Michelle Wilson
Michelle Wilson is a queer, neurodivergent artist and mother living as an uninvited guest in Guelph, Ontario. She is a founding member of the Coves Collective and the Unsettling Conservation Collective. Working across textile, ceramics, and new media, her projects explore relationality, land, memory, and collective responsibility.
Maryna Salagub
Maryna Salagub is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and community arts facilitator based in Oakville. Working primarily in watercolor and mixed media, her practice explores themes of community, caregiving, ecology, and storytelling through participatory art projects, workshops, and exhibitions. She is passionate about making art accessible and creating spaces for connection through creativity. Her work often combines visual storytelling with community engagement, with a focus on collaborative learning, environmental awareness, and the relationship between artistic practice and everyday life.
44.4 Mother/Artist Collective
The 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective, founded in 2019 by artists Sarah Jane Estabrooks and Elizabeth Raymer Griffin, is a group of women artists working on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. Positioned at the intersection of motherhood and art, our Collective shares knowledge, encourages creative self-actualisation, empowers professional advancement, and advocates for representation and support for mothers and caregivers in the arts. In making our Mother/Artist status visible, we aim to empower other artists to do the same. Members are drawn from different lived experiences, types of training, and artistic expressions. As a group, we have come together around the specific challenges of combining artistic practice with the gendered, and very real, performance of motherhood. For some, these…Find out more