Bader, Isabel

[Isabel Bader, 1926-2022]
Isabel Bader, 1926-2022

Isabel Overton Bader, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션07, was a quiet yet forceful champion of the arts and of underrepresented voices.

She studied history and languages at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto and taught for 28 years at a girls카지노 게임 컬렉션 school in Bexhill-on-Sea, where she co-founded a drama school, the Thalia School of Elocution and Drama. She was particularly involved with making costumes for the school카지노 게임 컬렉션s productions and became a gifted costume designer. As a teacher by training and passionate about theatre and music, she saw firsthand the power of support and the right tools to help students express themselves and discover their strengths.

Though a U of T grad herself, she adopted Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, the school her husband Alfred Bader (BSc카지노 게임 컬렉션45, BA카지노 게임 컬렉션46, MSc카지노 게임 컬렉션47, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션86) had attended, as a second alma mater, and took great interest in meeting students and encouraging both their artistic pursuits and professional development.

[Isabel Overton Bader with her sister Marion]
Isabel with her sister Marion

Together, Alfred and Isabel transformed Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 in many ways, from its physical campus to the educational opportunities it offered its students. They were known for their tremendous generosity to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, notably their donation of The Bader Collection (comprising more than 500 works of art, including four Rembrandt paintings), a castle in England (now Bader College), and a centre for the performing arts, known as "The Isabel." They also endowed chairs and created numerous bursaries and awards at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s to advance education and research.

Isabel Bader was keenly aware of the importance of the conservation of, and access to, historical assets. She personally contributed greatly to the conservation and scholarly study of an important facet of Canadian social and women카지노 게임 컬렉션s history, through the Queen's 카지노게임사이트 Collection of Canadian Dress, housed at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. This includes the donation of some of her own costume collection. The collection holds clothing items from the 1790s to the 1970s. With her support, the Art Centre was able to re-house and conserve its historic collection, and research a number of its holdings. This research enabled costume specialists to study the garments as social and economic indicators of their periods.

Dr. Bader also sponsored both a research fellowship and internship in textile conservation and research at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, which links two of the university카지노 게임 컬렉션s most unique resources: the Collection of Canadian Dress and the Master of Art Conservation Program, which offers Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s only graduate degree in conservation theory and treatment.

In 2019, Dr. Bader supported the creation of the Isabel Bader Fellowship in Artifacts Conservation at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. This was followed, in 2020, with her gift to create the Bader Chair in Art Conservation. The chair enabled the Master of Art Conservation program at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the only program of its kind in Canada 카지노 게임 컬렉션 to add imaging science to its curriculum.

Later, she supported the work of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 Archives and ensured that Alfred카지노 게임 컬렉션s personal papers and memorabilia were safely housed there.

[Isabel and Alfred]
Isabel Bader with her husband Alfred Bader.

Passionate about supporting students directly, Isabel created a number of bursaries to help students in music, drama, and textile conservation to pursue their fields of study. She was keen to find ways to encourage talented students who wanted to explore their creativity, but who, like her, preferred to stay out of the spotlight. For instance, through the Herbert and Stella Overton Production Award, named after her parents, she enabled the recognition of third-year drama students who have made outstanding contributions specifically in 카지노 게임 컬렉션non-major카지노 게임 컬렉션 departmental production work. And the Bader Musicians in Residence program at Bader College provides unique learning opportunities for students at Bader College.

A great advocate of developing emerging artists, Dr. Bader supported the Bader and Overton Canadian Cello Competition and the Isabel Overton Bader Canadian Violin Competition to invest in the next generation of extraordinary Canadian musicians and to facilitate their individual personal and career development and national exposure.

[Isabel Bader with the finalists of the violin competition]
Isabel Bader speaks with the finalists of the inaugural Isabel Overton Bader Canadian
Violin Competition, Lucy Wang, Katya Poplyansky, and Yolanda Bruno, at the
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Alongside her profound interest in the preservation of cultural materials, Isabel Bader understood the role of the arts in the present day and their capacity to change lives. She supported the work of Sistema Kingston, a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s-affiliated organization with the vision of giving underserved children the opportunity, through intensive music learning, to reach their full potential as individuals, musicians, and citizens. Her instinct for social justice found expression in support for Indigenous arts. Notably, she supported the inaugural Ka카지노 게임 컬렉션tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 2019 through Bader Philanthropies, Inc., the family카지노 게임 컬렉션s Milwaukee-based charitable foundation.

Dr. Bader was also an advocate for the creation of an endowed Curatorship in Indigenous Arts and Culture at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. The Curatorship, sponsored through the Bader Philanthropies, Inc. Foundation, was envisaged to provide opportunities for dialogue between the Indigenous Art Collection and The Bader Collection at Agnes. The Agnes is the only university-museum in this country to have such a position.

Isabel Bader was predeceased in 2018 by her beloved husband, Alfred. She died in August 2022.

[Isabel receives an honorary degree]
Isabel Bader received an honorary degree from Queen's 카지노게임사이트 in 2017.