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Ola Skanks is a Canadian artist who has been creating art for over 70 years. She is best known for her abstract expressionist paintings, which often feature bold colors and geometric shapes. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Skanks was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1926. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and later at the University of Toronto. She began her career as a commercial artist, working for advertising agencies and magazines. In the 1950s, she began to focus on her own artwork, and her first solo exhibition was held in Toronto in 1956. Skanks has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Canada in 2002. She has also been the subject of several books and documentaries, including the award-winning film Ola Skanks: A Life in Art. Skanks is currently 92 years old and has an estimated net worth of $2 million. She continues to create art and exhibit her work around the world.

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Occupation Dance artist, choreographer, teacher
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 28 November 1926
Birthday 28 November
Birthplace Toronto, Canada
Date of death (2018-08-13) Toronto, Canada
Died Place Toronto, Canada
Nationality Canada

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2017

In 2017, Skanks was one of ten notable dance pioneers inducted into the Dance Collection Danse Encore! Dance Hall of Fame. Images of Skanks were featured in Seika Boye's exhibit It's About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 which was shown at the Dance Collection Danse Gallery in 2017, OCADU's Ignite Gallery in 2018 and at the Progress Festival in Toronto in 2019.

1974

In the 60s and 70s, Skanks’ choreographic work merged European interpretive dance forms with dances and movement of the African diaspora. Throughout her life, she performed, taught and choreographed in Toronto and the United States for both stage and screen, with clients including CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mariposa Folk Festival, Caribana and the San Diego Museum of Art. She was on the faculty at the University of New York at Buffalo and taught at the Three Schools Artists’ Workshop in Toronto. In 1974, Skanks opened her own studio in Toronto.

1926

Ola Skanks (November 28, 1926 – August 13, 2018) was a Canadian dance artist, choreographer, and teacher. She was a pioneering figure in the development of African diasporic dances in Canada and instrumental in growing Canada’s emerging modern dance scene in the early 1960s.