Category Archives: People
Elmira Sarreshtehdari
Elmira Sarreshtehdari is an artist, art researcher, and instructor based in Canada. She is interested in the audiences’ encounter with dis-placed art and inquires how this aesthetic interaction could provide a proliferating space for further communication and meaning-making between multiple … Continue reading
Sholeh Mahlouji
Sholeh Mahlouji is an artist and art educator based in Vancouver. Inspired by Persian art and culture, she explores working with motifs and symbols lingering in a generative pedagogical space for meaning-making and sense-making. Holding her BA in Visual Communication, … Continue reading
Marzieh Mosavarzadeh
Marzieh Mosavarzadeh arts-based educational research explores the entangled relationship between the practice of walking, writing, and image-making and how together they enable potentialities for artful, reciprocal, and pedagogical ways of Making-Place. Marzieh Holds her MFA and BFA degrees in visual … Continue reading
Kwiis Hamilton
Kwiis Hamilton is Nuuchahnulth (Opechesaht) and Sto:lo (Lequamel). He practices jewelry making, painting, print making, spoken word poetry, wood carving, singing, dancing, and story telling. Through the creation of well-made objects Kwiis expresses his values and tells modern and traditional … Continue reading
jaz whitford
jaz whitford is a Vancouver-based mixed secwe̓pemc and settler interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism and anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected but valued and revered. using … Continue reading
Soloman Chiniquay
Soloman Chiniquay is an Indigenous documentary photographer and filmmaker from the Stoney Nakoda and Pomo tribes living between xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory and his homelands of Treaty 7 territory. His lens-based work witnesses expressions of Indigeneity, creating imagery that attempts … Continue reading
Erin Silver
Erin Silver is a historian of queer feminist visual culture, performance, activism, and art history. She obtained a PhD in Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies from McGill University in 2013. She is the co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of … Continue reading
Natasha Campbell
Natasha E Campbell is focused on supporting emerging creatives to understand business practices and user insights to foster market growth. She holds an MSc in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons, The New School. She is the program chair for … Continue reading
Nadia Nascimento
Nadia Nascimento is a global marketer, cultural innovator and experience designer whose work lies at the intersection of media, art and activism. Her strategies in digital and experiential have focused on top-tier brands and impact-based ventures from (RED) to VIACOM, … Continue reading
Krystal Paraboo
Krystal Paraboo (she/her) is an award-winning independent Curator, Art Historian, Writer, and Public Art Planner operating on the unceded ancestral territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ peoples. Paraboo’s work has spanned within public and private art institutions over the past … Continue reading