Jan Wade
Born in 1952, Hamilton, Canada
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
Overview
Jan Wade was born to a Black Canadian father with familial origins in the American South and a Canadian mother of European descent. Raised in a relatively segregated but close-knit Black community within the city, her formative years were heavily influenced by her local African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was also greatly influenced by Southern US Black culture and aesthetics from the perspectives of her paternal grandmother and great-grandmother. Wade moved to Vancouver in 1983 and became ...Read more