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A NSCAD alumni, Rick Janson studied under Riduan Tompkins, Nancy Edell, Ed Porter and Medrie McPhee before graduating with his BFA in 1987. He is the past editor of Visual Arts News Magazine (Visual Arts Nova Scotia) as well as briefly the editor of the NSCAD Alumni News. He has exhibited at numerous venues as well as had a short film shown at the Atlantic Film Festival in 1998. His studio is in Oshawa, Ontario.

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  • Circle of Fantasy

    Circle of Fantasy

    Women make up 80 per cent of fiction sales, according to statistics from an opinion column in today’s New York Times. “The fiction gap makes me sad,” writes columnist Maureen Dowd. Me too. It also explains a lot. Dowd quotes author (and man) Richard Babcock: “Not to blame the current cultural landscape on Ronald Reagan,…

  • Dispersing of a second life

    Dispersing of a second life

    There is a sad story in the New York Times today. As an artist, it made me stop in my tracks. Could this be me some day? Author Alissa Quart writes about having to sell and give away about 400 paintings by her 90-year-old mother, who was a literature scholar up until her retirement 30…