Abe Villegas

Abe Villegas is a Costa Rican-Canadian communications focused creative based in Toronto. Specializing in digital strategy and creative storytelling. With an academic foundation in advertising and media communications, and his continued education, Abe approaches creative projects through a lens of impact and authenticity. Rather than being defined by a single medium, Abe views creative skills like photography and graphic design as essential tools within a broader communications toolkit. This perspective allows him to bridge the gap between high-level strategy and high-energy content execution. He strives to blend digital strategy with storytelling and creativity to build purposeful brand identities and drive meaningful impact.

Alyssa Vidal

Alyssa Vidal is a Filipina-Canadian creative that specializes in photography and videography. Born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Canada, growing up between cultures shaped her perspective.

Her work draws on a lifelong love for the arts. She taught herself guitar, plays piano by ear, creates mixed media art, and trains in hip hop dance. Photography and videography became the space where these influences meet. Movement, rhythm, and emotion guide how she frames images and tells stories.

Alyssa has collaborated with Change Made, Luminato Festival, Media Pass, and Tarragon Theatre. Her work has been published in PhotoED Magazine and Front Row, and screened at the Scarborough Worldwide Film Festival.

At the heart of her practice is a desire to help people feel seen. She builds connection through visual storytelling and invites audiences to notice the ordinary moments that carry extraordinary meaning.

Anthony Bailey

Anthony “Tone” Bailey is a visual artist and photographer from Brampton, Ontario. A multi-disciplined creative, his photography favours multi-exposure styled portraits while the illustrative work represent slice of life stories with sustainable futurism themes. His most recent project, (There Is) No Utopia, featured artists across the GTA illustrated as community members thriving in a futurist society where nature and technology are intertwined intentionally. Both mediums feature bright, gradual color schemes, inspired by airbrushed album cover art from the 1970s.

Utilizing his digital editing, Tone worked as picture editor on documentary and narrative films in 2025. Appearing onscreen as well, he competed with family on LEGOMasters Season 5 and as an actor in the ReelAsian award-winning short, Same Time Next Year? Currently, Tone is in pre-production for developing his own work and photographing live music events.

Charlie Yip

Charlie Yip is a Creator and Producer from Hong Kong, based in Canada. She explores multi-species communities, urban histories, and Asian culture and philosophy through curatorial projects, mixed media, photography, and moving image. She uses media to keep the stories of multi-species communities alive.

Dani Sadun

Dani Sadun is an Ecuadorian artist based in Toronto, working in animation and illustration with a deep passion for capturing emotional moments through movement. 

She currently works as Creative Director at Mirage Media and is part of the graphic team at the Revue Cinema, where she designs film posters for the city’s oldest-running theatre. Her practice blends narrative-driven visuals with a multidisciplinary approach, spanning animation, illustration, and design.

Her animated short Frida in the Sky (2023), created as her thesis at Toronto Metropolitan University’s film program, was selected as a semi-finalist for the Student Academy Awards and screened at over 20 film festivals across Canada and internationally.

Currently, she is developing a new animated short set in a dystopian, deserted Toronto, following Gigi and her dog companion Beto as they search for a way to reclaim humanity from the machine.

Erica Dionora

Erica Dionora is a writer and illustrator based in Toronto with a background in Publishing from Centennial College. She has experience working in editorial and design for books and magazine publishing. Passionate about storytelling, Erica enjoys experimenting with various creative mediums to convey narratives that explore the complexities of the human experience. Her writings have been included in several publications such as Ricepaper Magazine, Tiny Seed Journal, and the Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. As a visual artist, she often pulls inspiration from nature as well as mundane objects encountered in day-to-day life. Currently, Erica continues to expand her artistic practice as she works on several collaborative projects that merge her love for visual arts and poetry.

Francisca Rojas

I am Francisca Rojas, a queer, neurodivergent, Chilean-Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Toronto, Ontario. Inspired by the topics I learned about in my undergraduate degree in History and Latin American Studies, my documentary work focuses on the depiction of collective and historical traumas in my community. From a desire to see myself and my communities represented, I take an autoethnographic and testimonial approach to unearth deep-rooted emotions and discussions. In my work, I strive to portray community-based, decentralized healing that collectivizes and politicizes mental health struggles.

My film “Semillas” (2023) has been shown at local film festivals such as the Latin American Film Festival, AbyaYala Latin American Film Festival, and the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival.

Guilherme Morilha Ribeiro

Gui Morilha is a Brazilian cinematographer and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada, working across fiction films, music videos, commercials, and documentaries. Since graduating in Film and TV in 2018, his work has centered on bringing underrepresented stories to light, with projects featured on CBC and screened at international festivals.

Blending a naturalistic aesthetic with bold, contemporary storytelling, Gui’s cinematography is rooted in presence and emotional authenticity. Influenced by both Latin American sensibilities and the Canadian film landscape, he creates visually compelling work that aims to foster empathy, deepen understanding, and leave a lasting impression.

Jem Montague

Jem Montague, known as JemTheCarpenter, is a multidisciplinary artist and licensed carpenter based in Toronto’s Little Jamaica. Her practice blends scenic carpentry, visual effects, set design, and self-performance to create concept-driven photography and film that explore identity, experimentation, and the surreal. Through experimental editing, practical builds, and special effects makeup, she transforms ideas into immersive visual worlds that bridge technical craftsmanship and creative storytelling.

Rooted in hands-on skill building, Jem has developed her craft through a combination of self-directed learning and professional experience across diverse production environments, allowing her to move fluidly between technical execution and artistic direction. Beyond her personal practice, she manages Studio M Community Arts Hub in Little Jamaica, where she fosters collaboration across disciplines, supports emerging artists, and leads initiatives focused on uplifting and revitalizing the local community.

Whether behind the camera or on the tools, Jem approaches every project as an opportunity to build connection, expand imagination, and bring unconventional visions to life. She is deeply committed to accessible arts education, mentorship, and creating inclusive spaces where experimentation is encouraged and diverse voices are celebrated.

Juanita Arango

Juanita Arango is a Latinx-Colombian queer multidisciplinary artist based in Tkarón:to, working across design, illustration, and visual arts. Their practice spans installation, textile work, and printmaking, grounded in research on identity, diaspora, and resistance. Through both physical and digital media, they explore how personal and collective histories shape visual culture and community narratives.

Alongside their artistic practice, Juanita is the Co-Founder of Cre8wave, a creative studio producing community-based media work for Latinx, feminist, and 2SLGBTQ+ organizations and businesses. As a designer, they have collaborated with clients across Tkarón:to and Abya Yala (Latin America), developing branding, visual identities, and communication strategies that translate ideas into impactful and culturally resonant visuals.

Their work has been recognized with the Daniels Faculty Undergraduate Studio Art Award for their thesis work Mi Hamaca es Tu Hamaca (2025) and featured in the JAYU Festival of the Arts with El Sur es Nuestro Norte (2023). Juanita holds a BA in Visual Studies and Psychology from the University of Toronto, which informs their research-driven approach to art and design. View their work at juanitaarango.com or @juanita_verse on Instagram.

Lucy Ngo

Lucy Ngo is a Tkaronto-based freelance graphic designer and policy consultant for Arts & Culture non-profits. Graduating from the Health Policy program at the University of Toronto, she is always trying to integrate accessibility and equitable design practices to her work. Born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, she is globally aware of cultural and political influences in design and is aspiring to translate that into her work. Her interests in policy and media are often intertwined with her designs.

She previously worked with organizations such as the City of Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto International Film Festival, Inside Out Film Festival, and Rchive Fashion Club.

Currently wearing multiple hats (too many), she is looking to narrow down her disciplines and specialize her skills in graphic design. Her designs could be described as playful, maximalist, and editorial. Outside of work, she enjoys long bike rides, cooking new recipes, and starting crafting projects with no end in sight.

María de los Ángeles

María de los Ángeles is a Mexican artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Her work explores themes of identity, culture, and resilience through familiar imagery, bold colours, and intrinsic detail. Working across both digital and traditional media, she often merges the two to create grounded compositions that reflect personal and collective experiences.

She is deeply invested in creative community-building and values collaboration as an essential part of her practice. Her approach is research-driven, drawing on symbolism and visual references to develop thoughtful and intentional imagery. She is particularly interested in balancing visual richness with clarity, producing work that is both engaging and grounded in meaning.

María de los Ángeles’ work has been exhibited across North America, including GradEx 110th (2025), I speak as you sway the foliage (2024), Project Crea Showcase at HQ Gallery (2024), and La Obra es de Quien la Planta (A Plant’s Oeuvre) (2024). She was recently a mentee at Mur/All Collective’s program and facilitated a workshop at Xpace Cultural Centre.

María José Fisher

María José Fisher (she/her) is a Toronto-based designer and illustrator with a keen eye for branding, design guidelines, marketing and creative campaigns. Born and raised in northern Mexico, her curiosity and creativity from a young age shaped the way she interacts with the world. The great support of her family during her early years allowed her to explore various disciplines. From film, animation to multimedia art; María José’s journey through the arts ignited a passion for graphic design, where she is able to merge all of her artistic expressions. Her work contains a contemporary approach to graphic arts as a discipline and as a space to express emotions through art and how it interacts with humanity. With five years of experience in marketing as a lead designer, María José has followed and applied unique design projects in different countries across the Western Hemisphere and Europe. Her work has reached clients in cities like Mexico City, Monterrey, Tijuana, San Diego, Amsterdam, Belgium, Hamburg and Madrid. María José continues to expand her love for design by merging the physical and digital world through an array of different perspectives, techniques, and applications. All while staying true to being human.

Mio Miyake Muyoboke

Mio Muyoboke is born and raised Toronto multimedia artist who focuses on making queer autobiographical art about their life in fantasy settings. They mix reality with fiction as a way to work through topics such as capitalism, depression, and self identity to reach out to the viewer for connection. They believe it is a responsibility to create what they want to see in the world. Character-driven, narrative, symbolic art, created through illustration, comics, 2d&3d, and storyboards. Previously, Mio has worked with Workman Arts, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Youthline, The 519 and The Remix Project. Mio uses different mediums to experiment with storytelling pushing their own capabilities in style in telling a story about themselves and the people around them.

Muzi Li

Muzi Li is a music journalist and communications professional working at the intersection of artist development, storytelling, and cultural strategy. Her practice centers on supporting artists as they define their voice, deepen their creative identity, and build sustainable paths forward, while contributing to collaborative, community-engaged art initiatives

She is the founder of HIPHOPE, a media platform dedicated to hip-hop and contemporary creative culture, and the co-founder of Xibei Memento, a music marketing and consulting agency that supports artists in building from their artistic identity. Through her work with artists and creative teams, Muzi works across different cultural and creative contexts, connecting long-term vision with practical execution while making space for artistic integrity, cultural dialogue, and meaningful growth.

Nejmia Amedie

Nejmia Amedie is an Ethiopian-Canadian illustrator, digital artist, and architecture graduate from the University of Toronto, where her interest in spatial thinking and the built environment runs alongside a parallel creative practice.

Her work is driven by self-expression, exploration, and the imagination of alternate possibilities. Through digital illustration and mixed media, she dwells in the complexities of womanhood, growing up in the digital age, and the internal effects of the political, treating art as a space to argue, interrogate, and reimagine the world. She identifies primarily as an experimenter, and her wide range of interests spanning women’s studies, African studies, diaspora, architecture, urbanism and digital culture means that her artistic practice is always expanding in multiple directions.

Rachel Wong

Rachel Wong is a proud BIPOC and queer multidisciplinary graphic designer, as well as a passionate design educator, with experience across both corporate and non-profit sectors. Rachel’s expertise is primarily in brand identity, storytelling, and marketing campaigns, with experience spanning a wide range of design disciplines from digital to print and beyond.

She earned her Bachelor of Design (BDes with Specialized Honours) from the York University/Sheridan College Joint Program in Design in 2021. As a second-generation immigrant of Chinese heritage, Rachel’s design philosophy is deeply shaped by her upbringing, balancing two cultures within an individual experience growing up in the diverse suburbs of Scarborough, Ontario. Her work reflects the richness and complexity of this intersected identity, celebrating diversity while also recognizing the challenges that come with navigating between different cultural worlds. Above all, Rachel is driven by a desire for connection, using design to foster empathy and understanding, and to create meaningful, human-centered experiences. Rachel’s overarching mission is to tell impactful culturally-driven stories while using design as her vessel.

Connect with Rachel at her website (rachelwong.design) or on her LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelwongdesign/).

Samarika Dhiman

Samarika Dhiman is a queer South Asian filmmaker specializing in directing and cinematography. Her character-driven storytelling explores themes of identity and belonging through deeply personal and authentic narratives. She has directed a PSA for the Inside Out Film Festival and worked as director of photography on Family Values and There’s No Place Like Home. Samarika has also documented public art installations with STEPS Public Art and became the first participant in a videographer internship at CBC, where she further developed her documentary filmmaking and cinematography skills. A finalist at the Regent Park Film Festival, she pitched her documentary project What’s in my Lunchbox. Passionate about filmmaking from a young age, Samarika is committed to bringing underrepresented stories to the screen through thoughtful, detail-oriented work that captures small, honest moments reflecting larger shared experiences.

Sammi Ho

Sammi Ho is a Toronto-based community-centered storyteller, narrative strategist, and emerging director/producer working at the intersection of documentary, media, and cultural programming. Her practice explores story as a form of becoming—creating media-driven cultural time capsules that document identity, care, leadership, and community voice.

Grounded in her lived experience as a queer Chinese woman from Hong Kong, Sammi approaches her work through an equity-driven, intersectional lens. She centers BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities through interview-based storytelling and narrative-led creative direction, producing work that highlights lived experience, creative leadership, and collective memory.

Her recent work includes directing a multi-part documentary video series developed through trauma-informed stakeholder interviews, where she led story development and narrative structure to translate multi-perspective voices into cohesive, accessible narratives.

Drawing on her background in strategy, psychology, and community engagement, Sammi brings a distinct approach to media-making—treating story as both a creative and relational practice, and as a tool for preserving voice, exploring identity, and amplifying perspectives often underrepresented in mainstream media.

Shebonti Khandaker

Shebonti Khandaker is a Bangladeshi writer, photographer and and filmmaker based in Toronto. Her art is informed by her upbringing in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and explores issues of spectatorship, gender, and embodiment. It is equally shaped by her academic research in Cognitive Science and Semiotics, at the intersection of technology, identity, and media theory. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she is passionate about challenging conventional subject-viewer relationships and creating intimate, affective experiences.

Tiffany Hu

Tiffany Hu is 3/4 illustrator and 1/4 designer. A lover of all things narrative, her work focuses on illustrating heartfelt and whimsical stories. Her main goal as an artist is to create work that engages viewers—she loves quirky formats, popup/interactive elements, and experimenting with media. She is based in Tkaronto.

Tziara Reyes-Herrera

Tziara Reyes-Herrera is a queer Latinx writer, director, and videographer based in Toronto. Their practice is shaped by personal relationships, lived experience, and their immediate environment, resulting in stories that feel intimate, grounded, and emotionally honest. Tziara is drawn to character-driven storytelling, often exploring identity, connection, and the quieter moments that reveal something deeper. Their work is rooted in a people-focused approach, bringing a strong visual style and a hands-on process to image-making, combining a personal perspective with an openness to experimentation in form and storytelling.

Yujie Wang

Yujie Wang is a photographer, multimedia artist, and art director based in Toronto. Working with
photography as her primary medium, she specializes in editorial photography, capturing both
portraiture and still life.

Rooted in East Asian aesthetics and deeply inspired by nature, her images often capture moments of
stillness and subtle emotion. Embracing soft light, quiet compositions, and atmospheric storytelling,
Yujie approaches photography as a form of visual poetry—where absence speaks as much as
presence, and the unsaid carries weight.

Her recent practice extends into installation and sculpture, exploring themes of liminality, memory,
and emotional distance. Moving between mediums, she continues to expand her visual language through interactive and spatial forms. Explore more of Yujie’s work on Instagram: @yu.jie.wang and say hi 🙂