Laura Peturson holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. With an art practice situated in printmaking, painting, and drawing, Peturson’s past work has included installations that explore concepts of wilderness, memory, and refuge. She is represented by Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto.  Peturson lives in Callander, Ontario, and teaches painting and printmaking at Nipissing University.

Susan Cahill graduated from her PhD in Art History at Queen’s University in 2012 and is currently a professor of Art History and Visual Studies in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Nipissing University. Cahill’s research questions the ways in which art and cultural objects can employ recognizable imagery in new ways—to make the familiar unfamiliar—and thus encourage critical thinking about that which has become normalized as common sense. In particular, Cahill is interested in how the elements of surprise and disruption/interruption are powerful tools deployed by artists.