Ed Janzen’s practice utilizes digital media, drawing performance, installation, and printmaking. He holds a BFA in Visual Art, and a Computer Science degree from the University of Windsor. His work has shown in galleries and experimental film festivals across Canada, as well as USA, Germany, Australia, and India.

Sarah McCullough works with textiles, movement, plants, and tissue to re-create moments and note the connections they make. Her artistic education comprises a full and busy childhood learning many and diverse artistic forms in Windsor & Detroit. This past year has been devoted to dancing, costume design, and construction for HNM Dance Company’s 30th anniversary performance gala, and she is looking forward to bringing that experience into other creative efforts. 

As Pamela gets older, she has created space for creative expansion—allowing art, music, painting, and writing to weave more fully into her life. She is a soprano in the Windsor Symphony Orchestra Choir, and she is obsessed with learning the quiet magic of watercolour. She also loves to play with words, exploring both fiction and non-fiction.

Matthew Romain, aka The Laughtertainer, is a musician and puppeteer. He has been building his puppet creations and performing since 1980. He teaches the art of puppetry to elementary, high school, and university students, and presents hands-on workshops for teachers, performing artists, and enthusiasts. As an elementary school teacher, loved by her students and respected by her peers, Denise inspired thousands of young minds for 31 years through creative and playful teaching practices. She loves to cook, is an avid reader, and is filled with wonder and delight when amidst nature. She especially loves birds, bees and, of course, butterflies. https://www.facebook.com/100005306503596/videos/1171548466365359

Laura Bolt is a multi-disciplinary artist with training as a classical musician, actor, and scientist. She currently performs as a flautist with several Toronto-based orchestras and works with a range of media as an artist. She is a former faculty member at OCAD University (Toronto, ON), and her painting “Moo Cow on Flower Mountain” is featured in the permanent collection of the Gay Lea Dairy Museum (Aylmer, ON).

Deep harmonic ambient sound + electronics, and interaction with the environment, are part of Ryan Janzen’s custom-designed concert experiences, where audiences are immersed in harmonic, ethereal soundscapes, linking the physical world, electronics, instruments, and Janzen’s voice and body. 

Patricia Fell received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (with distinction), Department of Theatre (Concordia University), and a Masters of Educational Psychology, specialization in design and integration (McGill University) both in Montréal, Québec.  Patricia’s career as a professional artist for close to 40 years has embraced award winning design for the theatre, education, and the promotion of social injustice issues.  Her extensive background in community based arts initiatives place her in an educated position from which to project a unique and achievable production outcome. 

Allison Ware is a recent graduate from the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts with a BFA in Visual Arts. Allison is an interdisciplinary artist who translates observation and lived experience into visual communication. Using painting, drawing, projection, photography, and conversation, her work explores endangered species, vulnerable landscapes, and ecological connection, informed by her lived experience along the north shore of Lake Erie within the Carolinian Forest region.

Lisa Sylvestre is a Windsor, Ontario based textile artist. Quilt making is her primary medium and her practice focuses on the use of reclaimed fabrics, plant-based dyes, and hand stitching. Her work is informed by the distinct contrast in rich natural beauty to stark industrial landscape that is characteristic of the Windsor Detroit region.  Under asil, Lisa runs a textile and a plant-based dye studio which offer a wide range of classes and workshops, and a small shop which celebrates the work of local artists.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1952, Lorraine Steele emigrated with her family to Canada, settling in Windsor, Ontario in 1956.  A graduate of the University of Windsor ( BA Visual Arts 1981 ) Lorraine has been a working visual artist for more than forty years. Primarily a painter, her artwork exploration has also included theatre set design, jewelry design and fine art curation.  Today she is still creating and producing art for commercial spaces and private residences. 

Teajai Travis an adventurer and spiritualist inspired by his self-liberated ancestors who journeyed the Underground Railroad. Guided by their courage, he uses art as an instrument of service—bridging community outreach and social justice through storytelling, spoken word, and meditation.

Rob Tymstra is a keen naturalist and artist who roams the planet in search of biological thrills. He enjoys dabbling in all kinds of arts from watercolor and oil painting to copperwork and cinematography. Rob’s love for wild things led him to the natural paradise that is Pelee Island where he now lives there in an off-grid home.