Welcome to Making With Place!

Olympia is an artist who doesn’t like labels, identifies as a human who is trying to live and create in harmony with earth, which is our home.

Jess is a community visual artist educator, freelance designer and curatorial graduate. Jess is interested in creating socially engaged art, in a framework that holds inclusive practices, accessibility and transformative justice to collaborate and share experiences.

Visual media artist Jahmal Nugent, born, raised and based in Toronto, primarily focused on digital photography and videography to create but sometimes experiments with physical mediums also. Their works mostly focus on seeing the ordinary as extraordinary and reminding us of how beautiful and amazing elements we take for granted, can be.

Ammarah is an interdisciplinary artist interested in documenting how modern day discourses such as capitalism, colonialism, and various power dynamics have developed to inform mental health, identity and sexuality. Ammarican explores in her work, how words among other factors, influence emotion, culture and politics. AmmariCan’t Even, Ammarah’s performance alter-ego, likes to deconstruct and explore the little boxes our society and our minds like to put us in. Both of their processes involve sitting on their ass for 8 weeks (contemplating of course) & then creating something all in one go. They aspire to use the arts as a means to transform oppression into change.

Ayrah Taerb Is The Founder Of Kundalini Kurrency Khansultancy; A Collective Of Creative Professionals & Administrators Who Seek To Spread The Values Of Self Determination & Co Operative Economics Among The Global Black Community.

As An Executive Producer, Creative Consultant, and Embodiment Instructor; He Is Equipped With The Skills & Expertise Required To Develop Artists, Mentor Professionals, and Responsibly Condition Children & Youth To Exist Within The Context Of A Transcendental Society.

Bert is a 2 Spirited, Anishinaabe multidisciplinary artist from Seine River First Nation. Their work explores themes of healing, preserving and practicing ancestral knowledge. As a conceptual artist, Bert works with a variety of media, often combining traditional and unconventional materials. They are a founding member of the Weave and Mend collective, which is a mixed Indigenous collective that focuses on building relationships with Indigenous communities through art making workshops, facilitated conversation and permaculture. Bert is currently attending their fourth year at OCAD University in the Indigenous Visual Cultures program.

Pree is an artist educator currently based in Tkaronto, originally from Tiohtià:ke. They’re the children of immigrant settlers from Punjab. Pree’s work centres centres their identity as a queer, non-binary, trans, disabled, fat, and racialized individual. They have an interdisciplinary arts practice under the name: Sticky Mangos and co-founded the Non-Binary Colour Collective.

Charlotte’s practice is rooted in community engaged scholarship, drawing from the traditions of community development and community health promotion. She has collaborated on diverse research and action projects, which have all shared the broad goals of youth engagement, community empowerment and capacity-building, while focusing on a diversity of issues, such as food security, youth-friendly services, environmental justice, peace-building, and health equity. She is currently completing doctoral studies at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Lisa Myers is an independent curator, artist and educator with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Based in Toronto and Port Severn, she is a member of Chimnissing, Beausoleil First Nation and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Myers is an artist and curator and her research focuses on Contemporary Indigenous art and curatorial practice, Indigenous food systems and food sovereignty. Through socially engaged art, she creates gatherings that respond to place, sharing Indigenous foods and reflecting on underrepresented histories and collective forms of knowledge exchange.