Aidan Rowe

Aidan Rowe is the Chair of the Public Art Committee, and a member of the Edmonton Arts Council Board of Directors. He is Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design /Interactive New Media at the University of Alberta. He holds degrees from the University of Alberta, University of Westminster and Goldsmiths College (University of London). His research interests lie in both design and education. Recent practice-based work explores human computer interaction, net.art, and information aesthetics. Written and pedagogic work revolves around understanding and improving design education, in both practical and theoretical forms. Recent professional clients include Net-A-Porter.com, Sony, Vogue, Matthew Williamson and Jimmy Choo. He has lectured and taught design in Canada, Japan, Korea, Germany and the UK.

Catherine Crowston

Catherine Crowston is Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Alberta (formerly The Edmonton Art Gallery) and she is currently serving as the Public Art Committee vice-chair. From 1994-1997, Crowston was the Director/Curator of the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University from 1986-1994. Crowston has been both an editor and chair of the board of directors of Fuse Magazine in Toronto. Crowston has curated numerous exhibitions over the course of her career and overseen the production of several national travelling exhibition projects and public art commissions. In 2002 Crowston served as the Canadian Commissioner for the Sydney Biennale of Contemporary Art and was awarded the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Art.

Ernst von Meijenfeldt

Ernst von Meijenfeldt was born and educated in the Netherlands, where he attained a Masters degree in Architecture at the University of Delft. For over 15 years his high-profile private practice in The Hague and Amsterdam was involved in various projects in Holland, Belgium and Germany. Urban design, commercial and residential architecture as well as interior design is part of his expertise. Since 2006 Ernst is a senior member of the Edmonton-based firm ONPA and is involved with projects such as the Quarters, the Alberta Hospital Edmonton, Hole's garden centre, and the University of Alberta. Besides his working background, Ernst has been involved in various levels of education and has been a consultant to the Dutch government. He is the author of Below Ground Level, published in 2002, which explores and provides examples of contemporary landscape integrated and underground architecture. Ernst loves integrating environmentally sustainable ideas and principles with values such as beauty, intimacy and ways of living that are genuinely life affirming.

Andrej Culen

Andrej Culen is a Structural Engineer with Acius Engineering Ltd. His main responsibilities include structural design, project management and business development for commercial, residential, and industrial projects in Edmonton and around Alberta. Mr. Culen has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta. In addition to his business experience, Mr. Culen has also pursued many art courses at the University of Alberta, the Red Deer College and completed his foundation year in drawing and sculpture at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary.

Shafraaz Kaba

Shafraaz Kaba is an architect and partner in the firm Manasc Isaac Architects Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta. Shafraaz is also the founding Member of the Media, Art and Design Exposed (M.A.D.E.) in Edmonton Society which creates programs that bring design, art and architecture to the public. From 2006 to 2009, Shafraaz served on the Edmonton Design Committee, an urban design review panel for the City of Edmonton.

Michael Phair

Michael Phair is the Special Advisor for Community Consultation with the Office of the Vice-President at the University of Alberta. He has served five terms as a municipal councillor for Ward 4 of Edmonton between 1992 and 2007. He is a leader for numerous community advocacy committees and advisory boards, and was a founder of the AIDS Network of Edmonton. He was previously a sessional instructor at Grant MacEwan College, a consultant with Alberta Education, and a Program Manager with Alberta Career Development and Employment.

Catherine Burgess

Catherine Burgess was born in Alberta. She has lived and made sculpture in Edmonton since graduating from the University of Alberta in 1975. During this time she has had over twenty-five solo exhibitions and been included in over sixty group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Her work is represented in twenty-five public collections across Canada. She has mounted two large outdoor commissions in Edmonton: The Big Rock (with Sandra Bromley) in 1995 and Return in 2001. Two other public commissions are Sanctuary in Banff (cast bronze, 1987) and Things As They Are (bronze, 1991) in Guelph.

Allen Ball

Allen Ball was born in London, England. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. His works can be found in a number of national and international collections. Recent projects include “The Wordless Book and other sounds” a series of paintings which investigates the associative power of colour through Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s evangelical device. “The German Autumn in Minor Spaces”, a collaborative photographic and screen-based project with Dr. Kimberly Mair, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, pertaining to the Red Army Faction. And, “Spectacle in a State of Exception”, which stems from research conducted as an official Canadian War Artist during a 2007 post with Canadian Forces Operation Calumet in the Sinai.

Royden Mills

Royden Mills is an Alberta born sculptor who has exhibited work internationally for 20 years. He received a Diploma in Architecture from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Art and Design studio studies began at Red Deer College and culminated with a Masters Degree from the University of Alberta. Mills subsequently traveled to international workshops in Poland, and the USA, and maintained a studio in Hokkaido Japan for two years.  He has taught at the University of Alberta over a period of 20 years.  Mills sculpture has been exhibited and included in collections internationally, including at Grounds for Sculpture south of New York City, Arlington Heights Sculpture Park Chicago, Convergence Festival Providence Rhode Island, Centennial Plaza, Red Deer, Canada, Franconia Sculpture Park USA, Windsor Sculpture Park, State University of New York, Chomin Hall Hokkaido Japan, Collection of Alberta Foundation for the Arts:  MacEwan College, and the University of Lethbridge.

Will Bauer

Will Bauer is a media artist, engineer, inventor, and theorist. He works with electronic media to produce interactive artworks where the whole of the “integrated media” is greater than the sum of the individual media parts. He is the inventor of the Gesture And Media System (GAMS), a 3D interactive media control system, and holds patents in a number of distinct areas of technology. His long-time passion with this modern day version of "gesamtkunstwerk" (total artwork) has resulted in a body of groundbreaking works, which have won some of the world’s top prizes for interactive media art.

Will’s recent artistic direction explores what he terms “data portraiture” - public, interactive, media-art works that use rich-media interactivity to multi-dimensionally represent complex social organizations such as corporations or communities.  In addition to being “living” artworks per se, these pieces also function as non-linear societal tools, which both respond to and help build the very communities/organizations that are their subject matter. 

Brian Van Sickle

Brian Van Sickle is the Principal Urban Designer and Percent for Art Coordinator with the Planning and Policy Services Department at the City of Edmonton. He has designed many of the city’s streetscape improvement projects, and has hands-on experience implementing public art projects. He participated in the development of the City of Edmonton's Public Art policies with the Edmonton Arts Council and Planning and Policy Services department.

Kristy Trinier

Kristy Trinier is the Public Art Director of the Edmonton Arts Council. She has a Master’s degree in Public Art from the Dutch Art Institute (ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Art from the University of Victoria. She has a background in arts administration and has exhibited her artwork internationally, recently at the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and photoMiami art fair.

Linda Wedman

Linda Wedman is a Founding Board member of The Works International Visual Arts Society (1981), and established The Works Art & Design Festival (1986). She is currently the COO of The Works Society and provides executive directorship for Art & Design in Public Places (The Places), a multi-partnership initiative. She has over 30 years experience providing: project management services to private/public sectors; planning/implementation of international cultural art & design events and exhibits; keynote presentations on the arts as a catalyst for community and cultural tourism development.

Ken Cantor

Ken Cantor has been the manager of the Qualico’s Commercial Division in Edmonton since 1998. During that time the group has been responsible for the development, acquisition and management of commercial properties valued in excess of $500,000,000. Those properties include neighborhood shopping centres, retail power centres, major downtown mixed use development projects and high quality downtown and suburban office space. Publicly accessible art is a large part of the building’s programming for both Qualico and for their tenants.

Ken has enjoyed a career in real estate that spans more than three decades and is a committed community and Edmonton advocate and supporter.

Kira Hunt

Kira Hunt works at the U of A's City-Region Studies Centre, organizing events and promoting research. Interested in people and places, she has a BA in Psychology and Sociology and will be completing a diploma in Landscape Architectural Technology at NAIT in 2012.  She is involved in the Reclaiming Lost Spaces workgroup, working on the Design and Budget committees. This group is looking at turning a downtown alleyway into an attractive year round destination.