Featured Artists 2026 – We Are Burnaby

Featured Artists

2026

Amrita Aggarwal

I am a bookbinding artist devoted to mindful hands-on craft, using paper as a medium to foster creativity, connection, and quiet reflection in everyday life.

Stephanie Broder

I am an illustrator, writer and arts educator with a special love of making comics and writing speculative fiction novels middle-grade and young adult readers.

Krista Cameron

I am a contempory pacific northwest painter and believe in the expressive and healing powers of the arts.

Jillian Chateauneuf

I am a professional photographer currently exploring how to create art with my iphone.

Kingphaka Chompooja

As a Clay flowers artist and devoted plant lover, obsessed over petal to create timeless blooms that fulfill my dream of a garden that never fades.

Didem Cindik

I am a multidisciplinary artist reinterpreting traditional Turkish ceramic patterns through contemporary watercolor practice, bridging cultural heritage and personal memory.

Ligia Di Froscia Pereira

I am a weaver of relational practices, a crafter, a joker, and a gardener; cultivating seeds of care so that life can flourish.

Dorothy Doherty

I am a mature visual artist grappling with new ways to convey my views on current politics, social justice, and the world around us.

Andrea Fryett

I am a painter with experience across fine art and digital design, creating atmospheric work inspired by land, water, and light.

Sana Goel

I am an interdisciplinary artist exploring identity, culture, and the fluid nature of everyday life through mixed media, cyanotype, and experimental textures.

Liat Har Lev

I am an expressive dancer with a passion for Flamenco — a dance form that allows me to communicate emotions and express stories to inspire others.

Akemi Emma Ito

I am an artist who lives in an imaginary world.

Jennie Johnston

I create mixed media quilts, that incorporate traditional quilting techniques along with paint, photo transfer, and hand stitching. My work explores the human condition as it relates to nature, social justice, and ancestry.

Philomena Jordan

I am an Irish storyteller.

Karl Kliparchuk

I am a poet that looks for inspiration from gardening, experiences in BC, wine, and then writing poems for people to relate to and enjoy.

Nina Koba

I am a passionate visual artist whose work captures the interplay between nature’s raw power and its fleeting beauty, drawing inspiration from storms, blossoms, and the delicate art of Ikebana.

Donna Konstantin

I am an artist who is passionate about capturing the feel of the moment and transferring it to canvas so everyone can see it, feel it and enjoy it.

Peter Lattey

I am a sculptor who explores the human face and sensual forms in wood.

Cheuk Pan Lee

I used my paintbrush to create my cinematic world.

Nickie Lewis

I am an eco-artist specializing in whimsical sculptures and contemplative mixed media

Dawn Livera

I am a messy and chaotic textile artist who examines the difference between things that are made by humans and things made by machines

Arianna Mao

I am a multidisciplinary artist who explores her curiousity and interest in history, culture, and identity through painting.

Marika Morissette

I am a professional visual artist specializing in acrylic pour paintings that are unique and intriguing, going deep into the space of creativity and hopefulness.

Tami Murray

I am an artist who studied drawing, printmaking, book making, ceramics and sculpture, painting, and photography.

Marilyn Noort & David Holloway

We are musicians and have been playing Irish traditional music together for the past ten years.

Delilah Patton

I’m a quirky multi media artist who loves and embraces chaos and color!

Yunuen Perez Vertti

I am a filmmaker and digital media artist.

Peter Perry

I am a visual explorer hoping to heighten our sense of the every day as well as discover over looked corners of our world.

Donna Polos

I am a multi medium fibre artist and painter who loves painting nature particularly trees.

Joshua Ralph

I am a community-engaged visual artist whose practice centers around navigating changed and changing ecosystems.

Bicram Rijal

As a visual artist, I work through observation and sensory engagement, drawing on my evolving relationship with natural, built, and cultural landscapes to blur the familiar and unfamiliar, and to reimagine the ordinary as something extraordinary.

Sara Ross

I am a multi-disciplinary artist and water protector, weaving fibres and threads of connection between people, and with this shimmering and beautiful natural world. I paint, weave, mend, tend, and love holding circle space with others.

Cynthia Sharp

Calm Bloom Art Society

A group of busy mothers and grandmothers who take a few stolen hours to relax and paint together.

Poets of StrideFest

Find our favourite Burnaby poets at these StrideFest locations.

The Stride Festival Stringband

We are a contradance band providing expert dance calling and lively music for participatory community dancing.

Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam & Eilidh Keegan-Henry

We are artists and friends interested in artifact and tactility.

Grant Withers

Multidisciplinary artist and purveyor of curiosity.

Sema Nur Yavuz

I am an artist who transforms personal moments into quiet reflections on identity, emotion, and healing.

Gayatri Yelegaonkar

I am artist exploring texture and light, Knowingly and unknowingly I always strive to convey a sense of connection within my artwork. Connection around us that we cannot see but feel.