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Kenneth Lochhead was born in Ottawa in 1926. His major art training came from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1945-1949). At the same time, Lochhead studied at the Barnes Foundation, Merlon, Pa., from 1946 to 1948. Several scholarships allowed him to study in England, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and western Canada. After several short assignments, Lochhead was hired by the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College, in 1950 to direct the School of Art. He was also charged by Dean Riddell to develop what became the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery.

Under Lochhead's guidance, both the School and the Gallery flourished, attracting vibrant personalities and generating excitement. At this time Lochhead developed a distinctive style, producing such notable works as "The Kite" (1952), "The Dignitary" and "The Bonspiel" (1954). As well, he began to win major commissions, completing an enormous wall mural at Gander Airport in Newfoundland in 1957-58.

It was Lochhead's influence on the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops, however, that attracted the most attention to the prairie region. With the summer series led by such New York artists as Herman Cherry, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski, international attention was suddenly focused to the north.

With Art McKay, Ron Bloore, Ted Godwin, and Doug Morton, Lochhead displayed his paintings at the National Gallery of Canada in 1961 in the show "Five Painters from Regina". In 1964, however, he was the first to leave Regina, accepting a teaching position with the University of Manitoba. He did not stay there, but went on to York University in Toronto and finally to the University of Ottawa.

John Nugent was born in Montreal on January 5, 1921, and studied at St. John’s University (Collegeville, Minnesota). Nugent taught at the University of Regina from 1970 to 1985.

In 1948, he moved to Lumsden, Saskatchewan and in the 1960’s he began accepting liturgical commissions. While expressive, his simple forms were being met with some resistance from parishioners as well as church officials.

After a trip to New York in 1961, where Nugent visited the studio of an American sculptor named David Smith, Nugent’s work was influenced toward welded steel abstractions.

Examples of controversy induced by Nugent’s work include commissions by then Premier Ross Thatcher and also the Canadian Grain Commission. Nugent had proposed an abstract monument of Louis Riel, which was rejected in favor of a more detailed, representational approach. Nugent then submitted a heroic nude figure but was forced to add clothing. This figure was unveiled in 1968 and was removed from the Saskatchewan Legislature grounds in 1991. Nugent’s #1 Northern (1976) was also removed in 1978 from its site in from of Winnipeg’s Canadian Grain Commission building, but was restored in 1997.

The Banff Centre, the National Capital Commission in Ottawa, and the CBC Broadcast Centre in Regina, all have commissions by Nugent and in 1983 a major retrospective, “John Nugent: Modernism in Isolation” was organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery.

In the 1990s this artist refocused his attention from sculpture to photography and his photography is also found in collections of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), Saskatchewan Arts Board, the University of Regina, Winnipeg Art Gallery and many others. His studio has been designated as Provincial Heritage Property in recognition of his reputation as an important Saskatchewan artist and also as an astute example of modernist architecture designed by renowned architect Clifford Wiens.

John Nugent died in March 2014.

Wilfrid Donat Perreault was born in Albertville, a small French community in northern Saskatchewan, on October 6th, 1947. While growing up, he received private art lessons from noted Saskatchewan artist Ernest Lindner. His art career began in 1964 with the Eagle Pencil Company art scholarship from the Canadian Society for Education Through Art. His interest was on representational paintings but the Saskatchewan art scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s was more focused on abstraction, so he entered university to focus on abstract sculpture. His teachers included Otto Rogers and Bill Epp, also influential Saskatchewan artists. In 1970, he graduated with a Bachelor of Art with Honours in Art from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 1971, he received a Bachelor of Education After Degree, again from the University of Saskatchewan, and he moved to Regina to teach at Archbishop M.C. O’Neill High School.

He began painting the back alleys of his new city while teaching until officially retiring in 2003. All the while, he produced hundreds of pieces of art, from sculptures, to water colour paintings, acrylic paintings, and original silk screen prints. He has taught several art classes for the public and sat on numerous judicial and curatorial committees for art shows and galas. He regularly donates paintings to local charities and fundraisers, highlighting the connection he feels to his community.

His art is not just of local interest, however. His paintings and prints are found in collections all over the country, as well as internationally. Most notably, his work can be found among collections owned by Goldman Sachs and Co., New York; Petro Canada, Calgary; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto; and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; among many others. He has exhibited his artwork at numerous galleries in solo exhibitions in Regina, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Winnipeg, but has also presented as part of group exhibitions in Ireland, Toronto, Seattle, Los Angeles, Morocco, San Francisco, Chicago, and many others. Over his career, he has received many awards, including the Queen’s Jubilee Medal (2003), a Silver Medal while representing Canada at ler Jeux De La Francophonie in Maroc, Africa (1989), and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2016. Perreault was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and in 2003 retired from teaching.

Perreault married Sandra Thorpe on August 15th, 1969 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and raised a family in Regina. Their daughter, Meagan Perreault, purchased the Susan Whitney Art Gallery from Susan Whitney and renamed the space the Nouveau Gallery. Although he spends most of his time in the studio, he is an avid fan of twilight golf, stating that he goes to the studio to play and the golf course to work. Although he has been an artist for over 60 years, Perreault continues to love his work because painting brings him joy.

David was born in Holdfast, Saskatchewan in 1948 and studied with David Gilhooly in ceramics at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, where “funk” artist David Gilhooly served as an early mentor to him as well as other artists of the region.

David Thauberger received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1971 from the California State University at Sacramento and a Masters degree in Art in 1972.

He earned a Masters degree in Fine Arts at the University of Montana in 1973, and then returned to Saskatchewan where his importance as an Canadian artist grew.

Thauberger worked primarily with ceramics until 1975 when he switched to painting. He took instruction from “untutored artists” or "folk artists" and through his work as a consultant with the Saskatchewan Arts Board from 1974 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985 he became aware of the work of many of these artists in the province. He was able to research them and purchased their work, he began curating exhibitions and contributing to documentaries and art books about them.

He admires community life, and the values that folk art often represents, believing that through perceptions of place and tradition truly authentic art work is created.

Thauberger’s work is found in numerous public, private and corporate collections, he has exhibited his work throughout North America and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. Thauberger’s many awards and grants include his appointment as a member of the Order of Canada in 2008 and in 2009 being awarded the Lieutenant Governors award for Saskatchewan Artist Award. David Thauberger has also served on the board of the Canada Council for the Arts.

He currently lives and works in Regina, Saskatchewan

Mark Wihak was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He made his first short film The Ballad of Don Quinn, which was cited by Cinemascope Magazine as one of the top-ten Canadian short films of the 1990s. His experimental documentary, (stories from) The Land of Cain won the short film prize at the Vancouver International Film Festival and he has gone on to make films in a variety of approaches: Dramatic, broadcast documentaries and film-based installation. He is a faculty member in the Department of Media Production and Studies at the University of Regina.

Ven (Venkatesh) Sopher Begamudré was born in 1956 at Bangalore, India. Immigrating to Canada at the age of six, he has lived in Ottawa, Kingston and Vancouver, and currently resides in Regina.

Begamudré served with the Governor-General’s Foot Guards of the Canadian Armed Forces, Land Reserve from October 1973 until September 1974 in Ottawa and with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in 1973 in Vancouver. At Schiller College in Paris in 1975, he studied international administration and French. In 1977 he graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Public Administration. A Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing was obtained from Warren Wilson College in 1999.

Begamudré is a short story writer, novelist and editor. He has published numerous short stories, articles, poems, prose, essays and reviews in various journals and anthologies. Several of his short stories have been broadcast on radio and television. He has provided readings at conferences and workshops.

He has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, with the Canada-Scotland Exchange Writer-in-Residence Program in Edinburgh, and with the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme at the University of Calgary. He has taught creative writing at the Sage Hill Writing Experience, the University of Regina Extension Department, and the Saskatchewan School of the Arts

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.