Board & Staff

Catelyn is a Dance and Theatre Artist & Arts Educator with ancestral roots in Prince Edward County, where she now lives. Catelyn holds a Bachelor of Education in Dance and Drama from Victoria State College (Melbourne) and a Masters in Fine Arts - Theatre from York University. In addition to working as a Performing Artist for many years, Catelyn taught with the Toronto District School Board for 25 years, heading up the Arts Department at R.H. King Academy in Scarborough. During her tenure, Catelyn forged partnerships with government, businesses, arts organizations, and the community to bring a host of new arts programs to the school. Catelyn has also worked as an arts education consultant for theatre companies to help them develop outreach programming for students throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Catelyn joined the County Arts board in 2021, and acted as Secretary for four years.

Paul is the newest member of the County Arts Board having recently moved from Toronto to Cherry Valley, bringing decades of experience as a Chartered Professional Accountant.

For more than twenty-five years Julia has helped define and advance dozens of cause-driven organizations. A generalist at heart she has held executive roles in communications, fundraising and administration within charitable organizations as well as working from the funder perspective designing and steering community investment strategy. Her experience in the field spans issues and sectors, from immigration to music education, criminal justice to parks, guiding corporate, government and nonprofit organizations, including the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Scotiabank, D+H, Imagine Canada, Maytree, the Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto and Arts Toronto. This eclectic mix has led to Julia’s current role as Chief Program Officer at Toronto Foundation where she leads teams working across granting, research, communications, donor stewardship and new business development.

Erin is a creative and experienced fundraiser who believes in the power of not-for-profits to connect, inspire and empower. Her passion for new experiences and growth have taken her to Australia, the UK and back home to Canada where she’s developed deep skills in individual giving, foundations, government relations and events. Along the way, she’s helped some amazing organizations achieve their missions, including Victorian Opera, Shakespeare Schools Foundation, the Toronto International Film Festival and Belleville General Hospital Foundation.

Andrea is an award-winning Ceramist with a degree from the Ontario College of Art & Design. Her sculptural hand built works are ongoing investigations of natural form, aiming to synthesize the organic world and human experience. Her work can be found at the Gardiner Museum, Canadian Clay & Glass Museum, Burlington Art Gallery, and more. Andrea is also an experienced artist educator and mentor who is passionate about sharing her enthusiasm and knowledge for visual arts and creative fluency with her students.

An active community member for over 50 years, Peter brings business expertise to his role as Director having established and managed Sage Design and Construction along with several other businesses in Prince Edward County. As Past Chair of The Regent Theatre Foundation, Peter spent 5 years designing and helping to facilitate the many recent theatre upgrades. Peter appreciates the value and colour art, in all its forms, brings to our community, having been surrounded by artists throughout his life. His mother Laurine Sage was an accomplished artist in the Quinte Region for many years. Peter’s wife Celia Sage is a well known local artist showing her works at Mad Dog Gallery. Peter’s daughter April Sage is a local illustrator, and daughter Mary is a local painter. Peter and Celia have been supporters of County Arts, the PEC Jazz Festival, The Regent Theatre and many other not-for-profit entities.

Talitha is a facilitator, storyteller, beadwork artist, and is member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community. She is the Senior Manager of Learning and Development at Makeway. Talitha comes from an extensive background in program development, community mobilization and engagement, adult education, culture building, and creating optimal and accessible learning environments for growth. Talitha finds joy in bringing people together and supporting them in finding their passion and drive for justice.

Viktoria Brave is an emerging textile artist. Their research-creation work explores the entanglements of beings and systems within the Anthropocene. Using thread as a research theme, creative metaphor and medium, Viktoria practices weaving, quilting, woodworking and embroidery to visualize the complexity and multidimensionality of Life in the 21st century. Their work invokes the archetype of the Phoenix and its rebirth cycle to propose an alternative creation myth for our emerging epoch.

Megan Fitzgerald (she/her) is a mixed media artist who works to expand boundaries of the landscape genre. Her place-responsive practice explores the possibility of magic in the everyday. After receiving her BFA from OCAD University in 2016, Megan traveled extensively by foot; partaking in curatorial studies in Florence, artist residencies in Spain, long distance trails in the United Kingdom, and NGO projects in Vietnam. Megan holds an MFA from NSCAD University where she worked as a Research Assistant at the Drawing Lab and taught undergraduate courses in drawing and painting. She has exhibited her work internationally and is represented by galleries in Ontario, Quebec, and USA. Currently, Megan is living and working in Prince Edward County, Ontario— she can be found painting trees, teaching arts workshops, and digging in her dye garden.

Tommy Feiler is a Canadian visual artist working primarily in lens-based media. Based in Wellington, Prince Edward County, his practice explores how photography and language intersect to question how meaning is shaped, disrupted, and socially coded. Through constructed pairings of image and text, he examines the evolving moral and emotional weight of language— especially in relation to memory, grief, and the everyday. Drawing on semiotics, media culture, and personal experience—including an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design from OCAD University—Feiler’s work exposes the instability of words and images, revealing the quiet fractures between what is seen, what is said, and what is remembered.

Irene Götz is a practicing freelance illustrator, artist and arts educator living and working in Prince Edward County. She holds degrees from OCAD University and Western University. She works in different media, mostly watercolour, graphite, acrylic and gouache. She loves working with both digital and analog tools. Clients include record labels, educational publishers, houseware companies, community and grass-roots agencies, and authors. Irene teaches drawing workshops and classes on a regular basis, an experience that she sees as essential in moving her own art practice forward. Her art is informed by her fascination with the details and structures of her immediate environment whether the dynamics of a busy café or the abstractions of a distant rural or industrial site. The pleasure and power of mark-marking continue to drive her passion for drawing and painting as she explores the interplay between strong lines and whimsical play with colour and shape. A long-time, avid cyclist, she is currently working on Gravelly Scenes from a Gravelly Ride, a multi-media series from the perspective of her bicycle. In this project she features the dissonant discards found on the side on the road—a dirty pink sandal, an avocado toilet, a box TV—witnessing the sedimented layers of place and passersby. She’d also love to draw a portrait of your bicycle!

English Bio: Shelby Lisk is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and photographer from Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) whose art practice explores her connection to and place in the world as a Kanyen’kehá:ka woman. She completed her degree in Fine Arts, with a minor in Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa and a diploma in Photojournalism at Loyalist College. Additionally, she has a certificate in Mohawk Language and Culture through Queen's University and Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na and recently completed a 2-year Kanyen’kéha immersion program, Shatiwennakará:tats. Shelby is a member of Indigenous Photograph and Women Photograph photography collectives and has exhibited her artwork, films and photography nationally and internationally. She currently works full-time as a freelance multimedia journalist covering Indigenous current affairs across Ontario and enjoys spending time in the woods or by the water with her fluffy Bernedoodle, Laika, and her partner and two children. Kanyen'kéha Bio: Shelby Lisk nia’té:kon tsi naho’ténshon yeweyen:te, yeráhstha ne tahontierón:nion, ronwatiya’táhrha ó:ni, Kenhtè:ke nitiakawé:non, tsi nahò:ten yakoyo’te ne wathró:ris tsi nón:we nieien:tha ne ohontsà:ke tsi Kanyen’kehá:ka yakón:kwe naeya’tó:ten. Ya’teyakao’ktá:on ne Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (skátne ne minor ne Gender Studies) Ottawa University nón:we yakohyatónhserá:yen ni’ ó:ni ne Photojournalism, Loyalist College yeyakoteweyénston, yakohyatonhserá:yen óni tsi yakoteweyénston ne Kanyenkéha owén:na tánon tsi niyonkwarihó:ten Queen’s University tánon Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na tahnon Shatiwennakará:tats. Nón:wa nikahá:wi’s tiókonte tsi yakoyó’te ne Lisk ne yerihowanátha tsi niyoterihwatié:ren ne Onkwehón:we akorihwa’shón:’a Ontario nón:we.

I am a transdisciplinary artist working as a writer, educator, and dancemaker. I began my professional life as a choreographer, creating original dance works, combining video, installation, and sound to offer immersive experiences to audiences. My choreographic work has been presented in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin, Zurich, and Delft. Storytelling is at the core of what I do. As a writer, I work in the creative non-fiction form, crafting reflective stories about my life and experiences through prose. I was a 2025 artist in residence at The Drake Devonshire, during which time I further developed my literary memoir, which explores grief, loss, love, and intergenerational trauma through multiple lenses. I love language and am happy writing for a range of audiences, at times donning my literary hat, other times developing educational content for clients in the non-profit sector, and regularly writing personal essays and feature pieces for publications on a regional, national, and international level, including for Chatelaine, HuffPost, Business Insider, Bay of Quinte, Umbrella, and Watershed magazines. I regularly teach writing and movement courses with the County Arts Lab and am a dance instructor at the Quinte Ballet School of Canada, teaching all ages and levels. I also love to get involved in community art projects and worked with the Department of Illumination on the Delhi Park Project in Picton.

Jeremy is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for telling stories. As the Founder and Artistic Director of Driftwood Theatre, he has spent over 30 years nurturing, supporting and producing contemporary Canadian and classical theatre. At Driftwood these days, he's mostly focused on supporting playwrights - at all stages of their career - develop their work from ideation to production through retreats, residencies, workshops and intensives. Through the Baxter Arts Centre Jeremy shares his passion for Dungeons and Dragons as a game master for players of all ages, building long-form narratives through cooperative, improvised storybuilding in a fantasy setting. Jeremy is also a visual artist, illustrator and props builder. When not sharing stories, he's often making breakfast for strangers at his home, Picton's Gillespie House Bed & Breakfast, where he lives with his wife, two children and their ridiculously social cat, Merlin. Photo credit: Dahlia Katz