Kazimir Glaz, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the printmakers at Open Studio as two aspects of printmaking practice in the 1970s in Toronto

The thesis argues that emerging printmakers, as exemplified by Kazimir Glaz and the founders of Open Studio, Richard Sewell, Barbara Hall and Open Studio's first master printer, Donald Holman, played important roles in stimulating printmaking practices in Toronto during the 1970s, by bringing in international expertise and know-how and by putting them to work in a variety of contexts. Also, using the momentum created by Canada's economic prosperity, with the help of printmaking, these immigrant artists successfully negotiated their role in the Toronto arts milieu, in the Canadian society, and internationally.;This thematic study of the two artist-run organizations (Glaz/Toronto Centre for Contemporary Art, and Open Studio), engaged in printmaking practices and dissemination of prints, is set against an overview of the developments of printmaking in the 1970s in Toronto in larger international and national cultural context.