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Victor Cicansky (Czekanski) was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He completed a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1964, and a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1967. In 1970 Cicansky received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Davis. Cicansky also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Art at Deere Isle, Maine.

In addition to teaching at the University of Regina for over 20 years, Cicansky has taught courses at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of California at Davis and the Banff Centre of Fine Arts. He has also presented various workshops, lectures and slide presentations across Canada.

Cicansky’s sculptures and wall murals have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in public and commercial galleries across Canada, the United States, England, France and China. He has been a member of several Canada Council and other art competition juries and has also served on the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery Board, the Wascana Centre Arts Advisory Committee, and the Applied Arts Advisory Committee of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Woodland Campus in Prince Albert.

Vic Cicansky retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Regina Department of Visual Arts in 1994 and in 2007 received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regina.

Victor Cicansky’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, Japan, and Europe.

His clay and bronze sculptures, often describing cultural, agricultural and historical circumstances of the Canadian prairies, are represented in collections at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Fine Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo — just to name a few.

Some of his commissioned works have include pieces created for the City of Regina, Government of Saskatchewan, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the 1976 Olympic Games and in 1989 for the provincial visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York.

Victor is the recipient of many Canada Council grants and has won awards such as the Victoria and Albert Award for Ceramic Sculpture, the California Kingsley Annual Award for Sculpture and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

In 2009 his many contributions to the arts, as a sculptor, an educator and mentor were recognized as he was named a member of the Order of Canada. Victor Cicansky passed away on March 3, 2025 .

Anne Campbell was born in Paddockwood, Saskatchewan and attended school in Saskatoon and Hanley. She studied at the Saskatchewan School of the Arts, the University of Regina and, Drama, at the Regina Conservatory. She has worked in the area of public relations and administration for cultural and arts organizations, including the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, and the Regina Public Library where she was also administrator of community services: Literacy, adult public programming; Writer in Residence; Homebound and Visual Impairment, and a First Nations community library. Anne was named a Research Fellow of the University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Centre for research on the Regina Five visual artist, Arthur McKay, and where she co-edited two award-winning non-fiction books. Campbell has published six collections of poetry. Her poetry and prose have been featured in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio. She has garnered awards for her writing including Canada Council and Saskatchewan Arts Board Awards, Saskatchewan Writers Guild Major Awards, the City of Regina Writing Award and City of Regina Heritage and Mayor’s Arts Awards. She has presented readings, talks and workshops across Canada and her musical compositions with Tom Schudel have been performed internationally.

Sharon Butala was born in 1940 and has lived all but six years of her life in Saskatchewan (33 years in the southwest of Saskatchewan) she resides now in Calgary. Sharon has one son and two grandchildren.

She received her B.A. and B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan. Besides having been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies she has published sixteen books.

Amongst other honours Butala has won the Marian Engel Award for Women Writers in Mid-Career, 1986 Writers' Choice Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards and Western Magazine Awards. She has also won a Saskatchewan Writers Guild Member's Achievement Award, a Canadian Authors’ Award, Canada 125 Commemorative Medal, Queen's Jubilee Medal and the Centennial Medal. She initiated and chaired a committee to make the Wallace Stegner house available as a Writer/Artist’s residence. Butala has received two honorary doctorates and is an Officer in the Order of Canada.

Claude Breeze, sometimes also known as cHerbert, was born in Nelson, British Columbia in 1938. He received early education and art training in Saskatoon studying under Ernest Lindner. He attended the School of Art at Regina College and graduated in 1958, receiving instruction from Roy Kiyooka, Ronald Bloore, Art McKay and Ken Lochhead. In 1959 he attended the Vancouver School of Art.

In 1967 Claude Breeze was employed as a Sessional Instructor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby and then at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta. Moving to Ontario he worked as the Artist-in-Residence from 1972 to 1975 at the University of Western Ontario and then moved back to Alberta to be a Sessional Visiting Instructor at the University of Calgary in 1975. Moving back to Toronto in the following year he became an Associate Professor at York University. In 1988 he was a Sessional Visiting Professor at the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver.

Breeze held his first one-man show in 1965, “Lovers in a Landscape” at the New Design Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since then he has had many one-man exhibitions and has participated in group shows in Canada, the United States, England, France, Scotland and China. Breeze was an early pioneer in the use of digital technology in studio art making. His work is held in many private, corporate and public collections. His art deals mainly with social and political issues and is manipulated as a combination of expressionist figure to non-representational motifs.

Claude Breeze was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1974 and awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1978, he is a painter with a national reputation as well as Professor Emeritus at York University