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Akosua Badu

Design

A motion and branding designer who has worked with D.PE Agency and York University, and great fan and hobbyist of other artistic disciplines like music, fashion, and dance.
An interdisciplinary designer, photographer, musician, and visual artist, currently studying in design. I focus on interactive, web design, motion design, and complex visual design.

Abigail Lam

Design

Hi! I’m Abigail! I’m a multidisciplinary designer who combines creativity, strategy, and curiosity to create thoughtful visual experiences. With a background in graphic design and an interest in branding, identity systems, and user-centered design, I...

Laleh Sarami

Visual Art & Art History

Laleh is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores ancestral ritual, ecological grief, diasporic memory, and cultural resilience.she approaches art as a form of environmental stewardship and living cultural archive. She graduated with her MFA...

Karolina Baker

Visual Art & Art History

Karolina Baker is a second year MFA candidate at York University from Whitby, Ontario. She thoughtfully recognizes that she lives and makes on traditional territory of many Indigenous nations who were present long before her....

Elsa Hashemi

Visual Art & Art History

Elsa Hashemi is a Persian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Toronto. Her practice critically investigates the intersections of language, memory, and the physical body. Her "research-creation" methodology, which explores the complexities of dislocation and...

Adriane Vant Erve

Visual Art & Art History

Adriane Vant Erve (née Kozicki) is a fibre and mixed media artist from the Canadian prairies. Her work focuses on themes of the domestic, the body, emotion, and abstraction. She often makes use of repeating...

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