Corina Brdar
Corina Brdar (M.Sc.) is a Great Lakes-based ecologist and passionate nature journaler. She led nature journaling workshops on the theme “How to Draw Water,” guiding participants in noticing the sights, sounds, and movement around them and to give visual form to water-related experience.
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Geneviève Dupéré
Geneviève Dupéré navigates at the confluence of maritime vitality and acrobatic performance. She presented her work-in-progress From River to Stage featuring écH2osystème, a documentary-type performing arts project. The title refers to the marine ecosystem of the St. Lawrence River, to the richness of its waters, and how it echoes in our society.
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Christine Fitzgerald
Christine Fitzgerald is acclaimed for her riveting images made by integrating obsolete photographic techniques and modern technology. She has been working with scientists at the River Institute in Cornwall, Ontario, to photograph species at risk. She discussed her approach to this important advocacy work and lead a public workshop teaching participants how to create their own photograms using light sensitive paper. The resulting images were arranged as a large-scale collage and installed on a wall indoors to review and discuss in the context of conservation efforts.
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Patrick Thompson
Patrick Thompson has exhibited internationally, working in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and public installation. His social practice work in Embassy of Imagination and artist collective PA System (with Alexa Hatanaka) has relied on north-south collaboration. Patrick works and lives primarily between Kinngait (Nunavut) and the National Capital Region.
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Dominique Normand
Dominique Normand created a powerful series of paintings based on her 2017 artist-in-residency on the Students on Ice Foundation Canada C3 Expedition. Aboard the icebreaker Polar Prince, Dominique travelled from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Nain, Labrador. She discussed her experiences as an ocean artist-researcher and examples of her work were featured at various locations through the course of the Ocean Festival.
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Robi Smith
Robi Smith is a community-engaged artist working principally on coastal ecosystem and climate impact themes. She introduced her work-in-progress Inland: An Unnatural History, and invited crowd-sourced “found object” contributions across the duration of the Ocean Festival. She also created a site-specific installation made from the collected “specimens,” encouraging people to explore the waterways in their local community and look closely for a small object that, if not collected, could end up travelling all the way to the ocean.
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