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Kenojuak Ashevak is widely considered a Canadian national treasure. She was a groundbreaking artist for Kinngait Studios, in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, and ultimately a pioneer of modern Inuit art. After establishing her reputation in 1960 with The Enchanted Owl-an image so popular it was reproduced on a Canadian postage stamp-she worked nearly nonstop. She contributed to Kinngait's (Cape Dorset's) print collection almost every year and completed countless special commissions. Ashevak loved to make pictures of birds, particularly owls. Reflecting on her art, she said, "I am the light of happiness, and I am a dancing owl."

Be swept away by the visual dance of Olga Suvorova's opulent paintings. With poisedchoreography and lavishly decorated costumes, characters and themes are depicted in a signature style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Gustav Klimt, and traditional Russian icons. Her ornate costumes-their silks and velvets, jewels and embroideries-are often the stars of any scene, which she rounds out with musical instruments, games of chance, and more than a few sidelong glances. Suvorova, who comes from a three-generation dynasty of artists, studied monumental composition at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. She is known for her portraiture, both at home in Russia and around the world. Twelve of her gorgeous paintings are on exhibit within this calendar.

Romare Bearden imbued his work with a humanism that transcends time and place. Bearden, one of the 20th century's preeminent artists, painted with passion for the people, issues, and ideas that shaped the world. He depicted a variety of places and themes, among them the vibrant landscapes of the Caribbean and the lives of Black Americans-from rural towns to bustling cities, from intimate homeplaces to packed jazz clubs. The 12 images in this calendar showcase the broad range of his work and reflect the creative ferment of his era, through a career spanning 55 years.

Bicycles have long promised adventure and freedom, progress and hope. Their popularity blossomed in the late 1800s, coinciding with the rise of lithography and lavishly illustrated posters. With stylish typography and eye-catching compositions, artists of the day emphasized the pleasures and practicalities of cycling. Their dynamic posters celebrate the bicycle in advertisements from the likes of Cycles Peugeot, Premier Cycle Company, and Cycles Gladiator. The 12 vintage posters presented in this calendar will capture your imagination and propel you through your year.

With wry humor and unconcealed sentiment, Norman Rockwell's illustrations speak volumes about the human condition and the country he loved. Rockwell created images of an idealized nation peppered with small towns and filled with industrious, down-to-earth folks. His artworks reflected the currents of American life, the way we were, the way we acted, and the way we treated each other. By the 1940s, he was considered a national living treasure. Twelve of Rockwell's skillfully wrought images-eleven from The Saturday Evening Post and one from the Post's sister publication, Country Gentleman-are presented here for your enjoyment. -Judy Goffman Cutler, American Illustrators Gallery, New York City

Christopher Marley's biophilic art showcases the awe-inspiring life-forms that make up Earth, highlighting the innate beauty of biodiversity. Combining a passion for entomology with a keen eye for design, Marley's kaleidoscopic works range from bug mandalas to striking arrays of organisms from a single genus. By working with institutions and organizations dedicated to animal husbandry, he is given access to organisms that die of natural and incidental causes, ensuring that creatures are never killed for his art. Twelve of Marley's stunning arrangements can be found in this calendar.

For centuries, explorers, merchants, and military forces have relied on maps to help navigate our planet. Often skillfully drawn and meticulously plotted, these works of art require skill and creativity to produce. Using anecdotal evidence and scant geographical data, cartographers were known for including fanciful drawings to tease the mind and the imagination. Twelve antique maps from the British Librarys' collection of cartographic material invite you to go back in time and explore the world as it used to be.

In both his paintings and his design work, CJ Hurley strives to reclaim the idea that art is a way of life. Using his art as a lens to interpret the world around him, Hurley creates images that evoke peace and abundance as we take in the beauty of nature. With his inspiring landscapes that abound with colors and textures, Hurley exemplifies the raw, unrefined elements that he so admires. Known for incorporating human-made structures into his otherwise wild paintings, he does so in a way that highlights the interwoven relationship between natural and built environments. Bear witness to the lure of the land as you journey through 12 of Hurley's stunning creations in this calendar.

The British Columbia wilderness and the First Nations culture formed the two great themes of Emily Carr's work. Through her landscapes and haunting depictions of totems, she is deservedly considered the premier painter of Canada's Pacific coast. After training in San Francisco and Europe, Carr began her career in Vancouver, producing an impressive body of First Nations images in the year 1912. After a prolonged period of relative inactivity, at the age of 56 she returned to northern British Columbia and began painting the canvases for which she is most noted.

Advice from a crosshatched, glue-pot-toting gent of questionable intent? Yes, please, if the creator of said fellow is Edward Gorey! Gorey's characters regularly find themselves in odd, even disastrous, circumstances. They've seen their fair share of mishaps and are wiser as a result (if they haven't met their unfortunate ends, of course). Now, they're passing along their advice in this calendar's assortment of images from Gorey's Verse Advice. Weaving tales as unsettling as they are hilarious, Gorey paired ominous humor with vaguely Victorian style, whether he was designing stage sets and costumes or writing plays and books. Occasionally, though, he expressed a fondness for the little things in life. In 1993, the New Yorker first ran Gorey's Verse Advice, a series of 12 images printed in a four-page spread. From home improvement to social interaction, the advice in these illustrations is quite quotidian.

Mandalas are mystical symbols that have come to represent wholeness and unified energy. Typically circular and geometric in form, they have played a role in Eastern spiritual development for centuries and are widely favored as focal points in meditation because of their balancing and calming effects. The mandala has become Paul Heussenstamm's signature motif among his thousands of unique and spiritual paintings. For him, mandalas open "the doorway into the symbolic language of the soul." The 12 mandalas featured in this calendar offer peace and tranquility every day of the year.

The evocative art of Korean painter Kyung-Hwa Yu emphasizes the inextricable link between art and nature using delicate pastels and intense contrast. In her contemporary works, you will find elegant weeping willows coexisting with gnarled pines as a testament to the innate perfection of nature and the beauty of perceived imperfection. Yu's trees symbolize strength and courage in the face of adversity, longevity, and transformation, all of which are key elements in learning to thrive amid change. Each of the 12 images in this calendar invites you to take part in a quiet conversation with nature year-round.