“I have always been drawn to Pegi Nicol MacLeod’s work because of her radical creativity and fierce independence. She was a rebel in the best sense, unwilling to conform, unwilling to borrow anyone else’s visual language, and unwilling to bend to the expectations placed on women of her generation. She pursued her own vision with remarkable determination and with an energy entirely her own.”

– Devon Smither

About The Author

Devon Smither is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Lethbridge. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Toronto and is a founding member of Open Art Histories and the Prairie Art Network. An award-winning scholar, her research and teaching examine nation-building, gender, and the development of modern art and visual culture in early twentieth-century Canada and North America. Her writing has appeared in RACAR and Sociology Lens. She is co-author of CanadARThistories, the first open access educational resource on Indigenous and Canadian art history. She is currently co-leading Parallel, a SSHRC-funded research project aimed at producing the first comprehensive history of artist-run centres in Canada.