Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland to launch book about Saskatchewan-born artist Agnes Martin

Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland grew up in Saskatchewan, the same as painter Agnes Martin, but he didn’t know about her until 2004, the year she died, about 20 years after he’d left Regina to live and write plays in Toronto and then Calgary, where he was the Alberta Theatre Project’s playwright-in-residence 10 times. “I was intrigued,” Stickland said in a recent Facebook posting, “as like me, she was a Saskatchewan-born artist.” Martin was born in &n