Alexus Young

Alexus has been a filmmaker and presenter with Crossing Communities since 2005. She is two-spirited, hails from Swan River, Manitoba and currently lives in Winnipeg. Alexus has completed 9 video productions and is currently working on a 10th video. Alexus also had the honour of being the second participant on CTV's Manitoba Moments promoting A Hard Night Out. Alexus has screened her videos in Canada, England and Germany and her work may be found on lookinginspeakingout.com.

Jessica MacCormack

Jessica was the artist in residence at Crossing Communities in 2008-2009. Over her residency she mentored both women and youth in video, photography and painting. She was a visual art / video mentor for the Hip Hop Project and many of the videos that were created during her workshops with women are featured on lookinginspeakingout.com
Jessica MacCormack's art combines various elements of interactivity, performance,intervention, installation and video to investigate social spaces by implicating the viewer/participant in the processes that make events meaningful, while destabilizing ideas of high culture for a political/socially engaged content. She is attentive to a social critique of institutional structures that propagate systematized oppression, with a self-reflexive criticality in relation to her own practice so as not to reproduce these same power structures. Collectivity and community have also largely informed her practice, taking an active part in artist run center culture, performance collectives and collaborations. This has also included an ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are dealing with issues of criminalization through the creation of art projects in prisons as well as at Crossing Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. In 2008, she completed an MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program at Bauhaus University (Germany).

Rosalie Favell

Most recently Rosalie traveled with Crossing Communities to Nepal as the photography / video mentor in our first international partnership. Rosalie has also mentored members of Crossing Communities through workshops at our Winnipeg studio since 2001.
Métis artist Rosalie Favell is a well-known photographer whose work has appeared in more than a dozen solo exhibitions and more than twenty group exhibitions in venues stretching from Glasgow, Scotland to Santiago, Chile. A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, Ms. Favell holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and has received numerous awards for her work from institutions across Canada. Her works can be found in the collections of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia, as well as in a number of private collections. Her work has also been profiled in publications in North America and Scotland.

Some of the other artist who have worked with Crossing Communities since 2000 include:
Susan Chafe
Sarah Crawley
Shawna Dempsey
Aganetha Dyck
Rosalie Favell
Lita Fontaine
Debby Keeper
Grace Nickel
Shelley Niro
Jessica MacCormack
Erika MacPherson
Lorri Millan
Dominique Rey
Reva Stone
Diana Thorneycroft
Jackie Traverse