General and Artistic Director: Manon Tourigny
Manon Tourigny was born, lives and works in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She holds a master’s degree in arts studies from UQAM, and is a curator and author. She is interested in video art, photography, performance and artistic practices that take place in public space. She has written numerous articles for specialized magazines (Ciné bulles, CV photo, esse arts + opinions, Vies des arts, Espace et Inter), in addition to writing exhibition texts for various organizations (artist-run centers, exhibitions centers and museums). For more than 20 years, she has been involved in the visual arts community, notably with VIVA! art action, DARE-DARE, the RCAAQ and Centre CLARK as co-general and artistic director. She is a member of the Regroupement de pairs des arts indépendants de recherche et d’expérimentation (REPAIRE). In 2024, she will be publishing a storybook illustrated by Fanny Mesnard, which adopts an ecofeminist perspective and questions the ways in which we occupy the land.
Administrative Assistant: Maude Levasseur
Maude Levasseur is an artist, facilitator, consultant and educator. In addition to her studies in film, literature and international law, she is a graduate of the Cultural Leadership Program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She has set up artistic projects in various communities and co-directed pan-Canadian laboratories around the question of beauty and creation in order to break isolation. She worked for many years as the Director of Art and Social Innovation at the National Theatre School of Canada. As an artist whose practice is rooted in co-creation and in small gestures, Maude co-founded La Société Textile, a community fiber art space. She is also co-researcher of the Art and Health axis within the Chaire de recherche en économie créative et mieux-être (CREAT).
Documentation Technician: Jonathan Lachance
Jonathan Lachance holds a DEC in arts and literature from Collège Lionel-Groulx (2006), an AEC in music recording and sound reinforcement from Recording Arts Canada (2007) and a DEC in library technologies from Collège de Maisonneuve (2018). After 12 years of experience in live event production, he decided to turn to library and information science. He joined Artexte in early 2018. His writings have been published in Documentation et bibliothèques, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, and on Artexte’s blog.
Librarian, Collections: Léa Boisvert-Chénier
Léa Boisvert-Chénier holds a BA from Concordia University with a major in art history and a minor in philosophy. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in information science at McGill University. Boisvert-Chénier is particularly interested in the intersection of knowledge and power, and in initiatives relating to decolonization, indigenization, inclusion, and resistance in the library context.
Collections Assistant, Archives: Marie-Noëlle Pelletier
Marie-Noëlle Pelletier holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Université de Montréal, as well as a certificate in archival studies. They are currently pursuing a Master of Information Sciences (M.S.I.) at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) of the Université de Montréal, where they are particularly interested in the outreach and reutilization of archives. Their main areas of interest are the relationships between art and archive, between archive and emotion, with an emphasis on queer perspectives.
Programming Coordinator: Kaysie Hawke
Kaysie Hawke holds a master’s degree in aesthetics and philosophy of art from Université Paris-Sorbonne IV, as well as a bachelor’s degree in art history from Université du Québec à Montréal. Active in the cultural milieu for over ten years, she has worked with numerous Montréal and international arts organizations and institutions, most recently Les éditions Esse and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She collaborates occasionally on curatorial projects and publishes regularly in the magazine Esse arts + opinions. Her research focuses on encounters between the environment, philosophy, and contemporary art, though she gladly wanders within, outside, and around these interests.
Communications Coordinator: Anabelle Chassé
Anabelle Chassé holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History with a specialization in Museology, and a master’s degree in Museology from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In addition to her academic research on the interdisciplinarity of the fanzine as an institutionalized object, her professional roles at Artexte, and previous employments, focus on museum education, and the development of social networks and digitals programs as cultural mediation tools on contemporary visual arts accessible to all.
Gallery Attendant, Communications Assistant: Marie-Odile Samson
Marie-Odile Samson holds a master’s degree in history and a bachelor’s degree with honours in public history from Concordia University. She has also completed a year in the master’s in museology at UQAM. Her research focuses on genocide and forced displacement during the twentieth century. As a cultural worker, she has worked in many fields including collections, project and team management, research, and communications. She has worked for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Cinémathèque québécoise, the National Film Board of Canada, the Canadian War Museum, and the Montreal Holocaust Museum. In another life, she was a singer and actor.