We’re committed to fostering inclusive communities
We’re grateful for Advisory Committees and Networks that help us build inclusive public spaces
Our Advisory Committees were formed to ensure diverse perspectives are heard. From the development of new public art programs to the way we engage with artists and other stakeholders, the Advisory Committees guide various steps of our work towards learning, improvement, and inclusion.
Accessibility Advisory Committee
- Alex Bulmer, Artist/Curator/Playwright (Ontario)
- Clary Chambers, Spark Clarity (Nova Scotia)
- Courage Bacchus, Black Deaf woman/Actress/Olympian/Artist (Ontario)
- Francis Tomkins, Communications Director at Tangled Arts + Disability (Ontario)
- Paul David Power, Playwright/ Director/Actor/Head of Power Productions (Newfoundland)
Indigenous Advisory Committee
- Bruno Canadien, Dene Multidisciplinary Visual Artist (Alberta)
- James Carpenter/Grey Cloud, Anishinaabe Elder/Knowledge Keeper (Ontario)
- Lindsey Lickers/Mushkiiki Nibi Kwe ‘Medicine Water Woman’, Onkwehon:we/Anishinaabe Artist, Community Developer (Ontario)
Youth Advisory Committee
Harmeet Rehal
Ontario
Harmeet is a working class, fat, trans, and Disabled, Sikh-Panjabi artist, educator and organizer based in Tkaronto. Their focus is illustration, collage, and textile arts. Harmeet is currently a MA student in Critical Disability Studies at York University, where their research further explores the themes of their arts practice: intergenerational crip archives, hacking normative design, Panjabi survivor hood, and fat temporality.
Krishna Brahmania
Saskatchewan
Krishna’s current work explores the personal stories, creating transformative spaces. Mapping compositions through narratives of its past and future, her preoccupation with the human figures, a research-based practice on the subject has led her to work with several mediums that started with drawing into her creative processes. Specifically, Krishna has an interest in landscape and human forms.
Shams Ben Temessek
Yukon
Shams grew up between Montreal and Tunisia, speaks five languages, and has backpacked extensively on five continents. This could explain her fascination with how people make a place feel like home. Her artistic practice and research interests are grounded in connection: how people form a community, connect to themselves, each other, and where they are. This generally means learning a couple of different languages at the same time but letting silence speak the loudest, harvesting colors from her environment to make inks, and listening to what the Linden tree has to say.
Sidney Frenette-Ling
Alberta
Sidney is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist from Markham, Ontario. His practice is that of exploration. He works with both traditional and digital sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and other ventures. His work often examines the connection he has with seemingly mundane objects and activities. He started his career at a young age as a miniature model painter for tabletop games such as Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons. He is Co-Founder of Four Realms of Chaos, a miniature model painting company based out of his hometown.
Advisory Network
Alberta
- Bruno Canadien, Artist
- David Turnbull, Edmonton Arts Council
- Grace Law, Public Art Officer
- Katherine Kerr, Public Art Consultant
- Lee Lucke, Public Art Officer
- Sara Houle-Lowry, Artist
- Su Ying Strang, Curator
British Columbia
- Sidi Chen, Artist
Manitoba
- Jennifer Smith, National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition
- Niki Little, Artist and Producer
- Yvette Cenerini, Disability Arts Activist
Nova Scotia
- Ufuk Gueray, Artist
Ontario
- Adrian Forrow
- Alica Hall, NIA Centre for the Arts
- Benjamin Freedman, CONTACT Festival
- Corrie Jackson, RBC Curator
- Councillor Gary Crawford, Toronto Councillor and Toronto Arts Council
- Charmaine Lurch, Artist
- Charles Smith, Cultural Pluralism in the Arts
- Chloe Catan, Waterfront Toronto
- Chris Mitchell, Development Coach
- Dina Graser, Toronto Arts Council
- Emily May Rose Brown, Artist
- Jamaias DaCosta, Artist
- Jimmy Baptiste, Artist
- Josh Heuman, Curator and Arts Educator
- Layne Hinton, Art Spin
- Lindsey Lickers, Mushkiiki Nibi Kwe, Artist
- Lisa Rochon, Citylab/Red Embers/Canadian Canoe Museum
- Meghan Cheng, Artist
- Nico Taylor, Oddside Arts
- Queen Kukoyi, Oddside Arts
- Quentin VerCetty, Public Artist
- Sean Lee, Tangled Arts + Disability
- Tash Naveau, Artist and Filmmaker
- Umbereen Inayet, Nuit Blanche
- William Skura, Indigenous Youth Employment Strategist
- Zainab Abbasi, Planner, City of Mississauga
Quebec
- Jimmy Baptiste, Artist