Born in England to a Ukrainian family displaced by WWII, and emigrating as a child to Montreal, Canada, I grew up in a complex multi-lingual and multi-cultural community.  I started photography at an early age, worked for years in the active Montreal theater community, and studied art at Concordia University.  Then, after winning a Canada Council grant, I studied at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.  The mixing of theater, photography, drawing and printmaking inspired my lifelong multi-disciplinary approach to art, reflected in the variety of work I have produced:  photography, printing, drawing, painting, installations, sculpture, weavings, and film. It also inspired my continuing interest in the tension between the immediacy and time-bound process of the performative and the still capture of image and its connection to history. My studio practice has been combined with teaching both in Montreal, where I taught photography and drawing, and in the US at both college and high school levels, where I have taught photography, design, studio art, and film production.  I have juggled pedagogy and studio for forty years and the relationship between these two practices has helped inform my work, challenge its premises and has led to a continuous evolution of my artistic practice.