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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
Laura Leong, President
Educated in Environmental Design, Laura as a professional designer worked in luxury lighting, with three meter high paper walls and renovated an Airstream as a portable vacation home. In her ceramics practice, she’s exploring a speculative future to create an order of reality other than the one she has been given. In 2021 she created atelier clé, a collective ceramics studio in the historic garment district of Chabanel, Tiohtià:ke.
Juhi Sohani, Vice-President
Juhi is a community organizer and nonprofit digital communications specialist based out of Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), with a special focus on the impacts of capitalism and colonialism on climate justice. As a child, Juhi found Persian art and Urdu literature as a way to connect with her ancestors. As an adult, she looks to visual art and multilingual literature to communicate ongoing struggles and disjointed emotions in a way that the English language alone could never successfully articulate. Her passion for movement-building and social justice is rooted in a history of mental health advocacy and education reform.
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.
fernando belote
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.
Amber Goveas
Amber Goveas is a wandering artist in Tiohti:áke, interested in different mediums ranging from sculpture, painting and metalworking. She currently works in a ceramic studio. Herbackground in architecture has fostered a deeply tempestuous relationship with the field, however the most valuable of her research recognizes the transformative potential of hybrid spaces (‘tiers-lieux’), in an increasingly gentrified urban context, to foster radical care and participatory democracy. Amber is actively involved in local community initiatives that build solidarity and collective empowerment among diasporic groups.
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.