July 2025
Alexandra Bischoff (Long-Term Artist in Residence, 2022–current; Onsite Coordinator, 2023–2025; Residency Manager, 2025-current)
Alexandra Bischoff is a prairie-born artist of settler descent. They hold a Fine-Arts Diploma from MacEwan University (2012), a BFA in Visual Arts Studio from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2015), and an MFA from Concordia University in Intermedia (2021). Bischoff’s artworks manifest as multimedia installations, sculptures, and writing; their art-making processes as a whole are based in durational performance. While in residency at SAR, Bischoff has been researching family archives and Canada’s homesteading histories to investigate what it means to be a housing-insecure settler on stolen Indigenous land.
Ammarah Syed
Ammarah Syed is a calligrapher, a photographer, and performer interested in documenting how various power discourses inform our identities and shape our nervous systems and in the present day. Through a mix of calligraphy, photography, movement, somatic experiencing, and the written word Ammarah strives to decolonize and deconstruct the margins through arts based wellness. Ammarah has spent the past decade working in grassroots, community and the arts from Detroit MI, the U.S. to Toronto, ON CA. Trained in Mindfulness and as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Ammarah has worked across food insecurity with urban gardens, harm reduction, medicine, and arts based facilitation.
Sherry Walchuk lives between Montreal, QC and BC, where she is from. Her drawings and installations have been exhibited at artist run centres across Canada and she has received support from BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. She has participated in many residencies, the most recent being “The System and Other Universes” with Shary Boyle and Howie Tsui at the Banff Centre, and she currently teaches drawing at Concordia University. She holds a BFA and BA from Simon Fraser University and an MFA from Concordia University.