Marie-Anne Redhead | Chair
Marie-Anne Redhead (she/her) is the Assistant Curator of Indigenous and Contemporary Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English from the University of Winnipeg, where she is currently working on her MA in Curatorial Studies. Her creative practice includes writing, beading, and drawing and her curatorial focus is on destabilising settler normativelyMarie-Anne Redhead in Canadian art while centering Indigenous survivance, resistance and futurity.
She is an Ininiw Iskwew/Francophone and is a member of Fox Lake Cree Nation.
Rob Crooks | Treasurer
robcrooks (he/him) is a musician from Winnipeg whose work contains traces of hip-hop, post-punk and psych-folk. Using a sampler, vocal modulation, synthesizers and live percussion, Rob’s one-person-band approach to performance creates a sound as rich and full as many ensembles. Rob has performed his genre-bending music across Canada and Europe, and has opened for artists such as Buck 65 and Ceschi. More recently, Rob’s music has become increasingly conceptual, exploring the idea of the sample as revenant, and the themes of memory, history and hauntings. When he is not performing, listening to record or reading, Rob is facilitating beat and rap workshops with youth throughout Winnipeg’s Downtown and North End.
Antoinette Baquiran | Secretary
Antoinette Baquiran (she/her) is of Filipinx descent and was born and raised on Treaty 1 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She completed her Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba in 2019 and is currently doing her Master of Interior Design at the University, focusing on creating sincere cultural spaces for third-cultural individuals. Her role on the Board of the Kultivation Festival Inc has inspired her focus. This non-profit organization creates programs to celebrate the modern Filipinx culture in Winnipeg. Antoinette is an Interior Designer at Architects at Play, where they say, “Play is in our DNA,” which enforces the concept that Play is everywhere, like how design is in our surrounding environments.
Kait Evinger |
Kait Evinger brings over 12 years of experience in graphic design, having worked across private, government, non-profit arts sectors, and the Manitoba film industry. She has served as Communications Chair on the Board at Sunshine House and as Project Manager at Artbeat Studio Inc., offering a wealth of non-profit arts expertise. Recently, Kait joined the Manitoba Arts Network, where she coordinates gallery and communications efforts, fostering artistic endeavors throughout the rural and Northern Manitoba region. Her passion for film and visual arts continues to inspire her work in enhancing the visibility and accessibility of the arts.
Deinma David Iyagba |
Erin Frances Brown |
Erin Frances Brown (she/her) is a visual artist from Treaty 1, Winnipeg and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba. Brown creates painted relief sculptures as a means to explore the natural world through fantasy and to navigate the space between representation and abstraction, reality and fiction. In her new work, she uses plant life to consider themes of growth and decay on multiple scales – from plants themselves to the overarching rhythms of epochs and the universe.