Nova Scotia

Miya Turnbull

Miya Turnbull is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist. Primarily a mask maker, she also works in many mediums such as painting, photography, screen printing, textiles, video, animation and projection. She is of settler, mixed Japanese-Canadian ancestry(Yonsei) and grew up on a farm 45km NW of Edmonton, Alberta (Treaty 6 territory). Her mother, Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull, […]

Isao Sanami Morrill

Isao Sanami Morrill is a Japanese-born and educated potter and painter based in Nova Scotia. In addition to studying pottery with several Japanese masters, she has also studied Western pottery methods with Don Morrill, her husband, and others. She has travelled the world to study her craft in such places as Mexico, Nigeria, where she […]

Margaret Issenman

Margaret (Peggy) Issenman, graphic designer, was born in 1956 in Montreal to Arnold and Betty (nee Kobayashi) Issenman. She lived in Montreal until the age of 16. One year was spent in Edinburgh, Scotland to complete her high school education. In 1974, she began a program in graphic design and visual communication at the Nova […]

Naoko Furue

Naoko Furue is a textiles artist who was born in Tokyo, Japan and immigrated to Canada in 1971. She graduated from Tama Fine Art University in Tokyo with a BFA in 1964 and from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan with an MFA in 1967. Since 1976 she has been an Associate Professor of Textiles […]

Suezan Aikins

Suezan Aikins is a Nova Scotia-based artist who grew up in Montreal and studied fine art at universities and art schools in New Brunswick, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. In 1984-1985, her lifelong dream was realized when she went to Japan to study traditional Japanese art techniques under internationally known artist Yoshida Toshi, and his master […]