Elisabeth Belliveau

Elisabeth Belliveau is an interdisciplinary artist working in stop-motion animation, drawing and fibre arts, and the published author of three graphic novels. She completed a Masters Degree in Studio Arts from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alberta College of Art and Design in sculpture. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the William Blair Brucebo Scholarship. She has been a participant at international residency programs including the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale NY; the Banff Centre for the Arts and The National Film Board of Canada. Currently her studio is in between Montréal, Québec and Ithaca, NewYork.

www.elisabethbelliveau.com

Jamie Q

Jamie Q works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, zine-making, printmaking, and sculpture. She has shown her art in exhibitions across Canada, including her first major solo show at Art Metropole in Toronto. Her recent research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of the do-it-yourself ethic, as well as the social potential of art objects and DIY distribution strategies. She has distributed her solo and collaborative art zines across Canada and the United States, recently as part of a group exhibition in Istanbul. Her work has also been shown in Buffalo and San Francisco, and was selected for an exhibition of contemporary Canadian art in Malmö, Sweden in 2011. Jamie Q has a BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design (2002) and an MFA from The University of Western Ontario (2010). She lives and works in London, Ontario.

www.jamieq.net

Istvan Kantor

Istvan Kantor (also known as Monty Cantsin, the founder of Neoism), is the recepient of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts. He is an action based media artist/subvertainer/producer, active in performance, robotics, mixed-media, installation, painting, sound, music, video and new media. His main subjects are the decay of technology and the struggle of the individual in a technological society. His work has been described as intellectually rebellious, anti-authoritarian, technically innovative and highly experimental. His radically changing creative ambitions are always related to his living environment and social situation. He has been arrested and jailed many times for his “blood-x interventions” in museums. Kantor was born in Budapest where he studied medical science. In 1976, at age 26, he defected to Paris and from there emigrated to Montreal. Besides his individual work he is bandleader/singer of the Red Arm Band, founder-member of MachineSexActionGroup and the Kantor Family Circus.

www.istvankantor.com

Tanya Read

Tanya Read graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995 and since then has been active in the Toronto art community. She was an organizer and founder of the Impure artists collective and currently co-directs Fly Gallery in her Queen Street West neighbourhood. Read created a character called Mr. Nobody in 1998 and since then her art practice has focused on projects featuring him. Read has made super 8 animations, drawings, sculpture, silk-screened t-shirts and video all featuring Mr. Nobody. Her work has received extensive acclaim in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Canadian Art Magazine, the Calgary Herald and the Korea Times. She has exhibited work in Toronto, Calgary, Hamilton, Seoul, Korea and Japan. When not spending time with Mr. Nobody, Read enjoys the rock and roll life playing bass and singing in the band Ethel and the Mermen.

www.mrnobody.org

Jerry Ropson

Starting out from Pollard’s Point, a tiny community in rural Newfoundland, Jerry Ropson received his BFA from Memorial University, Grenfell Campus and earned a MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. He has focused a practice around material based installation, having exhibited his work across Canada, as well as in Europe, Australia and Thailand. He prefers longer walks in cooler months, and hums incessantly. He currently resides in Sackville, New Brunswick where he is an Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University.

www.ropson.blogspot.com

Tara K. Wells

Tara K. Wells is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living and working in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her wide-ranging interests are currently focused on animation, printing, drawing, quilting, kinetic and static sculpture.

www.verysillymonkey.com