Spotlight: How a sarcophagus inspired poker-playing artist Maggie Wesley

Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who contribute to the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week we visited multimedia artist Maggie Wesley at her Dunrobin home. Her current exhibit, Spirit of Play, continues at the Shenkman Arts Centre until Feb. 6.
“We started playing poker around 1973. We were all nurses working in psychiatry at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, in the formative group. And one of the women, Kate, decided that a poker game would be fun. And I still remember