Conference participants:<\/strong><\/p>\nSharlene Bamboat is a multi-disciplinary artist. She often works collaboratively with artists and academics, including Alexis Mitchell with whom she forms Bambitchell. She currently sits on the Pleasure Dome Experimental Film & Video programming collective and is the Artistic Director of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Joan Borsa is an independent curator, art critic and Associate Professor at the Department of Art and Art History and the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program, University of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n
Amy Fung is a writer and curator. She is known for her blog Prairie Artsters (2007-2012) and her contributions to publications such as Canadian Art, Fuse and Blackflash. Her most recent curatorial project, They Made A Day Be A Day Here, has been touring for the past two years.<\/p>\n
Seema Goel\u2019s work focuses on human-animal, human-place and human-human relationships, with particular emphasis on our abilities to engage with, change and manipulate these things. Using an eclectic range of materials, she draws from her dual background in the arts and sciences.<\/p>\n
Cathy Mattes is an all-round art maven. In her curatorial and writing practice she focuses on Aboriginal issues and art. She is now Assistant Professor in the Visual and Aboriginal Arts Department, Brandon University.<\/p>\n
Kristin Nelson has exhibited her work from Montreal to Vancouver, from Winnipeg to Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico. Her work is represented by Actual in Winnipeg. She recently completed her MFA at Concordia University and is active in MAWA (as a mentor), Manitoba Printmakers Association and the Arts and Disability Network of Manitoba.<\/p>\n
Praba Pilar is a Colombian multi-disciplinary artist exploring the intersections of art and emerging technologies through performances, installations, street theatre, writing, websites and digital art. Her wildly diverse work has been presented internationally at museums, galleries, universities, festivals, public streets and radio airwaves.<\/p>\n
Dominique Rey is a multidisciplinary artist whose work appears in numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. She has been exhibited across Canada and internationally, and was recently featured in the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.<\/p>\n
Sheila Spence has exhibited her photographs nationally and internationally. As an activist, she has conspired overtly and covertly to foster dialogue and change on feminist and queer issues. And as an arts manager\/administrator, Spence directed the rebirth of Manitoba Printmakers Association\u2019s Martha Street Studio and has recently been appointed Administrative and Development Director of Plug In ICA.<\/p>\n
Diana Thorneycroft is known for making art that hovers on the edge of public acceptance. In her photo-based work, sculpture and drawing, she relentlessly pursues subject matter that challenges her audience. Her most recent work is a series of altered toy horses.<\/p>\n
\u2026and artists, activists, academics, art lovers, writers, curators and feminists from across the country.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
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