Activities
Since its inception the CPA stands as the first professional academy dedicated to the fine art of portraiture in Canada, raising the profile of portrait artists internationally. The CPA does this by means of sponsored exhibitions, the CPA Permanent Collection and the extensive artists files that the Academy houses.
The CPA has exhibited from coast to coast in Canada and in the United Kingdom, and has donated and commissioned numerous portraits for many important art galleries and museums around the world including the Imperial War Museum and the British Museum, among many others. Some noted personalities to have had their portraits commissioned by the CPA include: Queen Elizabeth II, Dame Jane Goodall, Conrad Black, and Barbara Amiel.
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“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)
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