Derek Jenkins, Executive Director

executive@theinc.ca

Derek Jenkins (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist. His practice tends toward the handmade and the documentary, with an interest in labour, ecology, and technology. His films have screened widely, and he also makes work for the gallery setting. Derek was previously general manager and lab technician at Niagara Custom Lab, and he currently serves as Chair on the board of directors of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. He is from Arkansas and has lived in central Hamilton for over a decade.

Sanaa Humayun, Artistic Director

programming@theinc.ca

Sanaa Humayun (she/her) is an artist, writer, & curator, living and working in Hamilton, ON. Her practice thinks about non-narrative story telling, secret keeping, and play and joy as acts of resistance. She is the Artistic Director at Hamilton Artists Inc. Along with Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet, Sanaa co-organizes Making Space - a peer mentorship group for early-career BIPOC artists. You can usually find her laughing a little too loudly with her friends in public places.

Sonali Menezes, Programming Coordinator

programmingcoordinator@theinc.ca

Sonali Menezes (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and artist-educator. She has been most recently focused in zines, video and printmaking. Sonali makes art as a way to find meaning under the weight of capitalism and the unending anxiety of the climate crisis. Her zines live in personal and public zine libraries worldwide. https://sonali-menezes.com/

Paige Paton, Programming Assistant

galleryassistant@theinc.ca

Paige Paton (she/her) is an emerging self-taught artist whose practice encompasses film, video, music, collage, and mixed media. Fusing analog lens-based processes and manipulation techniques with digital finessing and obfuscation, her visual practice ranges from concert photography to landscapes, documentary to abstraction, and experimental processes to multi-media. She creates music under the moniker Milk Knife.
https://www.paigepaton.ca/ 

Caitlin Sutherland, Co-Chair

Caitlin Sutherland is a contemporary art curator and writer with an academic  background in criticism, curatorial practice, and museum studies and management from  OCAD University and the University of Toronto. Over the last two decades she has worked in curatorial, project management, and leadership capacities with Grimsby Public Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area (CAFKA); Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity); Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto  Mississauga); University of Waterloo Art Gallery; Hamilton Artists Inc.; University of  Toronto Art Centre; Workers Arts and Heritage Centre; and Art Gallery of Hamilton. Recent curatorial projects include: si com di l’eau | we are like water, Jason Baerg (2024); Stay with me, Stéphane Alexis, Joel Becker, Lindsey Carter, Amy Esplen, Shirin Fahimi, Behnaz Fatemi, Kandis Friesen, Mélika Hashemi and Nasim Asgari, Kablusiak, Abedar Kamgari, Tee Kundu, Isabel M. Martínez, Alisa McRonald, Sara Mozafari, The Observatory (Lucy Bilson, Nicole Beno), Lauren Prousky, Brenda Mabel Reid, Finnegan
Shannon, Esther Slevinsky, Jessica Thompson, Tract Collective, Lan “Florence” Yee, Shellie Zhang, Zest Artist Collective (2023); Mmenwenmad | to save for later, Raven Davis (2022); Mentally I’m Here, Shannon Finnegan (2022); Never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon, (F)NOR, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Hazel Meyer, Kelly Mark and Jo-Anne Balcaen (2017); & Into the Wild, featuring Sonny Assu, Jason Brown, Leisure, Duane Linklater, Alex McLeod, Darren Rigo, Elinor Whidden and Young & Giroux as well as select works from the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (2015). In addition to exhibition texts, she has contributed writing to a variety of publications including Inuit Art Quarterly, Daily Serving, Hamilton Arts and Letters Magazine, and Canadian Art.

Samuel de Lange, Co-Chair

Samuel de Lange (he/him) is an artist based in Hamilton, Ontario. He received his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2019, and has participated in residencies and exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the UK. His work brings together combinations of photographic material, moving image, cast objects and furniture making as site-sensitive responses to space and context. His most recent research has looked to gestures of preservation and how they might reflect conflicting forces of care and control.

Jordyn Stewart, Secretary

Jordyn Stewart (she/her) is an artist, educator and arts administrator. She received her MFA from the University of Waterloo and her BA from the University of Toronto, joint program with Sheridan College in Art & Art History. Her work has been programmed in spaces such as Art Museum, Hamilton Artists Inc., Trinity Square Video, Idea Exchange, and Gallery Stratford. She teaches in the Department of Visual Studies at The University of Toronto Mississauga and is living in Onguiaahra/Niagara. visit: www.jordynstewart.ca

Dianne Twombly, Treasurer

Dianne Twombly (she/her) is a Hamilton based artist currently completing a BFA at York University. A former social worker and post-secondary administrator, she has extensive experience in educational, non-profit and community-based programming. Dianne’s surreal mixed media and digital works explore themes of decay, transformation, and cycles of life, death and rebirth in both natural and constructed environments. She holds degrees (BA, MSW) from the University of Toronto, as well as a certificate in Dynamic Media from the Center for Electronic Art in San Francisco. Visit: diannetwombly.com

Alexandria Holm, Programming Chair

Alexandria Holm (she/her) is a Toronto based art historian and art advisor specializing in contemporary Canadian art. Previously, she has sat on the Special Events Committee at Hamilton Artist Inc. In her role as Programming Chair on the Board, she brings a decade of experience working in the arts and has held various roles in museums, artist-run centres, and commercial art galleries. Alexandria holds a BA in Art History with minors in Philosophy and Russian Studies from McGill University, and an MA in Art History and a diploma in Curatorial Practice from York University where her area of research focused on contemporary Canadian art and galleries, and Inuit art. Visit: alexandriaadvisory.com and follow ig: alexholm_

Suad Badri, Board Member

Suad Badri was born in Sudan, moved to Canada in 2014, as a refugee. She is active in Environmental Governance, with a focus on Sustainable Energy research. Since arriving in Hamilton, she works in community services; currently instructing SACHA’s sewing circle. Suad's heart is in social justice/ community development; and she finds peace in exploring African Folk Art.

Olga Kolotylo, Board Member

Olga Kolotylo (she/her) is a cultural worker and arts educator with experience in museums, universities, and non-profit arts organizations. Born in Ukraine, she works at the intersection of art and education and values collaboration, generosity and community engagement. Olga received her Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and a Master’s Degree in Art History with a Diploma in Curatorial Practice from York University. Currently, she works at the McMaster Museum of Art and volunteers for the Hamilton Literacy Council and the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts. Olga previously worked in the Education Department at Woodland Cultural Centre, as a writer for the Art Canada Institute, and collaborated with Mammalian Diving Reflex on socially-engaged art projects.

Raul Palacios, Board Member

Raul (he/him) was born in Mexico, moved to Canada in 2009 and to Hamilton in 2020. He is an office worker from 9:00 to 5:00 and an artist at all other times. His artist practice focuses mostly on writing and drawing comic books and zines and on making playful paintings using acrylics and india inks. He's also a co-founder and editing team member of Bonk'd, an independent comic books publisher based in Hamilton. He holds degrees from McGill University, Toronto Metropolitan University and Tec de Monterrey (M.Eng., M.S. and B.Eng.).