197:(1999). She was instrumental in bringing in the Kinngait archive (of almost 100,000 drawings) from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Kinngait to nouse it in the McMichael gallery in 1991. She continued to broaden the McMichael's scope by curating and writing about contemporary artists including shows about
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for her B.A. in
English literature and classics, graduating in 1967. Additional studies in Israel (1960-1961) and particularly Greece (1965-1966) interested her in art history. She completed her M.F.A. In 1974 at the
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