Sessional Faculty
Emily Geen (she/her)
Emily Geen is a sessional instructor in both the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, and the Department of Visual Arts at UVic. Her main teaching area is photography, however Emily’s art practice also involves sculpture, video, and installation. Emily’s artistic practice is driven by a nostalgia, and a long-standing fascination with her family’s archive of 4×6” snapshots from the 1990’s-early 2000’s.
Website: www.emilygeen.com
Rachel Hellner
Through drawing and painting, Hellner’s studio practice negotiates the relationship between aesthetics and subject matter that is often overlooked, discarded, or seen as undesirable. She re-examines these as objects of beauty and presents them within different circumstances and contexts.
Karen Hibbard
Karen Hibbard is a contemporary visual artist with 15 years of teaching experience. Originally from the province of Ontario, she has lived in both Québec and Manitoba, before arriving in Victoria. “Art is an amazing conduit for social engagement, community building and individual happiness!” Her work is included in Bio-Diversity Museum, UBC, Loto- Québec, and the MOMA Artist Book Collection.
Website: https://karenhibbard.ca
Leslie Lambert Redhead
Leslie Lambert Redhead is an artist, teacher, and author whose paintings have earned international awards and recognition. Leslie is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS), and the Canadian Society for Painters in WaterColour (CSPWC). Leslie holds a Master of Education in Art Education and teaches with the Art Education Department at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Watercolor 365 and the illustrator of the children’s book Island in the Salish Sea by Sheryl McFarlane.
Website: leslielambertart.com
Connie Morey
Through site-specific performance, and participatory sculptures documented through photography and video, Morey’s studio practice questions the relationships between ecology, displacement and belonging. Creating safe spaces of belonging for students and individuals to give voice, question and create is central to her practice in the classroom and community.
Website: www.conniemorey.com
Regan Rasmussen
Regan Rasmussen is an interdisciplinary artist / educator whose studio practice and pedagogy are informed by the phenomenology of lived experience and human interactions. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in studio art and education from University of Saskatchewan, University of Manitoba, and University of Victoria. Regan is the recipient of national and international teaching awards, and she is a sessional lecturer at University of Victoria. Her art has been shown in public and private galleries in Canada and the UK.
Website: https://www.reganrasmussen.com
Kathleen Schmalz (Doctor of Visual and Performing Arts, Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Kathleen works in acrylic and oil, mixed media works and abstract photography. She craves being outside – walking in the woods, kayaking or painting – the natural world is a subject matter that calls to her. As an instructor, she is very interested in helping students, even the absolute beginners, find the subjects and individual forms of expression that suit their unique personalities and express their own thoughts and feelings. She often teaches AE 307A Teacher Ed class, and has also taught drawing, introduction to Art Ed and applied design.
Website: https://www.kathleenschmalzartist.com
Caren Willms (she/her)
Caren is an artist educator. She works with faculty and students as an Academic Assistant and sessional instructor in Art Education. Her art practice focuses primarily on functional ceramics incorporating her love for drawing and painting within spontaneous gesture of both form and surface. Caren is inspired by the intimacy of the held ceramic form and the relationship that develops between that form, its use and the connection one feels in the utility of that artwork.
Website: https://carenwillms.weebly.com/teaching-practice.html
