Adrien Crossman
Adrienne Crossman is a queer and non-binary white settler artist, educator and curator currently residing on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in Hamilton, Ontario. Crossman holds an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Windsor (2018), and a BFA in Integrated Media from OCAD University (2012). Their practice explores the affective qualities of queerness, and they are interested in the liminality between the digital and the physical, considering how the terms trans* and non-binary apply to media as well as gender. Crossman is a co-founder and co-runs the online arts publication off centre and is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University.
Lucia Wallace
Lucia Wallace is a queer artist/writer from Toronto, Ontario and is a recent graduate of OCAD University’s CADN program. With a BFA in Drawing & Painting (2018), her studio and research practices span textiles, contemporary ceramics, creative writing, and painting. Focusing on tactility and materiality, she strives to intertwine her making and writing processes.
Nat Smith
Hi, my name is Nat Smith. Right now I’m a fourth-year student at OCAD University, but I also work as a strategist at award-winning agency No Fixed Address and am a board member of Toronto-based music non-profit Waveland.
This episode is guest-hosted by Nat Smith and was recorded in Tkaronto on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations.
Claudia Slogar Rick
Claudia Slogar Rick is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. They graduated from the University of Guelph in 2017, majoring in Studio Art. Their practice involves, drawing, sculpture, performance and the internet using the aesthetics of necessity and efficiency. Rick’s work is unapologetically low-brow, accessible, and community-based.
Emily Reimer
Emily Reimer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario. Her work uses performance, drawing, and video to think about her relationships to herself and the people around her, often working in close collaboration with family members.
B Wijshijer
B Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media and video installation. Wijshijer utilizes online trends and subcultures to deconstruct mediated intimacies and personas on digital platforms. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University in 2017 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2020.
Chantal Hassard
Chantal Hassard is an artist and filmmaker interrogating the relationship between an artwork, the artist and its viewer which she views in parallel with law, policy and the body politic and often makes participatory paintings that embody this relationship.
She graduated from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies and is currently wrapping up a MA degree in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the cultural production of autonomous space in Amsterdam.
Her current body of work 'A(d)Just (the) City' performs the experimental role of artistic research by delivering a translation and analysis of the collective cultural production carried out by a decentralised assemblage of individual artists and activists working within the squatting scene and other autonomous spaces around Amsterdam. The ongoing self-documentation through visual, musical, poetic and other forms of cultural production emerging from autonomous cultural space is interpreted as part of a collaborative activistic and artistic urban process which has struggled to produce alternative/autonomous/free spaces as a force of resistance against capitalist logic and gentrification of Amsterdam as a hyper touristic city.
Suritah Wignall
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Emerging Caribbean Canadian artist Suritah Teresa Wignall is a passionate communicator; Suritah’s paintings are filled with exuberance, color and light. Her pieces pay homage to her African roots.
Jacquie Shaw
Jacquie Shaw is a strategic futurist, and design anthropologist, with a hybrid practice that combines design, research, education, and consulting, Their work is grounded in and supports critical explorations of design’s role and use in creating the future. Inspired by understanding their own lived experience as a Filipinx-Bermudian settler in what is currently Canada, their work orients towards inclusive, equitable, and liberatory futures informed by decolonial, feminist, respectful design, design justice, anti-oppressive oriented praxis. Jacquie holds an MDes in strategic foresight and innovation from OCAD University and a BDes in communication design from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. They are currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto.
EA Douglas
EA Douglas is a writer and artist currently living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work explores the intersection of creativity and mental health.
Jonah Strub
Jonah Strub is a painter, sculptor, performance artist, and ceramicist based out of Toronto. He graduated from the University of Guelph in 2019, with a double major in Studio Art and Psychology. Jonah finished off his degree at the University of the Arts (HFK) in Bremen. Since experimenting with ceramics in Germany, Jonah’s practice has pivoted from painting to include sculptural forms. One of his more recent works being a larger than life bust titled “Mz. Velveeta Creamcheese” made of paper maché and acrylic paint adorned with a feather boa.
Sonali Menezes
Sonali Menezes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, ON. She holds an Honours BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and is the youngest of triplets. Sonali’s work uses performance, video, zines, sculpture, printmaking, poetry and sometimes-exorbitant amounts of Manwich tomato sauce. Her work reflects her resistance to the histories of colonialism and racialization within which she is interwoven.
Rachel Rozanski
Rachel Rozanski is an emerging Canadian visual artist. She is an MFA candidate studying at Ryerson University in the final stages of her degree. Her practice has evolved to include contact images and video documenting melting permafrost in the North of Canada. Rachel and her partner and cinematographer Parham, drove across the Yukon documenting the changing landscape of Canada’s north.