Robert Christie

Throughout the 1970s, Robert Christie worked at the Mendel Art Gallery; taught Art at Aden Bowman Collegiate, Saskatoon; managed the Art Department Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan (which became the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, U of S); and became a Sessional Lecturer and then a Lecturer with Term in the Department of Art and Art History, U of S. From 1969 until 2000, he attended numerous Emma Lake Artists Workshops and the Triangle Artist Workshops in Pine Plains, New York, and Gaborone, Botswana. In 1978, he was a founding partner in The Gallery/Art Placement, Inc., a commercial art gallery in Saskatoon. He retired from the company in 2012.

Since the early 1970s, he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in public and private art galleries across Canada and elsewhere. His work is represented in several private, corporate, and public art gallery collections. He currently works full-time as an artist in Saskatoon.

Jordan Danchilla

Jordan Danchilla is a Saskatoon-born and -based artist. He studied art, majoring in printmaking at the University of Saskatchewan. His practice incorporates a variety of two-dimensional media like printmaking, drawing and painting. His work springs from a well of diverse influences ranging from the art of Ancient Egypt to mid-century American abstraction and contemporary graffiti muralists. In his recent, purely abstract paintings, his reduced, minimal aesthetic revolves around texture exploration, colour, and the interplay between positive and negative shapes. Despite the strictly formalist approach this description implies, Danchilla's work is invigorated by his omnivorous visual appetite and his playful process. Striking and graphic, idiosyncratic and unexpected, the resulting artworks are fresh, surprising, and visually compelling.

Jordan has exhibited his work locally in group and solo shows, and his artwork can be found in private collections throughout Canada and abroad.