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Chris Fritton is the former Studio Director of the Western New York Book Arts Center. A poet, printer, and fine artist, Fritton has over a decade of experience writing, printing, and making his own books, in addition to collaborative efforts with other authors and artists. Recently (2014) he was selected as a panelist to judge the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, Printmaking, and Book Arts. He co-founded the highly-acclaimed Buffalo Small Press Book Fair with Kevin Thurston in 2007, and has been organizing the fair solo since 2009 (the Fair is now in its 10th year).

The room-filling installations are like fantasy cities that you can wander around in.

Van Dam herself is a traveller, constantly on a journey of exploration.

She happens on here building materials by chance:

tubes and drainage pipes, building plastic and sheets of rubber, wool and balloons.

These found objects then form the palette of new temporary installations and works

she constructs in unusual spots: in a museum, on the roof of a building or on a street corner.

Ed Pien has shown work at the Drawing Centre; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Canadian Culture Centre, Paris; The Goethe Institute, Berlin; AGO, Toronto; Musée des beaux arts and Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing; and the National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Oboro, Montreal. He has participated in the 2000 and 2002 Montreal Biennales; the 18th Edition of the Sydney Biennale, "Oh Canada", at MASS MoCA. Pien also presented work at the 5th Edition of the Moscow Biennale, in 2013, and at the Beijing Biennale, in 2015.

Between Savage and Civilized: Negotiating a space for indigenous art in the 21st Century.

A discussion on the progression of Lisa Lipton's multi-disciplinary artist practice in association with her most recent project and experimental feature film - THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE. From the perspective of a visual artist, drummer and director, Lisa will review the process of documenting a traveling story and international collaboration, creating through a fearless exploration within unknown territories and landscapes of people.

For more than 10 years Berlin-based artist Larissa Fassler has been developing an artistic practice that explores the public spaces of cities and examines their impact on its inhabitants.

Between Objects and Engagements: an overview of recent projects

Ernie Kroeger speaks about his art practice since 2000.

Winnipeg artist KC Adams discusses her career and the path that led to the Perception: Lethbridge photo campaign.

Nick Wade has spent almost 20 years building structures and situations in which light can be investigated and experienced as incident and material -and as information as well as illumination.