Bill Burns (ON) – SOVA Residency

Oct 19 – Nov 4 — Bill Burns comes from a bookselling family in Saskatchewan where he learned about tractors, books, and art from farmers, poets, and monks. Bill will be the visiting artist at SOVA and Robert Service as well as an artist about town. He will be looking into questions about time and place. He might be asking “What would you like to tell people in Toronto about what’s going on in Dawson City?’  or “What would you tell your future grandchild about life in Dawson City in 2023?”

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Liz Charters (BC/ON)

Sept 4 – Dec 20 — Liz Charters works in sculpture and installation, through the combined media of light, text and video. While in Dawson City, Liz hopes to connect the ways in which light defines our experience of place and time to their own experience of chronic illness and disability.

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Jason De Haan (AB)

Jason de Haan (Edmonton, 1981) is a multidisciplinary artist settled in the Alberta Badlands alongside Akokiniskway (the river of many roses) on Treaty 7 territory, the traditional lands of the Blackfoot confederacy. Working responsively and according to various encountered conditions de Haan’s projects explore resonance, broadcast, deep time, unseen forces, concentration, residuals, synchronicity and activation. His practice is diverse, with a wide and increasingly multidisciplinary approach to sculpture, collage, drawing, photography, video, text, and book works.

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