Buseje Bailey
I create art to communicate ideas, thoughts, and/or feelings. I use a variety of techniques and materials to communicate these ideas.

Buseje Bailey works across a variety of media, including painting, photography, video, mixed media and sculptural installation. She earned her BFA at York University and her MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax (1992). She also has a Diploma in Communications: Publishing (Centennial College). In 1992 she participated in the artists' residency on Race and the Body Politic at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where she produced the videotape Blood. Bailey's work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Most of her professional art career has focused on the hybridity of her art practice in relation to her African-Jamaican-Canadian experience and identity. In addition to her artwork, she delivers courses on African Art in the diaspora and works on community-based women's projects.

Michael Chambers
My prime objective is to show the beauty of the human form and spirit, to document various aspects of the human journey, and at the same time to allow the sculptural forms juxtaposed with the natural elements to show how between these two beautiful things there are tensions and storms.

Michael Chambers has been described as by art critic Donna Lypchuk as the quintessential Canadian artist for his challenging photographic work that has captivated a generation. Jamaican born, Toronto based Chambers studied at York University where he received a BFA. Exhibiting internationally to critical acclaim, he has shown in the US, Japan, South Africa, the UK, Canada and the Caribbean. In 1998, he presented a 10-year retrospective called And Spectators Are No More: A Retrospective at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario.

Lucie Chan
This piece holds itself together for public presentation even though for myself it is very personal. Connecting new and recycled works, the installed drawings are a reflection of my observations, which evolve from the routines of daily life and actions. It suggests that the idea of completeness of the body is not necessary in this case or at this moment.

Lucie Chan was born in Georgetown, Guyana. She received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art and her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2001). Since arriving in Halifax, she has participated in several group exhibitions at Anna Leonowens Gallery (NSCAD) where she also had a solo exhibition titled mek back, shakey baby, mek back in 2001. In the summer of 2000 she was selected to participate in Westward Ho: A Guided Tour at the Khyber Centre for the Arts. (part of HX: Halifax Exhibition of International Contemporary Art).

Chrystal Clements
Having explored the role of Black Mother as a means to promote cultural understanding, my work has recently shifted focus towards a discussion of perceptions of race.

Chrystal Clements holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is an Associate of the College in Graphic Design. She also studied at the Canberra Institute of the Arts in Australia. She has exhibited her work in several group exhibitions, notably Black Women in the Visual Arts at YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto (1997), In This Place at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax (1998, regionally touring), Generations and Feminisms, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (1999), Sister Visions III: Through Our Eyes, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2000), Home: The Art of Preston, Dalhousie Art Gallery (2000). In 1999 she held a solo exhibition Home is where the heart is at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. Most recently, Clements has co-curated exhibitions at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, including Do Try This Home and Portraits: Unsettled Subjects (both 2001).

Rebecca Fisk
I began what I consider to be my true art practice during my MFA studies at the University of Saskatchewan. My MFA thesis, entitled There is no one story of black girlhood spoke about my experiences as a young black girl growing up in an all white community in the South Shore of Nova Scotia.

Rebecca Fisk was born in Calgary, Alberta, and grew up in a small village on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Her experiences growing up there as one of very few black children has become the basis for her art work, which centers around the notions of memory, identity and representation in a white dominant world. Fisk holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan (1997).

Gomo George
Black Is A Colour Not A Shade! I give praises. In all its splendid hue Black is a colour not a shade. I have worked from that premise ever since the thread of creative production found my veins. Black does not function like shade. Black is a commanding presence, not the marginal space of a reflected existence, nor a fleeting opposite of light. Black is a positive -a description of race, a reference to a multitude of cultures, philosophies, medicines, art, wisdom, peoples. Black is a kin to African -describes the bodies of Africans of Canadian descent. Black is a colour. Black is a frame, a script, a membrane, a period, a body. Black is a road to Africa-culture. Black.

Gomo George was born in London, England, grew up in Roseau, Dominica, and emigrated to Canada in the mid 1970s. He spent many years in Winnipeg before moving to Toronto, where he now resides. He obtained a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions in galleries across Canada for two decades.