Katherine Margaret "Kay" Angliss (1923 – 2004) was a Canadian artist. She was born on a farm in

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and grew up in

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. Angliss graduated from the

Vancouver School of Art Emily Carr University of Art + Design (abbreviated as ECU) is a public art university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The university's campus is located within the Great Northern Way Campus in Strathcona. The university is a co-e ...

in 1946, continuing her studies at the Emma Lake Art School in Saskatchewan, the

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and the

Alberta College of Art The Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) is a public art university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The university is a co-educational institution that operates four academic schools. The institution originated from the art departme ...

. She taught at the Alberta College of Art from 1965 to 1980. She also taught art classes for children at the Allied Arts Centre in

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from 1960 to 1974. In 1987, Angliss was appointed a Life Member of the Alberta Society of Artists. In 1994 she was a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy's Trust Fund. She is best known for her prints but also worked in

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and

fibre art Fiber art (fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as ...

. She married visual artist George Angliss. Angliss and her husband left Alberta for British Columbia in 1989. Her work is included in the collections of the

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, Alberta House in

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, England,

Kelowna Art Gallery Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan word ''kiʔ ...

and the

Confederation Centre Art Gallery The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG; french: Musée d’art du Centre de la Confédération) is an art museum that forms a part of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The art museum pavilion f ...

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. Angliss's work continues to be shown. The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie included Angliss's work in "The Printmakers: Abstract Prints from the 1960’s and 70’s" curated by Todd Schaber in 2014, and, in 2021, Angliss's work was include in Cochrane Public Library's exhibit "Figured" including the work of twelve Canadian artists including

Marion Nicoll Marion Florence Nicoll (née MacKay; 11 April 1909 – 6 March 1985) was a Canadian painter. She is known as one of the first abstract painters in Alberta. In 1933 she became the first woman instructor at the Provincial Institute of Technology a ...

and

Illingworth Kerr Illingworth "Buck" Kerr (20 August 1905 – 6 January 1989) was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known for his landscape paintings of the Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills. Early years Illingworth Holey Kerr w ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Angliss, Kay 1923 births 2004 deaths Artists from Alberta Artists from British Columbia 20th-century Canadian printmakers Canadian watercolourists Women watercolorists 20th-century Canadian women artists