MONTREAL/September 29, 2008—
Concordia University is proud to announce the launch of the Canadian Women’s Artists History Initiative. This initiative establishes, for the first time in Canada, a centralized, publicly accessible, online database of historical Canadian women artists (born before 1925). Other projects from the Initiative include a documentation centre and fostering of scholarship on the subject.
This kind of archive has long existed in countries such as the United States, Australia and the U.K., but never before in Canada. 200 entries have already been completed in the online database. Each entry provides biographical information, major sources for research materials and a detailed bibliography of texts and writings about the artist.
The initiative will officially launch during the inaugural conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Connections will take place from October 2 -4, 2008 in the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (1515 Ste. Catherine St. West).
For more information on the Database or the conference, please visit http://cwahi.concordia.ca/ or contact Janice Anderson at ext. 4274 or janicea@alcor.concordia.ca.
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
