Patricia Ainslie

Patricia Ainslie was born in England, and raised in South Africa. She moved to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in the late 1960s to work at the Rhodes National Gallery with Frank McEwen, organizing and promoting the renowned Workshop School where artists produced monumental stone...

Patricia Bovey

Senator Patricia Bovey is one of Canada’s most prominent art historians, teachers and arts management consultants. She teaches 20th century Canadian art, curatorial practice and cultural resource management; her art consulting has spanned much of Canada; and she has...

Kevan Anthony Cameron

Kevan Anthony Cameron, also known as Scruffmouth is a scribe, spoken poet, performer and proud co-editor of The Great Black North. He is a veteran of the poetry slam scene in North America and aims to “edutain” with his work that focuses on knowledge of self, identity...

Valerie Mason-John

Dr. Valerie Mason-John is an award-winning writer. Her first novel, Borrowed Body  (later re-published as The Banana Kid) won the Mind Book of the Year Award, and was described as the “British Color Purple” by the UK media. She began her writing career as an...

Rosemary Griebel

Born in the farming community of Castor, Alberta, Rosemary Griebel grew up on the prairies. There she experienced nature as both immense and intimate. It’s common to say that there is little room to romanticize nature when the lives and deaths of animals are...

Adam Melnyk

Adam Melnyk is recognized as the leading authority on Canadian graffiti, having collected images on his site http://www.visualorgasm.com since 1998. By day, he works with low-income families and the homeless.