Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based artist, curator, writer, and editor. She is a founding member of Other Sights for Artists’ Projects; was the Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery from 1999 to 2004, and was Acting Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC. Brown has taught at SFU and Emily Carr University where she received an honorary doctorate of letters in 2015. Awards include the VIVA Award (1996). Her work is in the collections of the Belkin, SFU, the National Gallery of Canada, the BC Arts Council, the Surrey Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Justine A. Chambers is a dance artist based on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, in Vancouver, Canada. Her practice is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage and extends from this continuum and its entanglements with Western contemporary dance and visual arts practices. Her research attends to embodied archives, social choreographies, and choreography and dance as otherwise ways of being in relation. Chambers’ work has been hosted at galleries, festivals and theatres nationally and internationally. She is an Assistant Professor at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.

Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs healing, meditation, divination, exorcism and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and their syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.

Lucien Durey is an artist and singer based in West Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His mixed media and performance-based practice engages with found objects, photographs, sounds, and place. Durey holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MFA from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Recent exhibitions include those at The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia; Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver; School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; with performances at Lobe Studio, Vancouver; and Burnaby Art Gallery.

Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture, photography, documentary film, and anthropological methods, he investigates strategies of representation to expand the ways through which museums have looked at the past through traditional forms of collection, interpretation, and display. Farooq foregrounds community-based models of knowledge production and an array of contemplative practices in order to suggest new ways of narrating our cultural histories. He has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Jaou Biennial Tunis (2024), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023).

Jared Stanley is a poet and writer who often collaborates with artists. He is the author of four collections of poetry, So Tough, EARS, The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest, as well as many chapbooks and pamphlets, most recently The Blurry Hole (with Sameer Farooq, Artspeak, 2022), and SHALL, (Black Rock Press, 2019). Jared’s awards include The Saturnalia Prize, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship (with Sameer Farooq), and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Elisa Ferrari works with sound, performance, and writing. Her practice attends to memory formations, translingual ecologies, sonic sediments, and the possibilities of reception and idleness. Elisa’s projects and collaborations take on different forms including exhibition-making, sound events, listening workshops, archival projects and community building initiatives. On Vancouver co-op radio, she hosts aux-sends—a quarterly radio series about experimental music, sound, and aural poetics. She is a PhD student at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Ferrari lives as an uninvited guest on the unceded lands of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),, and in Brescia, Italy, where she grew up.

Germaine Koh served as the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence from 2018-20 and was a 2023 winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Previously a 2023-24 Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, since 2024 she has been Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia.

Helena Krobath was born in Matsqui after their family immigrated from various parts of Eastern Europe to Manitoba and British Columbia in the 1930s and 1950s. Krobath now lives in unceded territories known as Vancouver, where she works with sound and visual arts, transforming field recordings and homemade instruments with digital software and experimenting with place-based experiences, especially soundwalking and immersive play. Krobath also does sound design for the award-nominated Invisible Institutions Podcast, teaches in the field of Communication, and facilitates community-based arts exploration. They are particularly interested in how narratives are created not only with words but with our senses, movement, and arrangement of space.

Liz Magor lives and works in Vancouver. She studied at the University of British Columbia (1966-68), Parsons School of Design in New York City (1968-1970) the Vancouver School of Art (1971). In 2021, France awarded her the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. In 2009 she received the Audain Prize, and in 2001, she was a recipient of the Governor General’s award. In 1987, she exhibited at documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany, and in 1984, she represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. In Vancouver she exhibits her work at Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installations, animation, drawing, audio fiction, performance, and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited her work in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include the Art Gallery at Evergreen, Kamloops Art Gallery, Prince Takamado Gallery, Nanaimo Art Gallery, and Surrey Art Gallery. She has created illustration and animation design for theatre companies including the Arts Club Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Replacement, and Little Onion Puppet. She received the  Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020). 

Pietro Sammarco’s creative practice improvises with found sounds to learn about our relationships to place. He has taught listening and audio production at Emily Carr University, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, and the Vancouver Public Library’s Inspiration Lab. From 2016 to 2021, he programmed educational activities at VIVO Media Arts Centre, to deepen community engagement with the non-profit’s exhibitions, archives, and facilities. Pietro earned his MA from SFU on the unceded territories of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), studying soundscape composition with Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp, and youth media with Stuart Poyntz. He joins the Gibson’s team as their new Curator of Learning & Community Engagement in October 2025.

Liz Toohey-Wiese is a settler artist residing on the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ peoples. She is a graduate from the MFA program at NSCAD University. She completed her undergraduate degree in painting at Emily Carr University, also undertaking coursework at the University of Victoria and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. She has taken part in solo and group shows across Canada, and has undertaken artist residencies at the Sointula Art Shed (2019), the Caetani Cultural Center (2020/21/22), Island Mountain Arts (2021), the Similkameen Artist Residency (2023), Artscape Gibraltar Point (2023), and the Klondike Institute for Arts + Culture (2024). Deeply interested in the history of landscape painting, her paintings explore contemporary relationships between identity and place. Her most recent work explores the complicated topic of wildfires and their connections to tourism, economy, grief, and renewal.

Debra Sparrow was born and raised on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Indian Reserve and is a self-taught artist, designer, weaver, and jewelry-maker. Sparrow has been weaving for over twenty years and is dedicated to the revival of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm weaving. Through courses taught at Langara College, weavings in the Vancouver International Airport, large murals like her Blanketing the City series, various publications and many other exhibits and contributions, Sparrow states that her hope is to educate others about the beauty and integrity of her peoples’ history through her art practices.

Jin-me Yoon is an award-winning Korean-born artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. She has used photography, video, performance, and installation to situate the experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. For over three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.