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Artists: Winston Leather

 

Description: Winston Leathers (1932-2004). An artist whose career spanned half a century, Leathers was known as a painter, printmaker, poet and art educator. Ever the innovator, Leathers employed various techniques and media in his artmaking.

In 1958 Leathers re-enrolled at the University of Manitoba, graduating from the Manitoba Teachers' College as an art educator in 1960. He would go on to pursue a forty-year-long career, teaching basic design and printmaking first at the Industrial Design Department of the Winnipeg Technical Vocational High School (1958-68) and then in the Environmental Studies Department in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement as full Professor in 1993.