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Emma Lowry is a recent graduate from McGill University and a medical assistant in pediatrics at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Gender and Feminist Studies and is currently studying for the MCAT and preparing to apply to medical schools. 

She uses colorful, whimsical art to illustrate the functions of the body and other scientific subjects as their own little worlds. She is fascinated by the overlap between gender and medicine and how interdisciplinary knowledge is central to the understanding of women's health, LGBTQ+ health, and the health of infants and children. To her, access to approachable and beautiful scientific images is one of the most important pursuits in modern healthcare. She finds herself constantly wanting to understand further how the human body functions and in doing so, visualizing these processes that she imagines

Ivna is a Brazilian illustrator and graphic designer with a soft heart for gentle art and Japanese-inspired stationery. Living in a quiet little village in the countryside of Quebec, she enjoys keeping a sketchbook to “unpack” everything that inspires her - nature, colors, patterns, book quotes, and packaging. These eventually become the seedlings for her own collections of paper goods featuring original artwork, such as stickers, washi tape, art prints, letter writing sets and zines. Her work is full of vibrant colors and gentle messages dancing in a playful style - because everything looks better with a little face on it.

Multidisciplinary artist ShinyManticore offers colorful creations made from gleaned and recycled materials. Their product range consists of handmade clothing, textile art, zines, illustrations, and stationery.

Multidisciplinary artist ShinyManticore offers colorful and eerie creations. Their work consists of handmade clothes from second-hand fabrics, textile art, zines, and printed artworks, as well as stationery.

Hilda Wolf is a Montreal-based artist. She has studied art history before delving into the world of illustration and graphic design. She has had the opportunity to work in the visual arts as well as for a graphic design agency. Through these various experiences, she has developed a colorful style with a slight vintage touch. These days, when she is not drawing, Hilda gives art workshops with the aim of stimulating participants' creativity.

Emma Ryan is a Montreal-based painter creating vibrant work that blends realism with loose, expressive brushstrokes.  In her paintings, she portrays a world that is brighter and more alive than the one we live in, celebrating the beauty that exists all around us in nature.  Her work features large-scale immersive flowers, landscapes and animals.  Emma’s paintings have been exhibited locally and collected across the US and Canada. 

Myriam Bois’ work stays true to the creative spirit that defined her childhood, driven by a spontaneous desire to draw freely and follow her imagination wherever it leads. She creates vivid world where humans, animals and nature coexist fluidly, opening windows onto the subconscious and reflections of human nature.

Her vibrant, contrasted palette, shaped by her Haitian roots, brings rhythm and warmth to her playful, pop-inspired aesthetic.

Illustration, animation, music and writing all feed her multidisciplinary practice, creating a space where instinct and creativity meet.

Trained as an illustrator in England, Bois carries a rich multicultural perspective that continues to inspire and shape her artistic vision.

Corbo was made in France and built in Canada, where he has been currently running around in the small village of Montreal.

In 2022, he left the brutal world of concrete and striped ties to launch full-time into the world of flowery landscapes and colored pencils.

Fond of puns, he likes to juggle with the dictionary and mix expressions to the rhythm of his brushes in order to put a delicate smile and lightness on your face. 

Valentine Alma is an artist & witch exploring animism through color and ritual. Born in Paris and raised in Montreal / Tiohtia:ké, she graduated with Honours from a BFA in Painting & Drawing at Concordia University in 2017 and spent the following years deepening her practice and learning Tarot. In 2022, she earned a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which allowed her to create Play Bodies, a massive oil-painted interactive installation around the queer collective body. She is deeply involved in community work, hosting rituals and art nights in her studio, organizing artistic multidisciplinary events, mentoring and teaching indigenous youth with InPath. Her work was featured in several solo and group shows in Montreal. Quebec and Toronto.

Alexia Boreham is the Montreal based illustrator behind Feverfew Studios,  specializing in psychedelic and Japanese inspired artwork on wood. Every image is created and burned by hand with a pyrography tool on surfaces such as cutting boards, large wood planks, etc. Despite being fairly new to wood burning, she hopes that her extensive background in illustration will help her bring back this old form of art in a new and fresh perspective. 

Akira Auger is a visual artist inspired by nature, the cycle of life through death, and the world around us. Many of her works evoke our relationship with nature and our sense of belonging to it. Active in Montreal as a self-taught artist for over 13 years, she creates, through various techniques, a dreamlike universe, both macabre and naive, that reminds us of the light that lies behind our shadows. These techniques include linocut, watercolor, and acrylic on fabric and canvas.

Clara (she/her) is an Indian-Québécois transdisciplinary artist, educator, researcher, and community organizer working from an ecofeminist lens & to studying to become an art therapist. With the ethereal beauty of nature, Clara is inspired by the authentic connection & storytelling established between people, their narrative, and their well-being. Clara is passionate about using her artmaking as a platform for healing, fostering discussions, empowerment, and reclaiming identity. As a survivor of intimate partner violence, she makes use of her artistic process and platform to bring attention and tangible change to social justice issues, especially the concerning rise in femicides, and create a community of change-makers. Being interconnected organisms, she is enthusiastic about creating sci-art and conducting interdisciplinary research as each unique background helps to cultivate meaningful change & creations. She is also passionate about co-creating with community as this process of generating creative ideas, rescripting & refabrication of stories can be a transformative catalyst in rooting a networked community of thrivers.

Rowan is a visual artist from a tiny village in Nova Scotia. In their work they explore themes relating to gender identity, gender expression & body dysmorphia. They create art with surreal elongated anatomy, impossible perspectives and loose impulsive line work.