, Ontario; Austin, Quebec; Drag Lake, Quebec; Monument Channel, Ontario; Elgin, South Africa; Chilterns, UK; Reeds Bay, Ontario; Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; Sucker Lake, Ontario; Vinkaveen, Netherlands; Durham, Ontario; Lac-Beauport, Quebec; Lake Immeln, Sweden.

Since the release of Doug Stephens' first book, The Retail Revival, change in the global retail sector has accelerated beyond even the boldest forecasts. As predicted, online giants like Amazon and Alibaba.com are growing at a dizzying pace. Hundreds of well-known brick and mortar retailers have closed their doors, and brands and retailers across categories are struggling to understand the shifting needs and expectations of a new consumer.Picking up where The Retail Revival left off, Reengineering Retail explores the coming revolution in the global retail and consumer goods market, offering sales and marketing executives a roadmap to the future. Author and internationally renowned consumer futurist, Doug Stephens, paints a bold vision of the future where every aspect of the retail experience as we know it, will be radically transformed. From online to bricks and mortar, the very concept of what stores are, how consumers shop them, and even the core economic model for revenue, will be will be profoundly reinvented; changes sure to affect not only retailers large and small but any business with a stake in the global retail industry.Infused with real world examples and interviews with industry disruptors, Reengineering Retail illustrates the vast opportunities at play for bold brands and business leaders. Stephens' strategies will provide businesses with the foresight required to move quickly and effectively into the future.

The first publication devoted to Tamio Wakayama’s remarkable photographic career, Enemy Alien shares unpublished photos and a memoir by the artist about his life working alongside activist movements and in vibrant communities, from the civil rights–era American South to the Powell Street Festival in Vancouver.Wakayama was born in New Westminster, British Columbia mere months before Pearl Harbor and was soon forcibly relocated with his parents to an internment camp for Japanese Canadians. This early childhood experience of injustice would shape the rest of his life and practice. Later, as a young man, Wakayama was vacationing in Tennessee when the Birmingham Church Bombing happened; inspired by a deep sympathy for the activists, he drove straight to Birmingham, met John Lewis, and began working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, first as a cleaner and driver and soon as a photographer. For two years Wakayama produced campaign material and documented SNCC activists and actions in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama, including the 1964 Freedom Summer. After leaving the US, he photographed Indigenous and Doukhobor communities in Canada, everyday life in Japan and Cuba, and finally settled in Vancouver, where he joined the resurging Nikkei community and the Redress Movement, and for decades photographed the Powell Street Festival.The centerpiece of the heavily illustrated publication is Wakyama’s unpublished memoir, Soul on Rice, which includes numerous photo spreads. Essays by Eva Respini and Paul Wong situate the artist’s practice within a broader art-historical context, and an interview with Mayumi Takasaki, Wakayama’s partner of forty years, offers an intimate perspective on his life and work. Photos and texts throughout the book are contextualized with archival material such as contact sheets, newspaper articles and the artist’s correspondence. Enemy Alien is co-published with the Vancouver Art Gallery in association with an exhibition of the same name, curated by Paul Wong.

"Rachel Riggs's In Good Health is destined to become an essential resource for everyone who seeks vibrant healthful food with thoughtful flavor combinations and a decidedly California vibe."--Jason Mraz, musician "Rachel is on a mission to create delicious, healing food that sacrifices nothing on the plate. These are beautiful, nourishing dishes you will want to make regardless of where you are on your personal journey."--Adeena Sussman, New York Times bestselling author of Shabbat "In Good Health provides a simple, accessible way to adopt a diet and lifestyle that can transform your health from the inside out." [from the foreword]--Dr. Terry Wahls, author of The Wahls Protocol Featuring 75 allergen-conscious recipes, In Good Health transforms dietary restrictions into culinary opportunities. >In her debut cookbook, Riggs shares a personal collection of recipes that celebrate vibrant, healthful eating while being inclusive of many complex dietary needs. In Good Health was developed to empower those with compromised immune systems, chronic illnesses, and food sensitivities with a repertoire of easy-to-prepare, nutrient-dense cuisine that is as delicious as it is nourishing. Riggs expertly eliminates common triggers like gluten, grains, dairy, nightshades, soy, legumes, shellfish, refined sugar, and peanuts while embracing seasonal produce and SoCal sensibilities. Recipes include: A Minty Fresh + Lemony Salad Smoothie for those days you want nutrition but can't bear to stare down a plate of veg.Salads such as Asparagus Mimosa with Tarragon + Orange - an updated French classic.A slow cooker recipe for French Onion Beef, which freezes magically for later, and can be served over one of the three types of vegetable mash.Scrumptious Mint Chocolate Mini Bundts, approved for all audiences and adaptable for special occasions.These recipes aren't just for those adhering to Mediterranean, Paleo, or Whole30 diets--it will appeal to anyone looking to ditch processed foods, simplify their diet, and take control of their health through nutrition. With a foreword by Dr. Terry Wahls, a leading expert on healing through nutrition, In Good Health is a resource, a celebration, and an invitation to rediscover the power of food in the pursuit of optimal health.

A photographic collection that celebrates the tranquility of winter and the ingenuity of vernacular architecture.From a clear, straight-on vantage point and with a pictorial formality echoing the work of documentary photography pioneers Bernd and Hilla Becher, Richard Johnson (1957–2021) spent more than a decade recording and categorizing visual typologies of small, hand-built structures across Canada.His largest and most celebrated collection of photographs documents ice huts used for fishing across the frozen lakes, bays, and rivers. These huts must be weather-resistant and transportable, giving basic shelter around the opening to the water below. Johnson’s photographs reveal the functional and aesthetic similarities and differences of what he called “renegade architecture”—a form verging on a vernacular folk art tradition.Later in his life, Johnson began documenting Newfoundland’s ubiquitous, earthen-built root cellars. To Johnson, the cellars were place-specific oddities; efficiently constructed and curiously anthropomorphic. They also fit conceptually into his lifelong fascination with small structures built out of necessity and usually by hand.More than 200 photographs from these series are complemented by texts from acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Edward Burtynsky and curator Tom Smart that contextualize Johnson’s photographs and place his work among the contemporary disciples of the Becher’s Düsseldorf School. A personal text by Johnson’s long-time partner, Lucie Bergeron-Johnson, provides an intimate portrait of the artist, and chronicles his journey to the discovery of his subject matter and the development of his signature style.

The history, aesthetics, and significance of Ontario’s iconic small house.In the evolution of Ontario’s domestic architecture, the Ontario Cottage is one of a small number of distinctive imported—and then modified—houseforms that today is among the most recognizable in the province.A single storey, hipped-roof building with a door placed squarely in the centre with windows on either side, the charm of the Ontario Cottage lies in its symmetry, simplicity, and proportions. From stately cottages made of dressed masonry to humbler cottages clad in board and batten, it is adaptable in form, and found in different settings from Southwestern Ontario to the Ottawa Valley, including cities, small towns, and rural areas.This is the first full-length exploration of this enduring houseform and its ubiquity in the province. Through detailed prose, architectural illustrations, and stunning photographs, this book traces the origins of the cottage, its design lineage, construction, and distinctive parts, and shares the perspectives of its inhabitants.While explaining its ongoing appeal, The Ontario Cottage makes the case for the recognition and conservation of the Ontario Cottage as a defining attribute of the province’s cultural landscape.

75 nourishing and flavor-filled recipes that celebrate cooking as an act of care and compassion.The Joy Bus Diner is a 100% nonprofit restaurant whose mission is to bring hearty, chef-inspired meals and uplifting encouragement to cancer patients in and around the Phoenix Valley. Founded in 2011 by award-winning chef and Food Network Chopped champion Jennifer Caraway, The Joy Bus was named in honor of her dear friend Joy whom she lost to ovarian cancer. It embodies the idea that when people come together to support one another, they can build something remarkable—whether it’s a hearty meal, a warm moment of connection, or a brighter world.Following the success of their first book More than a Meal, The Joy Bus Cookbook is filled with approachable recipes for imaginative comfort foods that combine bold flavors with simple preparation methods. From cherished dishes such as Princess Poppy Seed Pancakes to Kashmiri Chile Roasted Lamb to a Raspberry Chocolate Mousse Pie, each recipe tells a story of heartfelt generosity and of the diverse culinary influences of the community the organization serves.Features:A foreword by James Beard Award–winning chef Chris BiancoMore than 75 tried-and-true recipes designed for home cooksAn informative guide to healing foodsStunning food photography and behind-the-scenes shotsProfiles of the farmers, producers and artisans who support The Joy Bus mission All profits go directly to furthering The Joy Bus’s vital workThe Joy Bus Cookbook is a call to savor not just the flavors on the plate, but also the connections they represent, making it an inspiring and essential addition to any kitchen.

Louis de Niverville (1933–2019) was a painter and collagist. His experimental and thought-provoking art, often mislabelled as “surrealist,” defied simple categorization.The ninth of thirteen children, young Louis was sent to a sanatorium in Ottawa for treatment of spinal tuberculosis at age six. He remained there for four and a half years. This long-term confinement would become a major influence on his art. Hired as an illustrator by the CBC in the late 1950s, de Niverville quickly immersed himself in the burgeoning Toronto art scene. His work relied heavily on his dreams and daydreams, and explored aspects of the individual, culture and nature, and often featured surreal “inside-outside” spaces. At a time when Abstract Expressionism and its offshoots were dominant in the international art world, Louis’s early exhibitions in Toronto quickly seized the attention of respected art critics, and de Niverville was flagged as an artist to watch.This reputation plus a number of private commissions, including large-scale murals for Pearson International Airport and Spadina subway station, both in Toronto, helped thrust de Niverville to the forefront of the Toronto scene in the 1960s and 1970s.Edited by Thomas Miller—de Niverville’s partner of many decades and an artist in his own right—and international art dealer Philip Ottenbrite, Louis de Niverville: Pentimenti includes texts from renowned art critics and curators Tobi Bruce, Ihor Holubizky, and E.C. Woodley, which trace de Niverville’s rise in the Toronto scene, and which also provide critical art historical context to the depth and breadth of his unique practice. Heather Bell’s biographical piece on de Niverville’s childhood illuminates a practice seemingly born of childhood trauma and whimsy. Featuring more than 140 art reproductions and archival images, this is an in-depth examination of an artist who, in his unique portrayals of the individual, encouraged the exploration of the universal.

An invitation to reconnect over food, Gather, Savor, Share presents 80 recipes from the staff of Aiana for the family meal that is eaten together before service begins.In the fast-paced world of fine dining restaurants, the family meal is a sanctuary. It’s the moment when the entire staff sets aside the relentless demands of service to share a meal. Far from being just sustenance, it’s a ritual that fuels creativity, fosters connection, and sustains the heartbeat of the kitchen. At the acclaimed restaurant Aiana, in Ottawa, Ontario, these meals are more than a break; they’re a canvas where flavors and traditions are shared, and personalities come alive.With clever, pro restaurant tips and 80 recipes that balance bold reinventions and comforting classics, you’ll be inspired to transform the hub of your home into a fine-dining kitchen with family meals elevated to unforgettable feasts. Whether it’s a hot bowl of Acadian Chowder, flavour-packed Caribbean Curry Beef, or smoky Lamb Birria Tacos, each recipe brims with personality, guiding you to explore exciting flavor combinations, masterful techniques, and sustainable practices you can share with the ones you love.With stunning photography, inspirational menus, practical tips, and guidance on how to stock your kitchen like a chef, Gather, Savor, Share is perfect for home cooks and food enthusiasts alike.

Your invitation to experience the spirit and flavor of this dynamic desert city. Phoenix Eats + Drinks celebrates Phoenix's flourishing culinary and cocktail culture, showcasing the vibrant talents that have put the Valley of the Sun on the national map. In this follow-up to the bestselling Phoenix Cooks, award-winning food writer Christina Barrueta brings readers nearly 90 new recipes from the city's top chefs and mixologists. With a wider range of mixology hotspots, this collection goes beyond the plate to introduce readers in Phoenix's dynamic cocktail scene. Whether you're an experienced home cook or a budding mixologist, there's something here for everyone. From an ode to Mexico in an Old Fashioned to the ultimate freezer Martini, from a juicy ribeye steak with tepary bean chili to salmon tacos gilded with yuzu kosho aioli, and from gooey butter cake to a corn-studded elote cheesecake, Phoenix Eats + Drinks captures the talent that resides in the Valley of the Sun. This beautifully photographed book also shines a light on the farms, artisans, and spirits that make Phoenix a culinary destination with many recipes highlighting locally sourced ingredients and the unique flavors of the desert. Perfect for both everyday cooking and special occasions, these recipes and their accompanying photographs showcase the diverse and exciting culinary scene that have positioned Phoenix as a rising star in the culinary world.

A survey of the leading interior designers and architects who are collectively defining the city’s signature style.As perhaps the most diverse city in the world, Toronto is a veritable patchwork of cultures, styles, languages, and neighbourhoods—each with its own distinct architecture. With heritage rowhouses in Cabbagetown, glass towers overlooking Lake Ontario, narrow Victorian Bay-and-Gables in the Annex, grand Georgians in Rosedale, and wartime bungalows on the edges of the city, there truly is something for everyone. The interiors of these distinct home styles are no less unique, but, when taken together they exemplify the push and pull between heritage and modern sensibilities that has created a true design movement in this city on the lake.In Toronto Interiors, design writer Catherine Macintosh profiles 30 established and emerging local studios that are evolving the living spaces and streetscapes for the next generation of Torontonians. Whether bringing their talents to innovative renovations or new builds, these studios are crafting homes that are beautiful but not precious; homes that are made for how we live now. Within these deeply personal and highly functional spaces are moments of true creative brilliance—the artistic use of light, the seamless interplay between indoors and out, unique focal points, a careful mix of natural materials, and a delicate balance between old and new. The exemplary homes in Toronto Interiors feel at ease in their settings, adding to the city’s unique urban landscape.Toronto Interiors spotlights a moment in time when high design and individuality are expertly applied by designers challenging the status quo, inspiring readers to look at their own spaces through a new lens. Featuring 87 projects brought to life in stunning full-colour photography, Toronto Interiors is a book to both read and dream on.

A photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind remnants of Jewish communal life in post-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.In 1992 Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer David Kaufman travelled to Poland to produce a television program about hidden child survivors of the Holocaust. A decade later, he returned to make films about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Łódź Ghetto. Kaufman was deeply moved by the quality of Jewish material culture—the physical remnants of Jewish life—that he saw on these early visits. In 2007 he set out on the first of many trips over two decades to record images of tenements, factories, synagogues, and cemeteries that were part of everyday Jewish life in pre-Holocaust eastern Europe. He also made photos of some of the places of despair and death where Jews were killed during the war.The Posthumous Landscape is more than an act of preserving memory. Kaufman brings his decades of documentary storytelling experience to bear, illuminating these places left behind. His photographs and accompanying texts describe a historic community that played a major role in the development of eastern European society and which left behind grand industrial complexes, urban neighbourhoods, architectural landmarks, beautiful synagogues, as well as vast cemeteries, and haunting memorials. The photographs also tell the stories of the afterlives of those places, many repurposed, some lovingly cared for by non-Jews who remember, and others slowly returning to the earth, but which are preserved in this book’s pages.Some readers will find here names from their own family histories. All will discover a visual landscape that bears witness to the vitality and creativity of Eastern European Jewry before its destruction.With introductory essays by political commentator Bernard Avishai and Polish journalist and heritage activist Joanna Podolska, The Posthumous Landscape is a tribute to a community that met a tragic end and a testament to how our internal landscapes are inextricably bound to the places of our past.

A celebration of ethical dining, conscious sourcing, and sustainable preparation, Perch inspires readers to cook with intention, support local producers, and embrace a deep connection to community.Fine dining is meant to be an elevated culinary experience that emphasizes high-quality ingredients, expert preparation, and artful presentation. Yet it can also serve as a powerful catalyst for change, supporting local artisans and driving social impact. Chef Justin Champagne-Lagarde, owner of the acclaimed restaurant Perch in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is doing just that.His first cookbook is a stunning tribute to ethical dining and sustainable practices highlighting the seasonal bounty Canada has to offer. Embracing the deep connection between food and community, Perch goes beyond the plate to introduce readers to the farmers, fishers, and producers who contribute to Champagne-Lagarde’s exquisite and flavourful dishes. From Rabbit with Balsam Fir Sauce, Rose-Cured Spot Prawns, and Pulled Shank Chawanmushi, Perch shares with readers 50 delicious, low-waste recipes, while also sharing best practices for running a sustainable kitchen—such as transforming espresso grounds into hand soap.With stunning location photography and images of each prepared dish presented in a thoughtfully paced and elegantly designed package, Perch is an invitation to the next generation of fine-dining chefs and home cooks alike to explore a new approach to cooking— one that celebrates thoughtful, ethical dining, and encourages a deeper connection to the food we eat.

Ask Haida artist and hereditary chief 7IDANsuu James Hart how long it took him to master the art of carving, and he'll tell you: "Around ten thousand years." Hart has achieved national prominence and international acclaim for his towering poles, stately cedar sculptures, and massive bronzes--monumental works that extend the long continuum of Haida visual traditions into powerful new forms. Since his early days assisting Robert Davidson and Bill Reid, through his reproductions of historical Haida poles and his carving of original house front, story, and memorial poles for private commissions and clan-based contexts in Haida Gwaii and beyond, he has developed an innovative practice rooted in tradition, and widely celebrated: thousands of people gathered to witness the raising and activation of his Reconciliation Pole; his Three Watchmen bronzes overlook the Audain Art Museum, National Gallery of Canada and the Plains of Abraham; and The Dance Screen (The Scream Too) in Whistler is considered a once-in-a-generation sculptural masterpiece. This, the first publication devoted to Hart, is both a survey of his major career achievements and a document of an impossible-to-assemble exhibition. Alongside hundreds of photos of nineteen monumental works and associated smaller carvings and bronzes scattered across North America and Europe, and drawing on over two years of interviews with the artist, Curtis Collins illustrates how key animal and supernatural figures reappear across scales and mediums, from jewellery to sixty-foot poles (the "backbone" of his practice), and speaks to the associated activation ceremonies as integral to Haida monumental art. Wade Davis considers Hart's expressions of Haida resilience within the people's long history, from time immemorial to the nation's present-day efforts towards national sovereignty; Gwaliga Hart offers a personal perspective on his father's work; and in an autobiographical essay the artist himself reflects on his life, and his life's work.

Raw, personal and political, John Scott: Firestorm; presents an artist's searing critique of modernity’s capacity for industrial warfare and the machines that enable it.Scott produced paintings, drawings, and sculptures of what he called “engines of history,” the hyper-masculine military and civilian weapons of the past half century. Surveillance aircraft, B-52 and stealth bombers, tanks, cruise missiles and rockets, as well as handguns, muscle cars, and motorcycles forcefully imprint themselves upon the viewer through Scott’s fierce mark-making and large, rough sculptural gestures. Humanoid rabbits —often surrounded by numbers that fail to add up—represent those threatened by such technologies. The dichotomy between the death-dealing weaponry of the nuclear era and the vulnerability of human beings lies at the core of Scott’s work.Scott (1949–2022) deployed an idiosyncratic graphic language to represent apocalyptic machines and the imbalances of power, working in the tradition of Francisco Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Nancy Spero, and others. Scott grew up in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan. Like many Canadian artists, writers, and intellectuals of his time, Scott was a close watcher of America, with a front-row seat on a sometimes rogue nation. Stylistically, his work is close to that of his contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and William Kentridge, showing a kindred ferocity of mark making and dark urgency.John Scott: Firestorm accompanies the exhibition of the same name organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, curated by esteemed Canadian art scholar John O’Brian. It is the first major exhibition of Scott’s work to focus on his imagery of machines and on modernity’s capacity for industrial war—a body of work as meaningful today as it was when it first appeared in the 1970s. This publications features more than 100 of Scott’s works, a detailed biography, and new critical writings on the artist.

An eclectically curated collection reveals a kaleidoscopic portrait of the many and diverse talents working in and around BC's art scene over the past forty years. As a musician, performer, activist, collector, John David Lawrence has long held an important, if underrecognized, position in Vancouver's creative community. After settling in the city in the mid-1980s he participated in and advocated for performance spaces and artist-run centres, building deep roots in the community, and since 2000 he has been the proprietor of DoDa Antiques. Over several decades, Lawrence amassed an idiosyncratic personal collection that includes ceramics, Indigenous art, jewelry, folk art, photography, and plant life. Through the stories of some of these pieces and of Lawrence himself, as well as extensive new photography of his holdings, The Place of Objects illuminates the rich cultural production that is often overlooked by Vancouver's established artistic community. Released to coincide with a Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition of 300 ceramic works from Lawrence's collection, The Place of Objects opens with an engrossing conversation between scholar Dr. Michael J. Prokopow and Lawrence that uses specific objects and the diverse areas of his collections to reveal Lawrence's enigmatic biography and ponder the broader cultural obsession with things. The second half of the book features texts by artists, scholars, friends, and curators who highlight objects of art with historical, cultural, or personal significance. The publication also includes a visual index--a two-dimensional genogram of the objects in his collection--to map the tentacular threads that have informed Lawrence's collecting practices over the decades. Contributors: Glenn Alteen, Daina Augaitis, Nicholas Bell, Allan Collier, Diana Freundl, Donna Hagerman, Richard Hill, Mandy Ginson, Jenn Jackson, Diane Jillings, Hilary Letwin, Carol Mayer, Siobhan McCracken Nixon, Edmond Melnychuk, Michael J. Prokopow, Esther Rausenberg, Stephanie Rebick, among others. Artists: Mollie Carter, John Charnetski, Stanley Clarke, Hans Coper, Olea Davis, Walter Dexter, Beau Dick, Denny Dixon, Pat Dixon, Sandra Dolph, Axel Ebring, Gathie Falk, Ken Foster, Ken Gerberick, Herta Gerz, Kathleen Hamilton, Frances Hatfield, Richard Hawbolt, Michael Henry, Gillian Hodge, Robin Hopper, Ben Houstie, Henry Hunt, Gordon Hutchens, Avery Huyghe, Tam Irving, Elsie John, Charmian Johnson, Thomas Kakinuma, Bob Kingsmill, Zoltan Kiss, Roy Kiyooka, Zeljko Kujundzic, Sam Kwan, Corey Larocque, Heinz Laffin, David Lambert, Laura Wee Láy Láq, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach, Glenn Lewis, Luke Lindoe, Des Loan, Brian Lynch, Mad Dog, Edmond Melnychuk, Grace Melvyn, Joseph Mihalic, Santo Mignosa, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Ellen Neel, Gailan Ngan, Wayne Ngan, Oraf, Leonard Osborne, Mary Osborne, Davide Pan, Randy Pandora, Bill Reid, John Reeve, Bill Rennie, Hilda Ross, Debra Sloan, Russell Smith, Ian Steele, Roger Stribley, Gordon Thorlaksson, Ron Tribe, Hiro Urakami, Jan Wade, Jean Marie Weakland, among others.

A major publication, Dreaming Forward: Worlds on Paper from Kinngait features over 150 never-before-seen original drawings by internationally renowned Inuit artists from Kinngait (Cape Dorset). In 1990, the celebrated printmaking studio in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) transferred their complete drawings archive to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Ontario for safekeeping. The McMichael recently completed the digitization of this invaluable treasury of works, making it accessible to communities across the Arctic as well as to the wider public. Dreaming Forward, an exhibition led by Inuit curator Emily Laurent Henderson, explores the profound impact and importance of drawing in Kinngait, not just as a precursor to printmaking, but as a vital and enduring discipline in its own right. This groundbreaking Inuit-led publication includes essays by Susan Aglukark, Kyle Aleekuk, Mark Bennett, Napatsi Folger, Jamesie Fournier, Janice Grey, Jonas Laurent Henderson, Jessica Kotierk, Nicole Luke, Malayah Maloney, Aghalingiak Ohokannoak, Jocelyn Piirainen, Krista Ulukuk Zawadski, and others, and explores the transition from traditional life on the land to 21st century community living. Kinngait is renowned internationally for printmaking but an exploration of the drawings archive reveals careers previously overlooked while also allowing established artists to be seen in a new light. Dreaming Forward provides a richer understanding of the creativity that blossomed in Kinngait over four decades, as the print making studio rose to international renown. This publication animates the legacy of Kinngait Studio and its role in generating, nurturing, and promoting artists who continue to challenge expectations and provoke fresh understandings.

A personal and intimate perspective on one of Canada's most prominent 20th century multidisciplinary artists, who was once described as "abstraction's poet-philosopher." Charles Gagnon (1934-2003) was a painter, photographer and filmmaker considered by many to be an important figure in Quebec and Canadian art in the 20th century. His early career emerged alongside the American Abstract Expressionists and his growing multidisciplinary practice broke away from the singularity of painting shared by his Montreal contemporaries of the Automatistes and the Plasticiens. The complexity and depth of his work as a painter, photographer, and filmmaker was distinguished by a probing, introspective quality. His paintings were simultaneously rigid and free-flowing, with self-imposed rules and structure contrasted by rich fracture and gestural brush work. Across all disciplines he played with multiple levels of perception, and many works evoke the liminal space of the threshold, or multi-plane spaces. In Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space, this long-standing multidisciplinary work is brought into full view with texts that explore Gagnon's various practices, from painting to photography to film. An English-language essay by art historian and curator Roald Nasgaard chronicles Gagnon's artistic evolution from his early years in New York in the 1950s to his final productive years in the late 1990s in Quebec, and situates him within an expanded international historical context of artists, artworks, and art movements. Filmmaker and professor Olivier Asselin's French-language essay engages Gagnon's use of different media, including the role of sound and music in his artworks. Michiko Yajima Gagnon, the wife of the late artist, gives insight into the inseparability of everyday life and Charles's creative undertakings: his friendships with other artists (Tōru Takemitsu, Lee Friedlander), travel (to New York, Japan, and, particularly, the American Southwest), and the relationship between the landscapes surrounding his studios and his artwork. Featuring more than 250 art reproductions and archival images, Charles Gagnon is an intimate portrait of an artist and the celebration of a life's work.

Sea of Islands brings together knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific with Western scholars working with Pacific collections—as well as members of diasporic Oceanic communities—to share the stories and journeys of the objects that comprise Canada’s largest Oceanic collection, housed at The Museum of Anthropology at UBC.In 1927 a stunning collection of 1,500 items—from canoes and barkcloths, to paintings and musical instruments, to tools and masks—was donated by adventurer and writer Dr. Frank Burnett to the University of British Columbia. This donation would be the founding collection of the University’s Museum of Anthropology, which has since grown to become Canada’s largest and most diverse Oceanic collection.Today, museums acknowledge they live with a legacy of a different time that situates their collections in a difficult and contested past. Author Carol E. Mayer’s text draws on her decades of research and outreach centered around the complex intersections between museum collections, contemporary art practices and different knowledge systems. The result is an exploration of MOA’s Oceanic collection’s objects—old and new—alongside stories and journeys of those objects as shared by knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific. The text considers how these items continue to articulate systems of meaning and engender new relationships, and is illustrated with stunning photographs of the collection, and field photographs from Oceanic communities.

From railway disasters and robberies to mycology and mountain biking, twelve authors tell true stories of Cumberland, BC, that highlight the diverse and eclectic history of the vibrant village. Established as a coal mining camp in the late nineteenth century and now reborn as a centre of arts, culture, and outdoor recreation in Vancouver Island's Comox Valley, Cumberland has long fostered a strong sense of community that has attracted residents from all over the world. In this collection of riveting historical accounts, touching personal memoirs, and engaging creative non-fiction essays--complemented by more than two dozen historical and contemporary photos--writers with ties to Cumberland and the Comox Valley reveal lesser-known aspects of the region's colourful past. We hear about Joe Naylor, the unsung mentor to celebrated labour activist Ginger Goodwin, and the immigrants from countries like China and Italy who crossed oceans to work in the mines and build a new life. The story of the Ogaki family, active in the logging industry until their forced relocation to internment camps during World War II, demystifies the origins of the Japanese-Canadian comfort dish Cumberland Chow Mein. The aftermath of a collapsed rail trestle and the criminal exploits of "The Flying Dutchman" speak to the prejudices and priorities of the early twentieth century. Biographies of Diana Bruce, the first hotelier in Cumberland, and Dr. Irene Mounce, a pioneering mycologist raised in the village, illustrate the challenges faced--and overcome--by women of the era. Closer to the present, we hear of the grassroots trailbuilding work that put Cumberland on the mountain biking map, and how efforts at building affordable housing in the community led to the carving and installation of two welcome poles by local First Nations carvers, to help make more visible the long history and continued presence of the K'ómoks people in the area.

People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie features more than 100 photographs taken by John Macfie as he worked as a trapline manager in Northern Ontario for the Department of Lands and Forests in the 1950s and 1960s. A settler, Macfie developed deep and lasting relationships with Anishinaabe, Cree and Oji-Cree communities in the region including Attawapiskat, Sandy Lake, and Mattagami as he travelled the vast expanse of the Hudson Bay watershed. Macfie's photographs bear witness to the adaptability and survivance of Indigenous people in a period of dramatic change, and the pleasures of ways of life firmly rooted in the land. Curated by nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw (Willow Cree) curator, writer, journalist, cultural advocate, and commentator Paul Seesequasis, the book centers the lives and resiliency of the Indigenous people represented, many of whom have been identified by Macfie and Seesequasis. The accompanying exhibition is part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

An intimately candid memoir about the ambitions, struggles, and achievements of one of Canada's most prolific and important modernist artists.Why do I paint? I paint because I must.But why must I? As Picasso wouldanswer, why must a bird sing?I want a kind of dangerous art, risking the daemonic—a form emerging out of chaos like a rare monster surfacing from the deep, throwing offspumes, breathing the air.Jack Leonard Shadbolt (1909–1998) was one of Canada’s most prolific modernist artists, deeply influenced both by the West Coast landscapes and cultures that surrounded him and by the wider international currents in artmaking. Throughout his life, he remained singularly fixated on the question of how to make great art, bringing articulate and piercing analysis to a life-long search for meaning through his ceaseless acts of art.He also yearned—as we all do—to belong and to be understood. Using excerpts from his sometimes startlingly self-confessional journals, letters, talks, and writings, as well as his poetry, arts critic Susan Mertens—who enjoyed a twenty-five-year friendship with Shadbolt—crafts an intimate and candid collage of an extraordinarily driven and divided personality navigating the rapidly changing social and artistic challenges of the 20th century.This is the memoir Shadbolt never quite got around to writing.

"An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition.”—VoguePart look-book, part memoir, and part history, this beautifully illustrated monument to a singular designer who helped inspire the growing Indigenous fashion movement is also a powerful demonstration of the enduring resonance and possibilities of Haida art.Inspired by a discussion with celebrated Haida artist Bill Reid, Haida designer Dorothy Grant made it her life’s mission to bring her culture’s traditional art into contemporary fashion while adhering to the principle of Yaguudang, or respect for oneself and others. The 1989 launch of her Feastwear collection, featuring modern silhouettes hand-appliquéd with Northwest Coast formline, immediately established her at the forefront of Indigenous fashion in North America, and she has since hosted runway shows and trunk sales from Paris to Vancouver to Tokyo. Her clients include Indigenous leaders, national politicians, and global celebrities, and her garments can be found in museums and galleries around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread is the first monograph to celebrate her trailblazing career. It features new photography of dozens of garments spanning the past four decades, modeled in studio and natural settings in Vancouver and Haida Gwaii, alongside sketches, traditional button robes and spruce-root weaving, and personal stories and reflections from Grant. Essays by Haida repatriation specialist and museologist Sdahl Ḵ’awaas Lucy Bell and curator India Rael Young place Grant in the long continuum of Haida fashion and trace the many innovations and accomplishments of her journey, and Haida curator and artist Kwiaahwah Jones, a longtime assistant to Grant, shares behind-the-scenes insights and memories. An associated exhibition, Dorothy Grant: Raven Comes Full Circle, opens at Haida Gwaii Museum in July 2024.

A vibrant collection of 70 recipes from San Diego’s top restaurants and chefs that celebrates America’s Finest City’s diverse culinary scene.San Diego is known for sun, surf, and slinging excellent tacos and beer. But when it comes to the restaurant scene, there’s a whole world of multi-cultural eats to explore—in and beyond the city limits. From casual yet-design-centric brunch cafés to high-end sushi restaurants, and from farmers’ market stalls to Michelin-starred dining experiences, this is a place where chefs and foodies alike enjoy the benefits of the region’s enviously long growing season, proximity to the sea, cross-cultural exchanges with Mexico, and the overall diversity of its population.San Diego Cooks proudly presents some of the city (and county)’s most iconic dishes. Recipes such as TJ Oyster Bar’s Baja Fish Tacos and Kettner Exchange’s Kale Salad with Lemon-Pepper Dressing come together quickly with a quick sear of protein and a few turns of a mixing bowl. Smokin J’s Smoked Brisket Chili with Cornbread and Extraordinary Desserts’ Lemon Meringue Cake are surefire crowd-pleasers. And with easy-to-find ingredients and simple instructions, all recipes are designed for home cooks of all levels. For those who want to level up, consider Valle’s charred Onion Tart and Avant’s Grilled Rib-eye with Mole Demi and Guajillo Marmalade.Welcome to a taste of some of the chefs, bakers, distillers, and more who are nourishing us with their passion, stories, eats, and sips throughout this dynamic region.

An eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast.Though women of the Northwest Coast have long carved poles, canoes, panels, and masks, many of these artists have not become as well known outside their communities as their male counterparts. These artists are cherished within their communities for helping to keep traditional carving practices alive, and for maintaining the dances, songs, and ceremonies that are intertwined with visual art production. This book, and an associated exhibition at the Audain Art Museum, gathers a range of sculptural formats by Indigenous women in order to expand the discourse of carving in the region.Both the exhibition and publication are co-curated by Dana Claxton, artist, filmmaker and head of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory; and Dr. Curtis Collins, the AAM’s Director & Chief Curator. Commentaries by Skeena Reece, Claxton, and Marika Swan, and interviews with artists Dale Campbell and Mary Anne Barkhouse are presented alongside more than one hundred artworks from public and private collections across North America, including several newly commissioned pieces.Featured artists include:Ellen Neel (Kwakwaka'wakw, 1916–1966)Freda Diesing (Haida, 1925–2002)Doreen Jensen (Gitxsan, 1933–2009)Susan Point (Musqueam, b. 1952)Dale Campbell (Tahltan, b. 1954)Marianne Nicolson (Kwakwaka’wakw, b. 1969)Arlene Ness (Gitxsan, b. 1970s)Melanie Russ (Haida, b. 1977)Marika Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth, b. 1982)Morgan Asoyuf (Ts’msyen, b. 1984)Cori Savard (Haida, b. 1985)Cherish Alexander (Gitwangak, b. 1987)Stephanie Anderson (Wetsuwet’en, b. 1991)Veronica Waechter (Gitxsan, b. 1995)

Exquisitely detailed drawings offer a “field guide” to ubiquitous but overlooked elements of Vancouver’s urban landscape.Three series of intricate graphite drawings depict, with arresting realism, real-world examples of assembled, grown, and built objects common to distinct milieus of Vancouver: the shopping carts piled high with belongings that clatter along sidewalks in the downtown core; the long, high hedges that insulate single-family homes from the din of arterial traffic; and the sculptural lions placed for good luck atop fenceposts in front of many homes, especially on the city’s east side.In creating snapshots and then laborious drawings of these objects, Taizo Yamamoto, the principal of Yamamoto Architecture, was driven by a fascination with how the recurrence of these seemingly mundane objects speaks to omnipresent issues of housing unaffordability, densification, and the aspirations of diasporic communities—concerns that have an uneasy relationship to celebrated narratives of Vancouver but play a prominent role in residents’ everyday lives. To this work he brings not just sustained careful attention but an architect’s eye for details both structural and textural, resulting in immersive, richly nuanced drawings.New essays and fiction from three authors engages the work through prose: Aaron Peck, author of Jeff Wall: North & West (2015), interprets the shopping cart drawings as an appreciation of “ephemeral architecture” and sees affinities to work by Walker Evans and Hilda and Bernd Becher; a short story by Giller Prize–nominated author Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu, 2023) imagines the lives behind the hedges; and Jackie Wong, senior editor of The Tyee, reports on the origin, production, and symbolism of the many lions dotting the city.