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Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), CAFKA (Kitchener-Waterloo)
and Flux Factory (USA). She was recently commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario
to create a new work in response to the sesquicentennial as part of Every.Now.Then.
Recent residencies include Time_Place_Space by Arts House (Australia), the Santa
Fe Art Institute and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Hirmer is a graduate of
the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and is currently based in Guelph,
Canada.dodolab.ca
Leila Armstrong has an M.A. in Media Studies from Concordia University.
She works both independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Chai
Duncan (in 12 Point Buck) and Darcy Logan, Maria Madacky, and Rick Gillis (in
M.E.D.I.U.M.). Her most recent solo exhibition was “Coyote,” a body of work
addressing the intersection of wildlife with rural, suburban, and urban spaces. Her
interest in traditional natural history methodologies and their intersection with drawing
and printmaking has led her to her current focus on those methods. Armstrong also
organizes bi-annual community-based exhibitions titled“Cabinet of Queeriosities” that
celebrate LGBTQ history, identity, culture and pride through a diverse range of subject
matters and approaches.leilaarmstrong.blogspot.ca
Marlaina Buch makes art, writes, organizes exhibitions, facilitates community
projects and falls somewhere on the arts spectrum between maker and doer. She has
a background in art education and public engagement and her practice uses creative
education, experiential and collaborative workshops, typography, printmaking, critical
writing and performance to investigate social and environmental challenges, absurdity,
and the potential of public space. She lives in Nanaimo BC. marlainabuch.com
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