Beginnings
The United Congress was formed in 1988 at the Alberta College of Art and Design, by White-Field Senate, who is the group's longest-standing member . Membership in the collective was loosely-knit and fluid. Earliest collective members were White-Field Senate, Lisa Brawn, Doug Nachtigall, Catherine Fisher, Connie Lambrecht, Andrea Ford, Elmer Xavier and Richard Farand, who remains the group's most active artist. .
Milo Dlouhy, Conroy Nachtigall, Kenneth Doren and Richard Cole also made contributions to the United Congress in its early days, and Dlouhy and Doren continued to be involved in Collective projects.
Yuriko Iga, one-time director of Blim Gallery in Vancouver, also contributed to the United Congress' later projects in Calgary.
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