Chair

Jasmine Hynes (she/her) is an emerging curator and cultural worker residing on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Jasmine has a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Art History and Museum and Heritage Studies from the University of Calgary and a Masters of Critical and Curatorial Studies (Art History) From the University of British of Columbia. She has recently executed projects at Western Front (Vancouver, BC), AHVA Gallery (Vancouver, BC), the Nickle Galleries (Calgary, AB), and the Little Gallery (Calgary, AB).

Secretary

Diane Hau Yu Wong (She/Her) is a second generation Cantonese-Canadian curator based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations. She received her BFA in Art History from Concordia University and is currently an MA Candidate in the Critical Curatorial Studies program at the University of British Columbia. She is also the Interim Artistic Director at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and has worked at Centre A since 2021. She has curated exhibitions at espace pop, Art Matters Festival, Nuit Blanche, articule, Centre A, and canton-sardine and was the inaugural recipient of the articule x MAI Curatorial Mentorship in 2020/2022 and the 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Residency program.

Treasurer

Jess Portfleet is a Vancouver-based artist utilizing her sculptural practice to investigate and rewire the structures people build with and for, Things. By casting, displacing, repurposing and collecting, she creates arrangements that question social concepts of control, investment, value and identity as they move through perceived connections with (and between) things. Portfleet reinterprets objects through exhibition strategies centered around staging and play. Using space and place as scaffolding, and props that provide alternative modes of support; these objects explore and articulate complex human moments.

Portfleet received her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and works as a sessional instructor in sculpture and ceramics at Michigan Technological University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Emily Carr University. She currently lives and works in the DTES of Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh ̱ (Squamish), and SelíXlwitulh X (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where she enjoys shopping the landscape for lost objects, found furniture and industrial salvage.

Director At Large

Angie Kwong is a Vancouver based member of the Chinese diaspora, emigrating to Canada during the British handover of Hong Kong in the 90s. She then went on to receive degrees in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and Integrated Media from Emily Carr University. After realizing her dreams of becoming the next Wong Kar Wai would never be fulfilled, she focused her energies on servicing the needs of the hearing impaired culturally diverse communities in the greater Vancouver region, becoming a Hearing Instrument Practitioner and opening a hearing clinic. She is also an avid art collector and remains highly involved in the arts community, co-host an alternative arts-based radio show, Thin Ice, and curates an ever evolving eponymous collection of specialty films at Emily Carr University library.

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Barbara T. is a graphic artist passionate about social justice and equality. Her journey has not been linear. Born in Italy and trained as a lawyer, she left her home country in 1995 and lived in the Netherlands and the United States for several years before settling with her family in Vancouver in 2002. She switched from law to the graphic arts in 2000, while living in California. Only recently she was inspired to explore her artistic side even further, and is grateful to have found an outlet to express her inner self in a more personal way. Since then, Barbara has been part of a few art group shows such as the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival, organized by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Mad Universe Art Show by Connection Salon, and Port Moody Art 4 Life Exhibition by the Port Moody Arts Centre. She is on the board of Connection Salon, an artist collective aimed at offering opportunities + empowering artists who are underrepresented and/or with lived experience with mental health issues, and now of Gallery Gachet.

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Pree Rehal (they/them) is an artist educator currently based in Tkaronto, originally from Tiohtià:ke. They're a child of immigrant settlers from Panjab. Pree's work is an ode to their extended youth as a trans and non-binary person, and create art for their inner child. Their main medium is watercolour, but Pree also does textile art, embroiders, creates short films, writes and performs drag. They have an interdisciplinary arts practice under the name: Sticky Mangos. Pree's online shop has been featured in CBC, Xtra magazine, and BlogTo. Their art has been featured in Luminato Arts Festival, Design TO festival and the Art Gallery of Ontario. 

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Samantha Young (she/her) is a freelance artist, art instructor at the City of Burnaby, Project Coordinator with the UBC Transformative Health & Justice Research Cluster and Research Assistant with ART & Justice. She is on the board of directors for Menstruation REDefined, Unlocking the Gates Services Society, and Gallery Gachet. Samantha got her BFA in Drawing and Painting on a full scholarship from OCADU, specializing in Indigenous studies and art education. Her work experience is in arts programming, administration, project coordination, grant writing and working with people that have complex care needs. Samantha’s aspiration is to work in a field that makes an impact on people’s lives @Samyoungartist on Instagram

Links: What is ART & Justice? – ART & Justice (artjusticeresearch.org) + Welcome | Transformative Health & Justice (ubc.ca)

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SF Ho (they/them) is an artist, writer, facilitator living on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. They’re cultivating a practice of wary sociality, never finishing books, and being sort of boring.They’ve published a novella about aliens and love called George the Parasite. 

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Carmen Levy-Milne (she/her) is a cultural worker born and raised on the unceded land of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm people. She holds an MA in Critical & Curatorial Studies from UBC and a BA in Communication and Cultural Studies with a Minor in Religion and Cultures from Concordia University. As a diasporic Jewish settler, her practice is primarily concerned with the Jewish philosophy of tikkun olam (“the repair of the world”), where she sees her work in the arts sphere as responsible for uplifting reparative, decolonial, and critical artistic responses to broader social, political, and cultural circumstances. Her work has been featured by the AHVA Gallery, the Burnaby Art Gallery, and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

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