Posts in Alums
Rene MG (Meyer-Grimberg)

Rene MG believes that art is an experience and is enhanced when shared with others and when it includes interactive and visceral moments. She created PIP art popup in 2016. PIP=participatory immersive/interactive performance art operates on the idea that the viewer/participant is invited into a space where they can chose to participate, facilitate or watch. PIP is site-reactive, site-specific and site-enhancing based on deep hanging out and research.

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Hanae Moreno

Hanae Moreno explores the physical and collective nature of the human form through painting. She seeks to understand what it means to occupy a body in space. Her work is also an autobiographical journey. Although she paints people, her work is not only of individuals. She looks at the weight of a sitter’s presence in intimate discourse with herself, and seeks to capture the experience of the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.

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Frank Andrew Scott

Frank Andrew Scott’s childhood was spent mostly outdoors, as he was born on the plains of Oklahoma, and raised in the mountains of Colorado. When the cameras transitioned from film to digital, he transitioned from painting to photography. He is now combining his lifelong love of being outdoors in the landscape and his extensive experience of working for the camera by photographing the dystopian environment of the Los Angeles River.

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Shereen Shalhoub

Shereen Shalhoub has been working in the arts since 2006. She began with a gallery and painting, then shifted to sculpture and finally ceramics, where she has developed an interest in installation art and has had the opportunity to showcase three installations in Dubai. She has been working with ceramics since 2017 and continues to research the world of ceramics and all the possibilities it holds.

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Heidi Strauss

Dance artist Heidi Strauss has worked for companies and choreographers from across Canada, as well as within Europe and Asia. A multi-Dora Award winning choreographer and the Artistic Director of Toronto-based adelheid, Heidi has been a resident artist at The Duncan Centre (CZ), and in Toronto at the Factory Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Harbourfront Centre, and currently at The Citadel through their Creative Incubator program. Her installation work has recently been recognized by UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network. She has been commissioned by/choreographed for Toronto Dance Theatre, Mocean Dance, The Frankfurt Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Volcano Theatre, the Stratford Festival, among others.

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Laurel Terlesky

Laurel Terlesky, a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from Transart Institute and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Her international works explore technology's role in communication and relationships, often through tactile installations. Awarded residencies and supported by prominent arts councils, Terlesky probes embodiment, and memory, seeking to mend communication rifts and challenge dualisms.

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Miki Wolf

Miki Wolf is a Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, and Cree multi-disciplinary performer and facilitator, proudly from the Champagne and Aishihik Nation in the Yukon. Miki is actively pursuing research in new studio praxis methodologies for Indigenous performers (theatre and dance) that exist within and through colonial modalities of teaching.

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