T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss

T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss

T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo, Irish-Métis, Hawaiian, and Swiss descent Cease is an ethno-botanist, traditionally trained by Indigenous Elders. Her work involves site-specific and culturally focused teaching with storytelling as her means to sharing...
CARMEN ROSEN

CARMEN ROSEN

Carmen Rosen Carmen Rosen is a visual artist, singer, and interdisciplinary performer. She has a long history of initiating art projects and creative community integrated projects. In 2010 Carmen received the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award, and in 2012 the Queen’s...
Isabelle Kirouac

Isabelle Kirouac

Isabelle Kirouac is an interdisciplinary choreographer, movement artist, and educator born in Quebec, on the traditional lands of the Abenaki, and currently living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh...
Clement Yeh

Clement Yeh

Clement Yeh is an artist, parent, husband, educator, community advocate, and student of life. Born to Chinese parents in England, he grew up in Calgary on Treaty 7 land. Comics were an early creative influence that inspired him to pursue fine art, leading to a BFA at AuArts and an MFA at Concordia University. He currently teaches in the Communication and Visual Arts dept at Thompson Rivers University, on traditional unceded Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Territory (Kamloops, BC), and sits on the Board of the Kamloops Arts Council. His primary medium is figurative drawing, and he is passionate about supporting the role that art plays in personal growth, confronting social issues, and uplifting the quality of life in society.

Taslim Jaffer

Taslim Jaffer

Taslim Jaffer is a freelance writer and writing instructor with a special interest in culture and society. Her writing has appeared in Maclean’s, Huffington Post Canada, Unearth Women, CBC Parents, WestCoast Families and others. As the cultures columnist for...