Renée Anne Bouffard-McManus
Renée Anne Bouffard-McManus is an artist, curator, art worker and researcher who is currently based in Toronto. Her research connects care to the art of noticing within curation, art communities, and art organizations. She explores care theory and Disability Arts frameworks to inform this work. Since 2008, as a self-taught artist, she became interested in rural and online art/design communities and economies. In 2025, she graduated with an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University.
Sasha Singer-Wilson
Sasha Singer-Wilson (she/her) is a multidisciplinary performing artist, scholar and facilitator of Lithuanian, Italian, British, and Irish ancestry. Her work explores climate justice, climate emotions, decolonization, caregiving, ritual, land connection, intergenerational relationships, and the voice. Sasha has made performances in basements, alleyways, schools, theatres, lofts and online, and has worked with theatre companies and facilitated workshops across Turtle Island. Currently working on a research-creation PhD in Theatre & Performance Studies at York University, Sasha’s research explores caregiving in climate collapse/polycrisis and performance as a place to imagine and rehearse emergent liberatory futures.Find out more
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
Indu Vashist
Indu Vashist braids together body and land based practices into the various aspects of her life. She is a cultural worker, a Somatic Movement Educator in the tradition of Thomas and Eleanor Hanna, a yoga and rest practices teacher.
The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis
The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis (CBP) is an experimental, multidisciplinary research incubator and co-working research-creation hub, an archival nexus, and creative atelier/studiolab that is rooted in the importance of black study, Afro-Indigenous relations, and Afro-diasporic technologies. The CBP was established in 2022 and is led by Prof. SA Smythe. It is a coalitional space where transnational and anticolonial cultural workers, educators, researchers, technicians, artists, activists, system-impacted and other community members collaboratively and creatively attend to the genre-defying aesthetic interventions of Black life and Black studies. We embrace our roles as makers and maintainers, relishing liberatory practices and ideas about where we’ve been and (re)imagining where and who we want to be, together.Find out more