Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Modern/Contemporary
Areas of Interest
- Art of Canada
- Color Field art
- Modern British sculpture
- Curatorial practice
Biography
Dr. Sarah Stanners is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario. Between 2011 and 2024, Dr. Stanners was the Director of the Jack Bush Catalogue Raisonné Project. This complete record of 1,850 paintings by the artist was published in four volumes in September 2024 and won the 2025 Melva J. Dwyer Award presented by the Art Libraries Society of North America. Her professional experience as a curator began at the University of Toronto in 2003, as Assistant Curator of the Hart House permanent art collection and, between 2015 and 2018, she served as the Director of Curatorial & Collections (Chief Curator) at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. She has taught modern and contemporary Canadian art at the University of British Columbia, the University of Guelph, and the University of Toronto, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2009.
Selected Publications
- Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné. 4 Vols (1920–1977). (Toronto: David Mirvish Books in partnership with Coach House Press, 2024) [ISBN 978-1738955701]
- Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland (Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2017) [978-1-4868-0480-1]
- "Sight Unseen: Anthony Caro's Prairie, 1967," British Art Studies, issue 3 (Summer 2016) [ISSN 2058-5462]
- Jack Bush: In Studio (Calgary: Esker Foundation, 2016) [ISBN 978-0-9811951-6-2]
- Jack Bush (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2014) [ISBN 978-0-88884-925-0]