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Who was Charles Hepburn Scott?

If you follow visual art in Vancouver, you might be aware that Scott was principal of the old Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Artsor that the art gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design was named after him.

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But few people probably know much beyond the kind of basic biographical details found in Wikipedia.

When Cate Rimmer, director of the gallery at Emily Carr University named after Scott, looked into who Scott was, she found what amounts to a forgotten part of Vancouver’s art history. Rimmer has made Scott and his contribution to visual arts the focus of Goodbye Charles, her last curated exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery on Granville Island.

“What I found compelling was how important community building and education was for him,” Rimmer said in an interview.

The new campus on Great Northern Way officially opens Thursday, Nov. 16. Students are expected to be in the classrooms to start the academic year after Labour Day on Tuesday, Sept. 5. In the new building, the Charles H. Scott Gallery will be known as the Libby Leshgold Gallery.