Anu Makinde

Anu Makinde (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist-educator, researcher and curator invested in cultural studies, migratory music histories, diaspora and its manifestations as sights and sounds. She works to build and program collaborative learning spaces that are multi-modal and dialogic.

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Zoë Heyn-Jones

Zoë Heyn-Jones is a researcher-artist and cultural worker who grew up on Saugeen Ojibway land in Ontario, Canada and on Tz’utujil/Kaqchikel Maya land in Guatemala. Zoë uses artistic research and curatorial practice as tools for communal abundance, and convenes groups in order to weather the collapse of capitalism together.

She works with agroecology and food systems, convivial cooking and eating, compost and waste, vernacular architecture and embodied practices of solidarity in the service of decomposition and regeneration. Zoë lives and works in Tenochtitlan/Mexico City and Tkaronto/Toronto.

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The Creative Food Research Collaboratory
The Creative Food Research Collaboratory germinates collaborations at the intersection of art and food studies, exploring how the arts can imagine—and therefore help to achieve—food security, food sovereignty, and food justice in Canada and across the Americas.
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Mark, in a giant ball of yarn, Sydenham Ontario

Mark Reinhart
Mark Reinhart moves through the world as an artist: a dancer listening for rhythm, a curator tracing connections, an educator interested in relationships, and a translator wandering through languages.  He chases constellations as a way of knowing—one that invites curiosity, compassion, embodiment, and collective meaning-making. Through arts-based and queer ways of seeing, he cultivates spaces and architectures where people and momentums can encounter complexity with sensitivity and wonder. Whether in studios, classrooms, conversations, public spaces or community places, he seeks to create the conditions for connection, where stories, bodies, and ideas gather into new constellations, ecosystems, and galaxies of possibility.
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Sandra Ngenge Dusabe
Sandra Ngenge Dusabe (gen-geh doo-sa-beh) is a painter, curator and cultural creator based in Ottawa, Canada. After completing her BFA at the University of Ottawa, she’s taken the knowledge and passion cultivated from her time in school and transferred that dedication and care to program conceptually coherent and authentic experiences catered to Black and Femme artists located on Turtle Island. While continuously balancing the advantages and drawbacks of making art in Canada, these challenges have yielded a continuous streak of successful events and exhibits presented through The Moving Art Gallery, her personal curatorial initiative.Find out more