CO–RESIDENCY is partnering with advisors from various industries from around the globe to craft a response to our current crisis and enrich the program for our artists.
MICHELLE
MOPE ANDERSSON
CURATOR & COUNSELOR
Michelle promotes art exhibitions and musical events with the aim of honoring our fragility, understanding and reconciling relationships, and enabling story through the arts, with particular attention to sacred arts. In times of crisis and conflict, she provides inspiration and support for creative individuals based on their life experiences and aspirations.
CHARLES FONG
GALLERY DIRECTOR, ROSSI & ROSSI
After graduating with a degree in microbiology from the University of Hong Kong, Charles took a dive into the art world. Whilst working for Wellington Gallery and PARKVIEW ART Hong Kong, he completed a master’s degree in sociology, focusing on the development of the city’s art gallery ecosystem since the 1980s from a socio-economical perspective. He is greatly interested in understanding the role of art in different cultures and aims to contextualise the field through various means of storytelling.
JOVELYN RICHARDS
WRITER & PERFORMING ARTIST
Jovelyn is a writer, filmmaker, comedian, literacy instructor, novelist, performance artist and musician. She enjoys engaging audiences, students, and friends in conversations of how and why it is essential to be present and realize the stories in our life, to examine the narrative of our collect lives. And ultimately… how to be the author and the voice of individual’s life stories.
DOMINIC TAYLOR
CHAIR OF THEATER PROGRAM, UCLA
Dominic Taylor is a scholar of African-American theater and a writer-director whose work has been seen across the country. He is the former associate artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minn., one of the premiere African-American theaters in the country. Taylor has reshaped UCLA’s curriculum for African American theater with a cycle of courses that begin in 1619 and go through contemporary African American life.
ISABEL DE LA O
ARTIST & PROFESSOR
Isabel del la O, works as an artist & professor at Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales Consejería de Ciencia, Universidades e Innovación. She specializes in the restoration and rehabilitation of art; techniques that are translated to her art in form of resin, fiberglass and textiles.
HELENA WADSLEY
ARTIST & EDUCATOR
Helena Wadsley is a Vancouver-based artist working with performance and video, community-based collaboration, textiles, drawing and painting. Her work involves careful studies of the materials and processes by which we develop a sense of belonging. She has participated in residencies Morocco, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the US, India, Bolivia, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Croatia and Australia. This year so far, she would have had work showing in Burnaby, BC, Lakeville, Connecticut,and New York City were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic. She has been the recipient of Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants.She teaches drawing, painting and textiles and works occasionally as a freelance art writer.
CO-RESIDENCY wants to partner with fine arts educators, academics, journalists, critics or curators to enrich our program.