Participant Bios
(they/them) is co-author of Len & Cub: A Queer History (2022) and President of the Queer Heritage Initiative of New Brunswick (QHINB). They currently work as an archivist at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Their writing has appeared in Xtra Magazine, the Canadian Historical Review, and Active History.
is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research considers the history of exploration in northern Canada through the lenses of gender and women’s history. She is currently working on her first book, which examines the roles of white and Inuit women and girls on expeditions to the eastern Arctic relative to concepts of home between 1890 and 1940.
is Curator of Contemporary Art at The Rooms, NL and President of the Atlantic Provinces Art Gallery Association. She has curated more than 100 exhibitions, individually or as co-curator and is the author of Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador, winner of the 2022 Atlantic Book Awards Best Atlantic-Published Book.
is Manager of the Media Unit at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. He is based in Fredericton.
is Assistant Professor of Craft History and Material Culture at NSCAD. Her research focuses on craft’s so-called “civilizing” role within nineteenth-century Canadian settler colonial society and analyzing contemporary crafting cultures, particularly “craftivism” (crafty activism). She is currently working on a new publication titled “The Seeds of an Orange: Meditations on Reverberations and Cultural Sovereignty in the Craftwork of Tyshan Wright.”
(Inuk, Nunatsiavut) holds the Tier 1 University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia. She has co-curated numerous exhibitions, including INUA: Inuit Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikkut (Inuit Moving Forward Together), Winnipeg Art Gallery. She is co-editor, with Carla Taunton, of The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada (Routledge, 2023).
is Assistant Professor of Black Studies in Art Education, Art History and Social Justice at Concordia University. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies.
is an independent curator and Professor of Art History and Museum & Curatorial Studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. She has taught advanced seminars on curation and how the archive can be used as a resource for artistic practice. Her biography Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision has just been published by Goose Lane Editions.
is Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and Distinguished University Research Professor, Concordia University, Montreal. She is currently completing a three-volume History of Photography in Canada.
is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory and Philosophy at NSCAD University where he specializes in the history and theory of photography, focusing on the geopolitical contexts of European and Anglo-American countries from the early 20th century to the present. He is currently working on his first book, preliminarily titled New Wave of American Photography: The Rise of Photographic Sequence in the United States and France, 1968–1989.
is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at UNB Fredericton and an Educational Developer at UNB Saint John. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and Atlantic Canada. She also writes book reviews for The Miramichi Reader and Atlantic Books Today.
is Special Projects Coordinator at the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. He works in cooperation with the Institute's community on projects that foster greater appreciation and understanding of Canadian visual culture.
is a 7th-generation Black Canadian and spoken word poet. He has been featured as a CBC Black Changemaker and is currently working on a multimedia exploration of New Brunswick’s black history and people through photos, historical documents and poetry titled “Still Here.”
(they/them) is a Colville Fellow at Mount Allison University where they teach courses on Queer Art Histories and Trans Representation. Their current research focuses on the representation of Trans people in art and visual spaces.
is Professor of Art History and Dean of Arts at St. Francis Xavier University. Her most recent book is Unsettling Canadian Art History with the McGill Queen's-Beaverbook Canadian Foundation Series in Art History at McGill-Queen's University Press. She is currently co-editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region.
is Archives Advisor at the Council of Nova Scotia Archives in Halifax. She has written extensively on family photography through a decolonizing lens and taught courses on Photographic History in the Division of Art History and Contemporary Culture at NSCAD and at Concordia University, Montreal.
is a Black Loyalist researcher and the Community Inclusion Liaison for the City of Fredericton. He uncovers untold Black histories in the Maritimes with a focus on New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
is a data analyst for the Digital Access team at Library and Archives Canada. She is a historian of blasphemy and witchcraft trials in New France, using social network analysis to trace connections within communities represented in witchcraft trials. She has been involved in various digital history projects, databases, as well as museum exhibits including an upcoming exhibit at the Musée Pointe-à-Callière in Montréal.
is Assistant Professor of Art History and Critical and Curatorial Studies Graduate Advisor at UBC. She specializes in contemporary Canadian art and queer and feminist art, visual culture, performance, and activism and is the author of Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America (2023).
is Director of the Mi’kmaq Wolastoqey Centre and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at UNB. An l’nu from the Mi’kmaq community, her current research centres on the special significance of grandmothers in Mi’kmaq culture and on the life and work of her great grandmother, Isabelle Simon. She currently teaches courses on Indigenous pedagogies and the history of Indigenous education.
is Deputy-Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal. Her teaching and research encompasses aspects of Canadian and international art since the 1960s, urban art and visual culture, and landscape art and aesthetics. She has published extensively on Joyce Wieland.
is Assistant Professor in the Division of Art History and Contemporary Culture at NSCAD. His work considers issues of subjectivity—including psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and embodiment—in both the production and reception of art and architecture. His current book project examines official works of art and architecture in a cross-section of mid-twentieth century settler colonial societies—including Southern Rhodesia, Israel/Palestine, and Canada—exploring how notions of “unity” and “community” are used to buttress political power and obstruct decolonization.
is a cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. Her current research considers the role of fog in the everyday life of Atlantic Canadian communities from the early colonial period to the present. Her book Modern Eyes: Cultural Histories of Vision in Rural Nova Scotia, 1880-1910, is being revised for publication.
is Associate Professor of Art History and Contemporary Culture at NSCAD. Her research contributes to arts-led critiques of settler colonialism as well as theories of decolonization and settler responsibility. Her recent publications include, PUBLIC 64: Beyond Unsettling and “Embodied Resurgence: Global Indigenous Performance,” in Abadakone: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada (2020).
is the Director of the StFX Art Gallery at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her research, teaching and curatorial practice explores historic, modern, and contemporary visual and material production in Canada, critical museum studies, and participatory installation practices.
is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada, where she teaches courses on film, television, media, and cultural memory. Her upcoming book, What Television Remembers: Artefacts and Footprints of TV in Toronto, demonstrates how television both documents and affects lived experience, using case studies of Toronto TV shows and early TV encounters, dating back to the 1930s.
is a photographer with over thirty years of experience, based in Fredericton, NB. He is a member of the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance (NBBAA) and the first Black artist to have an exhibit at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
is Associate Professor in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. She has worked collaboratively with Indigenous communities in Canada and abroad on projects focusing on co-management of species and protected areas, water regulation, food sovereignty, health promotion and wellbeing, and land-based learning and curriculum development.