26 Facts About Kate Craig

Kate Craig was a Canadian video and performance artist, costume designer, and photographer.

Kate Craig was a founding member of the artist-run centre the Western Front, in 1973, and the artists-in-residence program in 1977.

Kate Craig supported the video and performance works of many artists while producing her own body of work.

Kate Craig is known for her performances such as "Lady Brute," and for her video works.

Catherine Shand Craig was born on September 15,1947, in Victoria, British Columbia.

Kate Craig was the third child of Sidney Osborne Craig and Charles Edward Craig.

The family moved to Montreal and then to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Kate Craig attended Dalhousie University starting in 1961.

Kate Craig quit her studies at Dalhousie in 1966 and began attending the University of Victoria the year after.

Kate Craig met the artist Eric Metcalfe at the University of Victoria, whom she married in 1969, as well as artist Dana Achtley who got her involved in the mail-art scene.

Kate Craig was, notably, the only female-identifying co-founder of Western Front.

Kate Craig established and curated the Western Front's Artist-in Residence video program from 1977 to 1993.

Kate Craig collected and kept many pieces of ephemera from her travels including cigarette boxes, stamps, and receipts.

Kate Craig was passionate about her administrative and facilitative duties at Western Front, including vigilant record keeping, and believed it to be an integral part of her artistic practice.

Kate Craig spent the late 1990s preparing for a major retrospective of her work at the Vancouver Art Gallery, entitled Skin.

Kate Craig's "idea of performance was always informed by community and based on thinking life is an art project", even at end of her life.

Kate Craig died of cancer in Storm Bay, British Columbia, in 2002.

Eric Metcalfe was a fine arts student at the University of Victoria and Kate Craig was drawn to his circle of artists and performers.

Kate Craig's approach involved unmasking socially constructed gender norms through the tactic of masquerade, a notion later theorized by Mary Ann Doane.

In 1974, Kate Craig was a founding member of the "ettes", a women's "postfeminist" performance group.

Kate Craig was a founder of the Lux Radio Players in 1974, a group involved in the collaborative writing and production of radio plays performed for live audiences and broadcast throughout North America over community radio stations until 1977.

Kate Craig was a founding member of The Canadian Shadow Players in 1976, performing nationally and internationally until 1986.

Kate Craig was "acutely aware" of her position as the only woman-identifying co-founder of Western Front and worked to invite other female artists to work there including Margaret Dragu, Granada Venne, Sanja Ivekovic, Gathie Falk, etc.

In 1976, Kate Craig took charge of organizing the Western Front's video production studio.

One notable collaboration of Kate Craig's is the performance "Back up," which she co-created with Margaret Dragu.

Kate Craig established and curated an Artist-in-Residence video program in 1977.

Kate Craig's works have continued to be showcased by the Western Front.