Carnovsky is a design duo comprised of Francesco Rugi (Italy, 1977) and Silvia Quintanilla (Colombia, 1979) active in Milan since 2007. Carnovsky’s best known project is titled RGB. Presented for the first time in 2010 and with still ongoing developments has received considerable recognition from the press and the public, both in Italy and abroad and has been showcased in numerous international exhibitions.

Dana Harrison is a multidisciplinary artist based in Warkworth, Ontario. Through scanography, printmaking, and mark-making, she explores the textures, patterns, and fleeting moments found in the natural world.

Drawn to wild plants, shifting light, and structures beyond human design, Harrison invites a slower gaze—a way to reconnect with the quiet rhythms around us. Her work is an act of stepping out of the noise, a reminder that we are not separate from nature but deeply part of it.

Her recent series, Biophilia and Kaleidoscope, uses a flatbed scanner to capture and magnify the delicate complexity of plant life, celebrating impermanence and resilience.

Through her practice, Harrison offers a moment of stillness: a chance to notice the overlooked, to feel a little smaller, and to reconnect with the quiet wildness that holds us all.

Bring on the rainbows!  My Sparkling Emporium is owned and operated by Amanda, in KW, Ontario. Inspired by another local entrepreneur Kelly Broocks (PrettyByHer), Amanda took a leap and found a manufacturer for her Suncatcher Stickers. With a mix of hand drawn/commercially licensed artwork, Amanda has branched out to carry a fun variety of bright and sparkly products. She regularly participates in local markets, and strives to create products that generate financial support for local organizations like OK2BME, the KW Community Fridge, and Toronto’s Red Door Shelter.

Nicole Beno is a visual artist and designer based in Kitchener-Waterloo on the traditional territories of the Haldimand Tract, land promised to the Six Nations. Her work investigates themes of excess, over-consumption, and desire. Layering photographs and scanned materials that are otherwise seen as everyday objects, or taken from old magazines, she manipulates them digitally through a process of remixing, cutting, distorting and merging. Her work is a reflection of the anxiety around consumption and is often overloaded with saturated colours and artificial hues, in contrast to natural textures and materials. Beno’s work is driven by her own personal contradictions around the pressure to produce, perform, and purchase. She has exhibited at the Capture Photography Festival in 2024, CAFKA Biennale in 2023, Design Toronto in 2021, along with numerous public art installations such as A Streetcar Named Toronto and WayHome Festival. She has done work for clients such as The Drake Hotel, TD Bank, and MASSIVART.

Noa Haim is an architectural designer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Following a presentation of her graduation work at the London Festival of Architecture in 2008, Haim established her cultural entrepreneurship and design studio Collective Paper Aesthetics.     

Collective Paper Aesthetics designs and develops audience engagement materials and STEAM education resources in the form of pop-up architecture and furnishing. The studio offers a unique experience merging mathematical expertise, hands-on engineering, and universal design as placemaking.

Among the studio clients are MUDAM Luxembourg, National Gallery Singapore, Kidspace Children’s Museum, ICA Miami, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and more.

Sarah Soohyun Cheon is a local Korean-Canadian Artist and Fine Arts studio major at the University of Waterloo. She primarily engages with portrait paintings using acrylic paints, as well as, creating sculpture, digital art, prints, and murals. She explores themes of nostalgia, dreams, and fictitious spaces, with the goal of creating art that can act as a window to a separate time and space. She has worked alongside THEMUSEUM in the past, creating the immersive wall art for the exhibition Giraffe | A Heightened Experience.

I am a Jamaican-born, Kitchener/Waterloo-based Canadian sculptor. I earned my Bachelor of Architecture in 2003 and spent over a decade working as a designer and architectural professional in the United States. This experience included time at a Zen Buddhist Japanese firm in California, where I was introduced to principles of mastery and care that continue to underpin my work today. In 2015, I moved to Canada and became a full-time artist and proprietor of Sun Drops Studio.

My artistic journey revolves around reimagining the ancient craft of bead-stitching, transforming it into an innovative and engaging form of public art and architecture. My practice explores the invisible networks and social infrastructure that form the foundation for building communities rooted in care and well-being. My technical process involves constructing forms that rely solely on the tension within thread networks, creating a distinctive visual language. Beadwork, a multicultural craft rooted in both Canadian and global heritage, reflects the complexities of community bonds and natural systems of growth. As a type of weaving, bead-stitching merges individual elements into a new cohesive whole. My approach, therefore, builds on historical traditions to create an experience that balances the familiar and the futuristic.

Stephanie Boutari is an artist and muralist based in Kitchener-Waterloo. She is best known for her colourful and vibrant large scale murals which can be found in public spaces and businesses throughout the region and beyond.