Creator Profiles

Alison Smith Poet Alison Smith is the author of three full-length collections, the most recent of which, This Kind of Thinking Does No Good (Gaspereau,

Laurie Swim Laurie Swim, over 45 years has employed textiles as her medium. A Portia White Prize winner, her works grace public and private collections

Jordan Bennett Mi’kmaq- Stephenville Crossing Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland) BFA, MFA Jordan’s ongoing practice utilizes painting, sculpture, video, installation and sound to explore land, language, the act

Biography Ursula Johnson has exhibited work nationally and internationally since graduating from NSCAD in 2006.  A major focus of her practice is based in performance

Biography Basma Kavanagh is a poet, visual artist, and letterpress printer who lives and works in Nova Scotia, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory

Biography Charlotte Wilson-Hammond, RCA* In 1971, Charlotte Wilson-Hammond, aged thirty, emerging as a professional artist with work in an avant garde Toronto gallery, forsook her

Biography Eva Campbell is an artist and illustrator who teaches visual art at Lester B. Pearson College UWC. She has exhibited her work in Canada,

Biography Shauntay Grant is a writer, storyteller, and former poet laureate for the City of Halifax. She teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University, and has shared

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed playwright, librettist and TV writer. Her work for the stage includes East of Berlin, This is War, Little One, The

Christian Barry is an award-winning director and theatre-maker from Halifax, where he is artistic co-director of 2b theatre company. Christian has directed shows that have

PAUL HALLEY is a Grammy Award-winning composer, choral conductor, and organist. He is Director of Music at The University of King’s College and The Cathedral

Nova Scotian musician Barbara Hannigan divides her time between singing on the world’s major stages and conducting leading orchestras. The Berlin Philharmonic, Münchner Philharmoniker, Gothenburg