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Olga Campbell
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August 15, 2022 (Creation)
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Oral History Interview with Olga Campbell for the JMABC Artists Scribe. Interviewed by Bill Gruenthal. Olga Campbell was born in Iraq in 1943 and immigrated to Canada at the age of five in 1948. She explains her family’s experience with both Russian prison camps and the Holocaust during WWII, where they eventually made it safely to Canada. She discusses her journey as a social worker turned arts professional, including her time spent at Emily Carr and Capilano arts schools. As a second generation Holocaust survivor, Olga discusses how being Jewish and the associated inter-generational trauma of Holocaust survivorship has informed her works. Olga is a mixed-media artist, working in digital and traditional mediums, including collage and sculpture. She also published her art in a book focused on her family’s experience of the Holocaust that has fostered connections to her story, shared herein.
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Interviewer: Bill Gruenthal
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Place of interview: Vancouver, British Columbia
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Birthdate: 14 February 1943
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Birthplace: Baghdad, Iraq
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- Persons » Immigrants
- Professional services » Social Work
- Visual arts » Painting
- Visual arts » Sculpture
- Education » Adult Education
- Holocaust
- Occupations » Visual Artists
- Visual arts » Mixed-Media Arts
- Occupations » Visual Artists » Mixed-Media Artists
- Visual arts » Metalworking
- Buildings and Institutions » Schools » Universities » Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- Visual arts » Printmaking
- Occupations » Writers
- Wars » World War II
- Community service » Volunteerism