Bushra Junaid (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist-curator and author working between Toronto and Newfoundland and Labrador. Her practice probes history, memory, and placemaking, often reflecting on the intersections between migration and the sea—how stories, people, and objects move across water and time, and how those movements shape belonging.

Her landmark project What Carries Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic (The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, 2020) brought together video, mixed media, mural, and photo-based works by Canadian and international artists alongside archival materials from The Rooms collection, including artefacts linked to a 19th-century sailor discovered in Labrador in the late 1980s. Grounded in Paul Gilroy’s concept of the Black Atlantic, the exhibition explored oceanic histories and was presented in dialogue with John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea (2015).

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Holly Andersen is an Inuk photographer from Makkovik, NL. Her passion for photography started in her teens, but it was only when she was in her 20s that she realized how much she loved photography. Growing up in Labrador, she’s grateful to live in a place with such beautiful landscapes. She loves to capture moments of her friends and family out on the land, and photographing her culture and everyday life in an isolated town. She has had her work showcased at La Guilde in Montreal and has written a few articles for the Inuit Art Foundation.

Jordan Beaulieu is a visual artist and book designer from Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island, CA). Working primarily in drawing, she creates original artworks and longer-form graphic stories that explore how our local environments shape our perceptions and experiences. She received a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from NSCAD University. She contributes to many PEI-based art initiatives, including the Charlottetown Zine Fest, which she co-created in 2022.

Ranz Bontogon is a photographer, artist, and cultural worker based in Moncton, New Brunswick. Originally from Taguig City, Philippines, he immigrated to Canada in 2013 and has been living in New Brunswick for over a decade. His work explores Filipino identity, migration, and his culture through traditional darkroom processes.

Ranz completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Minor in Art History and an Undergraduate Certificate in Visual Literacy and Culture from Mount Allison University. He currently resides in Moncton, where he continues to develop his practice and engage with the Filipino community through artist talks and cultural initiatives.

Tessa Graham is an artist living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her work encompasses themes of home, family lineage and her draw to rural landscapes through film photography, printmaking and textiles. She exhibited her photography series Home as Place, Home as Pattern at the rOGUE Gallery at Eastern Edge in 2024 and has participated in residencies both locally and internationally: Atlantic Artist Residency Exchange at Artlink in Donegal, Ireland (2023); Heidi Oberheide Residency with St. Michael’s Printshop in Gros Morne National Park (2024); Artist in Residence with UHA in Port Union (2025).

In 2025, she had work exhibited at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, received her MFA from Memorial University and was the recipient of VANL-CARFAC’s Emerging Artist Award.

Lorne Alexander Julien is a proud Mi’kmaw artist and member of Millbrook First Nation, We’kopekitk, Nova Scotia, Mi’kma’ki. He specializes in contemporary Indigenous acrylic paintings and murals. His Mi’kmaw name is “Warrior on the Hill” (Sma’knis) which was given to him in his youth when he learned about the spiritual way of his people.

He is a self-taught artist, beginning as a young child. He specializes in rich vibrant colours and believes simplicity is beautiful. Lorne wants to share his artwork, lifting people’s spirits, with ideas taken from his visions and dreams.

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Kaya Panthier is a Dominican-Canadian artist working in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Strongly rooted in her Caribbean heritage, Panthier’s work explores diaspora and familial connections with an emphasis on how migration, relationships to land and labour, and intergenerational memory shape identity.

Panthier’s work reimagines the landscape of the tropics as one which conceals, protects, and houses spirit. Through a study of incalescence, revolt, exaltation, and haunting on the island of Dominica, her current practice blends a reverence for personal legend with an interest in Caribbean folktales.

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Melissa is a Mi’kmaw woman from Abegweit First Nation, located on Epekwitk (PEI). Growing up, Melissa was immersed in cultural teachings and was surrounded by a family of basket makers. Melissa began her artistic expression at a young age, making regalia and beadwork, and is skilled in both traditional and contemporary styles. Her exposure to other Mi’kmaq artforms led her to quillwork, a traditional skill in which the ancestors of her maternal grandfather excelled.

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Natasha Sacobie is a Wolastoqiyik visual artist based in Bilijk. Her artistic practice blends traditional and contemporary mediums, beginning with oil painting and beading. She now specializes in porcupine quillwork. Her pieces are known for her deep connection to nature, exploration of exoticism, and honouring all relatives.

A graduate of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Sacobie completed Advanced Studio Practice in 2023. Her work is featured in public and private collections and has been exhibited at venues such as the Lieutenant Governor’s House, the George Fry Gallery, Saint John Arts Centre, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Boston Museum, and Gallery on Queen.

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