STUDENTS
Second Year Students
Katherine Dennis
Katherine recently completed her first 1,000 nautical mile ocean passage as crew on a sailing vessel during a return passage from the Galapagos Islands to Ecuador. Travel is a passion only surpassed by a desire to curate the accomplishments of others. A graduate of the UBC Fine Arts program and an organizer of the 2008 graduate exhibition, Katherine discovered the joy of curatorship. She introduced emerging artists through the On the Rise Artist Collective Art Mart program, an initiative she successfully piloted in 2009. Her professional resume includes the Frank Steven Scholarship for Studio Art, Eagles in the City, a BC Lions Fundraiser and Where We Start From an exhibit of emerging Vancouver artists. Katherine recently returned from a tour of galleries in Italy that include the Uffizi, the Academia and La Strozzina, Centre for Contemporary Art.
Mary MacDonald
Mary MacDonald is an artist and aspiring curator hailing from Pictou, Nova Scotia. Mary graduated from Mount Allison University (BFA 2006) and continued her practical education through the Art Dealer's Association of Canada Visual Arts Internship at Zwicker's Gallery (Halifax) and the Owens Art Gallery Internship (Sackville). Most recently as Assistant Director of Eastern Edge Gallery, Mary organized the presentation of exhibitions and events, facilitated community programming and the graphic design of the gallery. Mary is an active member and advocate of Atlantic artist-run culture. Past experience includes Membership Coordinator for the Atlantic Artist Run Centre Association (AARCA) and member of the Arts Advocacy Committee for the Atlantic Provinces Art Gallery Association (APAGA). Mary's current areas of research include structures of exhibition both physical and virtual, site-specific and/or off-site works in collaboration with art organizations and community partners, performance and other temporal events and artists working in regional vs central environments or rather those who dismiss this polarization.
Zachary Pearl
Zach Pearl is an artist, designer, educator, fashion stylist and aspiring curator. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Zach moved to Minnesota in 2002 to attend the Minneapolis College of Art & Design where he received his BFA in Illustration. His work experience includes: Design Intern for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts; Lead Instructor for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Youth Programs department; Visual Merchandiser for J. Crew Corporation, and Assistant Coordinator for the Susan Hensel Gallery. Throughout the past four years, Zach has also been involved in the Minneapolis fashion community, filling various roles from choreographer to stylist to accessory designer. Other accomplishments include: curating an international group exhibition in 2008, entitled "Revisions of the American Dream," held at the Susan Hensel Gallery; receiving the 2009 Golden Paintbrush Award in the business journal category, and service as gallery coordinator for the Tyler Street Studios in Northeast Minneapolis.
First Year Students
Angela Dalton
Angela comes from rural south western Ontario on the shores of Lake Huron. Her early obsession with bossing around her siblings has led her into a healthy amount of organizing for a myriad of events in many different capacities ranging from conferences to conventions, music festivals to arts and crafts shows. Her experiences at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons as a Historical Interpreter sparked her interest in active curation and inspired her to take her interest one step further and look into curatorial studies.
As an undergraduate of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Guelph, Angela focused on studies in the Italian Renaissance, Early Baroque, Early Modern Art and Critical Theory. Angela’s interest in curation is centered on the links between Object, Purpose and Perception, as well as the tactile sensation of art.
Stefan Hancherow
Stefan Hancherow is an aspiring curator and conceptual artist. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he spent much of his early life with family in Iceland. Splitting the distance between the two, he attended school at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (Halifax) receiving a BFA in Fine Arts in 2008. Stefan was elected as the Student Union President in his fourth year of studies at NSCAD University. He went on to work at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax) from 2008 to 2011 as the gallery technician. Stefan is a supporter of artist run centres and volunteered as the Treasurer for the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax) Board of Governors for the past two years. Stefan is interested in bureaucratic systems on which galleries run, and the influence of digitization and new media on gallery practices.
Erin MacMillan
Jennifer Simaitis
Jennifer Simaitis was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She received an Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts from Fanshawe College (London, Ontario) in 2005 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax) in 2007. Upon graduation, Jennifer became the inaugural Manager of Seeds Gallery, a commercial and pedagogical venue for students and alumni of NSCAD University. In 2009, Jennifer joined the Board of Directors at Eyelevel Gallery, an artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. An advocate for Canadian artists, Jennifer has organized exhibitions and fundraising events in commercial, public and non-profit arts institutions. Currently, her interest lies in young artists with a focus on gender and identity politics.
Penelope Smart
Penelope Smart is an aspiring curator from Red Lake, Ontario. She received a B.A from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB in 2005, and returned to study Art History in 2010-2011. In between she worked as a CBC radio journalist in Quebec and New Brunswick. Smart has curated several group and solo shows, exploring how storytelling and narratives play out in contemporary art, particularly in places outside traditional gallery settings – adapting churches into street scenes or having a wood whittler tell stories sitting on a stump in an office space.
Rosemary Spooner
Marita Cockburn
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