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Double Take: Portraits of Intriguing Canadians presented the wonderful diversity of individuals who have left—and are leaving—their mark on our country and our culture.

Three exhibitions explored the diversity of style and content in artwork from Cape Dorset. Whales' Tails and Other Tales: Cape Dorset's Pudlat Family, Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and guest-curated by Inuit art scholar and former McMichael curator Susan Gustavison

This exhibition featured a collection of forty-seven works by Ansel Adams (1902 -1984), two-thirds of which Adams made late in his life to serve as a succinct representation of his life’s work.

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs present the “disrupted” landscapes; those created by the technology used in the extraction of minerals and energy from the planet, and those changed by the need for extensive delivery systems put in place to move materials for production of goods.

This exhibition was the third and final of a cycle of exhibitions organized over the past decade by the Museum of Arts and Design that presented a diverse panoply of new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from Canada, the continental United States, and the Pacific Rim.

This exhibition presented a unique opportunity to view recent work by Toronto-based artist Kim Dorland alongside masterworks from the McMichael’s permanent collection by Tom Thomson, David Milne, Frederick Varley and others.

Montreal-based Karine Giboulo is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates work in two- and three-dimensional form. A large portion of her oeuvre is made up of dioramas populated by doll-like figures.

Mary Pratt, one of Canada’s leading photorealist painters, has become one of our country's most distinguished artists. She brings a sharply focused, contemporary lens to deceptively simple subject matter, demonstrating sophisticated skill rooted firmly in the history of painting.

Diversity is the hallmark of Newfoundland and Labrador art. There has never been a shared aesthetic or approach to art making beyond a widely shared use of realism, or at least figuration, employed in a variety of different ways.

Arctic Exposure: Photographs of Canada’s North brought together images made between 1881 and 2013, revealing an ongoing fascination with the peoples, places, and mythologies of the North.

Taking place outdoors on the McMichael grounds on summer nights, tomorrow’s snow was a brief, performative glimpse into the vision of Beijing-born, Canadian-raised artist Terence Koh. Inspired by a passage from Margaret Atwood’s novel Cat’s Eye, the piece recreated the look of freshly fallen snow, with an 8-year-old boy and girl, dressed in white, making snow angels.

Haida artist Charles Edenshaw (1839–1920) is now recognized as one of the most innovative West Coast artists of the turn of the twentieth century.