1957 Painting in the Parks programme
| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
In 1946 - 47 the FCA - B.C. Region, organized a travelling exhibition, in cooperation with the University of British Columbia Department of Extension, that went to galleries in Vancouver, New Westminster, Port Alberni, Duncan, Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, Grand Forks, Rossland, Nelson, and Creston. The five artists represented in the exhibition were Stanley Brunst, Lawren Harris, Charles H. Scott, Jack Shadbolt, and Cliff Robinson.
The Art in Living Group was an "offspring" of the Federation of Canadian Artists, that was founded after WWII.
| DATE | EXHIBITION | LOCATION |
| 1942 Nov. 3 - 15 | Red Cross Benefit Exhibition | Vancouver Art Gallery |
| 1944 Sept. 1 - 17 | Art in Living - A School of Today | Vancouver Art Gallery |
| 1945 Aug. 31 - Sept. 19 | Art in Living - The New Community | Vancouver Art Gallery |
| 1946 (dates?) | Traveling Exhibition #1 (BCA15 selections) | ("the interior") |
| 1946 Nov. - 1947 May | Traveling Exhibition #2 (5 artists) | (11 locations) |
| 1964 | Spring Exhibition - B.C. Region | (location not noted) |
| 1967 July 1 - Sept. 10 | Centennial Sculpture '67 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre |
| 1977 | 1977 Winter Exhibition | (location not noted) |
| 2005 July 7 - 26 | Island Inks | (location not noted) |
| 2006 | Painting on the Edge 4th Annual | FCA Gallery, Granville Island |
| 2009 Sept. 22 - Oct. 4 | A Bird, A Stone, A Letter | FCA Gallery, Granville Island |
| 2010 June 1 - 13 | Septessence | FCA Gallery, Granville Island |
| 2012 May 29 - June 10 | Double Identity | FCA Gallery, Granville Island |
"An important event also is the forming of a Vancouver Island
region of the Federation of Canadian Artists
under chairmanship of the Hon. Mark
H. Kearley of Metchosin. Last June the organization on the
Island numbered a dozen members, but by the new year had
jumped to 150."
From "Collection of Eastern Artist
Features Art Gallery Display" by
Palette
Vancouver Daily Province, January 24 1945
"The B.C. Region of the Federation of Canadion Artists has been
engaged for the past five years in Province-wide activities. Included in these
activities are the sending of small travelling exhibitions of Art to the Interior
towns of the Province in co-operation with the University's Department of Extension;
the planning and financing of a campaign to further the Community Centre Art Brief,
and co-operation with the Parks Board of the City for an Art Festival Week in
Stanley Park during the summer. Excellent work has also been done by a group of
Federation members known as the Art in Living Group."
From "A Short History of Art in British Columbia"
by Charles H. Scott
Behind The Palette 1946-47 issue
"Artists and Laymen" by Robert Ayre
Canadian Art magazine, 1947, Vol. 4 No. 4
"Certainly, we had none of the fantastic, grisly abortions sent round to
Trail, Rossland and other interior points from time to time by the
so-called "Federation of Canadian Artists!"
(and we would have shown none).
"
From "LIKES WESTON", by
"Allan P. Allsebrook"
Trail Daily Times, March 1948
"This is our fourth display, two having been held locally in the summers of 1947
and 1948, and one in Victoria under the auspices of the Federation
of Canadian Artists at the Little Centre."
From "Letter re Saltspring Island Art Group exhibition"
Personal correspondence, October 25 1948