Founded in 1978, Montgomery Sisam Architects is a mid-sized architectural firm based in Toronto, Ontario. It comprises a group of architects, designers and technicians with diverse backgrounds, and a shared social consciousness. Montgomery Sisam’s process is grounded in a sense of responsibility to the public, driven by dialogue and research, and focused on social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Montgomery Sisam has developed a reputation for design leadership that is supported by over 80 provincial, national and international design awards.
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Andrew Jones is a Canadian designer who has worked for more than 25 years designing furniture and architectural interiors. Jones holds an MA in Furniture Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a degree in Architecture from University of Toronto. His designs for the public realm include the iconic pink umbrellas at Toronto’s award-winning Sugar Beach. In 2016, he designed the exhibition True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada, organized by the Gardiner Museum, and in 2019, he designed the Gardiner Museum’s Joan Courtois Gallery, which spans three floors of the Museum’s soaring stairwell.
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Chris Cornelius is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. He is the founding principal of studio:indigenous, a design practice serving Indigenous clients. He served as a cultural consultant and design collaborator with Antoine Predock on the Indian Community School of Milwaukee (ICS). ICS won the AIA Design Excellence award from the Committee on Architecture for Education. Cornelius holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Cornelius was the Spring 2021, Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Virginia.

Cornelius is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Including the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus, a 2018 and 2022 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award, and an Artist residency from the National Museum of the American Indian. He has been exhibited widely including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Studio:indigenous received a 2021 Architect’s Newspaper Best Of Practice Award – Best Small Practice, Midwest. Cornelius lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Pueblo, Tiwa and Piro people.
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Sequoia Miller is the Chief Curator & Deputy Director at the Gardiner Museum. He holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University; an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center; and a BA in Cultural Studies and Art History from Brandeis University. His recent curatorial projects include Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects (2023), Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me (2021), and Ai Weiwei: Unbroken (2019). Prior exhibitions include The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art (2015) at the Yale University Art Gallery, which was accompanied by an award-winning catalogue. He is also a contributing author to Ceramic Art (Princeton University Press, 2023); Simone Leigh (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2023), and Form & Relation (Hood Museum, 2021). Sequoia has taught at the University of Toronto, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale University. Prior to his academic and curatorial work, Sequoia was an award-winning ceramist who exhibited and led workshops broadly across the United States.

Karine Tsoumis is Senior Curator at the Gardiner Museum where she oversees the Museum’s collection of historical ceramics from Europe and Asia. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto with a focus on the art and material culture of early modern Italy. Since joining the Gardiner in 2012, she has curated over twenty exhibitions of various scales, including Renaissance Venice: Ceramics and Luxury at the Crossroads (2021) and Karine Giboulo: Housewarming (2022), while authoring and editing numerous publications. Karine is contributing to the renewal of the ground-floor galleries through the reinterpretation of the Gardiner’s collection of European ceramics from 1400-1700. Her approach emphasizes the role of ceramics as a medium of connectivity between cultures on a global scale together with its place in social life and experience.

Franchesa Hebert-Spence is Anishinaabe from Winnipeg and comes to the Gardiner with extensive curatorial experience at institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, and Winnipeg Art Gallery. She is a doctoral candidate at Carleton University, holds a Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies, and completed her Fine Arts degree in ceramics. Due to her curatorial expertise, Franchesca is a much sought after presenter and speaker at symposia and conferences in Canada and the US.

Juliana Ramírez Herrera is a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Gardiner Museum, working in Indigenous art from the ancestral Americas. She holds a PhD from Harvard University in the history of art and architecture with a secondary field in archaeology.

Founded by Orest Boszko and Michael Verity, B&V is a unique construction company that bridges a gap in the world of design and architecture. Both Boszko and Verity trained as architects, but soon found that their passion for building rivaled their interest in design, thus leading them to create B&V in 2001. Since then, B&V has earned the respect of clients and designers alike, through a comprehensive and collaborative approach that brings creative vision to built reality.
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Headquartered in Toronto, Human Space is the inclusive design practice of BDP, a global architecture, design and urbanism consultancy. Their human-centred approach creates spaces, buildings and communities with accessibility, wellness and inclusion as essential components to design safe, equitable and resilient built environments. Human Space’s consulting work is grounded in 30 years of experience and has successfully delivered more than 200 projects over the past decade, spanning healthcare, residential, workplace, hospitality, recreation, education, transportation and public realm.
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Origin Studios Inc., established in 1995, is an innovative exhibition design and museum services firm based in Ottawa, with studios in Montreal and Toronto. Their award-winning work combines a strength and experience in museum planning, content development, design, and delivery along with a profound understanding of the mandates and social roles of museums and galleries. They recognize the needs of a diverse visitorship and how important it is to ensure information dissemination is meaningful, accessible and engaging for all audiences. Origin Studios crafts interpretive experiences by weaving context and content together to create opportunities and incentives for exploration, and facilitation of connections. They have a long history of creating dynamic environments by collaborating with clients across Canada and the United States.
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