Rick Janson Art Studio

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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.

Category: Facing History

  • Almost Canada’s Capital

    Almost Canada’s Capital

    The first time I ever went to Cobourg, Ontario was for supplies. My friend Dave had invited several of his high school pals (including me) to spend the weekend at his family cottage near Rice Lake. Being teenagers, it wasn’t long after we got there that we decided we needed some stuff. The rockin’ tunes…

  • Giverny

    Giverny

    Claude Monet’s gardens and home in Giverny see a succession of tour buses arrive daily, including ours which had left early morning from Paris. Curiously, outside the compound, the town is full of artist studios, all proclaiming to be modern-day impressionists. A few days earlier we had been to the L’Orangerie in the Tuileries Garden…

  • Free booze and art history

    Free booze and art history

    There were no mortar boards and gowns when I was awarded my BFA in the summer of 1987. It was a small graduating group, and instead of being held in the auditorium, NSCAD held the ceremony on the patio in the middle of the school, which at that time was housed above a block of…