Researchers

Michelle Stewart is an award-winning, and internationally funded social sciences and health researcher, who is a known advocate and activist for social justice. She has a specialization in health and…

Kathryn Ricketts is Associate Professor of Arts Education at University of Regina. Ricketts is a dance educator and performer, with a practice of improvised dance/theatre and somatic study. She is…

Carla Rice is a Canada Research Chair in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph. She founded and directs Re•Vision: The Centre for Art…

Shawn is the Executive Director of Musagetes, a philanthropic foundation that experiments in small Canadian and European cities with ways to connect communities more deeply with the arts and creativity.…

Paul Watkins is Assistant Professor of English at Vancouver Island University. Paul’s areas of interest are CanLit (with a focus on African Canadian literature), Indigenous literatures, jazz and improvisation, African…

Dr. Benjamin Bolden, music educator and composer, is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, Canada. His research interests include arts education assessment, creativity, arts-based research methodologies,…

Helen Pridmore enjoys a career focused on contemporary scored music, experimental music and improvisation. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in December 2012, performing the music of John Cage with…

Bio forthcoming.

Dr. Mark V. Campbell leads the FCAD Forum for Cultural Strategies at Ryerson University and is Adjunct Professor at the RTA School of Media. Mark is a former Banting Postdoctoral…

Dr. Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University. She won the Sonneck Society’s 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music for…