Bree Bergen holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. In Toronto she has taught adult and children’s studio classes and workshops i at Harbourfront Centre, with the Toronto District School Board's Artist in the Schools program, and with the International Circus Festival. Here in Winnipeg Bree has delivered art programming at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Canadian Mennonite University, and the Manitoba Children’s Museum. Bree’s practice includes drawing and painting and she has completed residencies and internships in Newfoundland and New York City.
 

Catherine has a BFA (Hons) from the University of Manitoba and also holds an Education degree specializing in Art education. She teaches drawing for teens at Studio Programs and has also taught art in various schools in Winnipeg. Catherine is a practicing artist whose work ranges from drawing, to printmaking, to painting with acrylics. Her inspiration comes from nature, patterns, dreams, and discovering the connections between these universal human experiences.

Chris began dabbling with animation in 1993 as part of the commercial arts course he was taking. He pursued animated film making, eventually completing his first short film, The Urge, which has been screened at several international film festivals and is currently in distribution. Chris is now working on a sequel.

Craig Love is a practicing artist who sometimes teaches art to the young and old through both the WAG and the University of Manitoba. He earned his MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2004. In his spare time Craig likes to drink espresso and dream up new uses for language.

Curtis L. Wiebe is a short-film maker, illustrator, animator, musician, and sculptor. Identifiable by flights of the fantastic in settings of winter forests and prairie landscapes, Wiebe's art is full of imaginative characters brought to life as puppets, drawings, and elaborate costumes. Wiebe's highest profile work of art to date is The Pigeon King, a nine-foot public stature that stands in front of the AirCanada building on Carlton St. in Winnipeg, MB. Wiebe has a long history of working with children in camp and daycare settings as well as in public schools and inner-city community centres.

Cuban artist Dalvis Tuya Valido studied at Vocasional School of Arts, Escuela Nacional de Arte and Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He was a Professor at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts Eduardo Abela (2001-2003). His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Cuba, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, and New Zealand. Along with painting and drawing, Dalvis makes use of unusual materials to create imaginative images that suggest a sense of dislocation, and reflect on the individuals' place within the mass of humanity.

David Krindle left a career as a schoolteacher to become a full time professional potter for over twenty years ago. HIs work combines functional pottery and pieces which relate more closely to sculpture.
Most of David's work is fired in a large wood burning kiln that he shares with Alan Lacovetsky. David produces work that is earthy, shows the marks of the making and the marks of thr fire.

One of Studio Programs’ long-time instructors (since 1988), Derek also teaches at the University of Manitoba School of Art and the Faculty of Architecture (since 1998). Derek specializes in teaching drawing, painting, design, and most recently, Photoshop. He has exhibited and performed locally and internationally. Artist residencies for research have been completed in Chicago, Italy, and Vermont. Freelance work includes Courtroom drawing for CTV National News.

He has lectured at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dominican University (Chicago), the School of Fine Arts at the National Academy of Design (New York City) and most recently a panel discussion at the 2008 College Art Association Conference in Dallas.

Derek has been the recipient of grants from the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council,and the Vermont Studio Center. Reviews of his work have appeared in Border Crossings, the Winnipeg Free Press, and the Globe and Mail. Education includes a BFA (Honours) from the University of Manitoba and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. For more information see Derek’s website www.derekbrueckner.com

Dianne holds a BFA (Hons) from the University of Manitoba specializing in ceramics and drawing. She has instructed adults and children's art classes at the WAG since 1994. Her aim as an artist is to create pieces which are joyful and pleasurable to use. Nature is her inspiration, where natural and geometric patterns co-exist in harmony. The "tangled garden" is the theme for the enhancement of many of her decorative forms. When a garden is planted, it grows and develops to the dictates of nature. In the same way, when a pattern is conceived it evolves to completion. It succumbs to the inuititive process. In both instances, the end result is a surprise, each season bearing something special, and each piece having its own merit. It is through her work that she desires to inspire an unconscious reverence for the bounties of this earth.

Working in photography, video, and painting, Dominique Rey completed an MFA in photography in 2007 at Bard College (New York). Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Clark Gallery (Montreal), Michael Gibson Gallery (London), Alternator Gallery (Kelowna), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Truck Gallery (Calgary), and La Maison des artistes (Winnipeg). Dominique Rey has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and the Ricard Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in the Globe & Mail, Frieze, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and the Winnipeg Free Press.

Doug Melnyk is a Winnipeg-based artist who works in a variety of mediums including collage, drawing, and video. He is the author of three books (Naked Croquet, Doctor Meist and Fruits) and his artwork can be found in a number of public collections such as the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Glennys Hardie holds a BA from Victoria University, Wellington, and a BFA (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. She has been the recipient of grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council. Her work has been shown in various group shows in Winnipeg, including at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Ace Art, the Graffiti Gallery and the University of Manitoba’s School of Architecture. Glennys has volunteered with a number of arts-related and literacy groups in the city and for several years has been an instructor of adult classes at the WAG and elsewhere. She has also conducted a number of painting workshops in the city and around the province. Her work is in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, England, USA and Canada.

Graham Clarke was raised in Manitoba and graduated from U of M fine arts program where he studied under Ivan Eyre, George Swinton and Cecil Richards. After graduating, Graham painted in Mexico for a period of time. He settled in the Interlake and uses as his subject matter the landscape of the Canadian Shield as found in northern Saskatchewan, Nopiming and Whiteshell Parks in Manitoba,and Quetico Prk in Ontario. For decades Graham has taught painting and drawing to adults through Artist in the Schools and Artist in the Community. He founded the Interlake Art Centre in Teulon and the Interlake Mobile Art Centre. Graham has exhibited work in one man-shows and gallery artist exhibits in many private Winnipeg galleries. His work can be found in many private and corporate collections. Graham has taught landscape painting at the WAG studio programs for twelve years. He currently lives and paints with his wife Vera in Inwood Manitoba.
 

After painting in oils for many years, Jill began to paint in watercolour in 1995. She brought to watercolour a love of strong colour and light, and a contemporary viewpoint. Her subject is largely the domestic interior as well as flowers. In her work, flowers are often used as a metaphor for the strength and fragility found in people. In her pre-occupation with light as well as colour, she seeks to capture a luminosity which is unique to the medium. Her work may be seen at www.jillbrooks.net.
 

Leah Fontaine’s Dakota/Anishinaabe/French heritage intuitively helps her attain the iconography and worldview that is often displayed in her artwork. Her work utilizes a wide variety of mediums including photography, collage, and drawing. In the past, Fontaine’s artistic skills and abilities have been presented through theatrical, television, and art presentations in design and art. Her artwork has been featured in various group shows including From the Peg Festival: Flatter The Land, The Bigger The Ruckus at Harbour Front Centre in Toronto, Ontario (2006); Editions: Works from Martha Street Studio (2005), in partnership with Partners In the Park at the Winnipeg Pavilion; and Show and Tell: Notions of Home and Place by Alumni Artist (2007), in Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg. Leah also conducts art workshops in various educational institutions throughout Manitoba promoting awareness of Aboriginal culture. Leah is currently enrolled as a Master of Arts candidate at the University of Manitoba, Department of Native Studies. where she is developing a thesis entitled, “Spirit Menders: Expressions of Trauma in Art Practices by Manitoba Aboriginal Women.”
 

Martha Street Studio is a community-based printmaking facility, located in Winnipeg’s Historic Exchange District. Its 4000 square foot production space, studio, sales area, and gallery occupy a fully–renovated heritage structure bordering on the newly developing Waterfront Drive neighbourhood. It offers the artistic community equipment, facilities and support to produce, exhibit, and to disseminate cutting-edge print-based works on a local, national, and international level. The studio offers the public access to classes both in traditional and digital printing processes, and runs ongoing outreach programs with youth and aboriginal artists. The gallery facility and sales area offers the city a unique selection of visual artwork from emerging and master artists, both local and international.

Marianne teaches children’s mixed media and cartoon art classes and adult watercolour. Her performance art has been seen at various venues around Winnipeg and she has displayed paintings in several of the city’s galleries.

Michele began her association with the Winnipeg Art Gallery as a student in the Adult Evening Art classes, eventually graduating from the University of Manitoba with a BFA Honours Degree in Drawing and Video in 1994. She is well-versed in drawing, painting, mixed media, hand built clay sculpture and tile making, digital video and photography. Since joining WAG Studio Programs in 2000, she has taught Drawing Painting, Mixed Media, Winnipeg School Division SMAC Classes, and classes with the Boeing School for the Deaf. Michele currently teaches Drawing 3.

A mixed media artist, Milly is a long-time instructor for Studio Programs. She teaches beginning and advanced sculpture and drawing classes, including abstract drawing. She has taught etching and printmaking at the University of Manitoba and workshops in handmade paper making and drawing. Milly has exhibited her work in Canada and the United States.

Nancy has been teaching children at the WAG for over fifteen years. She coordinates and teaches classes for special needs students, as well as clay and mixed media classes for students ranging from seven to eighteen.
She has completed her honours thesis in painting, holds a B.A. in English and Professional Teaching Certification.

Nancy has shown her work in various local venues and is currently completing a multi-yeared sculptural project related to her interest in the lives and experiences of children.

Having grown up in small communities without art education facilities Nancy still feels a childlike enthusiasm at sharing art-making and viewing experiences with her students at the WAG. Her teaching reflects her belief in the importance of individual children’s ideas, feelings and creativity, as well as the power of art as a means of self-expression and self-discovery.
 

Nova was born in Brandon MB and raised in the Carberry sand hills. She has been interested in art and creating from a very young age. Nova has many years of community art involvement as well as teaching experience and enjoys working with people of all ages. Nova practices in a wide variety of media and since university she has focused her discipline toward ceramic art. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts-Honours from the University of Manitoba in 2007. She is currently working from her home studio in Winnipeg and also instructing pottery at Art City, a non-profit center that brings art programming to the West Broadway neighbourhood.

Racheal Tycoles is a painter and her subject matter is industrial landscape that focuses on the obscure and loss. She has a BFA Honors from the University of Manitoba and a MFA from the University of Cincinatti.
She has exhibited her work on a local and national basis. Racheal has had solo exhibitions at Ace Art and Site Gallery, Winnipeg; Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton Ontario, Arch II Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. She has been in group exhibitions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, University of Winnipeg and recently the Art Gallery of Windsor(Edward Day Gallery of Toronto).
She will be having a solo exhibition at the Franco Manitobain Cultural Centre in Winnipeg and also at the Michal Mine Gallery in Ostrava, Czech Republic in 2010.

Racheal has recieved numerous grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. Her work are in private and public collections local, national and internationally and has been reviewed in newspapers and art publications.

She has served on several juries and has taught for many years in the Winnipeg art community. Racheal works in her studio at home.

Rose has taught children and adults in a range of gallery, community, and university settings in Canada and England, including the National Gallery of Canada, Kettle's Yard - a University museum of 20th century and contemporary art in Cambridge, and the University of London. In addition to a BFA, she holds an MA and a PhD. Her research and writing on drawing revived her own artistic practice. Her drawings focus on nature, and the ordinary and overlooked things of everyday life. She finds inspiration in the fresh vision and spontaneity of children's art work.
 

"Tim Schouten is a Winnipeg based artist who has been painting with encaustic for ten years. He has exhibited his work locally and nationally. He studied at Art Sake Inc. in Toronto in the 1980’s and he has been the recipient of numerous awards from Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Schouten has presented encaustic workshops in Winnipeg and Thompson and at his studio on his farm property near Petersfield, MB."

A versatile artist, Valerie’s work is influenced by music, nature, and words. She has taught art classes for several years for Studio Programs and other organizations. Valerie has exhibited her work and enjoys being active in the arts community.

Wanda holds Bachelor of Fine Arts Honors Degree from U of M (with two years also taken in the Dept. of Interior Design Faculty of Architecture ) as well as a Bachelor of Education Degree as an Art Specialist.
She has taught children, youth and adult classes for many years with the WAG Studio Programs in drawing painting, sculpture and mixed media. She has also taught the grade 11 and 12 art program for the U of W Collegiate for several years and many classes for City of Winnipeg Parks and Recreation evening programs. Wanda currently teaches in Pembina Trails School Division grade 7-12 as an Art Specialist and also grade 7 and 9 Social Studies.