Katy Hessel

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?

Discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the “readymade.” Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many art forms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it’s never been told before. 

Hardcover | 512 pages 
16.5 x 24.4 cm (6.5 x 9.6 in.) 
Publication Date: 2022

Faye Moorhouse 

Master the art of drawing a variety of animals with this fun, playful interactive guide, featuring more than forty cute and clever color illustrations and step-by-step guidance to help you complete each work of art. 

How to Draw Animals for the Artistically Anxious includes fun and accessible exercises to help aspiring artists and animal lovers of all ages practice and improve their drawing skills, dazzle friends and family, and create their own special art. 

Paperback | 96 pages 
12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2018

Susie Hodge

Learn to draw 28 cuddly kittens from scratch in 6 easy steps. Best-selling artist Susie Hodge teaches you to transform simple shapes into adorable furry felines in a range of playful poses. Each project starts with a few basic outlines and progresses into a finished tonal drawing with a final colored version showing you how to develop your drawing even further. Perfect for beginners, as well as budding artists, you’ll be amazed how easily you too can bring these friendly furballs to life with this inspiring guide. 

Paperback | 32 pages 
21.6 x 29.2 cm (8.5 x 11.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

Susie Hodge

Learn to draw 28 playful puppies from scratch in 6 easy steps. Best-selling artist Susie Hodge teaches you to transform simple shapes into cute and characterful puppies in a range of much-loved breeds. Each project starts with a few basic outlines and progresses into a finished tonal drawing with a final colored version showing you how to develop your drawing even further. Perfect for beginners, as well as budding artists, you’ll be amazed how easily you too can bring these playful pooches to life with this inspiring guide. 

Paperback | 32 pages 
21.6 x 29.2 cm (8.5 x 11.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

Jim Waddington, Sue Waddington

Jim and Sue Waddington embarked on a 36-year expedition to locate, document, and photograph the actual landscapes that inspired the renowned members of the Group of Seven. Featuring photographs, archival images and reproductions of the original works of art, In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven is a stunning tribute to the artistic muse.

Paperback | 256 pages 
22.8 x 22.8 cm (9 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2013

François-Marc Gagnon

The artist Jean Paul Riopelle is best known for his renowned mature abstract style. In this fascinating history, François-Marc Gagnon begins with the artist's first paintings and his early commitment to objectivity to explore Riopelle's involvement with the Automatiste movement and its lasting impact on his work.

Hardcover | 224 pages
21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2020

François-Marc Gagnon

The artist Jean Paul Riopelle is best known for his renowned mature abstract style. In this fascinating history, François-Marc Gagnon begins with the artist's first paintings and his early commitment to objectivity to explore Riopelle's involvement with the Automatiste movement and its lasting impact on his work.

Hardcover | 224 pages
21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2020

Scotiabank Photography Award

Covering over 30 years of artistic practice, this book celebrates the complex yet highly distilled photographs of Jin-me Yoon’s dynamic vision. Showcasing a camera that is a witness to performative acts occurring both inside and outside the frame, the book reveals how Yoon has expanded conceptualist understandings of image-making and contributed to ongoing discussions of place and identity. In doing so, this volume illustrates how she uses the inherent mobility of images and the forces of diasporic thinking to bring disparate worlds together in poetic relation and create conditions for a different future.

Hardcover | 228 pages
24.8 x 30.5 cm (9.76 x 12 in.)

Ming Tiampo

In Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work, Ming Tiampo reveals how Yoon’s multidisciplinary art—which includes photography, video, performances, and installations—reconnects troubled pasts with damaged presents and offers hope for a better future. It considers how one of Canada’s most important voices on the nature of identity developed a critical perspective on the representation of this country in museums, art history, the tourist industry, and monuments with groundbreaking works such as Souvenirs of the Self, 1991, and Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996, projects that, as Tiampo notes, have become “canonical touchstones in the public articulation of Canadian identity and race.”

Hardcover | 128 pages
20x28 cm (8x11 in.)

Katie Putt, translation by Laurence Seguin

30 fabulous projects for beginners – get comfortable with watercolor using only 3 colours at a time! With this book you'll be able to paint animals, flowers, plants, and more with quick and easy strokes, using minimal yet complimentary colour palettes. 

Paperback | 128 pages 
17.8 x 25.4 cm (7 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2024

Phyllis Webstad and Orange Shirt Society

A special abridged version of the award-winning book Orange Shirt Day: September 30th. Orange Shirt Day, observed annually on September 30th, is also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is an official day to honour Residential School Survivors and their families, and to remember the children who did not come home. What was initially envisioned as a way to keep the conversations going about all aspects of Residential Schools in Williams Lake and the Cariboo Region of British Columbia, Canada, has now expanded into a movement across Turtle Island and beyond. La journée du chandail orange: Chaque enfant compte aims to create champions who will walk a path of reconciliation and promote the message that 'Every Child Matters'.

Softcover | 108 pages
21 x 27.3 cm (8.2 x 9.3 in.) 
Publication Date: 2024

Joan Murray

Lawren Harris, one of the greatest painters of Canadian art, was a leader in the creation of the Group of Seven.  This illustrated introduction to Harris's work traces his artistic development through the study of his paintings, drawing a lively picture of this energetic and charismatic individual who contributed so much to Canadian art.

Paperback | 64 pages 
22.8 x 22.8 cm (9 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2003

This recently published 192-page bilingual catalogue presents the official program for the tenth edition of Manif d'art - La biennale de Québec. As a formal and theoretical documentation of this tenth edition of the event, it contains essays by international curator Steven Matijcio, artists Jonathan Allen and Skawennati, and sociologist and art historian Maxime Coulombe. 

Hardcover | 192 pages 
22.2 x 24.8 cm (8.7 x 9.7 in.) 
Publication Date: 2022

Fausto Gilberti 

Louise Bourgeois was a world-famous artist who told stories of her life through her art until she was 98 years old. She drew, wove, and sculpted pieces inspired by her experiences, often using everyday objects that reminded her of her family and her past.

Her famous giant spiders fascinate – and sometimes terrify – art lovers to this day, but the truth behind the inspiration for these towering sculptors is not as scary as it may seem. This is an inspiring story about a young girl who became the first female sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – a unique picture-book celebration for children of one of the most important modern and contemporary woman artists of our time. 

Ages 4 to 7 
Hardcover | 48 pages 
21.6 x 21.6 cm (8.5 x 8.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

Fausto Gilberti 

Louise Bourgeois was a world-famous artist who told stories of her life through her art until she was 98 years old. She drew, wove, and sculpted pieces inspired by her experiences, often using everyday objects that reminded her of her family and her past.

Her famous giant spiders fascinate – and sometimes terrify – art lovers to this day, but the truth behind the inspiration for these towering sculptors is not as scary as it may seem. This is an inspiring story about a young girl who became the first female sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – a unique picture-book celebration for children of one of the most important modern and contemporary woman artists of our time. 

Ages 4 to 7 
Hardcover | 48 pages 
21.6 x 21.6 cm (8.5 x 8.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

Sarah Fillmore, Ray Cronin, Mireille Eagan, Catharine Mastin, Sarah Milroy, Caroline Stone

Luminescent canvases form the visual focus of Mary Pratt, a major volume that features more than seventy-five of the artist's most renowned paintings. The work of Mary Pratt (1935–2018) elevates the mundane to the monumental, creating silent moments infused with significance. 

Paperback | 160 pages 
22.8 x 25.4 cm (9 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2016

Anne Koval 

Art historian Anne Koval wrote Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision in close consultation with Pratt. The book is informed by extensive interviews with the artist, and her family, friends, and colleagues and by unprecedented access to Pratt's archival holdings at Mount Allison University. This in-depth study of Pratt's life and work explores the complex issues of gender, feminism, and realism in Canadian art, resulting in a richly layered biography of an artist who redefined the visual culture of her period and whose art and life intersect in varied and surprising ways. 

Hardcover | 316 pages 
Publication date: 2023

Christi Belcourt

Based on Métis artist Christi Belcourt’s painting “Medicines to Help Us,” this innovative and vibrant resource honours the centuries-old healing traditions of Métis women. For this book, Christi Belcourt fuses her evocative artwork with Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Western Science. With contributions from Métis Elders Rose Richardson and Olive Whitford, as well as key Michif phrases and terminology, Medicines to Help Us is the most accessible resource relating to Métis healing traditions produced to date.

Softcover | 80 pages
15.2 x 22.8 cm (5.9 x 8.9 in.)

David Wistow, Kelly Mckinley

Illustrations, photographs and dazzling reproductions of more than 40 masterpieces by the Group of Seven fill this book about artists who changed the landscape of Canadian art. Meet the Group of Seven describes how the group formed, how and where they painted, their influence on Canadian art and much more.

Paper | 48 pages 
22.86 x 27.94 cm (9 x 11 in.) 
Publication Date: 2019

Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. 

Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and even follow you home.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.

Featured Writers: Norris Black, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, Phoenix Boudreau, Cherie Dimaline, Carson Faust, Kelli Jo Ford, Kate Hart, Shane Hawk, Brandon Hobson, Darcie Little Badger, Conley Lyons, Nick Medina, Tiffany Morris, Tommy Orange, Mona Susan Power, Marcie R. Rendon, Waubgeshig Rice, Rebecca Roanhorse, Andrea L. Rogers, Morgan Talty, D.H. Trujillo, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr, Richard Van Camp, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Royce Young Wolf, and Mathilda Zeller. 

Paperback | 416 pages 
13 x 20 cm (5 x 8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023