2026 Artists in Residence
Diana Lawryshyn
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About the artist:
"Diana Nadia is an artist based in Toronto. Her wood-grain paintings explore pareidolia: the human tendency to perceive images and meaning in ambiguity. Beginning with an abstract, gestural underpainting, each piece evolves as faces, figures, and other forms emerge through her response to the natural patterns embedded in the wood." AIR Week: June 22-26, 2026 Program: wood grain paintings Website: diananadia.com Instagram: @diana_nadia_ |
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Lisa Leskien
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About the artist:
"Lisa Leskien is a contemporary artist whose lino and woodcut prints are inspired by the beauty of her natural surroundings. She often works en plein air, creating prints outdoors and responding directly to the landscape, where observation, environment, and process come together in her printmaking practice." AIR Week: July 6-10, 2026 Program: linocut printmaking Website: www.lisaontheloose.com Instagram: @lisa.on.the.loose |
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Mia Buono
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About the artist:
"Mia Buono is an analog and cameraless artist and filmmaker. Her recent work includes direct animation on 16mm using prerecorded and scrap film, and works created without a camera, using the body and sun in place of a lens. She also enjoys sharing these techniques with workshop participants across Ontario." AIR Week: July 13-17, 2026 Program: cyanotype art prints Website: [email protected] |
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Terry McDonald
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About the artist:
"I am a nature and outdoor photographer in Guelph and have been running PhotoTalks and workshops for decades now, as well as having instructed at Mohawk College: Nature Photography; Landscape Photography; and Travel Photography." AIR Week: July 27-31, 2026 Program: photography Website: www.luxBorealis.com Instagram: @luxborealis |
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Katie Fenerty
About the artist:
"Katie Fenerty is a Northern Ontario artist creating narrative artwork inspired by regional fauna and outdoor adventure. She transforms reclaimed and upcycled surfaces through pyrography, printmaking, painting, and embroidery, and engages communities through art programs that celebrate wildlife, conservation, and the wild places where we live and play."
AIR Week: August 10-14, 2026
Program: painting and embroidery
Website: www.katiefenerty.ca
Instagram: @katiefenerty.art
"Katie Fenerty is a Northern Ontario artist creating narrative artwork inspired by regional fauna and outdoor adventure. She transforms reclaimed and upcycled surfaces through pyrography, printmaking, painting, and embroidery, and engages communities through art programs that celebrate wildlife, conservation, and the wild places where we live and play."
AIR Week: August 10-14, 2026
Program: painting and embroidery
Website: www.katiefenerty.ca
Instagram: @katiefenerty.art
Amelia Stea Maclaurin
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About the artist:
"Stea - MacLaurin, was raised and lives in Toronto, Ontario. She is a painter working in both oil paint and gouache paint, her work is contemporary realism with vibrant colours and playful documentation of her surroundings. Stea MacLaurin has in the last five years focused on plein air painting working mostly with landscapes and the natural world, in previous seasons her work highlighted and prioritized urban settings, documenting the changing gentrified architectural landscape of her home." AIR Week: August 24-28, 2026 Program: watercolour, gouache, and journaling Website: www.asteamac.com Instagram: @steamac |
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Paul Harpley
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About the artist:
"Paul Harpley is an established Canadian visual artist who is known for his paintings, watercolours and drawings of nature, landscapes and wildlife subjects. His originals hang in private and corporate collections in Canada, United States, Europe and other countries. Numerous limited edition reproductions of his work have made his art accessible to a broader public over the last three decades. Paul is widely recognized as a leading Ontario naturalist." AIR Week: September 1-5, 2026 Program: graphite sketching and watercolour Website: www.harpley.ca |
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