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.
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.
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.
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.
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