November 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.

Rox Boyle

Rox is a multidisciplinary artist of Italian-Anglo descent, born and raised on the territory of the lək’wəŋən peoples (Victoria, BC). In 2023, they completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, specializing in Photography at Concordia University. Rox has participated in curatorial practices, exhibited work in galleries across Quebec and has been published locally and internationally.

Rox’s process is tactile and collaborative, often intertwining various artistic practices and photographic mediums with archival or found objects. They are interested in creating community engagement through grassroots projects and are passionate about the possibilities of combining activism and storytelling through art. Today, they are working towards publishing Ada’itx: Stories of A Blockade Community, a collection of photography, handwritten letters, poems, songs, and artworks from Fairy Creek land defenders. In the future, Rox aims to co-create spaces that are accessible and represent diverse perspectives.

Ella MacQueen-Denz

Ella lives and works on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. She uses primarily watercolour and graphite on paper, and has a multi-disciplinary practice that also includes textiles, graffiti, and murals. Ella is an art therapist in-training at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, and along with her practicum work, has facilitated numerous group art-making and therapy workshops with seniors at the adult day centre where she’s employed as a recreation worker, the Our Place Society shelter (Victoria B.C), Enterprising Women Making Art (Vancouver, B.C), and paper marionette workshops with adults and kids – with a forthcoming workshop at Arts Wells Festival in June, 2025.

Katja Ewart

Katja Ewart is a multidisciplinary artist currently living on the traditional territories of the Sinixt, Secwépemc, Syilx (Okanagan), and Ktunaxa, known today as Revelstoke, British-Columbia. Katja Ewart graduated from the University of British-Columbia in 2024 with an undergraduate degree in Visual Arts, where she specialized in printmaking, analog photography and filmmaking. Katja’s work oftentimes explore the influence of landscape and memory on the human experience, and visually, the landscapes she is surrounded seep through her work. Katja currently works for Arts Revelstoke, a non-for-profit in Revelstoke which provides public art installation and art festivals to the community.

Ingrid Percy

Ingrid (she/her) was born in Mohkinsists (Calgary), Alberta, to Irish parents. She is a first-generation Canadian with dual Irish/Canadian citizenship. Ingrid grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia (Musqueam,Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations territory), where she earned a BFA (Studio) and Diploma in Fine Art from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She relocated to Victoria, British Columbia (lək̓wəŋən territory) and earned an MFA (Painting) from the University of Victoria.

For over three decades, Ingrid has been a practicing visual artist, educator and cultural leader in Canada, exhibiting her work locally, nationally, and internationally, and working in postsecondary educational institutions.

Ingrid also writes, curates, and plays music.

A strong believer in community service and advocacy, Ingrid has served on the boards of numerous non-profit arts organizations including Open Space, Eastern Edge, Visual Artists Newfoundland and Labrador, and Canadian Artists’ Representation/Les front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC)National, as Vice-President, President, and Past-President until 2021.