Mary Blatherwick

Mary Blatherwick teaches visual art and creative education in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of New Brunswick. Her research interests include, creativity, visual culture, intercultural understanding, and community-based arts education. She has received numerous awards for her teaching, resource development, production of documentary films on NB visual artists and leadership in the fields of art education and creativity. Recently she co-edited the book titled Creative Dimensions of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. Mary is the chair of the Atlantic Centre for Creativity and a founding member of the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity.

Mark Breen

Mark Breen is a Senior Economic Development Officer and Project Leader for the Catalyst Innovation Program. Mark is New Brunswick’s first and only Simplexity Certified Instructor. As leader of the Catalyst program Mark helps guide regional companies into transforming their cultures into creative, problem solving organizations using scientifically proven processes. Mark has worked in increasingly senior roles in Business Development for over 10 years, specializing in ICT, Energy and Entrepreneurship. Mark currently works for Economic Development Greater Saint John.

Barry Cull

Barry has been a teaching and learning librarian at the University of New Brunswick for over two decades and is currently located at the Science & Forestry Library. He helps students and faculty understand, access, and use research and scholarship. He is especially interested in motivating students to develop their creative thinking skills, as well as their deep reading skills, on both paper and on-screen. This is his ongoing area of research. A few of his publications can be found at https://guides.lib.unb.ca/profile/bcull.

Dean Goldrup

Dean Goldrup is an English teacher at Sugarloaf Senior High School in Campbellton, NB. He graduated from St. Francis Xavier University with focuses in both English Literature and History. Dean has been teaching for over 10 years; mostly academic level English courses.

Angela Harris

Connector, relationship builder and coach, Angela Harris is the founder of Work of Heart, a business created to empower and inspire people to be their best, to do their best and to live their best life. Angela helps heart centred people and businesses grow through events, consulting, and coaching. She is a mentor, a podcast host, a motivational speaker and a very proud mom.

Danielle Hogan

Danielle Hogan [she/her] is an artist, curator and writer of Irish, Italian and French settler ancestry. She lives in traditional, unceded Wolastokuk (Wa-lus-da-gook) territory. Her art practice is inspired by networks of care among and across undervalued and underrepresented communities. Her work explores women & gender studies broadly, frequently embracing the relationships between activism and art. In 2016 Danielle coined the term femaffect, a word to specifically address an affect (feelings that “stick”. Ahmed, S. 2004) that has been feminized in Western cultures, either intentionally or unintentionally, to be understood as negative or ‘less than’. In 2013 she was named the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) prestigious Dr. William S. Lewis Doctoral Fellowship scholar, her doctoral dissertation Just making it: the stain of femaffect on fiber in art investigates the negative effects of femaffect on textiles in art. Danielle studied at New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Diploma in Creative Graphics, ’95), Emily Carr University in Vancouver (BFA, 2000) and the University of Victoria (MFA, 2003) before earning her PhD (2017) in Interdisciplinary Studies from UNB. She has been selected to participate in several residencies in internationally including at Banff Centre for the Arts, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and JIWAR in Barcelona, Spain. Danielle’s currently the a program consultant the Arts&Culture branch in the Government of New Brunswick and is responsible for the provincial art collection, collectionArtNB, www.collectionartnb.ca. Her first book, on art of New Brunswick weaver Nel Oudemans, is due out in December 2022.

Richard Hornsby

Richard Hornsby is an active performer, educator, arts administrator and arts advocate. Professionally, he has performed with the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, and New Music Concerts of Canada as well as frequently recording for C.B.C. Radio of Canada. He continues performing as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. He is also a member of New Brunswick’s new music ensemble.

Robin Jensen

Robin Jensen began teaching art in Nova Scotia in 1998 and is currently a Fine Arts Specialist bringing arts enhancement and integration to classrooms in the Halifax West Family of Schools. She continues to find inspiration learning alongside the doodlers, dreamers, builders, and changemakers she meets everyday in Nova Scotia classrooms.

Christine Jones

Graduating in the UK with first class honours in music analysis and vocal performance, Christine continued choral conducting studies with tutors from the Liszt Academy, the Kodály Institute and Chetham’s School of Music. Christine was a Senior Advisory Teacher for the UK’s Voices Foundation and also ran corporate choral development for organizations in the financial sector and BP European Managers. Since moving to New Brunswick in 2015, Christine has directed the UNB Chorale, the Bel Canto Singers of Fredericton, and facilitated Women’s Leadership choral development sessions.

Janet Kuhnke

Janet L. Kuhnke is a tenure-track, assistant professor in the School of Nursing at Cape Breton University. Janet focuses on reflexive practice and how creativity can engage ones' spirit and offer hope. Janet is completing her Art Therapy at the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy (CiiAT). She focuseson lives lived with chronic illnesses, eating disorders, and the role of trauma informed care. She focuses on embedding creative projects into learner undergraduate projects.

Philip Lambert

Philip Lambert is an engineer, successful entrepreneur, and research scientist. Philip’s breadth of experience and education gives him uniquely diverse perspectives, ideal for facilitating organizational planning sessions. His education includes college and university engineering programs, an MBA, and a PhD. Lambert’s research has led to the discovery and development of simple rules arising from complexity science that can have a profound affect on the creativity and innovation efforts of individuals and organizations, rules which also inform product or service launch initiatives. This research reveals that highly creative individuals and organizations are more dynamic along a number of continuums. Understanding these dynamics, and learning to be flexible along them, opens the door to the necessary dynamic balance organizations require to optimize the present while preparing for the future.

Heather McLeod

Heather McLeod is full professor (arts education) at Memorial University. She has won national, university, and faculty awards for teaching. Heather is past Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Review of Art Education (peer reviewed). Her current funded research initiatives include an Art Hive community project and a poetry and pedagogy project.

Adda Mihailescu

Adda Mihailescu is a teacher and art educator with a passion for connecting people with art and a keen interest in creating meaningful gallery programs for all ages.

Alexis Milligan

Alexis Milligan is the founding director of Transitus Creative, specializing in Art Communication and public engagement through the arts transitus.ca. She has been a lead project partner in knowledge translation and exchange with The Dalhousie University School of Nursing, the Association of Nova Scotia Museums, and with gender consultant Michelle Raine. Alexis is a recurring guest teacher at NYU Tisch School for the Performing Arts and has been on the faculty of the Fountain Academy of the Sacred Heart, and Neptune Theatre School. Currently Alexis is pursuing her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at UNB - Fredericton. For more information please visit website: alexismilligan.com

Charles Pan

PhD candidate in education at UNB with Professor Mary Blatherwick, with over 2 decades of experience in the media and education industry. Pan holds post-graduate certificates in New Media & Advanced Film and TV, master in Educational Leadership, and has proven leadership in effectively managing teams and delivering international art and cultural events. He was the keynote speaker at 2018 TIFF Sheridan and a classical pianist.

Dale Ritchie

Dale Ritchie is currently the President and owner of McKenzie College, with a focus on Art and Design, IT and operates an accredited Language's Canada ESL school. Mr. Ritchie holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in marketing from St. Mary’s University in Halifax and studied Computer Science and Finance in their MBA Program. He has served on three University Boards, is the Past President of the Saint John Rotary Club (Paul Harris Fellow) and the Saint John Boys and Girls Club. He is the Past Chairman of the Capitol Theatre Board, in Moncton, the South East Industry Education Council and the Past President of the New Brunswick Association Of Private Colleges and Universities. He serves on the NB Coop Council and is a past Board member of the National Association of Career Colleges in Ottawa. Mr. Ritchie is an entrepreneur with several years of oil industry experience, is a former multi-store owner and Tim Horton’s Franchisee, and currently is building a private education institution that helps young people develop skills and training in areas of high employment, language proficiency and international development.

Jean Rooney

Jean Rooney is an Irish-born artist who lives on Welamukotuk territory in New Brunswick. Her practice orbits around studio production, art education, and locality. For over twenty years, she is exhibiting regularly and lecturing in visual art practice. She is currently Head of Graduate Studies at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. Jean holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from The National College of Art and Design, Ireland, a Master’s of Multimedia from Trinity College Dublin University, and a Master of Education in Critical Studies from the University of New Brunswick. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montréal.

Paul Syme

Paul’s focus on painting began as a Bachelors of Fine Arts student at the University of Guelph in the early 1990s. By 1995, Paul earned his Bachelors of Education, and soon after moved to Halifax to study at NSCAD’s Masters of Arts in art education program. Paul has been teaching art at Horton High School in the Annapolis Valley since 1997. He also teaches Creative Pedagogy to educators at Acadia University and Cape Breton University. Paul has continued to paint and draw professionally while teaching and raising a family in Hantsport, NS. Currently, Paul serves his teacher colleagues as a P-12 mentor of assessment.

Christina Thomson

Christina Thomson is a photographer and educator in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She is NBCCD photography graduate with a Bachelor of Applied Arts at UNB. While working as a freelance photographer in Montreal she completed a Masters in Art Education at Concordia University. She is dedicated to serving community creativity and supporting youth-led initiatives and activism. Christina’s photography practice is a form of open awareness meditation. Her secondary process reconstructs the images as objects through assemblage and video. Her work has been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, and the Maritimes.

Sharon Wahl

Sharon has taught high school in Vancouver, has worked with teachers and students in elementary and secondary schools throughout British Columbia, and was a faculty member in the Faculty of Education at SFU for over a decade. Her research interests include arts education, teacher education, educational leadership and international education. Sharon has presented her work provincially, nationally and internationally. She maintains an active presence on a number of Education and Arts committees and governance boards. Her passion is the Theatre and she maintains her professional actor’s status by occasionally working on stage or in film. Sharon is currently the Dean of Education at the University of New Brunswick.

Sean Wiebe

Sean Wiebe is a Professor of Education at the University of Prince Edward Island, teaches courses in multiliteracies, curriculum theory, and critical pedagogy. He has been the principal investigator on four Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded projects exploring the intersections of creativity, the creative economy, language and literacies, and arts informed inquiries. His current grant, based on findings generated from multiple sites across Canada, investigates how establishing a creative ethos in schools might support teachers as contributors to Canada’s creative economy.