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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.

“My most recent work has explored the relationship of modernity to structures that buttress and frame a sense of the self. In 2009 I exhibited a series drawings paintings and sculptures at MKG127 in Toronto that charted the polarities of hippy culture, recovery and religion and questioned the role of the “the spiritual in art.” My most recent show “Display” at the same gallery followed similar lines.

Mobile (french): originating from the Latin mobilis, it means susceptible of being moved or moving, refers to that which incites or creates an impulse, as well as to the body in motion. The word relates to mobility, mobilize, signifying deep changes, pertaining to motif/motivation, motor, and to that which explains and justifies a judgement or decision.

Claöd Idia simulates deviant behaviour though subtle/mostly unnoticeable means. She practices public moulting, grows beasts in the fault lines of infrastructural failures, and belongs to the Left Out club of Southern Alberta (LOCO-SA). She has exhibited locally, rationally, and inter-rationally in prestigious Tart institutions including the Insomniac Maniacal Wonder Gym of Transcona and the Lethargy of Alabama Llama Mama in the state of Apathy. She has published thousands of individual letters and characters including A, B, C, D, and DD.

Nick Wade taught in the art Department at The U of L from 1994 to 2011. 

Patrick Mahon is an artist, curator and teacher/academic; he has been a faculty member in Visual Arts at Western University, London, ON, since 1995. He was Chair of the Department from 2000 to 2010. His work includes print-based projects that engage with historical and contemporary aspects of print culture, and involves responding to gallery and museum collections as well as establishing community-based art initiatives.

ONE NIGHT STAND is a nomadic contemporary art gallery exhibiting a wide range of artists.

Buce Horak began painting portraits in 2011 in response to the question, "How Do You See?"

Bianca Beetson is of the Gubbi Gubbi people of the Sunshine Coast. Her work is instantly recognisable as she always uses the colour pink. She is a member of the Campfire Group as well as the ProppaNOW artists group, both based in Brisbane. She has shown her work in a number of exhibitions including the '2nd Asia Pacific Triennal' at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1996/1997, ‘Black Humour’ at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in 1997 as well as the 2001 exhibition "Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia" in Brisbane.

Baker will discuss her thesis work, particularly her interests in performance and the body.