Adam Whitford resides in Sikoohkotoki/Lethbridge where he is the Interim Curator for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin. At the SAAG, he develops an exhibition program where international, national, and local artists speak to local and contemporary issues. As a writer, he has been published by Canadian Art, Galleries West, Public Parking, the Art Gallery of Burlington, and the Woodstock Art Gallery. He holds a BFA in Art & Design as well as an MA in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta.

Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional traditions—including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts—evolved out of CPA's predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967 by iconic artists Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock and Cole Weston. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery.

Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann was the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco where she incorporated contemporary artists with the legends photography. Ann also worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years until their closure in 2017. Ann has curated many shows in the Bay Area while simultaneously jurying, curating, and organizing numerous exhibitions for other national and international venues outside of San Francisco. While being a champion of artists, she created a thriving artist-in-residence program at RayKo where multiple residents including Meghann Riepenhoff, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Kathya Marie Landeros, and McNair Evans all received Guggenheim Fellowships.

Ann is interesting in seeing all types of photography, especially documentary projects, alternative and historical process work, and traditional film based photography. She can offer exhibition opportunities as well as other support for artists.

Muema Lombe is a photographer, art collector, tech startup founder, angel investor, and Vice President of the Board of Trustees at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California.

CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional traditions—including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts—evolved out of CPA's predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967 by iconic artists Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock and Cole Weston. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery.

Audrey Sands is a photography curator and historian. She holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University where she completed a dissertation on the photographer Lisette Model. From 2019 to 2022, she was the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson, Arizona, a joint appointment with the Phoenix Art Museum, where her exhibitions included a major retrospective of social documentarian Marion Palfi and a survey of postwar Japanese photography. She has held positions in curatorial departments at numerous museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Sands has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including the Henry Luce/ACLS Fellowship in American Art, the Canadian Photography Institute Fellowship, the Tyson Scholarship from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award presented by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), and the Nadir Mohamed Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ryerson Image Centre. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary survey of flash photography with the support of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Camilla Brown is a curator, writer and educator on contemporary art, specialising in photography based in the Derbyshire. For ten years she was Senior curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London previously she was Exhibitions Curator at Tate Liverpool. She works at Middlesex University as Programme Leader for a new MA Photography focussing on photographys’ role to address issues around social justice. Her writing on contemporary photography is regularly published in books and magazines. She also works as a mentor and consultant supporting artists and photographers with their professional development. She is currently working with the School of Life commissioning photography for a number of forthcoming books.

Crista Dix is the Executive Director at the Griffin Museum of Photography, assuming that role in January of 2022 after two years as the Associate Director.

Before coming to the Griffin Museum in 2020 she spent fifteen years operating her own photography gallery, wall space creative, closing it in 2020 to make the move to New England and the Griffin. Having a career spanning many paths she has a background rooted in science, business and creative art. This well rounded experience provides a solid background for supporting the Griffin’s mission to encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of the visual, emotional and social impact of photographic art.

The Griffin Museum curates over 50 exhibitions a year. As an institution, we are committed to ensuring that our mindset, practice and outreach set a framework with priorities for building programs and exhibitions that consider diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion through our mission that is centered around the photograph.

Crista has written essays about photography, introducing creative artists work to a broader community. She has been a member of numerous panels and discussions on the craft of photography, juried creative competitions and has participated in major portfolio reviews across the country in cities like Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New Orleans. She is open to view all types of photography, including moving images, installation and public projects. She is open to providing feedback on projects not yet completed and answering questions concerning next steps for projects or series not yet realized.

Hailing from Detroit Michigan, Dave is the Co-Founder of Photoville, the largest free photography festival in North America based in Brooklyn, New York. Photoville is a Non-profit organization whose mission is to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of Photography for all. This work has produced shows for the New York Times, United Nations, Four Freedoms, National Geographic, Instagram, and The Fence Exhibition which is shown in 11 North American Cities.

During the last Decade, Dave has presented Photography seminars at Grand Valley State, and served as a reviewer at The New York Times, Exposure Festival, Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, International Center of Photography, Houston FotoFest, ASMP and WNYC.

He is also an actor and in his 32-year career has Performed on Broadway, off Broadway and toured internationally as an associate member with New York City’s Wooster Group Theater Company. He has numerous film and television credits and continues to perform in various formats including weekly podcasts.

Over his career, he has produced numerous commercials, print photography, short films and theatrical events.

While working for Olympia Entertainment/ the Fox Theatre in Detroit and all their properties Dave produced, concerts, plays and stadium shows, (The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Eminem) at Comerica Park, Ford Field and various Detroit venues.

He has produced and production managed for the artist Matthew Barney, Professor Stephen Hawking, The Tribeca Film Festival, The World Science Festival, Vagina Monologues, and charities including The Red Cross and Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

Dave has served on various boards/foundations including The American Society of Media Photographers, United Photo Industries, Dumbo Bid, and The Plant Ant Theater Company.

Jessica Piette is a curator and writer currently based in Birmingham, UK. She is currently the Project Coordinator at Multistory, a community arts organisation based in Sandwell, and has 6 years experience of producing artistic programmes, exhibitions and events. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with an MLitt in Curatorial Practice: Contemporary Art in 2017, where she worked as Curatorial Assistant at Studio Pavilion for her placement. In 2020, she was selected for the CAMPUS Independent Study Programme: Curatorial, Visual and Cultural Studies with Nottingham Contemporary. She is a writer for northern arts writing platform Corridor8, has had writing published in the Cuntemporary Editorial and the Nottingham Contemporary Journal, and was a participant in the 2021 Another Gaze critics workshop at Open City Documentary Festival, 2021. In 2019 she participated in the UNIDEE Climate Action residency programme in Biella, Italy, and recently she was awarded the CLASSROOM bursary to undertake research into ecofeminist moving image practice.

Karen is the Creative Director of Shutter Hub, the UK based photography organisation providing opportunities and support for creative photographers worldwide. She founded the organisation to create a supportive community for photographers and to provide a platform for the development of ideas and careers.

She is dedicated to creating fair access to photography and opening up opportunities for everyone. She'd love to see work by creative photographers who are looking for support and direction, who want to exhibit their work, develop their networks, and connect with others.

Karen has spoken at industry events and locations such as FOAM Museum, London Art Fair, FORMAT Festival, and the Festival of Creative Industries; curated exhibitions at London Photomonth, Cambridge University, and St Bride Foundation, to name just a few in the UK, and taken shows to Belgium, Denmark, France, Israel, Portugal, Romania and The Netherlands. She’s reviewed portfolios in the UK, Europe, Canada, the US and Israel; at Unseen Amsterdam, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Belfast Photo Festival, London Photomonth, The Photographers’ Gallery, Getty Images Gallery, Exposure Photo Festival, Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center, Photo Vogue Festival, and more.

Karen is a consultant, curator and collaborator who works to bring innovative ideas and fundamental kindness to every project. She has won awards for photography, writing and community development. In 2019 she was named the Digital Influencer of the Year at the Holland Press Awards, and in 2022 she received a Barclays Social Entrepreneur Award for positively driving social and environmental change through business.

Karen is experienced in working with museums and galleries, developing exhibition spaces and publications, and collaborating with organisations such as The National Archive, English Heritage and Cambridge University. She also founded and co-directs Toiletries Amnesty, an NGO supporting over 2.25m people, working to end hygiene poverty and divert beauty industry waste.

For more information: karen-harvey.co.uk and shutterhub.org.uk

Lillian O'Brien Davis is the Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto. She has curated projects at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, Canadian Art online and C Magazine among others. Her latest curatorial project featuring works by Erika DeFrietas, Tim Whiten and Betye Saar, opens at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery on February 16.

The Magenta Foundation is a trailblazing charitable arts-publishing house that promotes the work of innovative international artists on a global scale, drawing special attention to under-represented and emerging artists through dynamic exhibitions and influential publications.

To date, The Magenta Foundation has published 100 books on photography and the visual arts; mounted 137 national and international exhibitions; launched 4,500+ artists’ careers via individualized mentorship, presentation, and publication opportunities; and awarded over $200,000 in scholarships and prizes.

Magenta’s diverse programming, which includes book publishing, the UNSTUCK photo competition, an education program, and the arts book fair /edition Toronto, is committed to embracing the ever-evolving arts arena by developing and maintaining strong relationships with international galleries, curators, and artists. Magenta is dedicated to increasing the profiles of under-documented and established artists, and provides an active platform for emerging talent.

Under the Magenta umbrella, there is something for everyone to enjoy and be inspired by.

For more information: magentafoundation.org

Niamh Treacy is the Coordinator for FORMAT International Photography Festival, the UK’s leading international contemporary festival of photography and related media based in Derby, UK. She has reviewed internationally for organisations such as Belfast Photography Festival, Uganda Press Photo, Hamburg Triennial and LCC and has juried open calls for FORMAT, UPPA, Zealous and the United Rugby Championship. Niamh is part of the FORMAT and QUAD curatorial team curating shows both internationally and nationally such as; un/natural, Lishui Photography Festival (2021), Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, QUAD (2021), #massisolationFORMAT, Derby Museum and Art Gallery (2021); FUTURE FOCUS, QUAD Gallery (20222) and Bruce Asbestos, Eye of Newt 2.0, QUAD (2022).

For more information: formatfestival.com

Nicola Shipley is a Producer, Project Manager, Curator, Mentor and Consultant specialising in contemporary photography. She is co-founder and Director of GRAIN Projects, a Board Member of PhotoFusion and a member of the National Photography Network.

Nicola’s recent work has included producing and curating the biannual national conference ‘The State of Photography’ and the masterclass series East Meets West with Derby based FORMAT International Photography Festival. She has curated and produced work with individuals and communities for Diffusion Festival, Cardiff, Coventry – UK City of Culture, Birmingham 2022 Festival – the Commonwealth Games, Photoworks Festival, Brighton and Historic England – Picturing England’s High Streets. She is interested in collaborative practice, socially engaged photography, portraiture, landscape and work that focuses on people and place. Recently Nicola was a judge for ‘Portrait of Britain’ - British Journal of Photography (2021), on the jury for the Source magazine BA Photography Awards (2019) and a judge for the Taylor Wessing International Photography Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery (2019).

For more information: grainphotographyhub.co.uk

Phoebe developed an interest in photography first as an undergraduate student studying History at UCL, before undertaking an MA in History of Art. Specialising in photographic histories allowed her to explore contemporary South African photography, as well as histories of European and American documentary. She hopes to develop her knowledge of street photography, documentary and photojournalism whilst at the V&A, where she is currently supporting curators in planning and delivery of the Photography Centre. Phoebe previously worked as Curatorial Assistant as Dulwich Picture Gallery and was involved in a number of projects during her time there, including leading a redisplay of the Dutch and Flemish galleries, supporting the installation of the first sculpture on long term loan to the gallery and assisting with the development of a new strand of the display programme that championed diverse contemporary painters.

Raised in Canada, Tiffany studied photojournalism in college and later founded the Overlapse imprint in London, UK while researching for her MA in Publishing. Her thesis topic investigated dynamics of the photobooks market (Oxford Brookes University, 2016). Overlapse has since published several internationally recognized and engaging books including Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals by Mandy Barker (UK) and The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer by Amani Willett (USA). In collaboration with photographers, artists and storytellers based around the world, Tiffany works with subjects that address social, cultural, and environmental issues – topics connected with human behaviour and experience.

With over 30 years dedicated to arts publishing and photographic storytelling, Tiffany is an editor, designer, researcher and educator. From 2009-14, she edited fLIP magazine for London Independent Photography, a grassroots association of which she is an honorary lifetime member. She has been a juror for the 2020 Breadfield Photobook Dummy Award (Sweden), Photolucida Critical Mass competition (USA), the Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award (Spain), and International Street Photography Awards.

For more information: overlapse.com

Alicia Buates McKenzie (they/she) is an artist and storyteller from Treaty 4 Territory in rural Manitoba, presently residing on Treaty 7 Territory, in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta). Their interests lie in vulnerability and transformation, recounting memories and emotions through the continuous formation of a personal mythology. Through their multidisciplinary artistic practice, Buates McKenzie employs a non-linear approach to storytelling which meanders through themes of self/home; attachment/separation/detachment; grounding/uprooting; and seeks to document and unravel the complex realities of rural, neurodivergent, and diasporic experiences.

Curated over 200 exhibitions at various institutions as a Chief Art Curator or Guest Curator including at the Glenbow Museum; Art Gallery of Calgary; the Military Museums, Calgary; Alberta Historical Resources Foundation; Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary; Esplanade Art Museum, Medicine Hat, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

As a Consultant worked with nation-wide clients including: art galleries, museums, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, municipalities and private industries providing Board and operational manuals, long range plans and collections management.

Author of numerous publications

Recipient of awards and honours including Honourary Member of the Alberta Society of Artists, the prestigious Government of Alberta Centennial Medal and the Alberta Museums Association, Award of Merit and Outstanding Service Award.

Ashley Slemming is a curator, art writer, and arts educator who calls Calgary, Alberta home. Since 2015, they have worked with a variety of artists and arts organizations, each creatively engaging in visual and cultural storytelling projects in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. Ashley has developed programs and exhibitions with Alberta Printmakers, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX), Alberta University for the Arts, Colouring it Forward, Exposure Photography Festival, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, and the Marion Nicoll Gallery.

Ashley briefly studied information design as part of a communications degree program at Mount Royal University, later transitioning to a fine arts program to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Print Media from the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art and Design). Her studies and work with various community projects led to a strong interest towards intersectionality within art, aesthetics, and education – focusing her curatorial projects on encouraging curiosity and critical discourse while endeavoring to create opportunities for artists to exhibit their work in relational and context-responsive ways. Every new project is approached with careful contemplation and collaborative goal setting, with the intent that each curatorial project invites reflection and dialogue around multifaceted human experiences.

Recent curatorial projects include Alone Together (touring 2022-2024) a solo exhibition by Kelly Isaak, Montageries (touring 2022 – 2024) with works by nineteen artists in a group exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts permanent collection, WE ARE IMMIGRANTS: The Hidden Hardships and Legacy of Early Chinese Canadian Immigrants (touring 2022 – 2024) a solo exhibition by Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung, Niitsitapi Pi’kssii (Blackfooot Fancy Beings) with Colouring it Forward Co-Curator Diana Frost (touring 2021 – 2023) featuring the artwork of Ryan Jason Allen Willert and Kalum Teke Dan, The Nameless Boy who gave his name to Sunday (touring 2021 – 2023) a solo exhibition by Joel Matthew Warkentin, and Urban Soul (touring 2021 – 2023) a group exhibition of six artists; Rhys Farrell, Levin Ifko, Harvey Nichol, Sydonne Warren, Adrianne Williams, and Tyler Wong. Earlier projects include an archival exhibition titled Unpacking IKG: 60 Years a Gallery for the Illingworth Kerr Gallery’s 60th Anniversary (2018), and a virtual group exhibition titled Absence, Inhabited (2018) for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Emerging Curator Fellowship.

Christine initially attended Red Deer College for two years before moving to Calgary to finish her BFA majoring in Sculpture and Printmaking from the University of Calgary in 1997. Christine began working in commercial galleries as a recipient of an internship program through the DFAIT, eventually managing the day to day operations of The Weiss Gallery from 2007 until 2012 when she took over partnership with James McIntyre and the gallery legally changed its name to Christine Klassen Gallery. Christine has worked diligently to establish the gallery as a keystone gallery of Calgary's art and design district and has been an active contributor to the Calgary arts community for over 10 years; Co-chair for the Calgary ArtWalk Festival Society (2008 to present) and Secretary for the Exposure Photography Festival (2011 to 2018).

Dona Schwartz is a photographic artist whose work explores everyday life and culture. Her work examines definitions of family and the nature of domesticity, cultural continuity and change, and transitional moments in life. In addition to her work as an artist, she is a scholar and educator. She earned a PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in visual communication and ethnographic research. She has published two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2009. On the Nest, also published by Kehrer, was released in December 2015. Schwartz’s award-winning photographs have been internationally exhibited and published. Schwartz’s work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Musée de l’Elysée, the George Eastman Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, the Portland Art Museum, and the Kinsey Institute. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Schwartz is a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary, and she is President and Board Chair of the annual Exposure Photography Festival. Schwartz is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.

For more information see donaschwartz.com

George Webber has been photographing the people, landscape and architecture of the Canadian west for over 40 years. He was inducted into The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1999. George has twice been the recipient of the National Magazine Gold Award for Photojournalism. His books include Requiem, A World Within, People of The Blood, Last Call, In This Place, Prairie Gothic, Badlands and Alberta Book, Saskatchewan Book and Borrowed Time. Webber’s work can be found in numerous Canadian and European museum collections. The documentary Lost Horizons: The Photography of George Webber chronicles his career.

For more information see georgewebber.ca

Jon Lowenstein specializes in long-term, in-depth documentary explorations that confront the realms of power, poverty, and violence. Through the combination of filmmaking, photography, experiential writing and personal testimonials, he strives for unsparing clarity by revealing the subjects of history that lack voice. Lowenstein’s commitment to social justice through community engagement runs both deep and long.

He has spent the better part of the past two decades engaging his adopted community on Chicago’s South Side where he taught photography in the Chicago Public Schools, ran a community newspaper and is currently creating the South Side Imagination Center in conjunction with fellow community members. This extensive and powerful body of work challenges accepted notions about community, poverty, segregation, and ultimately, what is the real space between hope and power. Told by the community with fewer filters, and still with an aesthetic that’s a unique personal collaboration between himself and his community, South Side is a true integrative expression of a uniquely American time and place. This participatory media project seeks to open new dialogic and physical spaces in which to engage both the immediate community and the global community at large.

Lowenstein is best known for his work documenting the migrant trail from Central America and Mexico to the United States. His photographic monograph Shadow Lives portrays the real stories of the men and women who make up the largest transnational migration in world history. This project, unique in its breadth and intimate scope forces the viewer to engage with the impact of America’s punitive immigration and economic policies on some of the United States’ most vulnerable populations. His TED talk on the subject has more than 2 million views and the work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine as well as many other outlets.

Lowenstein has been recognized widely for his work including being named a National Geographic Explorer, a TED Senior Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. He won the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize. He is a Nikon European Ambassador and he is member and owner of the NOOR Images cooperative based in Amsterdam.

He currently shares his time between Chicago’s South Side and the wide open prairies of Western Canada residing in the city of Calgary.

For more information see jonlowenstein.com & noorimages.com

Kate is a Senior Art Director and Illustrator based in Calgary Alberta. She currently works at AdMaki Creative in beautiful (and tiny) Bragg Creek. She graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design (now AU arts) with a Bachelor of Design and has a nerdy background in International Baccalaureate English. She loves working on branding and information design projects and has a tendency to find solutions to problems via illustration. She's a voracious reader, information sponge, baker, a hockey fan, and loves cats (but who doesn’t like dogs?).

Leah Hennel, an award-winning photojournalist based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In search of stunning visuals, she's travelled the globe — yet she's also managed to uncover some of her most arresting shots in her backyard. In particular, Leah's work documenting rural life is captivating stuff. A graduate of SAIT, she's worked for more than 20 years for daily newspapers in Calgary. Leah has covered two Paralympic Winter Games, Sochi and Rio and the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games for Postmedia. Tokyo 2020 Summer Games and Beijing 2022 Winter Games for the Canadian Olympic Committee.

The Calgarian's work appears in publications around the world, such as the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, Postmedia, The Narwhal, Getty Images, Reuters and CBC. Hennel has also published two photography books Along the Western Front and Alone Together: A Pandemic Photo Essay.

With a speciality in Alberta visual art, Mary-Beth has worked for over a decade as a contract curator – researching and organizing exhibitions for public art institutions in Alberta. They include: Glenbow Museum, Nickle Galleries & Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff), Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, The Esplanade Gallery (Medicine Hat), Galt Museum (Lethbridge), Okotoks Art Gallery and Lougheed House (Calgary).

In the area of photography, as a university student she developed her own work in a darkroom and later expanded her interest through writing reviews and profiles of exhibiting photographers. They were also featured in An Alberta Art Chronicle (2005); Alberta Art & Artists: A Survey (co-author, 2007) and A Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers & Native Plants of the West (2012). More recently, Mary-Beth co-curated High Adventure: Bryon Harmon on the Columbia Icefield, 1924 and developed in 2019 the survey exhibition, Before Digital: Post-1970 Photography in Alberta. Awaiting publication through the University of Calgary Press is Photophelia: Encounters with Alberta Photographers and Their Art featuring over two dozen artists working in analogue or digital modes.

Miriam Fabijan (she/her) is a Calgary-based multimedia artist, curator, arts administrator, and creative facilitator. In the past few years, she has become involved in several exhibition and community building projects. Most recently she curated the exhibition “Many Gardens” at the Calgary Central Library featuring the work of 13 women artists, and the exhibition series “The Many Paths That Have Led Us Here: Stories of resilience in the arts” at Arts Commons, Calgary. Fabijan has also been involved in several Indigenous-led projects, lending her support, consultation, and expertise to projects with Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society, the Tsuut’ina Nation and ar.Chiasmo Architectural Works Limited. Fabijan was also the exhibition coordinator for “From the Land” at the ATB Branch for Arts + Culture and the “Indigenous Motherhood and Matriarchy” exhibition series, working alongside curator Autumn Whiteway (Night Singing Woman) from concept to realization. She curated two Indigenous art exhibitions for Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society and she was a committee member and exhibition coordinator for Tsuut’ina Nation’s Nihisgaka Ogha – For Our Children dinner series. Fabijan’s primary curatorial interests lie in her desire to promote the artwork of Indigenous, immigrant, emerging, and otherwise underrepresented and marginalized artists, with a focus on art by and about women.

Miriam Fabijan is a graduate of the University of Calgary (BFA), NSCAD University (MFA). She was twice an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited extensively across Canada and in Europe and can be found in several public and private collections in Canada, the US and Europe, including the Canada Council Art Bank and the Walter Phillips Gallery for Contemporary Art. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council, Calgary Arts Development, Alberta Culture, La Ministère de la Culture du Québec and Slovenska Izseljenska Matica.

Mitch Kern is an Associate Professor of Photography at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary. He has an MFA in Photography from Penn State University and a BA in Visual Art from the University of Maryland. His work spans commercial, editorial and fine art genres.

Sanaa Humayun (she/her) is the child of Pakistani immigrants currently living and residing in Mohkinstsis, on treaty 7 land. She is an artist, writer, & curator, with a practice that thinks about non-narrative story telling, and the histories held within objects. Her art is a tender exploration of dominant narratives, and how they can be re-written in order to make space for herself and the people she loves. Her most recent work has been shown at Whippersnapper Gallery, Latitude 53, and Khyber Centre, She is passionate about fostering community, through means of food, laughter, and an unapologetic love of gossip. Along with Kiona Ligtvoet, Sanaa co-organizes Making Space - a peer mentorship group for early-career BIPOC artists, in addition to her work as Director of The New Gallery.

Sanja Lukac (she/her) is a Visual Artist and Curator. As the Visual and Media Arts Curator at Arts Commons she is passionate about equity in the arts and elevating the work of emerging artists. She is invested in the Calgary arts community as one of the board members of The Exposure Photography Festival and the Programming Chair of The Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI) where she works to create meaningful opportunities in the arts for all artists and is a mentor to many emerging and newcomer artists.

Sanja is one of the Authors of THE STIMULANT, an Environmental Developer catalyzed to lessen the toxic effect of the Traditional Darkroom on the Environment and the Photographers Health. She is also one of the founders and the Executive Director of SEITIES a traditional photography publication + gallery and is passionate about local, national and international artists who work with traditional methods of production in contemporary photography.

For more information see artscommons.ca/rbcevap | icaionline.org | seities.ca | thestimulant.bigcartel.com/ | sanjalukac.com

Todd Korol is a western Canadian based photographer who has been documenting the Canadian prairies for the last 30 years. He has published the book entitled “Harvest”. The photography book was a look at a Saskatchewan farm family during the busy prairie harvest season. It rose to the top ten non-fiction books in Maclean’s magazine. He has done assignments and been published in most of the world’s leading magazines which include, National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s. Readers Digest, Our Canada, Men’s Journal, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Globe and Mail, National Post, Stern, and Paris Match. He has also had his photos published in well over 100 books, including two Day In The Life Books, A Day In The Life of the NHL and America 24/7.