Emma Lake Artist's 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 (now called the University of Regina since 1974) initiated the more famous Emma Lake Artists' Workshops in 1955.

Workshop leaders by date

 * 1955  Jack Shadbolt (workshop leader)
 * 1956  Joseph Plaskett (workshop leader)
 * 1957  Will Barnet (workshop leader)
 * 1958  No workshop
 * 1959  Barnett Newman (workshop leader)
 * 1960  John Ferren (workshop leader)
 * 1961  Herman Cherry (workshop leader)
 * 1962  Clement Greenberg (workshop leader)
 * 1963  Kenneth Noland (workshop leader)
 * 1964  Jules Olitski and Stephan Wolpe (workshop leaders)
 * 1965  Lawrence Alloway and John Cage (workshop leaders)
 * 1966  Harold Cohen (workshop leader)
 * 1967  Frank Stella (workshop leader)
 * 1968  Donald Judd (workshop leader) (The workshop was not held at Emma Lake, but at Rapid River Lodge, Lac La Ronge)
 * 1969  Michael Steiner (workshop leader)
 * 1970  Ronald B. Kitaj (workshop leader)
 * 1971  no workshop
 * 1972  Roy Kiyooka (workshop leader)
 * 1973  William Wiley (workshop leader)
 * 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 (workshop guest leaders)
 * 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 (workshop guest leaders)
 * 1978  no workshop
 * 1979  Friedel Dzubas and John Elderfield (workshop leaders)
 * 1980  Kenworth Moffett and Darryl Hughto (workshop leaders)
 * 1981  Walter Darby Bannard and John McLean (workshop leaders)
 * 1982  Stanley Boxer and James Wolfe (workshop leaders)
 * 1983  Charles Millard and Larry Zox (workshop leaders)
 * 1984  Tim Scott and Valentin Tatransky (workshop leaders)
 * 1985  Maryann Harmon and Karen Wilkin (workshop leaders)
 * 1986  Peter Bradley and John Link (workshop leaders)
 * 1987  Tim Hilton and Terry Atkinson (workshop leaders)
 * 1988  Joseph Drapell, Harold Feist, and Douglas Haynes (workshop leaders)
 * 1989  Paterson Ewen, Sandra Paikowsky, and Joseph Masheck (workshop leaders)
 * 1990  Mali Morris, Robert Kudielka, Dorothy Knowles, and Willard Boepple (workshop leaders)
 * 1991  Kenneth Noland, John Gibbons, Terry Fenton and Nancy Tousley (workshop leaders)
 * 1992
 * 1993  Medrie McFwee, Lee Tribe, and Lynn Donahue (workshop leaders)
 * 1994  Janet Fish and Victor Cicansky (workshop leaders)
 * 1995  Judith Swartz and Landon Mackenzie (workshop leaders)
 * 2001  Chris Cran (workshop leader)
 * 2002
 * 2003  Karen Wilkin and Clay Ellis (workshop leaders)
 * 2004
 * 2005  Robert Christie and Ron Shuebrook(co-workshop leaders)
 * 2007  Monica Tap (workshop leader)
 * 2009  Kim Dorland (workshop leader)
 * 2010
 * 2011  David T. Alexander (workshop leader)
 * 2012  Elizabeth McIntosh (workshop leader)

Publications

 * The Flat Side of the Landscape: the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops / curator/editor: John O'Brian ; essays, John O'Brian ... [et al.] Saskatoon : Mendel Art Gallery, c1989 (Published for the exhibition, The flat side of the landscape : the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops held from October 5, 1989 to April 21, 1991)
 * 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. [Catalogue of an exhibition held from] September 21 to October 21, 1973. Regina : Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1973