Nikki Stoyko Connections and Exchange AiR 2025 I am a self-taught artist, high school teacher, and nature lover, and one of the co-creators of Sketch Around YEG Club, an incredible community of local artists who meet monthly to sketch and connect. As a... Read Bio
Jaymie Brygidyr Connections and Exchange AiR 2025 Jaymie is one half of the Indigenous Art duo Proud Wednesday Beading Co. Together she works with her sister, Keri to share and reconnect to their families' Dene and Métis culture and beading legacy. Inspired... Read Bio
Brin Steeves Connections and Exchange Air 2025 Brin Steeves (@oilandbirch) (she/her) is a queer, self-taught artist and educator based in Edmonton, AB. She uses ceramics, digital art, painting, and other mediums to explore the intersection of art and advocacy. Her work often... Read Bio
Thomas Weir Thomas Weir is a visual artist working in a mixture printmaking, sculpture, photography and drawing to produce works which combine these varying mediums/methods at a number of different points in his artistic process, with the final result being singular artworks/objects... Read Bio Emerging Artist in Residence 2024-25
Matthew James Weigel Matthew James Weigel is an award winning Dene and Métis poet and artist born and raised in Edmonton. Currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Alberta, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and a... Read Bio Emerging Artist in Residence 2024-25
Kaitlyn Konkin Kaitlyn Konkin is driven by her fascination with the collection of objects and images. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on Treaty 6 lands, she studied printmaking and painting at the University of Alberta, graduating in 2024. Her work delves into the... Read Bio Emerging Artist in Residence 2024-25
Jacky Tollestrup SNAP Emerging Artist in Residence 2025-2026 Jacky Tollestrup (she/her) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Edmonton. Her painting, printmaking, film, performances, scholarship, and writing consider cultural and political margins imposed on bodies. Her recent work in printmaking is inspired... Read Bio Emerging Artist in Residence 2024-25