Stephanie Rebick Editor

Dr. Michael J. Prokopow is a cultural historian and curator whose areas of expertise include material and visual culture, design history, and critical and cultural theory. His many publications include, most recently, Reside: Contemporary West Coast Houses (Figure 1, 2024), Hurvin Anderson (Lund Humphries, 2021) and Smith House II (UBC-SALA Press, 2018). From 2004 to 2008 he was curator of the Design Exchange, Canada's only museum of twentieth-century industrial design. In 2016 he co-curated the touring Gardiner Museum exhibition (and accompanying catalogue) True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada. He sits on the boards of the Arthur Erickson Foundation and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, and he is a regular contributor to Studio: Craft and Design in Canada. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at OCAD University in Toronto. Stephanie Rebick is a curator, editor, writer, Director of Publishing and Content Strategy at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and frequent collaborator with Information Office, a Vancouver-based art book publisher and design practice. Rebick has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Fashion Fictions; Where do we go from here?; Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia; Robert Rauschenberg 1965–1980; Out of Sight; Guo Pei: Couture Beyond; Cabin Fever; MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture; and Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life. She has contributed to a number of publications, including MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture (Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog, 2016), Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life (Vancouver Art Gallery and Hatje Cantz, 2013), Unreal ((Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010), Visceral Bodies (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010), and KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art (Douglas & McIntyre, 2008). Most recently she has edited volumes on the work of Jan Wade and Omer Arbel. Her curatorial interests include visual culture, new media, and the intersection of craft, design and contemporary art.