Julia Prudhomme is a curator and an artist who lives and works on the tum xula7xw of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx otherwise known as Winlaw/Nelson, B.C. She is developing a feminist curatorial practice that focuses upon artistic process, experimentation, and radical care within (and against) institutions. In addition to curatorial projects Julia holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC (2013). Her artistic practice is often collaborative, working in video and installation, zines and mixtapes, and has presented this work across Canada, United States, and Europe. Julia has contributed to public art galleries and artist-run centres in numerous capacities for over ten years and continues this work as a doctoral candidate at McMaster University (PhD-c ABD, 2017-present) and Executive Director at Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, BC (2019-present). 

Riya Garg
art is a bridge between people and place – this link is central for me. moved by the environment, i move through it. i draw and dance, inspired. i channel energy through connection. eternally curious, i operate in layers. i often pick up old threads to add new strands. along a current on a path.
www.riya.run 

Christine Wallace
My textiles practice is based in history and anthropology, with the aim of surfacing self-awareness in this moment. Dedicated to continuous and curious learning, exploring the arts through community. 

Carol Wallace has been participating in art classes and workshops at Oxygen Art Centre since its inception over 20 years ago. Her visual art practice consists of drawing, painting, textile and sculptural installation focused on geological phenomena. Earth’s ongoing processes, unimaginable timescales, and the agency of stone inform her work. Carol holds a degree in Geology from the University of Calgary and worked as a geologist for 20 years, locally and in the Canadian Arctic. Since 2014 she has focused on her art practice in her uphill Nelson studio. This will be Carol’s sixth year on the Oxygen Board.

Gabby Asbell is a writer and aspiring filmmaker currently taking the Creative Writing program at Selkirk College. Having grown up in the Kootenays, she is very grateful to be a part of such a thriving and supportive art community through local theatre, choir, film, music, writing and organizations like Oxygen. She has served on the Oxygen Art Centre board as a youth chair since 2022, where she focused on building connections between young creatives and experienced artists in the area.

Alison Talbot-Kelly
I like sitting in the thick of things natural and not. I am curious about too much and appreciate expression in all media. As an educator I love plumbing for a good question and the myriad ways it may be perceived and considered. I excel at the Irish leave.

Laurel Terlesky is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist. Her works have been experienced internationally on-screen — television, large-scale projection, the internet — and in exhibitions. This is her third year on the Oxygen ARC board.

Terlesky’s work examines the use of technology to communicate and build relationships. She explores what is often left out: tacit recognition and implicit awareness through a physical encounter: visual, touched, and sensed.

Explore more of Laurel Terlesky’s work at http://laurelterlesky.ca and follow her on Instagram at http://instagram/twirlingsky

Erica Konrad is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed-media paintings, ceramics, and installation work. She has a university background in environmental studies and is primarily self-taught as an artist, with supplemental formal training locally, provincially and internationally. She also runs an artist residency to foster creativity and collaboration. www.ericakonrad.com https://www.instagram.com/ericakonradart/

Emilie Leblanc-Kromberg started her practice in the applied arts and has been a professional artist since 2010. Materials, their transformation and ancient techniques where aspects that ignited the spark that brought emilie to work with metals, textiles and clay. Goldsmith by trade, she explored the subject of adornment by the making and selling her jewellery designs in art shows across Canada.

Since studying Fine Art in the Netherlands at the ArtEZ AKI Academy for Arts & Design, her work has expended out of the 3-dimensional form to incorporate painting, photography, video and sound. Through the exploration of these new mediums in tandem to her initial disciplines she seeks to investigate the multi faceted bonds between human and object.

Karmelle Spence-Sing is heavily influenced by the internet and its evolution. 

Their cultural research really took off while uncovering every Sailor Moon website in 1994.
**Dial-up internet noises**

In the gritty, punk, DIY enclaves of Winnipeg, Manitoba, their artistic journey started taking shape. They completed an Honours B.A. in Theatre & Film at the University of Winnipeg in 2016.

Karmelle experiments with sound, video, acting, writing, and producing. In the spring of 2024, they founded Super Normal Productions. Its debut play “Sméagolly Blonde” enjoyed three highly successful shows.

Also in 2024, Karmelle started performing drag under the name AlGoreRhythm.
Drag frees them to inhabit identities that feel otherwise inaccessible. Through a digital lens, Karmelle blends memes, stereotypes, pop music and cultural commentary into bite-sized pieces of candy. 

Karmelle would like to remind you that you too can be an OAC member for only $5/year ;))))