Ivana Beer
Ivana Beer is Saskatchewan's elite clown diva. Don't be fooled by her good looks though because she is a jack of ALL trades. You never really know what you're going to get with her but she'll guarantee it will be funny and shocking in the best way possible. She has a love for bringing creativity to people in ways you've never seen before and she'll never leave you unsatisfied but you'll definitely be wanting more!
Eli Hartman
Eli Hartman is a multidisciplinary performing artist that has been producing theatre and interactive performance art in the prairies for 13 years. Having been leadership for the FLoYD Festival, Chaos Encouraged Productions, the Green Beans Drag show, and performing as drag king Queer'd Al, they love pushing the audience's envelope. Their style is based in experimental exploration of connection and interactive displays that aim to change the audience's perspective on what counts as "art".
Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye
Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Saskatchewan 11th Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Chorus-Poem Playwright residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, playwriting, intimacy direction, textile creation, and performance art. Her work knits together folklore, abstract riddles, and Òwé Yorùbá elements of poetry to create a collective one-self. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Her newest manuscript, “The Goat’s Tongue,” won the Metatron International Poetry Prize and will be released September 2026.
Saskatoon Glassworkers' Guild
The Saskatoon Glassworkers’ Guild is a member-funded, registered non-profit organization dedicated to glass art. From across Saskatchewan, our members’ expertise spans all levels - from novice to internationally recognized. The guild supports a wide variety of glass art forms including stained glass, mosaic, painting, fusing, glassblowing, lampworking and many more.
Ryan A. Richard
Ryan A. Richard is a Métis intermedia sculptor and incoming MFA candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. Grounded in the relational ethics of wâhkôhtowin, his practice explores the intersections of identity, ancestral memory, and contemporary Indigenous experience. By bridging traditional land-based craft with advanced digital technologies, Richard channels a restless creative energy to investigate the tensions between physical reality, historical resilience, and modern algorithmic spaces.
Allyson Glenn
Allyson Glenn is a visual artist based in Saskatoon, Canada working in painting, drawing, photo-collage, and animation. Fascinated by the topics of myth, allegory, and the environment, her artwork investigates complexities between fictional and experienced realities including aspects of the mind, speculative realism, and collective transformation. Allyson Glenn teaches as a Professor for the School for the Arts, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
This project is supported by USask fine art students (Nik Chermensky, Jewel Charles, Ozen Turkenkul, Iman Kruger, David Sanscartier)
Nostradamus Factor Collective
The Nostradameus Factor Collective invites you on a journey to the future. Before entering, you'll write a postcard to your future self, pledging one action that will help create a better future for the world. Then step through the Portal of the Present into an immersive celebration of possibility, where dazzling lights, projections, ritual, music, a live DJ, dancers, actors, and interactive art surround you. The Future is YOU! experience blends performance, technology, and imagination to remind us that the future isn't something we wait for—it's something we create, one choice at a time.
Brody Burns
Brody Burns is a Cree artist from Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon. Beginning with graffiti and illustration, his practice deepened during his psychology studies and MFA at the University of Saskatchewan, where he began combining Indigenous ways of knowing with concepts from psychology and science. Spirit, energy, and vibration sit at the core of his work, representing a combined perspective of Spirit and Science through abstract form and colour.
ZJJM (Zhao JingLu and Jessica Morgun)
Jessica Morgun and JingLu Zhao have collaborated since 2021, developing their practice through projects and residencies in Saskatoon, including Biofeedback’s Community Project, Art Placement, AKA Artist-Run, and a Saskatchewan Arts Board grant. Their work articulates loss and isolation among artist-parents. Drawing on Eastern concepts of Qi and Western apophatic traditions, they create an East/West visual vocabulary. Through imagery of mist, domestic scenes, and landscape motifs, their collaborative practice explores caregiving, material relationships, and shared artistic inquiry.
Melanie Lazelle
Melanie Lazelle is an experience designer working primarily with interactive popup installations that share stories of our world. Her practice sits at the intersection of art, storytelling, experience creation and placemaking, creating environments that invite curiosity, play, and emotional connection—particularly in public and outdoor spaces.
Her creative studio is The Wilder, based in Canada, and they produce light experiences, art festivals, and immersive environmental installations and experiences. Their work explores themes of wonder, environmental connection, and engaging immersive experiences to create moments of discovery.
