2023 Halls Island Artists
Meet the talented artists selected to be part of the Halls Island Artist Residency in 2023.
Sharon Beaucage Johnson
Sharon Beaucage-Johnson is an Anishinaabekwe, member of Nipissing First Nation living on the Curve Lake First Nation. She is a published author of two short stories and is currently working on two works of fiction.
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Paul Belenky
Paul Belenky was born in 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied biology and studio art at Brandeis University and completed his MFA at MassArt in 2017. Currently Paul teaches sculpture and photography at Newton South High School in Newton MA.
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Katherine Cappellacci
Katherine is an actor, singer, and multidisciplinary theatre creator from Toronto who works in theatre and film/TV. She takes great writing/creation inspiration from the natural world - especially from Ontario’s rugged landscape in which she spent her summers.
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Kathy Friedman
Kathy is the author of the short-story collection All the Shining People (Anansi, 2022). She studied creative writing at UBC and the University of Guelph, and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.
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Jeighk Koyote
Jeighk (they/them) is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist based out of K’jipuktuk/Halifax, unceded Mi’kmaq Territory. Since 2015, they have been working with shadows in live performance, video and installation.
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Sandi Luck
Sandi Luck has dabbled in all things fiber since childhood, progressing from sewing doll clothes to her own wardrobe, soft furnishings, decorative embroidery and weaving. She specializes in feltmaking, stitched textiles, and natural dye using wet felting techniques to create accessories.
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Lindsey Middleton
Lindsey Middleton is a Canadian Screen Award nominee. Lindsey is best known for playing Vanessa and co-producing the internationally award-winning web series, Out With Dad, where she won two Indie Series Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and an IAWTV Award for Best Female Performance in a Drama. Lindsey has toured theatre across Canada and Europe and performed in over 50 productions.
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Nadine Papp
Nadine Papp is a fibre artist that practices embroidery using various techniques and materials.
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Mike Revenaugh
Mike Revenaugh is a writer for stage and screen. Raised in central New York, his work centers around the desire for connection in an epidemic of male loneliness
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Nora Revenaugh
Born in the 1980s to an Irish-American family in upstate New York, Nora grew up with bodhráns and tamagotchis, sean nós singing and escalating oil wars, community ceilis and the burgeoning internet. Living on this borderland between the ancient and the modern has shaped Nora’s work and identity as a folk artist.
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Lori Twining
Lori Twining is a reader, writer, and storyteller whose work encompasses fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Photo credit: Taylor Rebecca Photography
Meggan Winsley
Meggan Winsley (she/her) is a visual artist living in Toronto. She grew up in Haliburton, Ontario and moved to Toronto to complete Art Fundamentals at Sheridan College in 1999 and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University in 2004.
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Wendy Wood
My life as an artist started young. At the time I didn’t know that the crocheted squares, needlepoint and crewel would lead to a life of weaving and fibre art. I didn’t know that the pencil crayon sets and paint by numbers would lead to a life of painting. But it did.
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Sarah Zanchetta
Sarah Zanchetta (she/her) is a textile artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her curiosity driven practice researches lost knowledge in connection to the land and plants which surround us, specifically our fringed relationship with poisonous plants.
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Ellen White Rook
Ellen White Rook is a poet and contemplative arts teacher who divides her time between upstate New York and Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing.
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