Arts '73, Arts '74 and Arts '75 was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 between March 8, 1973 and June 22, 1975. The show was hosted by Helen Hutchinson

Helen Hutchinson

Helen Hutchinson is a Canadian television personality. She is a former co-anchor of W5, Canada AM, Arts '73 and WTN's Point of View: Women. She graduated from University of Toronto with a master of library science degree from in November 1994....

 (1973), Sol Littman (1974) and Pat Patterson (1974–1975)

Some of the featured people included painter A.Y. Jackson, radio producer Andrew Allan

Andrew Allan

Andrew Allan , born in Scotland, was the national head of CBC Radio Drama from 1943 to 1955. He oversaw the work of some of the finest talents of the day – writers and actors such as Lister Sinclair, Mavor Moore, W.O...

, painter Jack Chambers

Jack Chambers

John "Jack" Chambers was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, Chambers' painting style shifted from surrealist-influenced to photo-realist. He began working with film in the 1960s, completing six by 1970...

, film historian John Kobal

John Kobal

John Kobal was an Austrian-born British based film historian responsible for The Kobal Collection, a commercial photograph library related to the film industry....

, tapestry maker Tamara Jaworski and composer Marek Norman.

Arts was a newsmagazine

Newsmagazine

A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, featuring articles or segments on current events...

 which featured items and guests from the subject of arts

ARts

aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....

 including visual

Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

, literary and performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and international.

External links

• Arts '73/'74/'75 at the Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
  The Canadian Communications Foundation is a history of Canadian broadcasting for radio and television chronicles and documents. It also provides a history of radio and television stations, including networks, programs, broadcasters and many others....
  
  
• TVArchive.ca article
• Memorable TV article