A Kurdish Iraqi artist, Curator and Researcher. Studied MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths London.
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Native Philadelphian, Serafina Harris comes from a family of artists extending from sculptors to musicians. Her primary focus is to study art. “My art is in response to the moral climate of today, which is to dehumanize, ostracize, and humiliate black people. My art is grounded by this fact.”
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Jenny Hawkinson is a social practice artist interested in the intersection of conflict engagement and contemporary art. In her practice, ‘artist’ and ‘advocate’ hold equal weight. After receiving a BA in Visual Art in 2010, she moved to Vancouver, BC to establish roots in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
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Britta Fluevog is a third-generation-matriarchal artist; her grandmother was a printmaker, her mother is a mixed media artist, as well as her father, who is a shoe designer. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Estonian-Canadian Artist Britta Fluevog is currently living in Jülich, Germany. Fluevog’s art practice primarily uses weaving and ceramics to create sculpture, and performance pieces. Fluevog completed her Master’s of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2015. Her thesis work looked at combining a material-based practice of textiles into the realm of social justice. In 2007, she received her Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Upon graduating from her bachelors, Fluevog established a small ceramic co-op in a rural Ghanian village.
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Marie France Forcier is a Canadian choreographer, performer, writer and pedagogue of contemporary dance forms. She is the director of Forcier Stage Works and the co-director of ReLoCate . Through studio research, public performances, publications and community initiatives, she predominantly engages with the intersection between trauma studies, somatic practices and western contemporary choreography.
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Jewel Fraser worked as a freelance environmental journalist and her stories have appeared in international publications, including the UK Guardian, Inter Press Service, Reuters, and Deutsche Welle. She completed a course in podcast production with RNTC in the Netherlands nine years ago, and began producing podcasts for publication just over two years ago. In 2020, Jewel received an Emerging Producers bursary from the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers to support her work in audio documentary production. Last year, the National Geographic Society's COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists awarded Jewel a grant to produce a 3-part podcast story for Trinidad local media. She completed that project and it has since been published. Jewel is now researching another three-part podcast documentary.
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Andrew Freiband is an artist, filmmaker, educator, producer, and research-artist. His praxis sits among the many intersections of art, education, media, film, journalism, literature, social impact, international development, research, and strategic design.
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Fred Han is currently an Associate Professor at the School of System Design and Intellectual Manufacturing in the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for nine years.
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