Emma Lake Artists' Workshops
The Emma Lake Artists' Workshops are affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Summer art classes were originally taught by Augustus Kenderdine at Murray Point on Emma Lake in 1936. Kenneth Lochhead and Arthur McKay, professors at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus initiated the more famous Emma Lake Artists' Workshops in 1955.
Workshop leaders by date
- 1955 Jack Shadbolt
- 1956 Joseph Plaskett
- 1957 Will Barnet
- 1958 No workshop
- 1959 Barnett Newman
- 1960 John Ferren
- 1961 Herman Cherry
- 1962 Clement Greenberg
- 1963 Kenneth Noland
- 1964 Jules Olitski and Stephan Wolpe
- 1965 Lawrence Alloway and John Cage
- 1966 Harold Cohen
- 1967 Frank Stella
- 1968 Donald Judd
- 1969 Michael Steiner
- 1970 Ronald B. Kitaj
- 1971 no workshop
- 1972 Roy Kiyooka
- 1973 William Wiley
- 1974 no workshop
- 1975 no workshop
- 1976 Toni Onley, Douglas Haynes, Hubert Hohn, Sidney Tillim, Harold Feist, Hans Dommasch, Daniel Solomon, Andre Fauteux, Otto Rogers, Bruce O'Neil, Joseph Reeder, and Alan Gliko
- 1977 Wynona Mulcaster, Richard Mock, Warren Rohrer, Ken Carpenter, Edna Andrade, Mina Forsyth, Rick Chenier, Carol Sutton, Anthony Caro, Terry Fenton, Douglas Bentham, and Otto Rogers
- 1978 no workshop
- 1979 Friedel Dzubas and John Elderfield
- 1980 Kenworth Moffett and Darryl Hughto
- 1981 Walter Darby Bannard and John McLean
- 1982 Stanley Boxer and James Wolfe
- 1983 Charles Millard and Larry Zox
- 1984 Tim Scott and Valentin Tatransky
- 1985 Maryann Harmon and Karen Wilkin
- 1986 Peter Bradley and John Link
- 1987 Tim Hilton and Terry Atkinson
- 1988 Joseph Drapell, Harold Feist, and Douglas Haynes
- 1989 Paterson Ewen, Sandra Paikowsky, and Joseph Masheck
- 1990 Mali Morris, Robert Kudielka, Dorothy Knowles, and Willard Boepple
- 1991 Kenneth Noland, John Gibbons, Terry Fenton and Nancy Tousley
- 1992
- 1993 Medrie McFwee, Lee Tribe, and Lynn Donahue
- 1994 Janet Fish and Victor Cicansky
- 1995 Judith Swartz and Landon Mackenzie
- 2001 Chris Cran
- 2002
- 2003 Karen Wilkin and Clay Ellis
- 2004
- 2005 Robert Christie and Ron Shuebrook
- 2007 Monica Tap
- 2009 Kim Dorland
- 2010
- 2011 David T. Alexander
- 2012 Elizabeth McIntosh
Publications
- The Flat Side of the Landscape: the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops / curator/editor: John O'Brian; essays, John O'Brian... Saskatoon : Mendel Art Gallery, c1989
- Abstraction West : Emma Lake and after = Abstraction dans l'Ouest : le lac Emma et après / by Terry Fenton. Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada for the Corporation of the National Museums of Canada, 1976
- Emma Lake Workshops, 1955-1973. September 21 to October 21, 1973. Regina : Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1973