Executive Director - Joanne Shannon

Joanne has worked as a Coordinator at Neutral Ground and the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative. She has also worked professionally as a film and video artist and has had her paintings tour Saskatchewan through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC). Other work experiences include development work (using film, video, photography, painting and popular theatre) in Ghana and Jamaica. For the past several years she has been working as Executive Director with the Saskatchewan Organization for Heritage Languages and is well known in the multicultural community. She has continued to create art including creative writing and painting and belongs to a drumming circle.  

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Northern Artistic Director - Judy McNaughton

Judy McNaughton is a ceramic artist from Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Regina with a major in ceramics and a minor in sculpture under the instruction of Jack Sures and Vic Cicanski. Since graduating in 1994, she has continued her education through a series of formal mentorships. Her studio practice as a ceramic artist includes gallery installations as well as site specific and community based ceramic murals. In 2003 she curated a multi-media performance in Prince Albert Saskatchewan called Wasikamow kayas kaki-pi-ispayik history/memory of the riverbank, involving five Saskatchewan artists of different disciplines and thousands of community members. Since 1999 she has participated in residencies in BC and Saskatchewan. Judy has been the Northern Artistic Director since July 2003.

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Southern Artistic Director - Gerry Ruecker

Gerry has been a practising artist for over 25 years, working primarily in mixed media sculpture and sculptured furniture, and photography.  He is a self-taught artist, and has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally.  Gerry has been an entrepreneur in the graphic arts industry for many years,  and was President of the Regina Folk Festival in 2005 and 2006.  Having recently returned from a two year volunteer position with CUSO in Kingston  Jamaica, where he taught art and photography  in an inner city community, he is excited to continue work in the areas of community and art in Southern Saskatchewan.

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