Carel Moiseiwitsch
Individual
Roles
Artist, EducatorBiography
Carel Moiseiwitsch was born in London during the Blitz. She studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and came to Vancouver as a single mother with three children in the early 1970s. Moiseiwitsch taught drawing and comics at what was then known as Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Moiseiwitsch was a regular contributor of usually stark black-and-white article and cover illustrations to the Georgia Straight in the late 1980s and 1990s. She also exhibited in both group and solo shows, including a 1989 solo exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, drew caustic political cartoons and comics, and contributed to comics anthologies. Moiseiwitsch described herself as a "punk rock anarchist feminist" during the early 1980s in a 2017 interview, and she later founded and ran a visual-arts workshop for addicted and mentally ill clients of downtown Vancouver's Portland Hotel Society. After a trip to the Middle East, Moiseiwitsch became a critic, vocally and artistically, of Israel and media outlets that she felt provided unbalanced coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.Adapted from Georgia Straight, 2021
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
Life in Occupied Palestine (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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