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Audrey Dear Hesson
1929–
Canada
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Biography
Audrey Dear Hesson (born 1929 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian practical craft artist, mainly working with pottery, sculpture, jewelry and textile. She is a member of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative and was the first black Canadian to graduate from the Nova Scotia College of Art. She is the only living artist in the exhibition curated by David Woods called Discovery: African Nova Scotian Art Pioneers.
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