Leslie J. Fawkes (b. January 29, 1963, Vancouver), an artist hailing from North Vancouver, embarked on her artistic journey in the early 1980s at Emily Carr College of Art and Design on Granville Island. Fawkes' portfolio is distinguished by its bold and bright aesthetic, characterized by a striking use of screen printing, acrylic painting on paper, and oil stick drawings on paper. Her art prominently features nude singular figures, couples, and male/female forms, presented with a compelling combination of sensitivity and boldness. Previously, Fawkes' art has been exhibited and represented by galleries such as Crown Galleries and Onley Gallery in Vancouver, as well as Marianne Partlow Gallery in Washington state.

Susan Gransby (b. 1947, London, England) is a Canadian printmaker based in Burnaby, British Columbia. She immigrated to Canada with her family as a child and later earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia in 1969, followed by an Honours Diploma in Printmaking from the Vancouver School of Art in 1979. Before dedicating herself fully to her art practice, Gransby worked as a reporter, copy editor, and assistant art editor at the Vancouver Sun. In 1983 she began working at the Malaspina Printmakers Studio, where she has also served on the board, and she has been a trustee of the Burnaby Art Gallery. Gransby works primarily in etching, reduction linocut, monotype, and mixed media. Her practice centres on urban and industrial architecture, filtering observed structures through memory and imagination. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Council Art Bank, Burnaby Art Gallery, and Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC).

Libby Hague (b. 1950, St. Thomas, Ontario) is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto, known for her innovative work in printmaking and immersive installations. She holds a BFA (Honours) from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA). Hague is also affiliated with Open Studio, a Toronto-based printmaking cooperative. Hague has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally. Notable exhibitions include The Past is Never Over, a retrospective at the Art Gallery of Mississauga; Every Heart Can Grow Bigger: Make Room at O.D.D. Gallery in Dawson City, Yukon; and On This Wondrous Sea at the Karachi Biennale in Pakistan. In addition to her artistic endeavors, Hague has contributed to the academic community as a printmaking instructor at Sheridan College from 1988 to 2002. Her work is represented in several public collections, including the Donovan Collection at the University of Toronto.

Anna Wong (1930-2013) was born and raised in Chinatown in Vancouver, BC. In her early twenties, Wong worked at her family’s business, Modernize Tailors. After studying Chinese brush painting in Hong Kong and graduating from the Vancouver School of Art with a degree in creative printmaking, she continued on to study and teach at the Pratt Graphics Center in New York City. In the 1960’s her original prints received several international prizes. She has represented Canada in a number of international print biennials, and was featured in a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery of China in Beijing in 1979.

The Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection comprises over 40,000 35-mm images taken for the weekly Vancouver labour newspaper Pacific Tribune. The images cover a twenty-year period, from 1972 to 1992, one of the most active periods in British Columbia’s labour history. Originally established by the Communist Party of Canada as the B.C. Workers’ News in 1935, the newspaper began publishing under the name Pacific Tribune in 1946. For most of its history, it relied on photographs borrowed from other publications for illustration and the year 1972 marked the first time that staff was specifically assigned to photography. Associate editor, and later editor, Sean Griffin shot photographs for the paper throughout the twenty years, and he was later joined on staff by another writer-photographer Dan Keeton, who began work in 1982 and continued until the paper ceased publication in 1992. 

From 1978 to 2018, Perry Giguere (aka 'Perry the Poster Man') made a living putting up promotional posters all over Vancouver, always holding on to an extra copy or two at the end of a job. Through this habit, Giguere built a collection of posters that, altogether, document cultural, social and political life in Vancouver over the past four decades. The collection now stands at approximately 35,000 posters. Giguere was born in Quebec City on December 16, 1950. After spending his early years in Montreal, he moved to Vancouver in 1973. While studying to be an actor at the Firehall Theatre in 1978, he was approached to put up promotional posters for the theatre and postering soon turned into a full-time, forty-year career. Giguere passed away in Vancouver on June 17, 2018. 

Joshua Segun-Lean is a writer, curator, and editor. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, C Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of Do Not Send Me Out Among Strangers. Segun-Lean holds a MA in Contemporary Arts from Simon Fraser University.