Hart House Dinner Series: Charles Pachter

Presented by Hart House Alumni Committee

A chance to enjoy fabulous local cuisine and compelling conversation, the Hart House Dinner Series invites you to engage in an atmosphere of fellowship with special guests who are informative, entertaining and possibly even educational in an eclectic array of topics drawn from business, politics and the arts.

When: March 16, 2011 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm (Speaker: Charles Pachter)

Where: Hart House, North & South Dining Rooms

Cost: Single Dinner - Students $25, Adults $60
Half Subscription (3 Dinners) - $156 before Oct. 4 / $162 after Oct. 4
Full Subscription (6 Dinners) - $270 before Oct. 4 / $300 after Oct. 4

Ticket Info: www.UofTtix.ca / 416.978.8849

About Charles Pachter: Toronto-born Charles Pachter is one of Canada’s leading contemporary artists. He is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He studied art history at the University of Toronto, French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, and painting and graphics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been shown at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Gallery, among others. 

His is represented in public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Japan, the UK, and India. His Hockey Murals can be seen in the College Subway Station in Toronto.  He is a member of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters, and is a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee medal.  He holds honorary degrees from Brock University, the Ontario College of Art & Design, and the University of Toronto.

His images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag are pop icons of Canadian contemporary art. McClelland & Stewart publications include an illustrated book on his life and work, and The Journals of Susanna Moodie, his celebrated collaboration with poet Margaret Atwood.

Mr. Pachter lives and works beside Grange Park in an award-winning residence and studio designed by architect Stephen Teeple. His work is on permanent display in his adjoining Moose Factory Gallery. In summer he paints in a waterfront studio converted from an ice storage depot on Lake Simcoe.

His portrait of Margaret Atwood hangs in the Portrait Gallery of Canada. His flag paintings hang in the Prime Minister’s residence in Ottawa, in the Canadian Embassy in Washington, in the Parliament Buildings and in the Embassy of France in Ottawa. His portrait of Lord Beaverbrook hangs in Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton.

Pachter’s steel and granite moose sculptures have been installed across Canada.

His best-selling children’s books, M IS FOR MOOSE and CANADA COUNTS, are published by Cormorant Books.