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Jeff Thomas is an urban-based Iroquois, self-taught photographer, writer, public speaker and curator, living in Ottawa, Ontario, and has works in major collections in Canada, the United States and Europe

Andrea Korda will speak about the research for her recently published book, Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869–1891. She will talk about the origins of illustrated journalism in nineteenth-century London and describe how the advent of illustrated news, along with new understandings of objectivity, influenced Victorian artists.  

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Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include Soundtrack for an Exhibition (2014), Locust Projects, Miami; We Will Not Grow Old Together (2014), Esker Foundation, Calgary; Jack (2014), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Being There (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Who I Think I Am (2010-2011), which travelled among the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

Tanya Harnett is an artist, a member of the Carry The Kettle First Nations and a faculty member in both in the Department of Art and the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge

Karklin creates photographs of human figures in simulated spaces through a laborious process combining sculpture and digital manipulation. In this series, the vastness of the Alberta landscape is contained and presented as an interior. Confinement and conflict become part of the narrative that unfolds with the figures he situates in these spaces. Influenced by the work of contemporary artists Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall, David Hockney and Eric Fischl among others, Karklin’s works resemble human experiences both familiar and surreal, stemming from his own memories.

Dreaming of a more ruthless culture: ruminations and reflections on past and recent conversations, readings and encounters. Images included—“safety not guaranteed.”

Born and raised in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Zeke Moores explores the social and political economies of everyday objects and our complex relationships to them. By relying on traditional and industrial methods of manufacturing, Moores literal and metaphoric “recasts” seemingly unimportant mass-produced objects and everyday commodities; questioning their initial creation and the ideologies behind them.

Bart Willis is a tattooer living in Austin, Texas.  He grew up in Lethbridge and went to the University of Lethbridge in the 1980s.  Bart moved to Austin in 1990 with the crazy notion that he was going to become a rock star.  That didn’t happen.  What did happen was that the tattoo bug that he had caught in Alberta turned into a calling that became a career in the early nineties.  At a time when tattooing was still risqué and underground Bart honed his craft by tattooing anywhere people wanted tattoos; boats, back porches, parties, the Ringling Brothers circus train …eventually in 2002 he o

Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist, Colleen Cutschall, is Professor Emerita from Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba. She initially began teaching there in Native Studies in 1985 and in 1989 took on the Visual and Aboriginal Art program. By 2003 she was awarded the BFA from the province making it a full department with five majors, including Aboriginal Art.  She retired from the university in 2012 and is snow-birding in Spearfish, SD and returns to Manitoba after the snow melts. She is a dual US/Canadian citizen.