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, 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.

The Cosmic Groove Chefs are a group of humans with interests in original music, light programming, laser art, and video production/editing. They use all sorts of devices to present flavours visually. They are definitely local to Saskatoon, and they are certainly not from outer space. They are normal humans with names like Dylan Evans and J.J. Neufeld.

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.

E. M. Alysse Bowd holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the AUArts in Calgary, and an Master in Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax. Her creative practice navigates object-making, drawing and live art with a thematic focus on female perfectionism, self-care and motherhood mythologies. Her work finds the beauty and complexity held in the contradictions of being human. Through her work, she often seeks a balance between wildness and domesticity, playfulness and repose, while glimpsing the absurdity within the everyday.

April Doepker is a Métis multi-media artist based in Saskatoon. With work ranging from urban graffiti-style stencil portraits, abstract landscapes, murals, and installations work. Mediums include spray-paint, acrylics, and recently experimenting with electronic music, creating art that is often abstract and dreamlike. Beyond aesthetics, Doepker’s work frequently serves as a platform for social advocacy, highlighting issues impacting Indigenous communities. Her diverse portfolio has been exhibited in galleries across Saskatchewan, merging cultural narrative with contemporary technique.

Luke Syrnick is a musician and animator living in Saskatoon Sk, with his wonderful partner and their 6 pets.

Roman Sabasch is an emerging artist studying at the University of Saskatchewan. In his paintings, soft sculpture, assemblage and performances he explores themes of nostalgia, memory and personal identity. His performances draw on improv, drag and theatre. Inspired by the aesthetics of his childhood in the early 2000’s, his work is a playful recasting of childhood memories

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 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)

I/O is an artist collective that approaches cross-discipline art as a singular experience, led by the experimental duo of Factor Eight and Briana Gillet. Joining them are Saskatoon-based choreographer, dancer, and music artist Kirk Ford, and Vancouver-based Brazilian-Canadian dancer and choreographer Nina Salles-Grubor. Together, for "You are here.", they take over a closed intersection with sound, movement, light, and sculpture.

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 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.

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 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.

Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 400 international festivals, including Tampere Film Festival (Finland), CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil), Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States), transmediale (Germany), and Message to Man (Russia). He has also taken part in artist residencies in numerous countries, including Iran, Romania, Germany, Norway, and Australia. Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.