Post-Mortem Survey for Making Art Work 2020-21

Executive Director

Kait is a queer, non-binary poet and multidisciplinary artist living in Kingston. Kait has a love for reading and writing, preferring to do both on good old fashioned paper, which has led them to their favourite artistic medium: the tedious yet intimate process of letterpress printing. Kait has been refining their creative writing skills for over 20 years, and uses their artwork as a platform to challenge and disrupt themes of identity, power, and normativity. 

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Marketing Coordinator

Kelsey is an artist, published poet, and has always been passionate about the arts. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree with a major in Art History and minor in Drama from Queen's University, as well as a Post-Graduate Certificate in Interactive Marketing Communications from St. Lawrence College. Kelsey is fascinated by art found in public and digital spaces, as well as the methods of displaying and sharing these artworks. 

Programming Coordinator

Emily Veysey is a first year MA student in the Cultural Studies Progam at Queen's University. Emily recently completed her Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Cultures Studies at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton, as well as her Bachelor of Applied Arts. She also holds a Diploma in Fine Craft and Design (Ceramics) and a Graduate Certificate from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. After graduating from NBCCD in 2013, Emily worked to remain involved in the arts community through initiatives such as helping to open a cooperative ceramic studio for emerging artists, volunteering through the local crafts council, and teaching introductory pottery. Emily's artistic practice focuses entirely on creating for the sake of creativity and expression, and prefers to not create with exhibition as impetus. Emily is passionate about promoting success for new and emerging artists and creating an equitable environment for diverse expression of creativity in the arts. She is very excited to join the team at Modern Fuel, and looks forward to her time developing exciting programming for its membership.  

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Drew Burton

Drew Burton is an Art History PhD student at Queen’s University studying the censorship of queer art in American museums and galleries. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Art History where his research focused on the censorship of art that was deemed too scandalous to be viewed by the general public. Although Drew is not a practicing artist himself, he is an avid collector of local, national, and international art, seeking to discover and support emerging artists. He has lived in Kingston, Ontario since beginning his education at Queen’s University in 2013. In his downtime he likes to read (too many books) and hang out with his Dachshund named Duchamp, his partner, and his friends! 

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Susan Brogly

Susan Brogly is a writer, mother and scientist.  Susan has curated art installations in Boston, Saratoga, Montreal, and Kingston, and was a co-organizer of Kingston’s 2017 ON THE WALL street art festival.

Greg Ivens

Greg Ivens is a Mixed Media Digital Artist currently living in Kingston, Ontario. With a focus on bright and vibrant colour palettes, Greg’s primary medium is Liquid Light, a live artform first pioneered in the 1960’s Psychedelic Rock era. In an attempt to meld these live methods with digital distortion, mirroring and glitch art techniques, Greg aims to create unique and vivid images that span the spectrum of colour.  

Scott Bucsis

Scott Bucsis is a musician, composer and picture editor working in the film and television industry with a specialized interest in sound design and sonic environments.  He has recently been fortunate enough to move to Kingston full-time after being involved with numerous musical projects while in Toronto as well sitting on the Artspace ARC Board of Directors while in Peterborough. Scott is very passionate about the importance of the engagement of the arts with the community and is excited for the opportunity to be part of the amazing work at Modern Fuel.

Regina Chung

Regina’s interests lie in intersections of classical and contemporary music, live and archived arts performances, and art and law. After a semester of law school at Queen’s University, she decided to terminate her studies in Canada to move to LA and pursue a legal education and a career specializing in art and entertainment law. Born in South Korea and having lived in three different countries, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to her communities. On the weekends, she enjoys participating in live music events in genres of techno, disco, house, and occasionally, classical. Before moving to Katarokwi with her partner Paul and miniature maltese Otto, she lived in Tkaronto working at a boutique booking agency and management company for classically trained musicians across Canada and the globe. 

Caroline Cotter

Caroline Cotter is a visual arts administrator with ten years of experience working in the Ontario nonprofit art sector. For seven and a half years, Caroline worked as the Visual Arts Program Administrator at the Ontario Arts Council. She’s held positions at CARFAC National, Galerie SAW Gallery and the House of PainT Festival of Urban Arts and Culture. Caroline is currently a Master’s candidate in Art History at Queen’s University where her research focuses on cultural heritage preservation, provenance and art restitution. She holds a BFA in Art History from Concordia University and has completed several courses in nonprofit and volunteer sector management at Ryerson University.

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Nenagh Hathaway

Nenagh Hathaway works in the School of Graduate Studies at Queen’s University. She returned to Kingston following a two-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Physical History of Art at Yale University and three years as a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nenagh received her Ph.D. in Art History from Queen’s in 2016 and her MLitt from the University of Glasgow’s program Making and Meaning: Approaches in Technical Art History in 2011. Her research interests lie in the physical makeup of artworks, from their initial design to their manufacture and, ultimately, how the resulting objects change over time. Her curatorial activities include The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Paintings, an exhibition held from 2015 to 2017 with venues across Canada that was accompanied by a catalogue.  

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Liam Mills

Liam Mills is a multidisciplinary designer and all-around creative, with a love for celebrating and promoting arts, culture, community, and out-of-the-box thinking. He is a graduate of the 2009 Graphic Design Program at St. Lawrence College, with professional experience in graphic design, public speaking, large-scale event creation, and more. Liam is working full-time as a Graphic Designer in downtown Kingston, but when he isn’t doing that, you can find him getting up to something creative - dabbling in visual arts, music, clothing design, and more. Born in a small town, and a lover of the outdoors, Liam is also an avid adventurer and enjoys hiking, camping, sustainable gardening, bushcraft, canoeing/kayaking, snowboarding, and more. Inspired by his parents, creativity, and self-expression, have always been the driving force of his life. He has a love for vibrant colours, zero-waste work, found art, and up-cycled-creations. Liam hopes to share the enlightenment and self-fulfillment that he has found in the connection of creative expression and self-growth, as well as continue his personal journey exploring the arts.

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Gabriel Menotti

Gabriel Menotti is Assistant Professor at the Film & Media Department of Queen’s University. He works as an independent curator in the field of moving image practices and technologies. His most recent books are "Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology" (AUP, 2019) and "Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies" (OUP, 2020, edited with Virginia Crisp). Menotti is also one of the coordinators of the Besides the Screen festival and research network, and currently convenes Museum Without Walls, a curatorial survey on virtual museums.

Angélique Roy

Angélique Roy is a Health Sciences Librarian at Queen’s University. Having completed her MA in Art History at Queen’s in 2013, she continued her studies in Library and Information Science and sought outreach opportunities to explore the intersection of art and literacy. This included internship opportunities at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library and working across special libraries and corporate records management. Originally from the Ottawa Valley, she lived in Calgary for five years before returning to Kingston and is passionate about building community through engagement with local artists and their works.

Abby Nowakowski

Abby Nowakowski is a queer interdisciplinary artist and educator who frequently works alongside others. Through printmaking, illustration and handpoke tattooing, they work to spread advocacy for care, share stories, and make space for radical softness. Their practice extends into art facilitation with a range of collaborations including workshops, performances, and community weaving opportunities. They currently live and work as an uninvited guest on the traditional land of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek.

Rachel Wiseman

Rachel Wiseman is an art history major and classical studies minor, entering her final year at Queen’s University. During the Fall of 2020, Rachel was an intern at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and helped to curate and facilitate Re:member 2020, the Member’s Show and Sale. The areas of study that she is interested in are 1990s internet art, black figure pottery from the 5th and 7th centuries BC, and fauvism. While Rachel is not currently practising art due to her busy school and extracurricular schedule, she has been dabbling in painting since an extremely young age, influenced by her grandmother who is an artist. In her free time Rachel enjoys taking care of her kitten Abby, reading, or chugging a cup of coffee.

Fan Wu

Fan is a PhD Student in Screen Cultures & Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. They have previously served as Board Secretary at Art Metropole. Their own practice intermixes poetry, performance, and community participation; they are particularly passionate about breaking down artificial barriers that divide various forms of creation. A perpetual question for them: are there ways to rethink “institutionality” at its root that preserves the good work the institution has done while transforming sedimented structures that no longer reflect an organization's values? They hope to assist in Modern Fuel's process of decolonization. 

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