Staff

Samuel Garrigó Meza, Programming Director

Before starting his current role as Programming Coordinator, Samuel Garrigó Meza has been involved with articule for over a dozen years, as a volunteer, board member, and gallery technician. He is a writer and a performance artist, best known in the Montreal community for his years of patience and dedication installing art.

— Email : programmation@articule.org

James Goddard, Outreach Director

James Nicholas Dumile Goddard is a Ndebele-Canadian sound artist, curator, arts administrator and experimental saxophonist. He currently lives and works in Montréal, QC. His work explores themes related to race, the speculative and economics. He performs solo, in the duos NYON & Platitudes and as part of the Egyptian Cotton Arkestra. He's worked in community radio, concert promotion and non-profit administration – all these experiences inform an interest in non-hierarchy within his creative and administrative practices.

— Email : outreach@articule.org

Yuko Fedrau, Administrative Director

Yuko is an ex-art historian and current arts worker based in Montreal, QC. She has worked in art galleries, artist-run centres and community-based nonprofit organizations, and is particularly interested in exploring ways of ensuring financial sustainability for artists and arts workers while staying committed to decolonial values. Yuko spends the rest of her time baking, painting, or running tabletop RPGs.

— Email : administration@articule.org

 

Aziza Nassih, Communications Director

Aziza Nassih is an artist and cultural worker with a degree in visual and media arts. She navigates the traces and artifacts marking colonial expansions, dormant languages and displacements of populations. She is also interested in publishing and print media.

— Email : communications@articule.org

faraz abdullah, HR & Operations Director

faraz is a non-binary desi witch dedicated to undoing the harms of profit-driven hierarchies through love, play, and radical sadness. They are at their best when connecting people, technology, and nature to build resilient, self-directed communities of care.

- Following the law 25, faraz is the privacy officer at the centre.

— Email: rh-hr@articule.org

Collaborators

Guy L’Heureux, Exhibition Documentation
LOKI, Graphic Design
Mireille N’gouan, Bookkeeping

 

Board of Directors

fernando belote, Vice-President

fernando belote (Fern) is a bixa*/queer multidisciplinary artist and president of DC-Art Indisciplinaire, artist run centre which supports artists from diverse abilities. Fern’s conceptual practice is informed by personal experiences as a neurodivergent individual and survivor of domestic violence. Their work challenges capitalism's dehumanizing effects and circumscribes ethical perspectives, such as beesha ethics, contra-colonial views, and anti-fascist resistance. The artist currently collaborates on research exploring P(B)ajubá manifestations to disrupt cis-heteronormativity through the bias language. The objective is to confront colonial syntax, breaking down its pervasive influences and oppressive structures within communities.

* Originally perceived as an insult, the expression "bixa/beesha", which could be translated as “female animal” with the symbolic value of "queer or faggot". The word has been transformed into a source of pride, thus constituting a significant response to Brazilian machismo.

Kaja Levy, Treasurer

Kaja’s moving image work explores the theatrics of expressing sensitivity. She is interested in the spectacle of vulnerability accessed through film and video. She has presented with XXIV Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Harcourt House, the Academy of Art Video Art, Galerie FOFA, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Film Pop Montreal, and Long Winter Toronto.

Kaja graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 2016. She was born in Poland under Soviet occupation and is now based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory. She is a member of Available Light Screening Collective and co-founded Burnt Experimental Film and Video Art Festival with video artist Anna Grigorian and Chantale Potié of Double bonheur studio.

Zahra BuAli

A professional visual artist, Painter, printmaker, sculptor, and ceramist. From the figurative to the abstract, to the mixed media, her work is strongly linked to her constant search into identity, cultural history, and influences. Her recent work sheds light on the marginalized, their achievements and contribution to humanity & the environment, while highlighting resistance to destruction & erasure.

Recipient of MAI ALLIANCE, GENERAL SUPPORT, 2022-2023, MONTREAL, QUEBEC. AND Subvention aux artistes professionnels, de la Conseil des arts de Montréal & Ville de Montréal. Her artwork is exhibited locally, internationally, and in Public and Private collections in Bahrain, Canada, China, Egypt, Iran, France, the K.S.A., Spain, U.A.E., the U.S.A., and the United Kingdom. Some partial list: Shen Zhen Print Museum, Shen Zhen, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt., Almansouria Foundation, Jeddah, K.S.A., Hozeh Honari, Tehran, Iran. Holds B.F.A. Concordia University 1996, Montreal, Canada, & a B.Sc. University of Arizona, 1983, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. Zahra of Arabian/Persian origin, lives and works in Montreal, founder of Atelier Inana, where she continues to create and teach art.

 

Joliz Dela Peña

Joliz Dela Peña, also known as JDP2009, is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist from the Philippines, currently based in Tiohtià: ke. Intimate connection to memories, identity, and immigration are recurring themes in Dela Peña’s practice. Her approach allows the work to be shaped by the existing elements of the space—its context, materials, and histories—treating the site itself as a vital collaborator in the work. Her work extends beyond mere contemplation. It becomes a site of resistance: an embodied form of activism that confronts systemic injustices through intimate gestures, vulnerability, and presence.

Dela Peña’s work has been presented at various festivals in and outside of Montreal, including Art Souterrain Festival (Voies/Voix Résilientes, 2022), OFFTA (2023), Art in the Open PEI (2023), and Vibrance et Vacarme in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region (Caravanserail, 2024). Most recently, Dela Peña presented her work internationally in León, Mexico (Performance es utopia, 2025).

 

Clara Micheau

My name is Clara, I use the pronouns she/her and I'm bilingual. I'm a queer visual artist who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and grew up between Ktinékétolékouac/Sherbrooke (Canada) and Poitou-Charente (France). My practice offers magical realism through ceramics installations and sculptures. I co-founded a shared studio at 2063 aird. I've been involved with articule for 3 years on the fun com committee and the programming committee (long-term). I'm also a member and volunteer at Centre d'art Rozynski (Way's Mill) and Atelier La Terrière (Saint-Urbain). Finally, I spent two years as administrative coordinator for the Fine Arts Student Alliance (FASA) at Concordia University. A responsibility that solidified my experience with horizontal governance, anti-oppressive practices, activist mobilization and the programming of activities.

Micaela Devonish

Micaela Devonish (she/her), currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), is a Data Strategist shaping the future of information and data management for tax administrations. She is also a community builder passionate about arts and culture management. 

Drawing inspiration from the unique perspectives of women and Black people, Micaela works to create an inclusive, innovative future that uplifts marginalized voices. Her background in governance, research, event planning, and program management equips her to navigate complex environments, collaborate with diverse stakeholders, and create impactful initiatives. Micaela brings a creative perspective to every project, inspired by her endeavours in functional ceramics and photography.

Elise Boudreau Graham

Elise Boudreau Graham is an artist, arts worker, and educator from the Maritimes, currently based in Montreal. She is pursuing an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University. Her practice considers how the aesthetics of public and private space reveal, reinforce, and contest dominant narratives through the objects they contain.

She previously worked in the Greater Montreal public school system as a high school teacher in special education and art. Elise holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from NSCAD University (Halifax, NS) and an MA in Teaching and Learning from McGill University.

Elise has served as Co-director of Céline Bureau (CB) since 2019. Céline Bureau is an artist-run residency that responds to the needs of emerging and re-emerging artists in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Through its residencies, CB creates spaces for peer learning, relationship building, and artistic development. Artists are provided production support through funding, critiques, space, and tools, and professionalization support through our exhibition space, workshops, and community network.