The Team
Who We Are
BOARD MEMBER | CHAIR
CAMERON FORBES
Cameron Forbes works as an assistant professor in painting and drawing at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. Through her art and teaching, she is interested in facilitating creative discourse between visual artists, faculty, students and community members. Cam has exhibited across the country, with recent shows at the McClure Gallery (Montreal), aceartinc. (Winnipeg), and the University of Saskatchewan’s Kenderdine Gallery (Saskatoon). From 2008-2011, Forbes was the executive director of Winnipeg’s Art City. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (Halifax) and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University (Montreal).Of settler descent, Cam was born in Treaty 4 Territory, Regina, Saskatchewan. She lives with her partner and three children in traditional unceded Mi’kmaw territory, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.
BOARD MEMBER | VICE-CHAIR
ANDREW TESTA
Andrew Testa is an artist, writer and educator working through printmaking, drawing, books, words, sounds, installations and collaborations, currently living and working in Ktaqmkuk, also known as Newfoundland. He has been awarded ArtsNL, SSHRC, a VP Grenfell Research Grant, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant for his research, has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has participated in residencies and conferences across Canada. Testa has recently shared his work in solo exhibition at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s, NL, and at SNAP artist-run-centre in Edmonton, AB. His recent collaboration, Printshop in a Box, has been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, and he has upcoming collaborative residencies exploring community knowledge sharing at Union House Arts, Port Union, NL and CASA, Lethbridge, AB. Testa is the Chair of the Board of Directors at St. Michael’s Printshop and is an Assistant Professor in printmaking at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Testa has additionally taught at Thomson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, and at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. He completed his BFA and MFA at York University in Toronto, ON.
BOARD MEMBER | TREASURER
LESLIE LUNDRIGAN
Tess Brown
Office Manager
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Originally from Corner Brook, Leslie grew up and attended university in Halifax, NS, but has been back enjoying life on the west coast of Newfoundland for the past 16 years. Professionally, she spends her days surrounded by numbers and is happy to be able to support CB Nuit by volunteering time as Treasurer. In her off time, she is usually found adventuring in the fresh air with her little girl, hiking up mountains or making paper in her backyard studio. A passionate lover of live opera performance, Leslie regularly seeks out galleries, museums and artistic experiences during her travels. With inspirations to expand her own creative outlets in the future, she firmly believes in the magnificence and significance of local art.
BOARD MEMBER | DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
KIM GRADY
Lisa Rose
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Kim Grady, born in France, is now living in Newfoundland, Canada. She works mostly with textiles, sculpture and time-based medias to portray themes of mindfulness and healing of one’s mind. Inspired by her personal experiences with mental health and the mental state of society, Grady’s work deep dives into the dark crevices of life and manages to find light and positive energy, whether that is done through a realistic representation or an imaginative one. Always looking for different ways to heal the world in subtle yet poignant ways, Grady is always observant around her. Life events, social events, worldwide events, learning about the brain and human behaviors through speech and body language, she is always fascinated. Grady is currently an emerging artist who has shown some work in both gallery (Tina Dolter Gallery) and festival (CB Nuit) setting.
BOARD MEMBER | DIRECTOR OF SPONSORSHIP & FUNDRAISING
BRITTANY EDDY
Brittany is a fourth-year business student at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. She has a background in management and experience as a sales consultant. She is thrilled to have joined the CB Nuit team as Director of Sponsorship and Funding and contribute to an amazing piece of Corner Brook's art community. As a mom, Brittany would love to see the arts community continue to thrive and flourish in Corner Brook so all young people can have the chance to experience it and learn from it.
BOARD MEMBER | DIRECTOR OF VOLUNTEERS
PATRICIA GORA
Lisa Rose
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Patricia is a visual artist and writer living Corner Brook, NL. Her practice focuses on idea-based installations and creations and themes intertwining politics, advocacy, global perspectives, and death. She works in various mediums such as metal, textile, glass, collage, and digital art. She has exhibited at the Tina Dolter Gallery in several group shows, and her artwork has been published in the Newfoundland Quarterly.
Brittany is a fourth-year business student at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. She has a background in management and experience as a sales consultant. She is thrilled to have joined the CB Nuit team as Director of Sponsorship and Funding and contribute to an amazing piece of Corner Brook's art community. As a mom, Brittany would love to see the arts community continue to thrive and flourish in Corner Brook so all young people can have the chance to experience it and learn from it.
BOARD MEMBER | DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
MARCIA HUYER
Marcia is an artist living and working in Corner Brook, NL/Ktaqmkuk. Marcia has been involved with CB Nuit since her arrival to Corner Brook in 2019. Since that time she has been a volunteer, participating artist and board member.
BOARD MEMBER | DIRECTOR AT LARGE
ERIENNE RENNICK
Erienne Rennick, also known as Ernie, is a multidisciplinary neurodivergent artist. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Waterloo in 2018 and Master of Arts from Memorial University in 2023. She received the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Master’s Scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2021. Employing artistic and psychological exploration, she has gained significant skills in a multiplicity of
materials and subjects which stands to grow her curiosity with each project. Living a life of distractions, artistic projects have been the task that enables her to fully focus through the excitement, wonder, and creativity of it all. Her work focuses on creating safe, accessible, interactive spaces for all to step away into a transient moment, a moment of relaxation separated from the every day, allowing for future
focus.
Marcia is an artist living and working in Corner Brook, NL/Ktaqmkuk. Marcia has been involved with CB Nuit since her arrival to Corner Brook in 2019. Since that time she has been a volunteer, participating artist and board member.
BOARD MEMBER | DIRECTOR AT LARGE
SABRINA RICHARDS
Sabrina Richard is the Co-founder and Director of Research and Planning at Bespoke Collective, an arts and culture consultancy that works across Canada and internationally. Trained as an architect, she is a published author, designer, strategist and cultural planner focused on creating dynamic and thoughtful public spaces enriched by arts and culture. Some of her recent projects include evaluations of the Toronto Biennial of Art, the New Orleans Triennial of Art (Prospect), strategic plans for the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), and the Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG), the Public Art Master Plan for Villiers Island and Keating West (Toronto) and the Public Art Strategy for the Downsview Lands Development (Toronto).
Sabrina has lived in Corner Brook since 2016 with her partner Marc, daughter Sofia, and two fur babies Danté and Romeo.
BOARD MEMBER | SECRETARY
KERENHAPPUCH GANDU
Kerenhappuch Gandu, born in Nigeria, is currently studying BFA (Visual Arts) at the Memorial University of Newfoundland where she was awarded the Colin Macnee Award for Drawing, the Reginald Shepherd and Helen Parsons Shepherd Award and the 2021 Human Rights NL Artwork Award.
Her work focuses on her experience and femininity as a Black woman living in Canada, a Nigerian woman, as well as a Christian Northerner from five tribes. She creates her work through questions she has as a means to document history or topics forgotten or lost. Her practice focuses on painting and photography.
She began volunteering with CB Nuit in her first year of university in 2019 and has been volunteering ever since. After working with the Rotary Arts Centre for a community development course, she found an interest in community arts and development. She is hoping to give back to the community through her new role with CB Nuit.
SUB-COMITTEE | COMMUNITY PROJECT
CHRIS SHORT
It is the exciting multi-disciplinary and inclusive focus of CB Nuit, and the many ways the festival
enriches the lives of community members, that drew Chris to being involved since the festival’s
inception as they are so intertwined with their own vision of art creation as transformative and full of potential. Their current art practice, being largely community focused and collaborative in nature and involving a wide range of art media with a focus on environmental issues, fits perfectly with CB Nuit’s mandate.
Kerenhappuch Gandu, born in Nigeria, is currently studying BFA (Visual Arts) at the Memorial University of Newfoundland where she was awarded the Colin Macnee Award for Drawing, the Reginald Shepherd and Helen Parsons Shepherd Award and the 2021 Human Rights NL Artwork Award.
Her work focuses on her experience and femininity as a Black woman living in Canada, a Nigerian woman, as well as a Christian Northerner from five tribes. She creates her work through questions she has as a means to document history or topics forgotten or lost. Her practice focuses on painting and photography.
She began volunteering with CB Nuit in her first year of university in 2019 and has been volunteering ever since. After working with the Rotary Arts Centre for a community development course, she found an interest in community arts and development. She is hoping to give back to the community through her new role with CB Nuit.
It is the exciting multi-disciplinary and inclusive focus of CB Nuit, and the many ways the festival
enriches the lives of community members, that drew Chris to being involved since the festival’s
inception as they are so intertwined with their own vision of art creation as transformative and full of
potential. Their current art practice, being largely community focused and collaborative in nature and
involving a wide range of art media with a focus on environmental issues, fits perfectly with CB Nuit’s
mandate.
SUB-COMITTEE | COMMUNITY PROJECT
MEGAN HOLDFAST
Megan Holdfast is an artist, horticulturist and musician. She's enthusiastic about all things adventurous, beautiful and that bring us together.
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SUB-COMITTEE | YOUTH ADVISORY
KATIE COLBOURNE
Katie is an Indigenous musician and high-school student in Corner Brook. She loves and performs in particular, classical singing, piano, theatre, and contrabass. Being an absolute art enthusiast, she is delighted to be involved with CBNuit, to help provide a youthful perspective on such an exhilarating event, and to volunteer with an amazing team of people she can look up to and admire.
STAFF-HIRE | CREATIVE DIRECTOR
LOUISE GAUTHIER
Louise Gauthier is an award winning multidisciplinary artist with a background in theatre, vocal and visual arts. As a community organizer she works in collaboration and support of our diverse communities, seeking to foster creative opportunities for artists, artisans and art makers from all disciplines, living on the West Coast of Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland and beyond. She is inspired by the leadership of our energetic Board of Directors and believes passionately in team work, honesty and social responsibility as together we foster the continued growth of a festival grounded in inclusivity and community. She has nurtured CB Nuit’s venture to become one of the co-founding members of the AANFA (Atlantic Alliance of art at night Festivals).
Megan Holdfast is an artist, horticulturist and musician. She's enthusiastic about all things adventurous, beautiful and that bring us together.
STAFF-HIRE | CREATIVE DIRECTOR ASSISTANT
KELSEY STREET
Kelsey Street is a Mi’kmaw artist from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk Territory (Bay of Islands, NL). She has an interdisciplinary arts practice working in a variety of forms such as beadwork, textile/craft and printmaking processes. Street graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and has participated in residencies and exhibitions provincially and internationally (Canada, UK) at venues such as Union House Arts, Tina Dolter Gallery, Craft Council, PULP Gallery, Grenfell Art Gallery, and Gatehouse Arts, UK. She was recently the artist-in-residence and presented a solo exhibition at The Rooms Provincial Art gallery.