Art From Here

• Veronika Marks

  This audio is from our virtual studio visit with artist Veronika Marks in conversation with Brandi Strauss, and was originally recorded on February 27, 2023 over Zoom. About Veronika Veronika Marks is a multidisciplinary artist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with a Bachelors in Fine Art. Her work explores the outer fringes of human consciousness through an intersection of mysticism, sensuality, and emotional well-being. She uses a combination of performance, digital manipulation, sculpture and painting. Each medium informs one another as she moves intuitively through them. Through meditation and trance induction, Veronika uses her body with others as a conduit in film to physically manifest visions. The imagery captured on video is then used as research and inspiration for her paintings and sculptures. Currently, she is working with volunteers who have agreed to embody a stream of consciousness, while revisiting lived experiences with psychosis. About Brandi Brandi Strauss is a multidisciplinary self-taught artist and musician currently residing in amiskwaciy Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Using the moniker Static Control she explores varying forms of self expression using an amalgamation of techniques. She examines the ominous elements of humanity, and how we maintain to co-exist with the natural world - despite its chaos. By meticulously dismantling found images piece by piece, a new world and perspective is revealed. A world made of controlled yet surreal chaos, throughout vivid displays of recollection, science and the unknown.

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• Brittany Cherweniuk

  This audio is from our virtual studio visit with artist Brittany Cherweniuk in conversation with Mary Pinkoski, and was originally recorded on January 18, 2023 over Zoom. About Brittany Brittany Cherweniuk is a Métis fine craft artist and instructor, working in textile and fiber arts, endeavoring to create cultural connections and to tell multigenerational stories. She has built her career as an Arts Administrator working in museums, galleries, and non-profit organizations - focusing on curation, program development, youth leadership, traditional Indigenous arts, and sharing Indigenous authentic histories. She currently resides in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Beaver Hills House), commonly known as Edmonton, in Treaty No. 6 Territory. About Mary Mary Pinkoski, 5th Poet Laureate of the City of Edmonton (2013-2015), is an internationally-recognized poet, arts and museum educator, and doctoral student at the University of Alberta. In 2019, she was Edmonton Public Library Regional Writer in Residence. Mary's poetry has appeared in multiple anthologies. She was the 2011 Canadian National Spoken Word Champion and the national winner of the 2008 CBC National Poetry Face-off. In 2015, Mary was recognized as an Edmonton Top 40 Under 40 and was awarded a University of Alberta Alumni Horizon Award for her poetry work in the Edmonton community.

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• Elsa Robinson

  This audio is from our virtual studio visit with artist Elsa Robinson in conversation with Dawn Carter, and was originally recorded on November 29, 2022 over Zoom. About Elsa Elsa Robinson is a Jamaican-Canadian multi-media artist and art educator. Elsa’s artistic expression uses painting, collage, textile art, installation art, poetry, dance, and acting to ‘speak’ to audiences from her cultural inheritance. Her decades-long devotion to artistic practice has imbued her work with vibrancy, versatility and an intuitive spiritual poignancy through which she transmits her deep love and care for humanity. At the start of her art career, Elsa worked as a self-taught artist. Recognizing the value of extending her art making skills, her understanding of he own art and her place in art history, Elsa invested in her art education and now holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design from the University of Alberta and the degree of Master of Fine Arts from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Elsa is a passionate arts educator who facilitates workshops for artists of all ages and experience levels. About Dawn Dawn Carter is a writer, educator, performance poet, public speaker, entrepreneur, and community advocate of Barbadian British Canadian heritage. She is also the first Black woman to run a major 2SLGBTQ+ organization in Western Canada. She emigrated with her family from England, where anti-Black racism was on the rise. Dawn and her family lived in rural Alberta before settling in Edmonton. After a few years in Toronto, she returned to Dirt City, where she considers herself a Northsider for life. Through Dawn’s life experiences she has been able to create art that not only tells amazing stories but creates awareness and constantly contributes to the community around her.

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• Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet

  This audio is from our virtual studio visit with artist Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet in conversation with Michelle Campos Castillo, and was originally recorded on October 25, 2022 over Zoom. Reading List Kiona and Michelle shared some of their favourite graphic novels during this episode. Below is a list of the books we discussed. Purchase from your fave indie bookstore or directly from the publisher if you can! We Were Younger Once by Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Big Kids by Michael DeForge Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt Condolady by Elisabeth Beliveau Here by Richard McGuire About Kiona Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist practicing in amiskwaciwâskahikan on Treaty 6 Territory. She grew up West of the city near the hamlet of Calahoo where she lived with her relatives on scrip land. Her family lines are Cree and Métis descending from Michel First Nation, as well as Dutch and mixed European. Kiona works in painting, printmaking, and drawing, recollecting personal stories of grief and tenderness. Her practice uses a non-linear telling of her memories through narrative work as a form of diaristic archiving. It draws from feelings of loss and enfranchisement, but also from deep belly laughter, and a gentle fondness for where the histories between herself and her family overlap and disperse. She’s recently exhibited work at Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre (2021), Latitude 53 (2021, 2022), Khyber Centre for the Arts (2021), Harcourt House (2022), and Neutral Ground (2022). She co-curated the soil between plants with Making Space (2022), and What’s Held through TREX NW and the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (2022). Additionally, Kiona was a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor Emerging Artist Award (2022), and just finished her debut graphic novel with Conundrum Press, titled We Were Younger Once (2022). Working alongside other artists in initiatives of community care, Kiona co-organizes Making Space in partnership with Sanaa Humayun. She likes visiting her moshom on the farm, and gossiping with her mom, relatives, and friends on the prairies. About Michelle Michelle Campos Castillo is a Salvadoran visual artist living in Edmonton. She has been the recipient of several public art commissions from the City of Edmonton, including Platanos, a set of three sculptures on permanent display at Belvedere Transit Centre, and is finalizing artwork for the LRT Valley Line in the west end of the city. Her most recent exhibits are a solo show, Terremoto, presented in the summer of 2022 at grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC and as part of Imborrable at the National Gallery in San Salvador, El Salvador. She is currently working on a graphic memoir titled Colonia, based on her life in El Salvador during the country’s civil war.

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• Shawnee Danielle

  This audio is from our virtual studio visit with artist Shawnee Danielle in conversation with Kyra Heneghan-Smith, and was originally recorded on September 10, 2022 over Zoom. About Shawnee Shawnee Danielle is an Indigenous Cree artist who was raised on the Maskwacis Reserve and is currently based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan or so-called Edmonton. In 2018, she graduated from MacEwan University with a Diploma in Fine Arts and moved forward in her academic studies to complete her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Art and Design at the University of Alberta in 2020. In 2019, she received the Indigenous Careers Award and was awarded numerously by Nipisihkopahk Iyinisiwin Trust Fund for the completion of her education throughout her academic career. She considers her practice to be a continuous exploration of her own Cree identity, both learning and exercising traditional practices, as she navigates her relationship with cultural identity through themes related around femininity, indigeneity, trauma, and body. While she works primarily as a painter, she also works with various mediums such as installation, video, digital media and photography. About Kyra Kyra Heneghan-Smith is a multidisciplinary artist living in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) whose primary mediums include soft sculpture, photography, illustration, and painting. Drawing inspiration from nature and ecology, Kyra explores themes of gender, intimacy, and environmental decline. She is interested in poetics and pattern, and much of her work employs tools like metaphor and repetition. Kyra Graduated from MacEwan University in 2018 with a diploma in fine arts, and she received her BFA from the University of Alberta in 2021. Since graduating, Kyra has developed a commercial design practice, and spends much of her time learning and exploring new ways of making. Outside of work or the studio, Kyra can be found tending to her vegetable garden - an extension of her creative practice.

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