Oral Interview with Miriam Aroeste for the JMABC Artists Scribe. Interviewed by Daniella Givon. Miriam was born in Mexico City in 1961 and she explains how her family ended up in Mexico from Poland prior to WWII. She discusses her immediate family, and how her and her husband resettled in Vancouver in 1990. Miriam talks about her career in the film industry and how she transitioned to visual arts with inspiration from her father and the need to balance her career with parenthood. She speaks about having little interest in arts, besides dance, growing up, but that changed when she lived in Europe for almost a decade during her 20s. Miriam describes her art style as more abstract than figurative and discusses her love of bright colours and the necessity of knowing what you want from an art career. She talks about curating art for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics, selling her work, and the kinds of commissions she enjoys. Lastly Miriam discusses her time in art galleries as an artist, curator and art consultant and what she had learned about art collectors and art institutions along the way.
Oral Interview with Joyce Ozier for the JMABC Artists Scribe. Interviewed by Carol Herbert. She speaks about her upbringing in the Jewish community of Boston, MA and provides a brief summary of her immediate family. She talks about her education, including her early artistic influences, and anecdotes relating to producing art and experiences as a child and teen. Joyce talks about how her arts career truly started in the experimental theatre/performance art scene in 1970 Vancouver. She talks about how this led her into arts administration in dance companies, and later teaching English as a second language into her fifties. Joyce explains how ESL teaching didn’t bring her the same happiness as the arts, and how her son convinced her to try store window dressing, which she eventually turned into a business for 10 years. She tells of how she transitioned to a full time visual artist, and how her art style is based in abstraction, movement and thematic use of colour. She also describes a prominent collection of work about the Holocaust that she is most proud of. She talks about how she continues to paint, and is also a part of a collective that she created for artists aged 65 and above called the B-Older Gallery.
Photograph depicts a lecture at the Anglican Theological College of B.C. at the University of British Columbia.
Group of twelve young men sitting in folding wooden chairs; minister or instructor standing at a podium in left of image; arched doorway and barren light walls.
Photograph depicts a sermon being delivered at the Anglican Theological College of B.C. chapel at the University of British Columbia.
Group of twelve young men with their backs to the camera, seated in hard looking wooden chairs; young man in pulpit wearing a white robe and minister's collar, presumably delivering a sermon; simple altar with two vases flanking a Calvary cross; curtain hung behind altar; pebbled glass windows on left side of minister.
Photograph depicts the cafeteria at the Anglican Theological College of B.C. at the University of British Columbia.
Men sitting at three tabled with white tablecloths and wooden chairs; wrought iron pendant lighting fixtures hanging from ceiling; piano in middle right of image; older man wearing minister's collar in far left of image.
Photograph depicts the decorative pool and formal gardens at UBC.
Front shot of rectangular decorative pool framed by low hedge; two women sitting on bench behind pool, man standing to the left of them; formal gardens and buildings in the background; photograph has spots of discolouration, presumably from poor washing after developing.
Photograph depicts the Agriculture Department of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Large group of people standing in front of house-like structure with a row of windows; three cows in front of group of people; weeds and dirt in foreground of image; "-13689-" written in white in bottom left corner.
Photograph depicts grain fields at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Two agricultural labourers wearing hats in middle of grain field in middle of image; dirt path in foreground; telephone poles and small out buildings in background.
