David John Foy and Jennifer Saleik (DaveandJenn) have been working together since 2004. Their varied practice weaves a long view of both human and natural histories together with the more closed off realms of private spectacles and inner landscapes; their work experiments with form through painting, sculpture, installation, animation and digital video.

Julya Hajnoczky was born in Calgary, Canada, and raised by hippie parents, surrounded by unruly houseplants, bookishness and art supplies, with CBC radio playing softly, constantly, in the background. Inevitably as a result, she grew up to be an artist. A graduate of the Alberta University for the Arts, her multidisciplinary practice includes digital and analog photography, and seeks to ask questions and inspire curiosity about the complex relationships between humans and the natural world.

daniel j. kirk is an artist living and working in Calgary, AB - mohkinstsis (blackfoot), kootsisáw (t'suu t'ina), and wincheeshpah (stony) on Treaty 7 territory. daniel creates multi-dimensional work that focuses on the biproducts of urbanization. He studies visual communication, creative process, social atavisms and the role of art in societal change and social justice.

Karen Klassen is a painter, illustrator, and designer. She has worked on advertising campaigns for fashion brands, malls, cat food and yogurt, and illustrated books and artwork for magazines and newspapers, and graphics for film and television.

Irene Rasetti is a designer and first-generation Canadian, daughter of Italian immigrants, with an interest in naturally dyeing processes. She launched her eponymous line of naturally dyed garments in 2015, informed both by eight years of work and study in Milan in fashion design, and a Natural Dyeing course at AUArts.

Lane Shordee is a scavenger artist based in Calgary, Alberta. Through gathered, scavenged, found, and discarded materials, his sculptures and installations challenge and indulge relationships with what is thrown away.

Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis (Mia & Eric) are an interdisciplinary artist team from Calgary, AB. Since 2008 they have created interdisciplinary exhibitions, temporary public art, participatory works, and interventions under the moniker, Mia + Eric. They bring together elements of craft, performance, cultural geography, and multi-species ethnography to create site-specific and socially-engaged works. Thematically, their practice deals with interspecies relationships, biodiversity and place-based knowledge production in cities, small towns, and rural spaces.

Caitlind R.C. Brown and Wayne Garrett (Incandescent Cloud) are award-winning artists & collaborators based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis – a city near the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada. Caitlind & Wayne have worked together since 2010, developing an art practice that includes light art, sculptures, installations, public art, radio, artist-curation, urban interventions, environmental art, and collective actions. Caitlind & Wayne’s site-responsive public art projects can be visited in Calgary, Creston, Edmonton, and Toronto. Their works are exhibited extensively at museums, festivals, and galleries, nationally and internationally.

Alana Bartol (she/they) comes from a long line of water witches. Their site-responsive artworks explore divination, walking, drawing, and dreaming as ways of understanding across places, species, and bodies. Through collaborative and individual works, Bartol examines our relationships with the Earth, the elements, and what are colonially known as natural resources. In 2019 and 2021, they were long-listed for Canada’s Sobey Art Award representing Prairies and North. They hold a BFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and an MFA from Wayne State University (USA).

Sara-Jeanne Bourget Sara-Jeanne Bourget is a visual artist from Quebec, living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University (2015) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2019). She is currently an assistant professor in Drawing at Emily Carr University.

Heather Close is an artist who lives and works in Calgary. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2009.

Her works are hopeful and unexpected amalgamations of plants and organisms. These works are a love letter to the resiliency and vulnerability of nature and an exploration of the abundance of organic life.

Ethan Cole

Julya Hajnoczky was born in Calgary, Canada, and raised by hippie parents, surrounded by unruly houseplants, bookishness and art supplies, with CBC radio playing softly, constantly, in the background. Inevitably as a result, she grew up to be an artist. A graduate of the Alberta University for the Arts, her multidisciplinary practice includes digital and analog photography, and seeks to ask questions and inspire curiosity about the complex relationships between humans and the natural world.

Jeremy Herndl is a painter whose research centres around intersubjectivity and the reciprocity of perception, ecology and the intelligence of natural processes; this informs his contemporary approach to pleinairism. His painting practice aims to be a witness to the agency of place in these times of ecological trouble.

Mark Johnsen is an American visual artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. His print-based practice examines the possibilities of the unique, hand-pulled impression in an era of digital reproduction. Through studies of material exploration, traditional and non-traditional printing techniques: he works to capture gestural and representational time stamps. He is the co-founder of Patio Press, a hybrid printmaking residency run alongside artist, Sara-Jeanne Bourget. He holds a BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts (2012) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2020). He has exhibited throughout The United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Turkey, Bosnia, Japan, Switzerland, and New Zealand and is currently an Assistant Professor in Print Media at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Carla Klassen’s artwork has evolved from her curiosity in how one goes about portraying light (or the sense of light) on a flat surface using paint, and she strives to show the true nature of light, while leaving some ambiguity in the subject of a piece. She paints with acrylics and oils, and works out of her wee studio in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Bryce Krynski was born in Winnipeg MB, to parents of Mennonite and Polish descent, Bryce currently lives and works in Moh’kinstsis, Treaty 7 territory or Calgary, AB. His work makes use of photography, video, new/archival/found images, digital manipulation, historical food narratives, found objects, and a desire to see in new ways, with a goal of establishing new stories out of this process. Bryce’s work has been published and shown internationally, and is part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Bow Valley College collections.

Yvonne Mullock is an artist and graduate from Glasgow School of Art, currently based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory and the Metis Nation Region 3, Canada. Employing textiles, sculpture, video, print and ceramics her practice reflects on the making process by amplifying the performative labour in hand-made production through installations and performances. By borrowing from craft practices and cross-disciplinary methodologies, she reimagines a world where functionality is pliable and materials are considered with renewed potential. While incorporating a wide range of researched references, Mullock’s work draws upon empirical knowledge within the making process and in doing so animates the traditions that surround the objects she creates to comedic and uncanny effect.

Emily Neufeld lives and works on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil Waututh and Musqueam peoples in what is currently named North Vancouver. Her practice investigates place and the layers of memory and psychic history that accumulate in our material world. She is committed to examining her own Mennonite and Scottish settler colonial histories in understanding her relationship to this place as Indigenous land. Recent solo exhibitions include Prairie Invasions: A Lullaby (2020, Richmond Art Gallery, BC), Before Demolition: Tides (2019, Eyelevel Gallery, NS), Motherlands (The Pole, Den Haag, ND) and Before Demolition (2017: Burrard Arts Foundation, BC). She received her BFA from ECUAD in 2013. Neufeld has created and participates in community sharing gardens, and sees land and labour as fundamental to her research process.

Ramey Newell is an American-Canadian filmmaker, photographer, and multidisciplinary artist who splits her time between British Columbia and Oregon. Her moving image work has been screened at film festivals and in galleries, museums and other art spaces throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, including: the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Alchemy Moving Image Festival in Hawick, Scotland; Mountainfilm in Telluride, Colorado; Antimatter in Victoria, Canada; and many others. Ramey’s experimental and documentary films have also earned accolades such as the Jury’s Stellar Award (Grand Prize) at Black Maria Film Festival (2018), Best Director at Mirror Mountain Film Festival (2017), and Director’s Choice at Thomas Edison Film Festival (2021). Her photographic work has been exhibited at venues such as The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver, Gallery 44 in Toronto, and the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY.

Tara Nicholson is a Canadian artist with a photo-based practice that explores ecological activism through a more than human lens. She has exhibited across Canada including the Art Gallery of Victoria (BC), Modern Fuel (ON), the Burnaby Art Gallery (BC), the Oxygen Art Centre (BC), Parisian Laundry Gallerie (PQ) and at Gallery 44 (ON, 2023) while receiving funding from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council.

Sarah Nordean uses the obsessive repetition of small gestures as a way to consider the rhythms of time, labour, and place. Small marks accumulate over time into larger organic masses. Her aim is to generate a tension between the meticulousness of her mark making and the amorphous shapes that form. “I attempt to echo the relentless nature of everyday life as a way to showcase simplicity, to highlight small differences, and to acknowledge the inevitable complexities.”

Sarah is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts (2009), and a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University (2014). She teaches drawing and painting at the Alberta University of the Arts.

Irene Rasetti is a designer and first-generation Canadian, daughter of Italian immigrants, with an interest in naturally dyeing processes. She launched her eponymous line of naturally dyed garments in 2015, informed both by eight years of work and study in Milan in fashion design, and a Natural Dyeing course at AUArts.

Genevieve Robertson works at the intersection between contemporary art and environmental studies. Her practice is primarily based in drawing and painting and extends to video, writing and installation. Robertson’s research is focussed on ecologies such as river systems, wildfire sites and marine shorelines, and materials such as carbon and iron. Through these studies her work explores anthropogenic impacts on human and more-than-human beings, the origins of primordial matter across deep time, and the intelligence and interconnection of the elements and life systems of which we are part. She is informed by a personal and intergenerational history of resource labour in remote forestry camps all over British Columbia. Robertson is of mixed European ancestry and currently lives and works on the traditional and unceded territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx Sinixt Confederacy Arrow Lakes and Yaqan Nukiy Lower Kootenay Band peoples with her partner and twin toddlers.

Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis (Mia & Eric) are an interdisciplinary artist team from Calgary, AB. Since 2008 they have created interdisciplinary exhibitions, temporary public art, participatory works, and interventions under the moniker, Mia + Eric. They bring together elements of craft, performance, cultural geography, and multi-species ethnography to create site-specific and socially-engaged works. Thematically, their practice deals with interspecies relationships, biodiversity and place-based knowledge production in cities, small towns, and rural spaces.

Holly Schmidt is an artist, curator and educator that engages processes of embodied research, collaboration and informal pedagogy to explore the multiplicity of human relations with the natural world. Her work involves the creation of temporary site-specific projects and residencies, along with material-based explorations in the studio. Her national and international exhibitions, projects and residencies include: Vegetal Encounters Residency (2019-2021) UBC Outdoor Art Program, Quiescence (2019) Burrard Arts Foundation, A-Y with Locals Only (2018) AKA Gallery, Pollen Index (2016) Charles H. Scott Gallery, Till (2014/15) Santa Fe Art Institute, Moveable Feast (2012) Burnaby Art Gallery, Grow (2011) Other Sights for Artists’ Projects. Schmidt is grateful to live and work in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm (Musqueam),Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Aaron Sidorenko is a figurative painter based in Calgary, AB.

Cassie Suche’s work is distinguishable for its delicate balance of structure and spontaneity, expressed through a visual language of linear and modular forms. Suche’s practice is highly experimental, with a focus on process and material research. Her works are both methodical and improvisational, residing in the liminal space between order and disorder. Pattern is at the root of her practice, but within Suche’s work repetition is not just a formal device, it is a transformative process that reveals emergent qualities. Suche earned a BFA from Leeds Arts University in the UK with a specialization in two and three dimensional surface pattern design. She is currently represented by Ninth Editions (Toronto, ON, Canada) and Paul Kuhn Gallery (Calgary, AB, Canada).

Tristan Surtees’s art practice that responds to the relationship between people and place. Working internationally, their approach renews awareness and tempts interaction with the surroundings, and is realized through networks of communities, organizations and individuals.

Leslie Sweder is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice that includes public interventions, painting, collaborative drawing, photography and video.

Emily Ursuliak Emily Ursuliak writes both fiction and poetry. She has recently released her debut collection of poetry, Throwing the Diamond Hitch, with the University of Calgary Press. As a passionate member of the Calgary literary community she has volunteered in a number of ways. Currently, she is the host and producer of CJSW's literary radio show Writer's Block. In the past she held a number of roles with filling Station magazine: she was a member of the board, the fiction editor and also the facilitator of Hot Dates with Blank Pages, a monthly community writing event. She was awarded the 2013 Volunteer of the Year Award by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association for her work with filling Station.

Veronica Verkley is a sculptor and media artist. Her work is focused on animal forms and gestures, and shifts between kinetics, installation, and animation. Parallel to her practice, Veronica has collaborated extensively in film, theatre and dance, with a focus on puppeteering and animatronics. She has recently returned to her practice full time, after 10 years as full-time founding faculty at the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Dawson City Yukon.

Carol Wallace is a geologist and artist whose work imagines three dimensional drawings of field relationships, mapping, and mark-making.

Stacey Watson is an artist based in Treaty 7 Territory; Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Alana Bartol (she/they) comes from a long line of water witches. Their site-responsive artworks explore divination, walking, drawing, and dreaming as ways of understanding across places, species, and bodies. Through collaborative and individual works, Bartol examines our relationships with the Earth, the elements, and what are colonially known as natural resources. In 2019 and 2021, they were long-listed for Canada’s Sobey Art Award representing Prairies and North. They hold a BFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and an MFA from Wayne State University (USA).

Mic Diño Boekelmann, born in Quezon City, Philippines, raised in Germany, Israel and the US. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and is the founder of The Orange Door, a multifunctional contemporary art space in Princeton, New Jersey. Boekelmann’s visuals incorporate the Manila envelope. Her work has been shown at the Filipino American Contemporary Art exhibit at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA, the NARS Foundation on Governors Island, Princeton University, Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists of America, Princeton Public Library, and the Trenton City Museum and is included in the permanent collection at Princeton University.

Caitlin R.C. Brown and Wayne Garrett (Incandescent Cloud) are award-winning artists & collaborators based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis – a city near the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada. Caitlind & Wayne have worked together since 2010, developing an art practice that includes light art, sculptures, installations, public art, radio, artist-curation, urban interventions, environmental art, and collective actions. Caitlind & Wayne’s site-responsive public art projects can be visited in Calgary, Creston, Edmonton, and Toronto. Their works are exhibited extensively at museums, festivals, and galleries, nationally and internationally.

Sara-Jeanne Bourget is a visual artist from Quebec, living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University (2015) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2019). She is currently an assistant professor in Drawing at Emily Carr University.

Mark Holliday is a Calgary-based painter and contemporary artist.

Felicia Holman is a cisgender Black woman, a lifelong Chicagoan and interdisciplinary artist. She is also an independent cultural producer/programmer and a co-founder of Chicago-based Afrodiasporic feminist creative collective, Honey Pot Performance.

Felicia's creative/ professional and social practices are firmly grounded in critical thought, intersectionality, community building, and embodied storytelling. Recent achievements include: Guest curator for City Bureau's Fall 2019 Public Newsroom series, contributing writer with the Quarantine Times (published by Public Media Institute) and a 2020 L'Louise Foundation Career Growth Fund Awardee.

Mark Johnsen is an American visual artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. His print-based practice examines the possibilities of the unique, hand-pulled impression in an era of digital reproduction. Through studies of material exploration, traditional and non-traditional printing techniques: he works to capture gestural and representational time stamps. He is the co-founder of Patio Press, a hybrid printmaking residency run alongside artist, Sara-Jeanne Bourget. He holds a BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts (2012) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2020). He has exhibited throughout The United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Turkey, Bosnia, Japan, Switzerland, and New Zealand and is currently an Assistant Professor in Print Media at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Bryce Krynski was born in Winnipeg MB, to parents of Mennonite and Polish descent, Bryce currently lives and works in Moh’kinstsis, Treaty 7 territory or Calgary, AB. His work makes use of photography, video, new/archival/found images, digital manipulation, historical food narratives, found objects, and a desire to see in new ways, with a goal of establishing new stories out of this process. Bryce’s work has been published and shown internationally, and is part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Bow Valley College collections.

Nicole LeBoutillier is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator currently based in Mazatlan. Her studio practice explores the connections between drawing and walking inspired by the diverse urban environments in the many cities where she has lived. She creates large-scale wall installations and delicate works on paper referencing movement through spaces, architecture, maps, routes and pathways. As an artist she embraces abstraction. As a teacher she encourages drawing representationally to build a core foundation of skills that can be used in many other artistic endeavours. She holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design.

Nikki Martens is a non-practicing artist, who spends her time teaching small humans about how great the world is (and isn’t). Receiving her BFA from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2009, the majority of her career since has been in areas of facilitation, doodling, and Education.

Leah McInnis is a conceptual artist currently living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Rita McKeough is a performance and installation artist and musician. Born in Antigonish (NS), on the traditional and unceded land of the Mi’kmaq people, McKeough received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary and Master of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. McKeough works from a feminist perspective and her recent work has focused on the impact of urban development and resource extraction on the lives and habitat of plants and animals. Rita is known for her large-scale, multilayered installations and performances often comprised of complex audio works and electronic elements. McKeough uses sound as a medium to articulate forces of resistance, giving voice and agency to her subjects.

Emily Neufeld lives and works on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil Waututh and Musqueam peoples in what is currently named North Vancouver. Her practice investigates place and the layers of memory and psychic history that accumulate in our material world. She is committed to examining her own Mennonite and Scottish settler colonial histories in understanding her relationship to this place as Indigenous land. Recent solo exhibitions include Prairie Invasions: A Lullaby (2020, Richmond Art Gallery, BC), Before Demolition: Tides (2019, Eyelevel Gallery, NS), Motherlands (The Pole, Den Haag, ND) and Before Demolition (2017: Burrard Arts Foundation, BC). She received her BFA from ECUAD in 2013. Neufeld has created and participates in community sharing gardens, and sees land and labour as fundamental to her research process.

Tara Nicholson is a Canadian artist with a photo-based practice that explores ecological activism through a more than human lens. She has exhibited across Canada including the Art Gallery of Victoria (BC), Modern Fuel (ON), the Burnaby Art Gallery (BC), the Oxygen Art Centre (BC), Parisian Laundry Gallerie (PQ) and at Gallery 44 (ON, 2023) while receiving funding from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council.

Esteban Pérez graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with an MFA degree in 2021. Recent presentations of his work include the New York Latin American Art Triennial (2022); SBC galerie d'art contemporain, Montreal (2022); The Polygon, Vancouver (2021); Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver (2021); and Más Arte, Quito (2019). In 2021, he was an artist in residence at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, and at the Similkameen Studio Residency organized by Griffin Arts Projects. In 2017, he was selected for the Premio Brasil–Arte Emergente (CAC), an award funded by the Brazilian embassy in Quito for the promotion of emerging artists. He was also the recipient of the 2020 Audain Travel Award. Currently, he is part of the SOMA Academic Program in Mexico City.

Alessandra Santos Pye is an immigrant from Brazil. Originally from the city of São Paulo, Alessandra’s identity is foundationally multifaceted with Indigenous, West African and European roots. As a psychotherapist and artist, she is deeply aware that creative practice is in direct relationship to socio-emotional wellness, capacity building and identity development. As a thoughtful facilitator and group retreat leader, Alessandra is at home in group processes and values crafting experiences that are both engaging and contemplative in nature.

John F. Ross (b. 1984, Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian painter creating contemporary works charged with personal and sociopolitical narratives. A graduate of Studio Art from York University, John has been exhibiting his work since 2006 in Ontario and Alberta and can be found in private collections across Canada and Europe.

Alia Shahab

Diana Sherlock is a Canadian independent curator and writer. Recent projects include the exhibition Mary Shannon Will: People, Places and Things (Nickle Galleries, Calgary, 2020–21) and two artists’ monographs, Larissa Fassler: Viewshed (DISTANZ, Berlin, 2022) and Rita McKeough: Works (EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, M:ST Performative Art, and TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary, 2018). Additionally, she has presented work and produced projects with Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Stride Gallery, TRUCK Contemporary Art (all in Calgary), Esplanade Art Gallery (Medicine Hat), Kenderdine College Art Galleries, (Saskatoon), lorch + seidel contemporary (Berlin), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), CIRCA (Montreal) and published over eighty texts in gallery catalogues and contemporary art journals internationally. Sherlock is a consultant with CMCK Public Art and taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University of the Arts) from 2000–2020.

Lane Shordee

Dean Smale earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Calgary and is an instructor in the Bachelor of Applied Arts - Art & Design program at Medicine Hat College. He has also instructed visual arts at College of the Rockies, Eastern Oregon University, and Red Deer College. In his professional practice, he has been an artist lecturer at various educational institutes and galleries. He has won various awards, exhibits frequently (solo and group exhibitions), has been published, and his work is in collections in the US and Canada. In 1996-97, he worked as a practicing artist in London England and in 1998 he participated in the Susan Kasen-Summers Workshop in Bantam, Connecticut, U.S. CBC National Television published a documentary on his work for their Artspots Series in 2005.

Jennifer Stillwell is a contemporary visual artist who primarily works with sculpture and installation. In 2000 she received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has since been exhibited widely including large-scale installations at the Darling Foundry (Montreal) and Triple Candie (New York). Other solo exhibitions include YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto) and a survey show at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg). She has a permanent public sculpture installed in Winnipeg on Waterfront Drive. Her work has also been part of group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has attended residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff), Gibraltar Point (Toronto), Kunst & Complex (Rotterdam), Fondation Derouin (Quebec) and Quartier Éphémère (Montreal).

Cassie Suche’s work is distinguishable for its delicate balance of structure and spontaneity, expressed through a visual language of linear and modular forms. Suche’s practice is highly experimental, with a focus on process and material research.

PrOphecy Sun is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother of three. Sun has a PhD from Simon Fraser University and an MFA and BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. As a practicing artist-scholar and ecofeminist, Sun contemplate how new technologies, humanity and environment can engage, collaborate and connect to each other through more-than-human shared spaces of temporality.

Hjalmer Wenstob was raised on an island in Barkley Sound, in Huu-ay-aht First Nation’s territory, off the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was there that his understanding and desire of pursing both his traditional Nuu-chah-nulth and contemporary art practices began. Hjalmer Wenstob is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in sculpture and carving. He is Nuu-Chah-Nulth from the Tla-O-Qui-Aht First Nations on his father's side, and Norwegian and English on his mum’s.

Azby Whitecalf is an Plains Cree Character Designer and Illustrator based out of North Battleford, Saskatchewan Treaty 6 Territory. I have a Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication (Character Design) from the Alberta University of the Arts.

Mark Wolfe

Mark Johnsen is an American visual artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. His print-based practice examines the possibilities of the unique, hand-pulled impression in an era of digital reproduction. Through studies of material exploration, traditional and non-traditional printing techniques: he works to capture gestural and representational time stamps. He is the co-founder of Patio Press, a hybrid printmaking residency run alongside artist, Sara-Jeanne Bourget. He holds a BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts (2012) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2020). He has exhibited throughout The United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Turkey, Bosnia, Japan, Switzerland, and New Zealand and is currently an Assistant Professor in Print Media at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Rita McKeough

Drunken Paw (Mark Dicey, Janet Turner, Leslie Sweder)

Fadwa Bouziane

Dean Smale

Alana Bartol

Bryce Krynski

məlidi webb

Desiree Nault

Jeremy Herndl

Truck Collective (Emily Neufeld, Annie Cantos, Drew Pardy)

Caitlind Brown + Wayne Garrett

Mirielle Rosnar

Paddy Lamb

Maggie Shirley

Carol Wallace

Julya Hajnoczky

Jennifer Ireland

Hjalmer Wenstob

Timmy Masso

Tara Nicholson

Caolan Leander

Becky Bair

Grace Boyd

Fadwa Bouziane

Michaela Bridgemohan

CHIPS Collective

DaveandJenn (David Foy and Jennifer Saleik)

Elise Findlay

Jenie Gao

Mikhela Grenier

Shereen Groeneveld

Doug Haslam

Angie Heintz

Felicia Holman

Natasha Jensen

Vincent Karcher

Alex Kwong

Josephine Lee

Stephen Nachtigall

Jay Pahre

Luke Pardy

Leah Petrucci

Ryan Smithson + John Ross

Stephan Sollenius

Kari Woo

Reyhan Yazdani

CHIPS (collective)

Drunken Paw (collective)

Jennifer Ireland

David Martinello

Berlin Reed

Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis (Mia & Eric)

Dean Smale

Stephan Sollenius

Lili Yas Tayefi

TRAction (cohort)

Cathy Terepocki

Marnie Temple

Camille Turner

Chukwudubem Ukaigwe

Elaine Weryshko