The following were the artists in residence in 2020:

Paulette Phillips – educator and artist, Toronto

Paulette Phillips is an artist known for her emotionally affective work. Attracted to domestic structures, she uses lens-based strategies informed through philosophy, feminism and forensics to sift through these haunted sites. Her new film, The Quoddy Fold, had recent exhibitions at The Bonavista Biennale in Newfoundland, DOKFest in Kassel, Germany, and at the MSVU Gallery in Halifax in 2020. Phillips has exhibited her work at venues that include the Tate Modern in London, England, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France and the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal. She was a 2019 finalist for the Ontario Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, and her work is in a number of public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Oakville Galleries, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her work is represented through Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art in London, England. Phillips teaches time-based and contemporary art practices at OCAD University in Toronto. www.paulette-phillips.ca

Julie Mannell – prose and poetry author, literary critic, cultural commentator and essayist, Toronto

Julie Mannell is an author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and criticism. She was the recipient of the Constance Rook and HarperCollins Scholarships, the Mona Adilman Poetry Prize and the Lionel Shapiro Award for Excellence in Creative Writing, and was named on the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist. In/Words Magazine named her one of the Top 30 Poets Under 30. Mannell's work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and journals. In 2019, she was the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Nebraska. Mannell is a professor of creative writing at George Brown College and an acquisitions editor at Dundurn Press in Toronto. www.juliemannell.com

Kate Barss – writer, Toronto

Kate Barss is a queer writer living in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Catapult, The Hairpin, The Awl, Taddle Creek and others. She has been shortlisted for prizes in Room Magazine, Prism International, Event Magazine and others. One of her short stories appeared on Wigleaf's List of Top 50 Short Fictions of 2018. https://catapult.co/katebarss