[1] Dyck was born Aganetha Rempel, in 1937, to Mennonite parents in Marquette, Manitoba, a French-Canadian farming town 50 km north of Winnipeg.
At the Prince Albert Community College Dyck studied pottery, batik, Salish weaving, and art criticism.
[2] While at Prince Albert, Dyck had the opportunity to be mentored by Professor George Glen and studied Art History.
[2] Dyck's early work is described as transforming domestic processes into fine art, thereby validating activities that are traditionally considered feminine.
[3] A 1984 Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition[3] of Dyck's work featured several hundred jars of buttons prepared and cooked using different culinary techniques.
[3] (Her work with honeybees has drawn attention from the press, and Dyck has been featured in the CBC television show The Nature of Things, with David Suzuki.
"[8] Even as Dyck began her artistic practice by referencing the domestic objects and tasks with which she was most familiar, she continued to employ traditional signifiers of womanhood through the collaborative creation of honey-comb encrusted high heels, handbags, and even a wedding gown.
[3] Dyck's show "Collaborations" was featured at Burnaby Art Gallery 2009[10] In 2018, Close Knit was included in Thunderstruck: Physical Landscapes, a Canada Council exhibition about contemporary dance.