Yves Amyot
Yves Amyot co-founded the centre Turbine and directed it from 2009 to 2022. He has been conceiving and facilitating creative pedagogical and participatory arts projects in community and school settings for over 20 years. He taught visual and media arts, first in primary and secondary schools, then at the college level, and was a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in the teaching of digital arts. He is recognized for his expertise in accompanying and training artists who wish to open up their practices to different communities. He is the author of Le marcheur pédagogue. Amorce d'une pédagogie rhizomatique (2003).
Véronique Leblanc
Véronique Leblanc is an independent curator, author, teacher and cultural worker. She views curating, writing, pedagogical adventures and arts administration as shared learning spaces. In her curatorial practice, she is particularly interested in imagining the commons through a range of artistic practices combining collaborative and performative approaches. In recent years, she has been involved in the Espace critique committee of the DARE-DARE artist-run centre, and she initiated the Fabuler l'école project (since 2019). She is currently working on the artistic and community project Cueillir in collaboration with the AdMare centre in Îles-de-la-Madeleine, where she lives. [Photo courtesy of Guylaine Coderre]
Daniel Fiset
Daniel Fiset is a cultural worker who lives in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal. Since 2019, he has held the position of Assistant Curator of Engagement at the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art. He holds a doctorate in art history from the Université de Montréal, which he completed under the supervision of Suzanne Paquet. He is currently conducting independent research on the porosity of educational and artistic practices in Quebec, and on the integration of historical and critical materialism in contemporary art. He has collaborated with numerous Quebec and Canadian institutions as a curator, author, art critic and educator. [Photo courtesy of Tanha Gomes]
Caroline Boileau
Caroline Boileau is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, instructor and teacher who lives in Montreal. Working from a feminist position, with a strong interest in the field of health —intimate, public, social and political—she creates projects, often hybrid in nature, by way of a multidisciplinary practice comprising installation, drawing, video and performance. She has participated in numerous residencies, and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia and Europe. Her video work is distributed in Montreal by GIV (Groupe Intervention Vidéo). www.carolineboileau.com
Renata Cervetto
Renata Cervetto holds a Master in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (UCM, Museo Reina Sofía), a Degree in Art History (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and she has completed de Appel Curatorial Program in Amsterdam (2013-2014). She was Coordinator of the Education area of MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2015-2018) and curated the 11th Berlin Biennale, The cracks begin within, together with Agustín Pérez Rubio, María Berríos and Lisette Lagnado (2019-2020). In 2023 she was a tutor in the Artist in Residence program at Matadero Madrid, and currently she edits the publication Fora per fer Escola. Archives of Catalan educational renewal movements for Manifesta 15 (Barcelona).
Adriana de Oliveira
Adriana De Oliveira has been a professor at UQAM's School of Visual and Media Arts since 2017. Her interests and activities focus on artistic and educational intervention in community, cultural and health settings, as well as on contemporary art appreciation, intercultural dialogue and critical thinking in the visual arts classroom. She was a project manager at Centre Turbine (2002-2017) and coordinated the educational program at Centre des arts actuels Skol for nine years. She is currently a member of ArtEspaceSocial, a research group on artistic and pedagogical practices in social space. [Photo courtesy of Émilie Tournevache]
Alanna Irene Edwards
Alanna Irene Edwards is an artist, curator, and educator of Mi’gmaq (Listuguj) and settler descent, currently occupying unceded Coast Salish territory home to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɁɬ nations. She has a BA in Political Science and Women’s Studies from Simon Fraser University, a diploma in Fine Arts from Langara College, and a BFA with distinction from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Aiden Gillis
Aiden Gillis is a visual artist and curator based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS) on Mi’kma’ki (Mi’kmaq Territory), with Mi’kmaw and French roots in Western Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). Gillis grew up primarily on Wolastokuk (Maliseet Territory) in New Brunswick.Gillis is the Indigenous Arts Programmer at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, supporting both the arts education and curatorial departments.Gillis serves on the Board of Directors for the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre and is an Executive Committee Member for the Canadian Art Gallery Educators. In 2017, he completed a BFA with a minor in Art History at NSCAD University.
Pablo Helguera
Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist living in New York. His work involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater and other literary strategies. Recipient of international grants and awards, he is often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art.He has been recipient of many awards including the Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellowship as well as the first International Award for Participatory Art in Italy. He is the author of many books including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference (2014). He is currently Assistant Professor of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at The College of the Performing Arts at The New School. He writes a weekly column titled Beautiful Eccentrics.[Photo courtesy of Lorena Marrón]
Emily Keenlyside
Emily Keenlyside is a settler practitioner-scholar living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She has a PhD in Art Education from Concordia University, where her research examined art museum educators’ professional learning in times of political reckoning and social upheaval. Building on her experience as a community worker, Emily worked as an educator and trainer with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and co-coordinated education programming at Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art. She currently teaches Museum and Curatorial Studies at Mount Allison University, consults on museum education and training, and is an affiliate with Thinking Through the Museum. [Photo courtesy of Tanha Gomes]
Ève Lamoureux
Ève Lamoureux is a professor in the art history department at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Her research focuses on politically engaged art, community arts and cultural mediation. She is a member of the Centre de recherche Cultures - Arts - Sociétés (CELAT) and the Observatoire des médiations culturelles (OMEC). She recently co-edited the books Médiation culturelle, musées, publics diversifiés. Guide pour une expérience inclusive (2021), Arts. Entre libertés et scandales. Études de cas (2020), InterReconnaissance. La mémoire des droits dans le milieu communautaire au Québec (2018), Le vivre-ensemble à l'épreuve des pratiques culturelles et artistiques contemporaines (2018), and Expériences critiques de la médiation culturelle (2017).
Helena Martin Franco
Helena Martin Franco, was born in Colombia and has lived and worked in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal since 1998. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the mixing of different artistic processes and the hybridization of traditional techniques and new technologies. Helena creates autofictions in which she explores the porous boundaries between cultural, national and gender identities. She is the founder of L'Araignée, a contemporary art dissemination collective, and of La Redhada, Red de mujeres artistas del Caribe colombiano, Las meninas emputás! a Carthagena-based anti-colonial activist collective. The recipient of the 2018 Powerhouse Award winner, she holds an MFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Natalie Rollins
Natalie Rollins is an interdisciplinary artist, and works as the Public Program Coordinator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Guided by her connections to her family ties, Cree teachings, and the mentors, her practice is growing in two-eyed ways of learning, walking and being. She approaches her gallery role with a collaborative perspective to create cultural experiential engagement and connects through relationship to the arts.
Syrus Marcus Ware
Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts at McMaster University. A Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator, Ware uses drawing and painting, installation, and performance to explore social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. His work has been shown widely across Canada in solo and group shows, and his performance works have been part of local and international festivals. He is part of the Black August Arts Residency Collective and a cofounder of Black Lives Matter-Canada. Syrus is curator of the That’s So Gay show and a past co-curator of Blackness Yes!/Blockorama. In addition to penning a variety of journals and articles, Syrus is the co-editor of the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (URP, 2020). [Photo courtesy of CBC]
Kathleen Vaughan
Kathleen Vaughan (MFA, PhD) is an artist-researcher who integrates visual art and storytelling in studio- and community-based projects on social and environmental themes related to the dynamic ecosystems of rivers, forests and skies. An artist in textiles and lifelong knitter, she is also exploring wool as a sustainable, beautiful material that can improve our lives and our world. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures, is Professor of Art Education and feels happiest with her hands in materials and walking wildish pathways with her standard poodle. https://www.akaredhanded.com/ and http://re-imagine.ca/ and https://learningwiththestlawrence.ca/
Tania Willard
Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, through collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities. Her artistic and curatorial work includes Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2012-2014) and Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe (ongoing). Willard’s work is included in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Forge Project, Kamloops Art Gallery, and the Anchorage Museum, among others. [Photo courtesy of Billie Jean Gabriel]
