Ontario Artists
Andy Trull
Andy Trull is Co-Artistic Director of the Ottawa Valley Creative Arts Open Studio (OV-CAOS), weaving creative arts into the life of rural community. His artistic practice combines poetry, woodwork, and land based arts. He has a PhD from Concordia University in the Philosophy and Poetics of Participation and lives in Killaloe, Ontario with his partner Kathy amongst their hand-made buildings and gardens.
Animikiikwe Couchie
Animikiikwe grew up in the midst of community, professional, contemporary and traditional arts, with Aanmitaagzi at Nipissing First Nation, an she has been part of many Jumblies productions over the years. Now she is an dancer and choreographer, recently graduated from École de danse contemporaine de Montréal. Animikiikwe is Jumblies 2020-21 Metcalf intern.
Betty Carpick
Betty Carpick an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Much of her work looks at social, cultural, and environmental issues in both serious and playful ways. She engages in creativity with community of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds as a metaphor to speak to the fragility, strength, and transitory state of our lives and surroundings. Betty is Cree and Ukrainian from Northern Manitoba. She lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Cameron Montgomery
Cameron Montgomery (Dreamshare) is a rural artist working primarily in film. She collaboratively writes, directs, edits and produces feature films as well as abstract pieces at Studio Dreamshare in Pembroke, Ontario. She is currently exploring themes of coming-of-age and rural living with local youth, and building welcoming communities with Local Immigration Partnership Renfrew & Lanark.
Deanna Jones
Deanna Jones is a Niagara-born artist, actor, writer, director, producer, and co-founder and Artistic Director of St. Catharines based, Suitcase in Point Multi-Arts Company. Deanna has co-created, directed and performed in over 60 original plays and multi-arts projects with Suitcase in Point and organizations from Niagara and across Turtle Island. She has toured to festivals nationally and internationally in her over-20 year experience as a professional artist. Her acclaimed play, The Keith Richards One Woman Show was nominated for a Dora award in 2015.
Eleanor Albanese
Eleanor Albanese has spent her life immersed in the arts as a writer, theatre artist, and community-engaged artist. Her plays have been produced from coast to coast and her first novel If Tenderness Be Gold is recently published by Latitude 46 Publishing. Eleanor draws her inspiration from her cultural heritage, her Northern Ontario home, and her role as mother and grandmother.
Jamie Oshkabewisens
Jamie Lee Oshkabewisens is a creator, director, visual artist, performer and storyteller from the unceded territory Wikwemikong. He has experience teaching in theatre arts and has worked many years in various roles with Jumblies and offshoots. Jamie now resides and works in his home community of Wiikwemkong, while foster parenting and serving as a board member for Arts4All.
Michaela Washburn
Cree, Irish, French and English are the roots of this queer Métis artist. An award winning performer, Washburn’s craft includes: theatre, film, playwriting, spoken word, drag, clown, stand-up, hosting, improvisation, and workshop facilitation. Michaela has performed internationally at festivals and theatres in Wales, Aruba and across Canada and the United States.
Miranda Bouchard
Miranda Bouchard is an artist, arts manager and curator. Her roots, work and residence in the Algoma District inform her direction and interests in inter-generational knowledge and skill sharing; process- and craft-based practices; and projects in rural settings - places familiar to her, where such practices remain prevalent. She's drawn to the resiliency of stories, traditions and methods of making that survive despite the passage of time.
Tuija Hansen
Tuija Hansen is a textile artist based in Thunder Bay. She learned to felt, dye, weave and embroider at Kootenay School of Arts, and majored in printmaking and social justice studies at Lakehead University. Her practice is influenced by the boreal forest; incorporating organic, found matter into her mixed media and textile works, using foraged plant-dyes, and engaging with her Finnish ancestry.
Penny Couchie
Penny Couchie is a dancer, choreographer, actor and community artist of Ojibway and Mohawk ancestry. A graduate of University of Toronto and The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Penny has many performance, choreography and teaching credits, including with Spiderwoman Theatre, Aanmitaagzi, Jumblies and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. She was co-Artistic Director of Earth in Motion World Indigenous Dance, and is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Aanmitaagzi, based in her home of Nipissing First Nation, Ontario.
Victor Lyon
Victor Lyon is a documentary film-making and traditional singer and hand-drummer, living in Sioux-Lookout, Ontario with his wife Romaine. He is currently the Cultural Resource Coordinator at Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre in Sioux Lookout. Victor has collaborated with Jumblies on several projects, including Four Lands, Odaabaanag, and has now contributed an inspirtational Grounds for Goodness story.
Sid Bobb
A Gemini award-winning actor from Coast Salish territory in British Columbia, Sid Bobb is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Aanmitaagzi, an arts organization based in and engaging the community of Nipissing First Nation and surrounding area. He has extensive experience performing and teaching in traditional storytelling, song and dance, contemporary and classical theatre, dance and comedic improvisation. He was co-host of Canadian Geographic Kids, and co-hosted Kids’ CBC with Patty Sullivan.
Sherry Guppy
Sherry Guppy is a multi-disciplinary artist from Northeastern Ontario. Through large-scale installation, painting, printmaking and textile, her work incorporates traditional and contemporary storytelling. She studied at NSCAD and holds an undergraduate degree in sociology. She has collaborated on professional performance and community-engaged projects and productions with Aanmitaagzi, Spiderwoman Theatre, Jumblies and others