Artists and Researchers

Stephanie Spring­gay is an artist, cura­tor, schol­ar and the prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tor on The Ped­a­gog­i­cal Impulse research-cre­ation project. She is Direc­tor of the School of the Arts (SOTA), at McMas­ter Uni­ver­si­ty,…

Chris­tine Jack­son is a PhD stu­dent and ses­sion­al lec­tur­er at OISE/UT and Brock Uni­ver­si­ty.  She is inspired by bold, social­ly-engaged art col­lab­o­ra­tions with teach­ers, stu­dents, and artists. This is reflect­ed in Christine’s work in…

Ves­na Krstich is an art crit­ic, cura­tor, and art his­to­ri­an who teach­es Visu­al Arts and The­o­ry of Knowl­edge at Upper Cana­da Col­lege in Toron­to. Her research explores the inter­re­la­tion­ship between…

Aubyn is an artist, a researcher, and an artist-researcher. Her projects exper­i­ment with audi­ence engage­ment, cel­e­bra­tion, and ama­teur per­for­mance and have been sup­port­ed by the Ontario Arts Coun­cil and the Toron­to Arts…

James Miles is an edu­ca­tor, researcher and PhD can­di­date at OISE/University of Toron­to in the depart­ment of Cur­ricu­lum, Teach­ing and Learn­ing. His research explores the inter­sec­tions of his­tor­i­cal con­scious­ness, his­tor­i­cal…

Anise Tru­man is cur­rent­ly an MT stu­dent at OISE and research assis­tant for The Ped­a­gog­i­cal Impulse and Walk­ingLab. She com­plet­ed her under­grad in soci­ol­o­gy at McMas­ter uni­ver­si­ty. Her research inter­ests…

Amy Mele­ca is a Mas­ter of Teach­ing stu­dent at OISE. She earned her Mas­ter of Arts in Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Art, Media, and Design from OCAD Uni­ver­si­ty and a Bach­e­lor of Fine…

Emmanuel Gaku­ba Rutay­isire is dri­ven by curios­i­ty and the free­dom of being a dream­er. He got his Bach­e­lor of Arts in French at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Guelph and his Bach­e­lor…

Shan­non Ger­ard works across a vari­ety of media. She writes and draws books, cro­chets soft sculp­tures, makes prints, and pro­duces large-scale instal­la­tions that incor­po­rate stop-motion ani­ma­tion and wheatpaste. Employ­ing play as…

Andrea Vela Alar­cón is an edu­ca­tor, artist and MA stu­dent at OISE. Her pro­fes­sion­al prac­tice is based on pop­u­lar edu­ca­tion and social­ly engaged arts. At OISE, her research inter­est is…

Sarah Febbraro’s prac­tice uses art as a tool for social engage­ment and invites friends, fam­i­ly, peo­ple she meets on the street and online or part­ners with com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions and their…

Helen Reed is an artist based on the unced­ed and tra­di­tion­al ter­ri­to­ries of the Musqueam, Squamish, & Tsleil-Wau­tuth nations. Her projects take shape as pub­lic instal­la­tions, social sit­u­a­tions, and events that cir­cu­late…

Hazel Mey­er is an artist and sports enthu­si­ast based in Toron­to, Cana­da. Com­mit­ted to both a social­ly engaged and mate­r­i­al-based prac­tice she nego­ti­ates these pri­mar­i­ly through cre­at­ing instal­la­tions that become…

Rodri­go Her­nan­dez-Gomez is orig­i­nal­ly from Mex­i­co City, he has lived in Hal­i­fax and Toron­to, Cana­da since 1996. Rodri­go has col­lab­o­rat­ed with La Lle­ca Col­lec­tive in Mex­i­co City, he is cur­rent­ly a…

Han­nah Jick­ling is from the Cana­di­an north and cur­rent­ly lives and works between Port­land, Toron­to and the Yukon. She received her BFA from the Nova Sco­tia Col­lege of Art and…

Arden Hage­dorn recent­ly fin­ished her MEd in Adult Edu­ca­tion and Com­mu­ni­ty Devel­op­ment at OISE/UT and com­plet­ed her under­grad­u­ate in Anthro­pol­o­gy and Soci­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Guelph. Seek­ing solace after…

Julie A. M. Smit­ka is a Ph.D. stu­dent in the depart­ment of Cur­ricu­lum, Teach­ing and Learn­ing at OISE,University of Toron­to. She is a Junior Fel­low at Massey Col­lege and is…

Sarah E. Tru­man is a Post­doc­tor­al Research Fel­low at Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne. She was a Researcher at The Ped­a­gog­i­cal Impulse from 2012–2017, and con­tin­ues to col­lab­o­rate with the team on…