Who We Are

The 2025 Connect Collective is...

Teresa Selbee-Baker  is a Canadian early-career visual artist based on Savary Island, BC. As a figurative painter, she uses photography and oil paint to explore questions she has yet to fully express, creating visual stories around identity, connection, and perspectives of femininity. Through bold colours, portraits, and florals, her expressive work invites viewers to embark on a journey of discovery, sparking curiosity about the subject's story and fostering deeper connections with the artwork. Driven by an authentic sense of curiosity, her new work examines how generational influences shape women’s identities, particularly the tension between societal expectations and personal authenticity.

Ember Muninn is a multidisplinary artist, instructor and event creator of settler descent living in the lands of the Stó꞉lō Nation. They currently maintain their practice in their home studio, carving out space for exploration amongst daily life. Ember’s work plays with dimension-shifting mystical thought, the multiverse, and divine connection. They embrace entropy through paint, allowing the materials to work alongside them to create something new that didn’t exist before.

Amanda MacLeod is a mixed media artist based in Delta, BC. Amanda’s self-taught artistic practice is driven by curiosity and wonder and is rooted in the value of well-being, a core principle from her education in Therapeutic Recreation. Inspired by the natural world, Amanda combines materials including paint, collage, and encaustic medium. Her process begins with movement and meditation in order to create space for openness, presence and play as she explores connections between the materials. Continually responding to external inspiration and internal intuition, Amanda explores the mysterious and magical parts of life through artistic expression. 

Kara Brauen is a Vancouver-based embroidery artist whose work explores themes of connection and the magic inherent in our universe. With a background in illustration and design, she began her embroidery practice in 2021, and her work has since been a vivid meditation on the threads that bind us together. Kara uses cotton thread, canvas, and playful colour palettes to study the ways we influence and are influenced by the world around us.

From left to right: Amanda MacLeod, Polly Robinson, Erin Green, Kara Brauen, Ember Muninn, Teresa Selbee-Baker. At Connect: A Group Exhibition, Alternative Creations Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2023.