David Askevold, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Askevold

Canadian artist

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1940

Place of Birth: Conrad, Montana, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jan-2008

Profession: artist, university teacher, video artist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries

David Askevold (30 March 1940 – 23 January 2008) was an experimental Canadian artist who lived in Nova Scotia. Askevold studied art and anthropology at the University of Montana.
In 1963, he won a Max Beckmann Scholarship to study painting for a year at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York.
In 1966, he enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, in Sculpture.
Askevold went to Halifax and joined the faculty of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1968.