Melanie Monique Rose

Melanie Monique Rose is a visual artist from Regina, Saskatchewan Treaty 4 Territory, and a long-time contributing member of Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective Inc. She attended Kootenay School of the Arts with a major in the Fibre Arts in Nelson, B.C. Rose has exhibited her artwork in both group and solo exhibitions Nationally. Her greatest honor was to receive the distinction of Excellence in Textiles in Dimension's 2013 touring show. In addition to showing her work, Rose has worked in the province as gallery facilitator, story-keeper, and art instructor for the Mackenzie Art Gallery and in addition teaches various workshops at both public and private institutions.

In 2018 her daughter Meadow Rose was born. Rose is currently a full-time mom, caregiver, and artist. Becoming a mother has increased Rose’s desire to share the stories of her culture and family and has challenged the way she creates independently and as a shared experience with her daughter. Rose is inspired and excited to see where the journey takes her as an Artist.

Mohadese Movahed

Born in 1988, Tehran, Iran, Mohadese Movahed is a visual artist whose studio practice focuses on painting, drawing, and intaglio printmaking. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Tehran at the University of Science and Culture and moved to Canada in 2017, where she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.

In her work, Movahed expresses her thoughts and identity as a contemporary Iranian artist who has lived almost her entire life in Iran. Movahed was born ten years after the Islamic revolution of 1979 and raised in the post-revolutionary period. Growing up under the rule of a religious government, the highest levels of religious restrictions based on Islamic beliefs, values, and ideas that encompass all spheres of life were imposed on her. Living under oppression had profoundly affected Movahed’s life and her art practice.

Her studio practice addresses the psychology of authority and the impact of living under oppression to present critiques around authoritarian political and social systems. Creating unconventional situations, she brings her experience of living in an oppressive society to her works to convey narratives that are politically and socially charged. Metaphor is a perfect structure for Movahed to use to transform political and social events into poetic allegories.

Nic Wilson

Nic Wilson (he/they) is an artist and writer who was born on the unceded Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik) territory now known as Fredericton, NB in 1988. He graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University, unceded Mi’kmaq territory, in 2012, and an MFA from the University of Regina, Treaty Four Territory, in 2019. He has shown work across Canada and internationally, and was the recipient of a SSHRC graduate fellowship in 2017. His writing has appeared in publications such as Public Journal, BlackFlash Magazine, Headlights Anthology, 7 Mondays, and in his first chapbook Still Life with Dying Flowers which is distributed by Art Metropole and Plug In ICA. Their work often engages time, queer lineage, and the distance between art practice and literature.

Edie Marshall

Edie Marshall is a Saskatchewan painter who is interested in the environment, the history and culture of the land. Most of her work is about the prairies where she finds an unlimited and often overlooked source of colours and shapes, ideas and images. Edie paints large energetic canvases and small intimate ones as a way to describe the vastness and energy of the land with its diverse and unique ecosystems. 

Edie received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 2004 with Great Distinction. She has work in public collections at the University of Saskatchewan and St. Thomas More Gallery in Saskatoon. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in private collections in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe and Australia.  

Edie  worked as the Program Coordinator at the Art Gallery of Regina and at CARFAC SASK. She is an advocate for visual arts and artists and has served on the CARFAC Saskatchewan and National Boards, the board of directors for the Art Gallery of Regina and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. She taught painting at the Neil Balkwill Civic Art Centre for three years and continues to teach workshops in Regina and Moose Jaw.   Edie currently lives in Riverhurst, Saskatchewan where she has her studio practice.

Jamie Reynolds

I am from Pasqua First Nation, although I was brought up in the big city of Moose Jaw SK, and currently live in Saskatchewan’s finest grain-fed Capital, Regina. I graduated  from the University of Regina with my BFA in 2010. I can proudly say it only took me 6 years and a lot of meandering to do it. I have spent the last decade working in Regina and her surrounding communities as an artist, educator, and administrator, enjoying the latest title much more than I had anticipated.   I have been artist in resident or guest artist for places such as the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, Heritage community association, First Nations University of Canada, and more. I have also worked on a number of public murals that you can find in the Heritage neighbourhood, if you know where to look. I have taught classes and workshops for numerous community groups, nonprofits, galleries, schools and plus one picnic and one pow-wow! Teaching has been a great joy, I absolutely love helping others create. While working mostly in paint at the moment, I also have  a small, fully equipped ceramics studio, (although these days its used mostly for making gift-mugs for the holidays). I like to use humour, irony, and vibrant colours to convey complicated or sensitive narratives and ideas. I like to contradict expectations by asking a lot of “What if” questions. I enjoy telling stories and making connections through my art, and fully immerse myself in the act of creating.