Where to look first.
Well, when I began this journey of a life, I did not realize where these many roadmaps of memory and creative observation would lead.
This website has become both an archival experiment and an experimental memoir. It’s an attempt to document my contribution to the culture of time and also give insights into my own beginnings, education, life events and the many influences and people who have shaped it. This has indeed become many stories of how a woman artist travelled from ‘there’ to ‘here’…….
Below: I have listed a few navigation suggestions for beginning the exploration.
Also: If you click on pictures they will open and expand. If you are looking for a specific show or event type it into the search bar
Ways In:
1. In About: An essay on my basic philosophy
2. Dance, Costume, Wood, and Perspective introductions: best explain my approach to the work
3. Education: explains how I became a sculptor at the University of Manitoba Art School and discusses fellow students and teachers.
4. University of Waterloo: Expo 1967: Tired Feet
5. Marshall McLuhan: The Bob Dylan Project film: Interesting project
6. TRIC Article on Stephen Katz and me
7. Essays: On Theatre and Production Design,Theatre in 1970’s Canada, How I Learned to See, Realism and Conceptualization, Tools of my Trade
8. Remarkable meetings: Bob Fosse, the Dalai Lama, Leonard Cohen
9. Video Interview 2023: on being awarded the Molson Prize
10. Mary through the ages: just for fun
Another approach
1. Education: how my life created my art ….
2. Themes: that recur in my art
3. Costumes: how I think about body coverings
4. Essays: a series of discussions on design, designers, directors, art and creating.
5. Indigenous collaboration
6. Exhibition design: Expo 67, Expo 86 and the Commonwealth Games of 1994
7. Films and television: The Toy Castle
8. Mentors and remarkable meetings
9. An extensive CV: for the fact people
10. Interviews: Compiled over the years. One from 1983 (but deteriorated in places) is one of the earliest and has a sort of innocent enthusiasm. I had just returned from India and In the Jungle of Cities was my first set of Doras.) plus it includes a nice interview with Danny Grossman as a young pup and him dancing Bella
11. My greatest collaborators section: Stephen Katz and Danny Grossman
12. Travels with Mary