Harley Parker was a Canadian artist, designer, curator, professor and scholar - a frequent collaborator with fellow Canadian and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.
11 Facts About Harley Parker
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Harley Parker was awarded numerous grants over his life, including two Canada Council Grants, and a British Council of the Arts Grant.
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Harley Parker lectured all over the world, was published internationally, and collaborated closely with manifold scholars and thinkers, McLuhan among them.
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Harley Parker was born in Fort William, Ontario in 1915.
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Harley Parker graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario in 1939, and from there went on to work independently as an artist.
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Between the years of 1947 and 1957, Parker taught colour theory and design, as well as watercolour techniques, at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario.
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From 1967 until 1975, Harley Parker became involved with McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto as a research associate.
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In 1973, Harley Parker was selected to be the first Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York.
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Harley Parker returned to Canada the following year to pick up his work with McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology.
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Harley Parker retired from his scholarly career in 1976, whereupon he moved to British Columbia to live and paint in the Kootenay Mountains.
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Harley Parker participated in many solo and group exhibitions across Canada and the globe, both in solo and group shows, until his death in 1992.