Status: Current

With a focus on textile art, Liam MacAloney’s residency explores the relationship that craft has with human lived experiences.

Eleni Papkov’s work explores concepts of self through rhythm, gesture, tension and space.

Within her work, Caelan Nowicki continues to further her practice by combining her two preferred mediums – glass and textiles – through pattern, texture and colour.

Rayce Min explores a variety of metal-forming techniques utilizing the characteristics of metal: rigid yet flexible enough to create.

Keenan O’Toole’s practice explores form, colour and scale through traditional ceramic building methods.

Working primarily with natural dyeing, shibori, and silkscreen, Omar Zayed develops hybridized approaches to both womenswear and textile-based art.

Ella Morreale employs text and gestural drawings applied to fibre, utilizing surface design techniques such as polychromatic printing and stitching.

Laura Papworth’s work takes particular inspiration from the playful forms and colours seen in Toronto’s urban environment.

Nilou Ghaemi’s experimental processes are a driving force within her practice, pushing clay beyond its expected boundaries.

Marina Van Raay explores the cultural experiences that have shaped her life, focusing on themes of nostalgia, identity and memory.

Anna Xiaoyin Luo explores the role of materiality and tactility in contemporary art by reutilizing discarded fibre materials in papermaking, kami-ito making, and weaving practices.

Tracey-Mae’s body of work addreses the opioid crisis in Canada with a focus on how we approach grief and the stigma around mental health.

A love for playfulness, patterns, collaboration and spontaneous art-making processes fuels Khadija Aziz’s creativity.

primarily non-representational, Viyan Petekkaya’s work carries modernist influences and constructs a visual narrative that invites introspection and contemplation.

Ellinor Nelson-Hachey is inspired by the dissociated consumption of all things horror through secondary perspectives.

Anthony Toomey believes that the Venetian style of glass-making requires excellence in every aspect of the process and strives to adhere to that principle in everything he creates.

Working with leather, Christian Maidankine explores aspects which we, quite literally, carry with us in our everyday lives.

Kate Tessier brings two decades of experience in product development to offer her expertise to fellow Artists-in-Residence.

Charlie Larouche-Potvin sees the making of Venetian cups as a way to engage in conversation with glass.

Jiho Choi&rsqui;s works are interactive, generating satisfaction and playfulness to for the viewer.

Mariana Bolaños Inclan has created a diverse body of work in painting and ceramics, focusing on art with a social purpose.

Emma Bickers explores intimate connections through visual storytelling on earthenware figurative vessels.

Bram Locknick’s background in philosophy informs curious instincts, helping to develop conceptual work and translating concepts into glass.

Alan Guzman’s inspiration comes from Art Deco, contemporary engraving and relief sculpting to create pieces that exude elegance and craftsmanship.