Laucolo creates visuals that contribute to showcasing and awakening a sense of wonder about our food and the agri-food system. If she was a was a food, she would be a winter squash because they are well adapted to the northern climate and are versatile in cooking!
Lucie Lederhendler is a Montreal-based curator and exhibition designer. The exhibits she produces showcase emerging and community artists and curators, creating connections between the public and a range of artistic disciplines. She has been published in Canadian Art Teacher magazine and Quebec Heritage magazine, and her environment-based artworks have been included in several shows. Originally from a scenic
village in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, her research pursues the question of what role an art practice can have in building mythologies that foster connections with the non-human world.
Kay Noele is a community-based textile artist and beekeeper from Treaty 4 & 6 territories in Saskatchewan, now based in Tiohtià:ke, Montréal, QC. Kay is interested in place-making, community building and engaging with built and natural environments through the creation of collective textiles employing different techniques including quilting, weaving, embroidery and/or knitting. She has collaborated on projects with numerous community partners including Coop Le Milieu, Montréal Arts Interculturel (MAI), la Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec, and Barefoot College in Rajasthan, India.
Laurence has been drawing since kindergarten. She spent her summers in Gaspésie, observing her love and connection to nature grow. At school, sketching in notebooks became an escape from long hours of boredom, battling intrusive thoughts and boiling adolescent emotions.
In 2013, she was introduced to pyrography by her friend Guillaume Jean Grenier, who worked at Vice Custom boards. For three years, Laurence joined the company to draw and burn unique pieces on custom longboards. It was her first opportunity where she was able to earn a living from her art. It was at that moment that Laurence created her artist alias, Hell-Em, based on her initials; L and M.
In 2015, while still at school, Laurence decided to leave for an entire summer to plant trees in a camp. In search of more freedom and a dose of connection with the natural world, it is in the depth of the forest that she tattooed for the first time.
Three years of planting and many tattooed planter friends later, she decided to leave school and to invest in her art full time. As a tattoo artist, a pyrography artist and a sketch artist, Hell_em and her partner Guillaume started the Grey Market Montréal- studio d’art.
With over 2 years of the project’s existence, the team has set up 3 artistic production studios and has welcomed ten tattoo artists and multidisciplinary artists to come and share in their creative energy.
Amy Barrington is a Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, community organizer, market gardener and aspiring farmer. With a clear vision for a new decade her works focus in the field and in community will be hardy resilience. This tryptic of watercolour, ink and fibers pieces focus on the hope and determination that her generation of farmers will carry forward with regenerative agriculture practices.
Caroline Magar a landscape architect. She has been working for 10 years in Montreal in urban ecological planning and in community support. During her free time, Caroline enjoys painting and illustrating landscapes with watercolours.
After 10 years in the corporate world in Dubai, Liza moved to Montreal in 2009 to pursue a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Soon after graduating, driven by a new found passion for social innovation and a longing for personal growth, she co-founded the social entreprise Gardens without Borders after completing her PDC with P3Permaculture. Through Gardens without Borders, she has developed urban and rural community-food projects in a diversity of social contexts and climates; such as Montreal, Ecuador and Senegal. She shares her experiences and learning through practical workshops related to permaculture and homesteading. She has also trained in geobiology, integrating art and spirituality in the projects she co-creates. As a stay at home mother of a 3 years old, she is now exploring permaculture as a parenting and educational tool. One of which is painting nature with and for her son. The recurring theme in her paintings is the interconnectedness of nature and all of its living beings, as well as the idea that the cosmos is within everything: as above, so below.
Ananda Lynn Fitzsimmons is an out-of-the-box thinker, visionary and environmentalist, with a passion for soil and growing food. She has had lifelong interest in sustainable food production and land management as well as social change and personal empowerment. She spent many years experimenting with microbial potions based on naturally occurring microbes extracted from plants, composts and soil. In 2008, she teamed up with Dr. Margaret Bywater Ekegard and they founded Inocucor Technologies. The company, now called Concentric, commercializes products for agriculture based on consortia of naturally occurring beneficial microorganisms. She now works as a consultant promoting soil health and regenerative land management practices.
