2024 Mentors and Apprentices
Art Apprenticeship Network paired 15 Emily Carr apprentices with established artists, curators, or administrators working or associated with a not-for-profit for the duration of February – December 2024.
We are pleased to announce Aaron Friend Lettner, Annie Briard, Catherine de Montreuil (UNIT/PITT), Cathy Busby, Edward Fu-Chen Juan, Emily Hermant, Hazel Meyer, Jay Pahre (Other Sights), Landon Mackenzie, Lauren Marsden, Lindsay McIntyre, Peter Bussigel, Scott Massey, Steven Brekelmans and Zoë Chan (Richmond Art Gallery) as this year’s mentors.
Get to know the mentor and apprentice teams:
Aaron Friend Lettner, Mentor and Joanna Liang, Apprentice (Project Apprentice)
Aaron Friend Lettner makes unusual books.
Working primarily with photography, Aaron traverses the crossways of culture, memory and place. His work is distinguished by its esoteric flair and he sees bookmaking as a ritual act, where seen and unseen worlds elide.
Aaron received the inaugural Burtynsky Grant in 2016 for “Doorways” and a Canadian national book design award from the Alcuin Society in 2022 for “anglepoise,” which toured in Canada, Japan and Germany. His books are held in special collections at the National Library of Germany and Simon Fraser University.
Joanna Liang (she/her) is currently pursuing her BFA in Visual Arts and a minor in Art + Text at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her artistic practice encompasses a wide range of mediums including bookmaking, illustration, photography, sculpture, sequential art, and poetry. Recently she’s been focused on exploring the book arts, integrating aspects from all those mediums into her bookmaking. Using the book form’s potential for visual storytelling in ways that are both personal and communal, Joanna’s work often expresses longing for unknown futures while acknowledging the feelings of grief and helplessness of not knowing how to get there, especially in regards to the climate crisis. She is particularly fond of working with found human-made objects and gathered natural materials. She lives, creates, and learns on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Annie Briard, Mentor and Claudia Goulet-Blais, Apprentice (Studio Apprentice)
Annie Briard is a photography and digital media artist with a career spanning a decade of international exhibition experience. She teaches in the Audain Faculty of Art and in the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies at ECU. Her work is specialized in media art, expanded photography and installation.
Claudia Goulet-Blais is a visual artist based in Vancouver and Montréal, whose research focuses on the complexities of identity, relationships, and memory through photography. Her practice is rooted in her personal experiences and connections with both people and her surrounding environment. Attention to body language, interaction and collecting is part of a process of constructing images that communicate her internal state. She focuses on the dynamics of mother-daughter connections, capturing the nuances of aging, memory, and care. Claudia is co-founder of Colure Collective, and former art educator at OPTICA. She participated in a residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, and exhibited her work at Eastern Bloc, Ada X (Montréal), and in the Art Matters 2021 publication.
Catherine de Montreuil of UNIT/PITT, Mentor and Jefferson Alade, Apprentice (Student Curator Apprentice)
Catherine de Montreuil is an artist, arts worker, and trained horticulturist whose leadership is informed by her experience as a working class person. Throughout her work within the network of Vancouver’s artist-run organizations, she has advocated for fair labour standards and greater equity within the arts. She has extensive experience in independent arts publishing, with a particular interest in cultural relationships to land, craft, language, and mythologies.
Catherine graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2017 with a major in Critical and Cultural Practices. She additionally trained within the UBC Botanical Garden’s Horticulture Training Program in 2021, where she was the recipient of the David Tarrant Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her experience as horticulturist will be instrumental in guiding UNIT/PITT’s new programming endeavours within our back garden space at our new gallery location.
As Director of UNIT/PITT, Catherine de Montreuil will be the primary point of contact with the Student Curator. In her role she is responsible for overseeing all administration, grant writing, artistic vision, and curatorial projects of the organization, with the support of UNIT/PITT’s Board of Directors.
UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness is a charitable non-profit artist-run organization located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish First Nations, in Vancouver BC. After 3 years of remote operations, UNIT/PITT has moved into its new permanent facility at 2954 West 4th Ave in Vancouver, BC on September 1, 2023. We will be presenting exhibitions in our gallery and in our outdoor garden space, and continuing to present our mail art and virtual programs. UNIT/PITT is also the publisher of ReIssue.pub, an online art writing magazine.
Jefferson Alade (he/him) is an interdisciplinary creative currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
He is completing his Master of Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Prior to attending ECU, he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). There, he completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Communication and a minor in Music Industry.
During his time at UCLA, Jefferson gravitated toward the music, food and art spaces at school and around the city. On a personal level, he established a storytelling platform that produced music, podcasts, DJ mixes and events. He also gained work experience at companies such as Dim Records and Red Bull Media House.
At ECU, Jefferson’s practice centers around listening and how musical and sonic experiences can form, build and shape community.
Cathy Busby, Mentor and Charlie Mahoney-Volk, Apprentice (Studio Apprentice)
Cathy Busby is an artist who was shaped by growing up in Mississauga in the 1960s and 70s and by her Scottish/English/Protestant heritage. Her parents and grandparents were life-long social justice advocates. She moved to the Yukon as a teenager to be part of an alternative school and community. She felt at home working for women’s equality and other justice issues and found an outlet for this at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA 1984). Since then, she’s been exhibiting her work (installation, printed matter, performance) nationally and internationally including in New York, Beijing, Melbourne and Berlin.
She is also a seasoned gallery/museum worker. She was an assistant and then Director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), 1983-88; an innovator and educator at the National Gallery of Canada 1998-2002 and the first Head of Education at the Ottawa Art Gallery 2002-04.
She holds an MA and PhD in Communication from Concordia University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University, and had a Contemporary Art Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada (1997). She taught in the Visual Arts at UBC until 2019.
From 2012-2018, life-partners, Kennedy and Busby, taught collaboratively at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and then at the University of British Columbia.
Charlie Mahoney-Volk (they/them) is a queer non-binary artist from Treaty 1 Territory, so-called “Winnipeg, Manitoba”, and is currently based on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, so-called “Vancouver, British Columbia”. They are currently completing their BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where their practice is centered in photography, printmaking, and bookmaking. Their work is focused on the historical ties to westernized masculine archetypes in relation to queer gender identity. Charlie is the current Editor-in-Chief at WOO Publication and the Research Assistant for the Artists’ Book Collection at the ECU Library.
Edward Fu-Chen Juan, Mentor and Veronica Yang, Apprentice (Project Apprentice)
Edward Fu-Chen Juan is a contemporary visual artist based in Vancouver, BC, the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He identifies as a queer Taiwanese Canadian with ethnic roots from the Hakka and the Plains First Nation People of Taiwan. His art practice is printmaking on paper with water-based ink extracted from native and endemic plant, fungi, and insect specimens. Presently, he has expanded his process to papermaking with unconventional plant fibres of cultural importance.
Veronica Yang is a multidisciplinary artist with practices in oil painting, screen printing, and textile arts, producing figures, landscapes, and recurring patterns. Her artwork is a mirror to her personal and collective heritage, with a keen interest in uncovering and reinterpreting lesser-known narratives of colonial Korea and the Korean diaspora. She is based in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where she is completing her BFA in Visual Arts and a minor in Curatorial Practices. In essence, her artistic exploration is a study of history, culture, and visual languages that influence the aesthetic discourse of contemporary art.
Emily Hermant, Mentor and Kira Meyer, Apprentice (Studio Apprentice)
Emily Hermant is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of communication, technology, and craft. She received her BFA from Concordia University in Montréal, and her MFA as a Trustee Merit Scholar in Fiber & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and the United States, and has been featured in ArtSlant, Espace Sculpture, and TimeOut Chicago, among others. Hermant has been awarded grants from the BC Arts Council, SSHRC Explore, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec, and residencies at the Burrard Arts Foundation, Haystack, Ox-Bow School of Art, Nordic Artists’ Centre, and the Vermont Studio Center. Hermant is Associate Professor of Sculpture + Expanded Practices in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver.
Kira Meyer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations where they are completing their BFA in Sculpture and Expanded Practices at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Kira’s practice is concerned with the structure of self-identity as related to consumption and ritual. Through reconfiguring ephemeral materials such as cardboard, plastic, and tape, they have developed a material language that presents containers and packaging products as an invitation to consider self-organization as influenced by emotional and environmental circumstances. Their work resists the separation of the formal from the conceptual, asking the viewer for presence with that which does not resolve or explain itself.
Hazel Meyer, Mentor and Calla Söderholm, Apprentice (Project Apprentice, The Marble in the Basement)
Hazel Meyer is an artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work recovers the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics, and illness. Drawing on archival research, she designs immersive installations that bring various troublemakers—lesbians-feminists, incontinent-queers, gender-outlaws—into a performative space that centres desire, queerness, and sweat.
Recent activations of her work have taken place at Copenhagen Contemporary (DE) 2021, Dunlop Art Gallery (CA) 2020, La Ferme du Buisson (FR) 2019, Glasgow International Art Biennial (SCT) 2018, Art Gallery of Windsor (CA) 2019, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) (QC) 2019, Progress Festival (CA) 2020, and at the Porn Film Festival Berlin (DE) 2019. In 2023, Hazel was the recipient of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award, along with Vancouver-based artist Laiwan.
Hazel often works collaboratively with her partner, media scholar Cait McKinney. Together they explore their shared attachments to queer histories and their accessibility through research, writing, video, and archival interventions. Their performance-lecture The Digital Afterlives of Queer Porn Archives was presented at the 2018 Glasgow International Art Biennial (SCT) and their most first video Slumberparty 2018 had its premiere at the BFI’s London International Film Festival (UK). Their next video, They, Olympia, about the 1990 Vancouver Gay Games begins production in 2024.
Hazel obtained her MFA at OCAD University, Toronto (2010), her BFA at Concordia University, Montréal (2002), and presently lives and works in Vancouver, on the stolen and unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Calla Söderholm (She/Her) is an interdisciplinary artist in her third year of Emily Carr’s Visual Arts undergraduate program. Her practice intersects with queer politics and feminine pain, while reflecting on histories of materiality and the human body. She is exploring spontaneous processes of creation resulting in biomorphic sculptures depicting flesh in worn states. Calla continues this exploration through her passions for performance, dance and all things free movement focused. Calla presently lives and works on the stolen and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Jay Pahre of Other Sights, Mentor and Logan Wilkinson, Apprentice (Project Apprentice, FLEET)
Jay Pahre is a queer and trans settler artist, writer and cultural worker currently based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Weaving between drawing, sculpture and writing, his work queries trans and queer nonhuman ecologies as they intersect with the human. Originally from the midwestern US, Pahre’s work engages the shifting ecologies of the Great Lakes and Great Plains regions. He received his BFA in painting and BA in East Asian studies in 2014, and his MA in East Asian studies from the University of Illinois in 2017. He went on to complete his MFA in visual art at the University of British Columbia in 2020. His work has been exhibited across the US and Canada. He was selected for the 2020 Transgender Studies Chair Fellowship at the University of Victoria, as well as the Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship (2020) and Fred Herzog Award in Visual Art (2019) at the University of British Columbia. Pahre has worked as the Education Programs Curator with salishan Place by the River, 2023, and as the Digital Publics Facilitator and Public Programs and Exhibition Assistant at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2019-2023. He is currently Other Sights’ FLEET Program Lead who will co-develop and deliver FLEET’s inaugural 2024 programming.
Other Sights for Artists’ Projects operates as a collective of Vancouver-based individuals with expertise in curation, project management, presentation, delivery and promotion of temporary art projects in public spaces. Other Sights is dedicated to challenging perceptions, encouraging discourse and promoting individual perspectives about shared social spaces. Operating outside of the gallery context, Other Sights develops new and unexpected exhibition platforms and provides support to artists, writers and curators interested in creating temporary, critically rigorous work for highly visible locations. We collaborate and share resources with organizations and individuals in order to present projects that consider the aesthetic, economic and regulatory conditions of public places and public life.
Logan Wilkinson is a designer and multi-media artist from Sudbury, Ontario, currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is completing her Masters in Interaction Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Drawing from her background in psychology and philosophy, her practice investigates how sensory design influences social and emotional experiences within institutional spaces. Her current projects include leading the revival of Emily Carr’s student radio station, the development of accessible tools for communal music-making, and the facilitation of participatory design workshops aimed at improving student onboarding experiences.
Landon Mackenzie, Mentor and Paloma Ruiz Chong, Apprentice (Studio Apprentice)
Landon Mackenzie has built an impressive body of work and is known for her rigorous large-format paintings. Her work has been exhibited in over 100 exhibitions across Canada and internationally, and collected by museums including the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Audain Art Museum and the Vancouver Art Gallery to name a few. Based in Vancouver, she was an influential educator at Emily Carr University of Art + Design for three decades and is still a Professor Emerita. Landon studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax (BFA 1972-1975), and Concordia University, Montréal (MFA 1976-1979). She has been honoured with numerous awards including the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2017.
Paloma Ruiz Chong is a Mexican artist born in Hermosillo, Sonora, where she has had two solo exhibitions including “Soy Constelación” (Casa Ganfer, 2021) and the Distrito 60 later that year. Ruiz is the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants which she received in 2021 and 2023. She moved to Vancouver in 2021 to begin her professional painting career where she is currently pursuing her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Ruiz’s work plays with large fields of color and shapes to explore the ways that color can activate itself; Activations that can happen in and outside of the canvas. Her embodied process is what keeps driving her to create.
She is prompted by moments, life instances, thoughts, wounds, the humanness of existing. The bits that linger and that leave marks, she lets make their way into her paintings.
Lauren Marsden, Mentor and Aranza Bergés, Apprentice (Filmmaking Apprentice)
Lauren Marsden is a queer filmmaker and media artist of European and Trinidadian descent living in the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations also known as Vancouver. As a storyteller, Lauren focuses on narrative and experimental works that revolve around gender, Caribbean identity, and the human impact on the land.
Lauren’s work has been exhibited at galleries and film festivals around the world. Lauren currently teaches media arts, performance, and graduate studies at Emily Carr University at Art + Design.
Aranza Bergés Navarrete was born and raised in Mexico City, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, in order to pursue her studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
The focus of her artistic practice is 2D and Experimental animation. Her work gravitates towards the use of unconventional techniques of animation that explore the materiality of the media and the way different materials can convey distinct emotions and aesthetics. Her main focus is on stop motion animation using clay and paint on glass but she is also interested in the way we can use digital tools to create animations that maintain that handmade effect and artistry. After graduation she hopes to pursue a career as an independent filmmaker and creative.
Lindsay McIntyre, Mentor and Coin Sluzalek, Apprentice (Production Apprentice)
Lindsay McIntyre is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent who holds an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta. She generally prefers to do things the hard way and her multiple award-winning short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based (and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion). Working with 16mm film using experimental and handmade techniques, her short films circle themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories. She was named the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award recipient for Excellence in Media Arts by the Canada Council (2013), was honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation 2017), and her dramatic short NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ won Best Short Fiction Film at imagineNATIVE in 2023 and a nomination to the Academy Awards. She is/has been a member of the IRIS Collective, Double Negative Collective, EMO Collective, artist-run film labs, and an international consortium of emulsioneers. Recent projects include an animated documentary for Quamajuq, the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Inuit Art Centre, Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut: We Are All Different (2021, which also received the honourable mention for Best BC Short at VIFF), and a monumental projection-mapping installation on the Vancouver Art Gallery, If These Walls (2019). She is also a co-investigator on a SSHRC-funded research creation project with Ruth Beer entitled Shifting Ground: Mapping Energy, Geographies and Communities in the North. Lindsay is a skilled Cinematographer (LAKE by Alexandra Lazarowich and Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette), as well as a Production Designer, and she is now embarking on her first feature The Words We Can’t Speak which was recently awarded the Women in the Director’s Chair coveted Feature Film Award worth $250K in-kind. She has made over 40 short films over the past 20 years and her works have screened around the world and can be found in several permanent collections. She is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories.
Coin Sluzalek is about to graduate with their BFA. Afterwards, they hope to serve their community. In their school work, Coin has explored the relationship between folk arts, traditional crafts, art institutions and archives through practices of papercutting, tapestry weaving and printmaking. Their choice of mediums reflects their desire to re-connect, through labour, with storytelling traditions rooted in collectively held knowledge of the land and of peoples’ history. They are currently working on building an archive of Palestinian-solidarty student activism at ECU. Their ancestors are from the British Isles and Silesia.
Peter Bussigel, Mentor and Clara Conrado, Apprentice (Project Apprentice, Free Tools)
Peter Bussigel builds sound systems that become instruments, performances, sculptures, and videos. Peter also make music with brass instruments and electronics and teach new media and sound arts on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish Peoples.
Clara Conrado is an artist and community organizer. Her practice, through image-based mediums, sculpture, performance, sound or code, attempts to deal within dysfunctional systems that envelop themes of trauma, virtuality, ontology and materiality. As co-founder of the 648 Arts Society, she invests herself in the curation, community-building, experimental artistic practices and music with priority of local BIPOC communities.
Scott Massey, Mentor and Leah Koutroumanos, Apprentice (Studio Apprentice)
Scott Massey’s work explores the confluence of art and science whereby he accentuates and amplifies natural phenomena, often heightened through artificial means or via slight manipulations, based on research into areas of physics, cosmology, astronomy, and other scientific disciplines. Light as a medium and image-making apparatus are fundamental aspects of his practice, employed in both the creation and presentation of works. Massey’s practice is materials based and relies on manipulating various apparatus to achieve certain well-defined parameters. He refers to this process as a corruption of the apparatus, relating to the strategy of reconfiguring materials and equipment to fulfill purposes these were not intended for.
Leah Koutroumanos is a multi-disciplinary visual artist from Calgary, Alberta. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge in 2021 and is a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Working in painting, drawing, bookbinding, and installation, she values the act of making and material specificity. Her graduate research is focused on collection and observational study of everyday minutiae. Her practice is situated by systems of taxonomy, the phenomenology of light, and the embodiment of time.
Steven Brekelmans, Mentor and Chloe Grotzke, Apprentice (Project Apprentice)
Steven Brekelmans is a visual artist with both a studio and public art practice. Steven works across a range of media including sculpture, ceramics, video, photography and sound.
Chloe Grotzke is an interdisciplinary designer currently pursuing a B.Des. in Industrial Design. Her diverse creative explorations span disciplines such as fine arts, visual design, place-making, and creative writing. Fueled by artistic ambitions, Chloe’s current focus revolves around exploring the interactions between consumers and products, addressing current issues such as consumerism and sustainability. Chloe holds a firm belief in the transformative power of the creative field. as a catalyst for innovative change, advocating for a shift in current frameworks to pave the way towards a more sustainable and inclusive future.
Zoë Chan of Richmond Art Gallery, Mentor and Mawenzhu Shi, Apprentice (Curatorial Apprentice)
Zoë Chan is Curator at the Richmond Art Gallery (2022 – present). She has curated exhibitions for several institutions across Canada, including the Vancouver Art Gallery where she was Assistant Curator between 2018 and 2022. In her projects, she has explored youth, hybrid documentary practices, food, and discourse around representation in art and visual culture. She received the Joan Lowndes Award in 2015 in recognition for her critical and curatorial writing. She is a graduate of Concordia University’s Master’s program in Art History, and now lives in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is a non-profit municipal art gallery established in 1980. The Gallery is dedicated to promoting dialogue among diverse communities on challenging ideas and issues of today as expressed through local, national and international contemporary art. Through its exhibitions, publications, educational programming, collections and significant partnerships, the Richmond Art Gallery provides opportunities for the enhancement of life in Richmond while serving the contemporary arts community in Canada.
Mawenzhu Shi is a visual artist currently based in Vancouver BC. She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia and is now continuing her graduate studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Experimenting with alternative narratives based on video essays, 3D animation and interactive installations, Shi delves into the intersection of culture, technology, and power dynamics of looking. Her work inquires about the construction of subjectivity in the cybernetics and digital era, provoking contemplation on how individuality comes into being through interaction with technology and relationships with other beings.
Art Apprenticeship Network is funded by the RBC Foundation in support of RBC Emerging Artists.