Linda Lang (she/her)

Linda Mackey Lang is an expedition artist who first travelled to the Arctic in 2002 as Doris McCarthy’s studio assistant. What was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime trip led to 17 polar expeditions and many climate-change paintings. Using a paint box that McCarthy had given her, Lang paints en plein air and creates larger canvasses in her studio that tell the story of her experiences. Lang is an elected Signature Member of Artists for Conservation, former Art Liaison for International Polar Year, founder of Polar Artists Group and the Arctic Quest 2006 project. She represented polar artists at the launch of the International Polar Year in Paris in 2007, participated in the Circumpolar Artists Round Table discussions at the United Nations Office in Geneva and, in 2008 and 2009, represented Canada at the Northern Lights Festival in the Russian Arctic. She has taught art workshops for the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and Climate Change expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica for Students on Ice. Lang’s painting Follow Your Dreams was presented to Ontario’s then-Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman in 2006 by the TCDSB. Three other paintings are in the personal collection of Governor General Mary Simon. Website