Ina Duncan Dewar Uhthoff (1889-1971). A key figure in the cultural history of Victoria, contemporary of Emily Carr, Uhthoff was a single parent, an artist, teacher, and art critic for the Times Colonist. Born in Scotland she trained at the Glasgow School of Art came to Canada in 1913 and lived in the Kootenays. Founder of the Victoria School of Art and prime mover in the founding of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Glenbow Museum.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christina Johnson-Dean graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. (History, Art), completed Education at San Jose State University for a Professional Teacher’s Certificate and taught elementary school. She then travelled around the world, teaching E.S.L. in Thailand and elementary school in New Zealand. She immigrated to Canada, where she completed an M.A. (History in Art) at the University of Victoria, worked as a teaching assistant for the department and created courses on local art history for Continuing Studies. Her publications include The Crease Family: A Record of Settlement and Service in British Columbia (1981, B.C. Archives) and B.C. Women Artists 1885-1920 in the exhibition British Columbia Women Artists (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1985). She has also taught in School District #61 Victoria (mainly Special Education and E.S.L.), while she and her husband raised their two daughters.

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