Kristin Boettger

Kristin Boettger MA CCC RCAT is an artist, counsellor and art therapist in private practice.  Over the past 20 years she has worked across a variety of settings including inpatient and outpatient hospital treatment programs, domestic violence, youth addictions, experiential education and expressive arts. As a therapist and facilitator, this range of experience has allowed Kristin to cultivate her own unique style that is both professional and relaxed, creative and collaborative.  As a practicing artist she enjoys playing with a variety of materials, most recently exploring the intersection of movement, gestural mark-making and collage.  She is also part of a therapist working group examining mental health barriers for Black and Racialized youth.  She lives in Inglewood and loves to walk, garden, see live music and spend time with friends and family.

Ewa Sniatycka

Ewa Sniatycka BFA, MEd, is an interdisciplinary and community engaged artist, interested in stories of identity, belonging and the environment. She has a background as a gallery/museum educator and school programmer at the Muttart Public Art Gallery and Glenbow Museum; as a sessional instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and University of Victoria; and as a Teaching Artist for ArtStarts in Schools, Learning Through the Arts and Arts Commons.

As the principal driver of Artmobile Expressive Arts and Inquiry Studio, Ewa engages a variety of folks in creating site-specific residency projects in schools and community settings. The residencies are collaborative and responsive, tailored to fostering art-based inquiry. Projects often begin with drawing and writing and can springboard into sculpture, ceramics, textiles, painting, collage, or printmaking. Ewa is also Artist-in-Residence with schools, collaborating on arts-based explorations of our relationship with the land. She lives in Bridgeland with her good friend Archie.