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Future Station – Artist Bios
Arbour Lake Sghool
Calgary, AB
The Arbour Lake Sghool is a multi-tasking Canadian art collective created in 2003. The group
has four core members: Andrew Frosst, John Frosst, Justin Patterson, and Scott Rogers. They
have worked together for over ten years, originally within a suburban house that functioned as a
studio, venue, and exhibition space as well as their permanent home. Now dispersed around
the globe, the Sghool members collaborate on projects that combine social practice with selftaught aesthetics, stand-up comedy, installation, and performance art. They have exhibited and
performed throughout Canada and internationally.
Ashleigh Bartlett
Calgary, AB
Ashleigh Bartlett received her BFA from the Alberta College Art and Design in 2006 and her
MFA from the University of Guelph in 2011. She has presented her work in solo and group
exhibitions across Canada, including The 5th KWAG Biennial at The Kitchener Waterloo Gallery
and Made in Alberta at The Art Gallery of Calgary. Her work has been included in the collection
of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she is the recipient of grants from the Alberta Foundation
for the Arts and SSHRC. She currently teaches in the Painting Department at the Alberta
College of Art and Design.
Kyle Beal
Calgary, AB
Kyle Beal grew up in Calgary and holds a diploma from the Alberta College of Art and Design
(2001) and MFA in visual art from the University of Victoria (2004). He has exhibited throughout
Canada, most recently at the Elora Centre for the Arts and Katharine Mulherin's NO
FOUNDATION in Toronto. Beal's studio based inquiry uses traditional media along with
interactive electronic objects to explore ideas related to language, comedy, and the space
between authentic and affected behaviour.
Brittney Bear Hat
Calgary, AB
Brittney Bear Hat is a 2011 graduate from the Alberta College of Art and Design. There, she
majored in Painting with an interest in collage and drawing. Based in Calgary, her work focuses
on identity and belonging. Half Blackfoot and half Cree, Bear Hat makes work about memory
and how her personal history is what makes her Native. Her work involves the process of taking
her own family photos or personal items and combining them with text, retelling stories and
memories. With each piece, Bear Hat is trying to figure out what is hers and what she can call
home.
Devon Beggs
Edmonton, AB
Devon Beggs acquired his MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University in Montreal. He has
been a practicing visual artist for the past ten years and has shown work in Edmonton,
Vancouver and Montreal. Beggs has received the Lillian Vineberg Award for Painting and
Drawing in 2010 and held his thesis show at Parisian Laundry in 2011. Although the focus of the
degree was painting and drawing, he was encouraged to experiment with other media and
expanded his practice to include sculpture, installation, video and performance.
Nika Blasser
Edmonton, AB
Nika Blasser is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Portland, Oregon. She moved to
Edmonton in 2010 to pursue a graduate degree in Intermedia and Drawing at the University of
Alberta, which she completed in 2013. Blasser has been maintaining an active studio practice
and showing regularly since graduating. She has recently exhibited at dc3 Art Projects in
Edmonton, RATS9 in Montreal, the Gallery of Alberta Media Art in Calgary, the Esker
Foundation Gallery in Calgary, 66B Project in Edmonton, and she has a solo exhibition in
Harcourt House's main gallery scheduled for summer 2015. Blasser currently works with several
arts organizations and galleries in Edmonton and is a sessional instructor at the University of
Alberta.
Christian Bök
Calgary, AB
Christian Bök, born in Etobicoke, Ontario, completed his PhD in English Literature from York
University in 1998 and currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of
Calgary. He is the author of Eunoia—a bestseller, which has gone on to win the Griffin Poetry
Prize. He has earned many accolades for his virtuoso recitals of “sound-poems”, particularly Die
Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters. Bök is on the verge of finishing his current project, entitled The
Xenotext—a work that requires him to engineer a poem directly onto a piece of bacterial DNA in
the hopes of creating a living, eternal, poem.
Steven Cottingham
Calgary, AB
Steven Cottingham studied at the Alberta Academy of Art and Design and the Association of
Independent Colleges of Art and Design in New York. He has also participated in residencies in
Banff and Toronto. He has exhibited recent projects in Glasgow, Havana, Moncton, Fredericton,
and Brooklyn. In 2014, he will curate the second iteration of the Calgary Biennial—a large-scale
group exhibition that appropriates commercial sites of advertisement such as billboards, bus
shelters, telephone poles, and the sky itself in an effort to challenge civic politics. In addition,
Cottingham works as Programming Coordinator at The New Gallery. Currently he is writing, as
so many have done before, a book about love and art.
Hannah Doerksen
Calgary, AB
Prior to receiving a BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 2012, Hannah Doerksen
studied at the New York Studio Program in Brooklyn, New York, and the California Collage of
Art in San Francisco. Since then, Doerksen has exhibited in Sao Paulo, Glasgow, New York and
throughout Alberta. Doerksen combines collage, sound, light, kinetic devices, and reappropriated objects in installations which aim to create a framework for an experience. Taking
as an assumption that wanting provides a richer emotion than having, her work is an
investigation of longing, contradiction, and a cultural condition of loneliness.
Joseph Doherty
Edmonton, AB
Joseph Doherty was born in the United States and is currently living and working in Edmonton.
He completed the MFA program in painting from the University of Alberta in December of 2013.
At present, Doherty works at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta’s
Museums and Collections at Enterprise Square and as a sessional painting and fundamentals
instructor at the University of Alberta. He is also a founding member of the Creative Practices
Institute where he currently holds a seat on the board of directors. Doherty is an arts community
driven individual with a focused emphasis on public arts and education. Presently, his practice
encounters the relationship between painting and installation.
Brenda Draney
Edmonton, AB
Brenda Draney grew up in Slave Lake, Alberta. She completed an English degree at the
University of Alberta before graduating with a BA in Fine Art in Painting. She graduated with her
MA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and became the 11th winner of the annual RBC
Canadian Painting Competition in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at the Power Plant in
Toronto, the Toronto International Art Fair, and at MKG127 Gallery in Toronto. She was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2013. Her work is part of the exhibition 90X90 currently at the
Art Gallery of Alberta. Brenda currently lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta.
Gordon Ferguson
Calgary, AB
Gordon Ferguson, born in High River, Alberta, completed his BFA in 1978 and his MFA in 1981
from the University of Montana. He has held a number of instructional positions, and is currently
teaching as the Head of the Sculpture Department at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He
is affiliated with the City of Calgary’s Urban Design Team, working on the creation of a Master
Plan for the city’s 8th Street Corridor. Ferguson describes himself as a hammerer, chiseler,
shaper, assemblist, farmer, wealsman, skeptic, planer, polemicist, caster, practician, fuser,
spatialist, carver, molder, tutor, critic, socialist, mechanic, agnostic, tinkerer, fabricator, glisser,
inventor, codifier, generator, calculator, erector, Darwinian and occasional expert.
Jason Frizzell
Red Deer, AB
Born in Edmonton, Jason Frizzell has spent most of his life in Red Deer with short stays in
Calgary where he received a BFA in 1996. He also received his MFA at the University of
Victoria in 1998. Frizzell is an artist, educator, and arts administrator and is currently the Interim
Dean for the School of Creative Arts at Red Deer College. He has received a number of awards
for his work including the Albera Creative Development Initiative Award from the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts in 1998. His work often explores themes of isolation, transition, denial,
and discovery within imaginary landscapes and environments. Undefined narratives and
uncertain relationships are presented in the form of mixed-media sculpture and drawings.
Sarah Fuller
Banff, AB
Sarah was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and holds a BFA from Emily Carr University. Recent
exhibitions include My Banff at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, The Homecoming
at the ODD gallery, Dawson YT, and See Attached at Truck Gallery with artist Dianne Bos. Her
work is in the collections of the Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank and the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts, to name a few. Sarah has been an artist in residence at the Fondazione
Antonio Ratti, Italy, and the Association of Visual Artists (SIM), Iceland. Her work is about
multiple levels of perception, reality and narrative.
Jude Griebel
Sundre, AB
Jude Griebel received a MFA in sculpture and ceramics from Concordia University in 2014. His
work has recently been exhibited at Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Parisian Laundry, Montreal,
BRERART Contemporary Art Week, Milan, and at the University of Lapland, Finland. For the
summer and fall of 2014 he has been working as an artist in residence at the Spinnerei Art
Center in Leipzig, Germany, with the support of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.
Aryen Hoekstra
Edmonton, AB
Aryen Hoekstra was born in Edmonton and currently lives and works in Toronto where he
serves as the Director of G Gallery. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s MFA program
and holds a BFA from the University of Alberta. In the fall of 2014 he will have a solo exhibition
at Mercer Union in Toronto and his work will be shown as a part of Nuit Blanche. Recent
exhibitions including his work have been held at Blackwood Gallery, Olga Korper Gallery, and
XPACE Cultural Centre as well he was included in The Images Festival in 2012. His critical
writing has appeared in numerous publications, most recently in Border Crossings and C
Magazine.
Dara Huminiski
Edmonton, AB
Dara Huminiski grew up in Edmonton, Alberta and completed a BA in Design from the
University of Alberta in 2004. MASS (2011) was her first major gallery installation - hand-painted
on site in Manning Hall of the Art Gallery of Alberta. Her work is included in Edmonton’s Public
Art Collection and Canadian Centre for Austrian and European Studies at the University of
Alberta. She has shown in both solo and group shows since 2005. Humniski is a multiinstrumentalist with a diverse background encompassing fine art, industrial design and
carpentry. Using the natural world as a starting point, Dara experiments with scale and media to
assemble fictional worlds with open-ended narratives that express things about the human
condition. She is also a founding member of the Loyal Loot Collective.
Mary Kavanagh
Lethbridge, AB
Mary Kavanagh received her MFA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1995. She is
currently working as a visual artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the
University of Lethbridge. Kavanagh's work has been exhibited widely and she is the recipient of
numerous awards and grants. She has participated in prestigious residency programs in the
U.S. and Canada, including the Santa Fe Art Institute, The Center for Land Use Interpretation,
and the Canadian Forces Artists Program. Her art practice encompasses drawing, photo, object
and video installations. Engaging field research via site visits, immersive investigation and
documentation, she chronicles events, activities and ephemera at historic and industrial sites of
interest, most recently focusing on the advancement of atomic and cold war technology and
culture.
Kristen Keegan
Edmonton, AB
Kristen Keegan received a BFA from the University of Alberta in painting and photography and
has since participated in residencies in New York, Banff, and Iceland. Her work has most
recently been shown at Botega Gallery, Banff, as part of Exposure photography festival, and at
Latitude 53 Gallery in Edmonton. She has received support for her projects though the
Edmonton Arts Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Her work is held in the
permanent collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Robin Lambert
High Prairie, AB
Robin Lambert was born on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, his childhood was spend
traveling throughout Western Canada before settling in Northern Alberta. He earned a BFA from
the Alberta College of Art and Design (2004) and a MFA from the University of Regina (2006).
Since then, he has held a number of instructional positions, teaching at the Red Deer College of
Art and Design and the Alberta College of Art and Design. Lambert’s theoretical and studio
research interests include social practice, participatory work, art and craft theory, craft culture
and the role of the artist and the art object in and out of the gallery.
Mathieu Lefèvre
Edmonton, AB
After an upbringing in Edmonton, Mathieu Lefèvre moved east to Montreal where he taught
himself to make art. There, he received his BA in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à
Montréal. During his brief career as an artist, he had numerous solo exhibitions in Montreal,
Toronto, Moncton, Calgary, the United States and Europe. Representing Canada at the Prague
Biennial 5, Czech Republic, his work was also shown extensively in group exhibitions. Lefèvre
moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2010 to continue his career as an artist. In 2011 he was
tragically killed in a traffic collision. Often dealing with the microcosm of the contemporary art
world, Lefèvre raises questions as to what art can be, what it is worth and what its role is in a
cultural, commercial and political setting.
Tyler Los-Jones
Calgary, AB
Tyler Los-Jones completed his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2007. He has
had a number of solo exhibitions including How the air hides the sky, a site specific installation
in the project space of the Esker Foundation and We saw the reflected inverted image of our
own age, at the Banff Centre’s Eric Harvie Theatre. Los-Jones has also participated in group
exhibitions in the United States, the United Kingdom and throughout Canada. His recent
projects investigate photography's role in the relationship between uncertainty and inherited
assumptions of our environment.
Amy Malbeuf
Rich Lake, AB
Amy Malbeuf received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2010 and her
Native Cultural Arts Instructor Certificate from Portage College in 2012. She has received a
number of awards and grants including the Norval Morrisseau Fine Arts Award from the
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in 2011. Malbeuf’s work focuses on notions of
identity, place, language, history, spirituality, and ecology. Through her art practice she
examines the relationships between humanity and nature; deconstructs popular
misunderstandings of Indigeneity; and explores the complicated intersections between race and
culture.
Travis McEwan
Edmonton, AB
Travis McEwen was born in Red Deer Alberta and is currently based in Montreal while
completing his MFA at Concordia University. Raised in Edmonton, he completed a BFA and
Diploma of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan College, respectively. He
has shown work throughout Canada, including Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Sackville.
Primarily working within the medium of painting, his practice is a portrait-focused investigation
into the emotional and psychological experiences of being othered as well as themes of
queerness, and gender and how different marginalized communities employ strategies such as
re-appropriation within the visual arts as forms of world-making.
Brendan McGillicuddy
Calgary, AB
Brendan McGillicuddy holds a BAH in sculpture from the Alberta College of Art and Design
(2004) and received a MFA with Honours at Parsons, The New School For Design (2006) in
New York City. His work has been exhibited at The Art Gallery of Alberta, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Calgary and Exit Art Gallery in New York City. In 2009, he received a
commission from The Edmonton Arts Council to build a site-specific sculpture for the
Callingwood Recreational Centre. McGillicuddy has mentored under several prominent artists in
New York City in the early years of his career. As a result, he has developed the skill-set and
knowledge required to fabricate sculpture in a variety of materials. McGillicuddy relocated to
Alberta in 2011, where he currently resides in Calgary.
Jay Mosher
Calgary, AB
Jay Mosher received a MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2013. Selected exhibitions include
Comfortably Warm, part of Glasgow International 2014, Friends (2014) and Talisman (in
collaboration with Rory Middleton), The New Gallery, Calgary (2012). He recently organized and
exhibited in Cave, part of Glasgow Master Series, Underground Car Park, Fleming House,
Glasgow (2013), and has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
(2015). Mosher, with collaborator Rory Middleton, are currently an artists-in-residence with
Watershed+ at Ralph Klein Park, Calgary (2014).
Yvonne Mullock
Calgary, AB
Yvonne Mullock was born in the United Kingdom and acquired her BAH from the Glasgow
School of Art. She is currently living and working in Calgary, Alberta. Recent exhibitions and
projects include HIT & MISS a collaborative project with the Chinook Guild of Fibre Arts for
Esker Foundation Contemporary Art Gallery; Groundwork for Action a solo exhibition at Pith,
Calgary; Beaver Fever at Glasgow’s Project Room and a residency with Fogo Island Arts and
Shorefast, Newfoundland. Her work is often informed by a process of research, using both
people and surroundings as a springboard for works that are responsive to a specific context.
Wil Murray
Calgary, AB
Wil Murray was born in Calgary in and studied drawing at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
He has exhibited across Canada and internationally, including The National Gallery of Canada,
The Hole in New York and The University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Solo exhibitions include
Please Boss Remember Me, VITRINE, London UK, Die Welt In Farben, p|m Gallery, Toronto,
and Last Summer I Build A 1:8 Scale Model of Your Vagina, Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg,
Berlin, DE. He received an honourable mention in the 2008 RBC Canadian Painting
Competition. Murray is currently living and working in Oktoks.
Ali Nickerson
Edmonton, AB
Growing up in small coastal village in Nova Scotia, Ali Nickerson has made her career as a
professional artist in Edmonton, having received her undergraduate degree from Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Alberta. She has attended
residences at the Banff Center for the Arts and participated in Fibreworks; The Biennial of
Canadian Fiber Art in Ontario and shown at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, PEI, Anna
Leonowens Gallery and Khyber Gallery in Halifax, as well as recently at Dc3, The Drawing
Room and Hartcourt House in Edmonton. Nickerson’s practice spans a diversity of media,
including sculpture, drawing, robotics and craft. Fuelled by skewed narrative, violence and dark
humour her work embraces the world through lenses of fact, fiction and the uncanny.
Brad Necyk
St. Albert, AB
Brad Necyk grew up on a large acreage North of Stoney Plain, Alberta. He graduated with his
MFA from the University of Alberta (2013) where he is currently a contract sessional instructor in
Drawing and Intermedia. He has been in a number of exhibitions including a solo show at the
FAB Gallery in 2013. His work is primarily in the mediums of photography, video and
performance. His artistic research is focused around the medicalization of the body,
pharmaceutics and psychiatry. Thinking of pharmaceuticals, simultaneously a cure and a
poison, within the apparatus of psychiatry allows Necyk to critically engage with the biopolitical
and thanatopolictical intersections within one’s subjectivity.
Erik Osberg
Edmonton, AB
Erik Osberg was born in Vancouver and holds BFA degrees in photography and film production
from Concordia University, and a MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. Some recent projects
include Chase, for the Gallery of Alberta Media Art at the Epcor Centre in Calgary, Mothlight
2013, in 3-D!, at GeneratorProjects in Dundee, Scotland, and an upcoming collaborative
residency in July 2014, at the Gushul Studio in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, alongside Josée Aubin
Ouellette, where the two will produce the first of a three-part, long-form, narrative film work.
Josée Aubin Ouellette
Edmonton, AB
Josée Aubin Ouellette was born in Edmonton in 1986. She holds a BFA from The University of
Alberta and a MFA from The Glasgow School of Art. Recent exhibitions include, MILK at
Harcourt House, Edmonton, and the group exhibitions, Sérieux Solides Axenéo7 in Gatineau
and Skirt the parlour, and shun the zoo at the Walter Philips Gallery, Banff. She is the recipient
of the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award 2014, and the 2012
Edmonton Artist Trust Fund. In 2015, she will begin doctoral research at The Edinburgh College
of Art. Ouellette makes exhibitions as artworks that experiment with writing, object-based
performance, and modes of display.
Giulliano Palladino
Edmonton, AB
Giulliano Palladino is a self-taught independent filmmaker based in Edmonton. After completing
school for carpentry, Palladino has dedicated himself full time to his video and photographic
pursuits. His work has been screened locally at the Garneau Theatre, Latitude 53, ISBE
Edmonton. His work frequently incorporates elements of woodworking in addition to animation,
puppetry, and illustration.
Evan Prosofsky
Edmonton, AB
Evan Prosofsky is a self-taught filmmaker known for his work as a cinematographer for short
film and music video pieces. At 24, he has lensed acclaimed videos for artists as diverse as
Paul Mccartney, Lana Del Rey, and The Arcade Fire - which recently won the Polaris Prize for
best music video. As a Director, Evan has endeavored to use film as a document of the
Canadian Landscape. His experience in music videos has led him to explore long-form narrative
possibilities which utilize music video tropes. Currently, Evan is working on Grand Prairie, a
feature length IMAX film about Alberta, scored by Dirty Beaches.
Scott Rogers
Calgary, AB
Scott Rogers was born in Calgary in 1981. He received a BFA from the University of Calgary in
2003, and a MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2012. He participated in an exchange at the
Staedelschule in Frankfurt from 2011 to 2012. Solo exhibitions include Negative Miracle at the
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and Oasen (with Sarah Rose) at Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand.
Group exhibitions include Seeing Things, Glasgow International Festival, UK, Fight! Center,
Berlin, DE, and Occasional Fix, Dog Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. With Sarah Rose and
Rebecca Wilcox he co-runs tenletters, a project space in Glasgow.
Erin Schwab
Fort McMurray, AB
Erin Schwab was born and raised in Morinville, Alberta. She graduated with distinction from
University of Alberta’s MFA program in Drawing in 2006 where she focused her research on
filtering the language of traditional botanical illustration and ceramics through the dialogue of
contemporary drawing. Schwab is currently Head of the Visual Art and Design program at
Keyano College in Fort McMurray. She has been dedicated in the development of arts and
culture in the region through her participation in Art Committees for the Airport Authority and the
Municipality, the development of the Arts Council Wood Buffalo and of the Arts Advisory Board
for the Alberta Legislative Assembly.
Sergio Serriano
Edmonton, AB
Sergio Serrano is a graphic designer and artist born in Mexico, now living in Edmonton. He
received a BA in Design from the University of Alberta in 2009. His design client-work focuses
mainly on the arts and education. Literature and mythology are recurring themes in his work,
which explores the narratives humans create in order to understand themselves and their place
in the world around them. He works in print media and book works, creating images and objects
that feel both familiar and unknown. His work also deals with the communication and
transformation of these narratives, both in language, content and form.
Leslie Sharpe
Edmonton, AB
Born in Medicine Hat and raised in Grande Prairie, Sharpe received her MFA from the
University of California, San Diego, and has taught art at Pratt Institute in New York, University
of California, San Diego, and Indiana University. She returned to Alberta in 2011 to Chair the
Fine Art program at MacEwan University. She has been an artist-in-residence at P.S. 1 in New
York, the Banff Centre, and lvvavik National Park in the Canadian Arctic. Her installations and
artworks have been exhibited in over fifty exhibitions in Finland, Germany, Spain, France, USA,
and Canada. Sharpe’s recent artwork addresses animal-human relationships, environment,
colonialism, digital histories, and the North.
Jill Stanton
Edmonton, AB
Jill Stanton holds a BFA in printmaking and drawing from the University of Alberta. Recently,
she has completed an 1800 square foot drawing for the Art Gallery of Alberta's Manning Hall
space, entitled Strange Dream. She was also a recipient of the Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund
Award in 2013. Her work specializes in the weird and wacky. She works concurrently on smallscale comic works as well as large-scale mural works, with a focus on dream imagery and
hallucinations. With her background in printmaking, she is currently working with the Nina
Haggerty Centre for the Arts in Edmonton as Print Shop Coordinator.
Alma Louise Visscher
Edmonton, AB
Alma Louise Visscher received her MFA in 2011 at the University of Alberta. She has been
featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions and most recently has constructed, by hand,
an elaborate textile installation for a solo show at the RBC New Works Gallery at the Art Gallery
of Alberta. Her imaginative work is influenced by sail and kite making, medieval philosophies
and architecture, and cloud formations. Future projects include a residency at the Iceland
Textile Center in September of 2014. Her work revolves around textile-based sculptures and
performance based videos in which rituals and built environments are inserted into the
landscape, in particular that of northern Alberta.
Adam Waldron-Blain
Edmonton, AB
Adam Waldron-Blain is a famous Edmonton artist who completed his BA in Art and Design from
the University of Alberta in 2001. He has also been featured in a number of exhibitions in both
Edmonton and Toronto including shows at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Harcourt House, Xpace
External Space and the Whippersnapper Gallery. In addition, Waldron-Blain has recently come
back from a residency at SÍM in Reykjavík, Iceland. In recent years he performed at Dirt
City¦Dream City in downtown Edmonton, made work in Banff, Toronto, and Glasgow during
residencies, and his artworks, performances, and games appeared at events and exhibitions in
Bristol, Calgary, Glasgow, Oakland, San Antonio, and around Edmonton.
Nicole Kelly Westman
Red Deer, AB
Nicole Kelly Westman grew up in Red Deer, Alberta and graduated in 2012 from the Emily Carr
University of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited in a number of collective shows,
mostly coming out of Vancouver. She is currently completing a work-study at the Banff Centre
where she has been since early 2013. Westman describes herself as a visual artist who grew
up in a supportive home with strong-willed parents—her mother, a considerate woman with
inventive creativity, and her father, an anonymous feminist. Her work culls from these formative
years for insight and inspiration.