Depicting Canada’s Children

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS Annmarie Adams is William C. Macdonald Professor andAssociate Director,Post-professional Programs,at the School of Architecture,McGill University.She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870–1900 (1996) and The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943 (2008), and co-author of DesigningWomen : Gender and the Architectural Profession (2000). Alena M. Buis received an M.A. in Canadian art history from Concordia University. Using an interdisciplinary approach, her studies focused on depictions of labour and visual representations of Canadian national identities. Now pursuing doctoral studies at Queen’s University, her research interests include early modern collecting practices, patterns of trade and exchange, and the role of women in the Netherlandish art market. Sherry Farrell Racette is an associate professor of art history at Concordia University. She is a member of Timiskaming First Nation and has taught extensively in Aboriginal education, Native Studies, and Indigenous art. An interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts practice, Farrell Racette received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 2004. Her publications include Clearing a Path: New Ways of Seeing Traditional Indigenous Art (with Carmen Robertson , 2009),“Sewing for a Living: The Commodification of Métis Women’s Artistic Production,” in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past (2005), and “Métis Man or Canadian Icon: Who Owns Louis Riel?” in Rielisms (2001). Derek Foster is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, at Brock University. His doctoral dissertation (Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, 2004) studied the evolution of squeegeeing as a controversial social issue through the lens of rhetorical theory . His current research focuses on the use of visual rhetoric in the public sphere and contesting discourses surrounding reality television. François-Marc Gagnon is chair and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University, professor emeritus at the Université de Montréal, and a member of the Order of Canada since 1999. He has published extensively in the field of Canadian art history. His book on Paul-Émile Borduas was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1978; his book on the automatist movement in Quebec received the Raymond Klibansky Prize in 1999. Susan Hart earned her Ph.D. in art history at Concordia University, where she also completed her M.A. in art history. Hart’s Ph.D. dissertation addresses notions of Canadian identity as constructed by commemorative monuments on Confederation Boulevard in Ottawa. Martha Langford is an associate professor of art history at Concordia University. She was founding director/ chief curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa (1985–1994). Major works 425 on photography include Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (2001); an edited collection, Image and Imagination (2005); and Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (2007), all from McGill-Queen’s University Press.An active independent curator, she was artistic director of the international photographic biennale Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005. Loren Lerner is professor and chair of art history at Concordia University. In 2005, Lerner curated Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood / Salut les filles! La jeune fille en images at the McCord Museum. Writings on the images of children include“From Victorian Girl Reader to Modern Woman Artist: Reading and Seeing in the Paintings of the Canadian Girl by William Brymner, Emily Coonan, and Prudence Heward,” in Canadian Children’s Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse (2007);“Canada Receiving the Homage of Her Children: George Reid’s Ave Canada and Gustav Hahn’s Hail Dominion: A Proposal of Murals for the Entrance Hall of Canada’s Parliament Buildings,” in Journal of Canadian Art History (2008); and “When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr. Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists,” in Healing the World’s Children (2008). She received a grant from Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture for her research on the representations of children in Canadian art. Patricia McKeever is a senior scientist and holder of the Bloorview Kids Foundation Chair in Childhood Disability Studies at the Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kid’s Rehab in Toronto, and a professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. She is a health sociologist whose scholarship focuses on children with chronic illnesses or disabilities and their built environments . From 2002...