lane naming: Joyce Wieland Lane

This proposal is about a request to name a lane in Corktown:

Location:

A short and narrow two-way lane that runs west off the bottom of Bright Street.

Why should the City of Toronto assign this proposed name to this street?

Joyce Wieland (1930 – 1998) lived and worked a block away from this lane at 497 Queen Street East – in an old “ginger-bread” style rowhouse that still stands. Given her status as an important Canadian artist – that is, a painter, a textile artist and a filmmaker – and with a career spanning decades, going back to the early ‘60s up to the ‘90s it seems appropriate to honour her memory by naming this short, but lovely lane after her.

Joyce Wieland Lane pays respect to an important Canadian artist, a woman artist – who had an amazing career both in Toronto and in New York City. Wieland was married to Michael Snow, another renowned Canadian artist, who also has had a lane named after him in downtown Toronto.

Joyce Wieland’s work has been collected by major art museums in Canada and the United States. For instance, her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. Finally, Wieland’s work is seen daily by commuters on the Toronto subway line – where her major public commission is on view. This textile work was commissioned for the Spadina subway stop and is titled: Barren Ground Caribou, 1977-78.