2026 Artist in Residence
June 30 - July 26
Jessica Brouder is an Irish Canadian visual artist and educator living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She holds an MFA in Medium and Material Based Art (Textiles) from the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo (Norway), an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (England), and a BFA in Fine Art (Painting) from Limerick School of Art and Design (Ireland).
Informed by an appreciation for folk art and craft, Brouder’s practice begins with locally collected environmental and societal debris as the primary conceptual and material source. She explores, through the lens of abundance, the potential of this everyday ephemera as a vehicle for thinking through ideas of value and futuring. Brouder experiments with a variety of textile building methods to transform this found material.
Her process often involves the repetition of rupture or breakage followed by repair, reculturing the discarded, imagining rubbish as contemporary commons. Brouder is interested in how the material and processes involved in the making of textile structures can be a gateway for investigating abstraction and discard studies.
Graig Sutherland is a distinguished researcher in the field of physical oceanography, with a focus on air-sea-ice interactions, surface waves and ocean drift modeling. Sutherland leads and contributes to multidisciplinary research projects that contribute to best practices to protect the marine environment and the people who work in it.
Sutherland is known for his expertise on ocean currents and how objects drift in the ocean. He collaborates with the Canadian Coast Guard on improving Search and Rescue and Oil Spill mitigation as well as biologists in various federal government departments who require knowledge of ocean circulation for their work. Sutherland also works with the World Meteorological Organization where he is an expert task team member for an international working group on waves, coastal hazards and marine emergency response.
Sutherland has a fondness for making things and he has transferred this into developing new ocean observing platforms. This includes using low-cost electronics to measure and record the ocean’s motion at the surface in remote and challenging environments.