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Kate Tessier is a Chartered Industrial Designer with a penchant for lighting, material reclamation and developing new work as part of a collaborative curatorial practice that goes by the name Kilowatt Kate. Kate joins Harbourfront Centre as Senior Designer-in-Residence and as curator of Everyday Lighting, now in its second iteration. Kate brings two decades of […]

Lauren Rice is a glass artist from Manitoba now based in the GTA. She studied at Sheridan College and received a Bachelor of Craft and Design with a specialty in glass. She creatively mixes mediums, incorporating materials like underglaze which is traditionally used in ceramics. This unique approach adds texture and dimension to her organic and […]

Charlie Larouche-Potvin discovered glass at Espace Verre in Montreal, where he graduated in 2020. He quickly became obsessed with blown glass work, specifically Venetian techniques. To perfect his knowledge, he took training with William Gudenrath at the Corning Museum of Glass (New York, USA) and with Davide Fuin in Murano (Italy). He sees the making […]

Jiho Choi is a South Korean jeweller and metalsmith. He comes from an engineering background, studying at Hanyang University. Choi started jewellery making as an apprentice in Korea before studying at NSCAD University in Halifax, NS. While at NSCADU, he found an interest in kinetic objects. His works are interactive, generating satisfaction and playfulness to […]

Sasha Shevchenko is a Ukrainian, Tkaronto/Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She is inspired by her experience as a Ukrainian person of diaspora, and her practice bridges sculpture, textile, archaeology and intimate ethnography. Combining contemporary and ancient story-telling methods, Shevchenko creates propositional spaces where tradition can whimsically extend into cultural futures. Her work has been exhibited at the […]

Mariana Bolaños Inclan is a Mexican artist based in Toronto. She is a graduate of Sheridan College. She has created a diverse body of work in painting and ceramics, focusing on art with a social purpose. She is a facilitator in community programs with children, women and newcomers around Toronto and the GTA. Inclan has […]

A graduate of Sheridan College, Emma Bickers explores intimate connections through visual storytelling on earthenware figurative vessels. Bickers’ work depicts the vulnerable theme of Sapphic identity, capturing tender emotions and loving narratives on the surfaces of her works. Originally planning to be an illustrator, she found interest in ceramics after taking an introductory course. She […]

Bram Locknick is an artist and sculptor who works with kiln-formed and blown glass. He graduated from Sheridan College and holds a BA with Honours in philosophy from the University of Toronto. From Windsor, Ontario, Locknick was inspired by the towering Detroit skyline at an early age. His background in philosophy informs curious instincts, helping […]

Clio Windust is a textile artist working primarily in printing and weaving. She is interested in the role textiles has played in the development of modern technologies and media arts, both in the realm of computers, with the Jacquard loom as a proto-computer, and with the craft of fabric transparencies, a part of early media […]

Alan Guzman is an emerging, multidisciplinary artist specializing in jewellery and engraving. His artistic journey began with lino carving, leading him to discover the intricate art of engraving and ignited his passion for goldsmithing. Guzman is a graduate of the Jewellery Arts program at George Brown College. His inspiration comes from Art Deco, contemporary engraving […]

Yalda Mohajer is a jewellery artist with an architectural background, fascinated by the inner marriage of both practices to create innovative jewellery. Her jewellery is from a transcending process that breathes new life into precious metals such as gold, silver and gemstones. This process includes melding traditional methods, such as forming and forging, with leading-edge […]

Jess Bischoff is an emerging jewellery artist living and working in Toronto. She obtained her BFA from OCADU in Drawing & Painting and graduated from the Jewellery Arts program at George Brown College. Bischoff’s work is represented by L.A. Pai Gallery in Ottawa and has been included in exhibitions in Canada, the United States and […]

Sydni Weatherson is a recent Sheridan College Craft and Design program graduate. Her time in the studio focused on blown glass as well as engraving. Weatherson’s current work captures the fluidity of the glass during the making process, exploring colour, texture and movement frozen in time. Outside the studio, she maintains a fine arts practice […]

Blaise Campbell was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was introduced to glass in 1987 while studying furniture design at the School of Crafts and Design at Sheridan College and subsequently shifted his major to glass. Campbell followed up his formal training with a three-year Craft & Design Artist-in-Residency at Harbourfront Centre from […]

Mohammad Tabesh (he/him) is a mixed-media artist residing and working in Toronto. His practice is focused on the human condition, the art of resistance, art and social change. Through writing, printmaking, multimedia and sculpture, Tabesh strives to convey these stories in a profoundly human and universal language, avoiding the cliché of shock and horrors of […]

Mel Wright’s work often explores relationships. Relationships with others, with herself and with the environment. She is studying themes of significant personal change, grief, loss and the joy found within it all. Wright is currently working on a new sculptural body of work and functional work for daily use. She resides in Toronto, Ontario.  Mel […]

Sami Tsang is a Canadian-born Chinese woman artist who uses a vocabulary of images to express her anxieties, hopes, fears and things about her life and future. As the youngest child of a conservative Hong Kong family, her voice was not welcomed. In Tsang’s work, she simultaneously gives herself an outlet through the narrative sculptures […]

Victoria Guy was born and raised in the GTA. Victoria has had strong interest in art since a young age, her passion eventually leading her to enrolling in Sheridan College’s Honorary Bachelors of Craft and Design specializing in glass. Victoria creates sculptures of the female torso in glass using layers of opaque colours which she […]

Saydee Chandler is a multidisciplinary maker living and working in Toronto. She obtained her BDes from the Material Art & Design program at OCAD University, where she specialized in textile design and sculpture. She is also a recent graduate of George Brown College, having graduated from the Jewellery Arts Program where she studied goldsmithing. Her […]

Delaney Gillett was born in Burlington, Ontario in 1998. After graduating high school in 2016, she began her glassmaking journey at Sheridan College in 2018. Delaney focuses on making sculptural glass work with an emphasis on form, colour, and texture. Her thesis project in 2021 was based on her appreciation for the natural world, and […]

Akash Inbakumar’s practice, based in Tkaronto / Toronto, explores the queering of the human body concerning material and craft practices. They conceive material-kin through partnerships with multiple mediums, tools and processes (material-kinship). These kin become symbols of the symbiotic relationships built during their conception and gateways to Inbakumar’s futuristic world: a future where craft objects […]

Olivia Mae Sinclair is a textile-book artist. Her intuitive and trauma-based practice is guided by sloppy craft and imperfection. She is addicted to infatuation and Redbull. She is a maker of books, love and other grotesque things. She has recently graduated from OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program. She earned her […]

Moraa Stump is a Canadian, Kenyan artist and maker. Using textile techniques, Stump’s practice repurposes mixed medias and materials to make 2d images and soft sculptures. Stump’s work seeks to widen the scope of possibility and imagination when confronting the themes of race, physical space and safety. Having spent her formative years growing up in […]

Steph Cloutier is a francophone artist from Toronto, Canada. She received her BFA with Distinction in Sculpture and Installation, minoring in Material Arts and Design (Textiles) at OCAD University. She is a multidisciplinary artist driven by process, materiality and transformation. She is interested in the realms of architecture, urbanity and nature, the permanent and the […]