Vancouver’s Western Front Society was created back in 1973 when eight artists got together, bought a former Knights of Pythias lodge, and renovated it into an alternative art space. Over the years, the multidisciplinary art center has developed an international reputation similar to the way that Vancouver itself has transformed into a cosmopolitan city.
“If you think back to even the early ’90s, Vancouver wasn’t much of a booming town,” Western Front exhibits curator Jesse McKee says. “But in the past 15 years, it’s kind of come into its own.”