Experience Exhibitions Geanna Dunbar and Amber Phelps Bondaroff: Artists in Residence

Geanna Dunbar and Amber Phelps Bondaroff: Artists in Residence

9 March 2026 – 8 March 2027

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About the Exhibition

The MacKenzie Art Gallery welcomes Amber Phelps Bondaroff and Geanna Dunbar as our Artists in Residence for 2026. Amber and Geanna will be on-site to install AuthentiCity, a new artist intervention in the Learning Centre from February 23 to March 8, 2026. 

Geanna and Amber share their thoughts about a space that is close to home for all who live in this community. 

“AuthentiCity reimagines the gallery space as a familiar public environment—similar to a street corner, park, or bus stop—highlighting the everyday infrastructure that supports connection, accessibility, and mutual care in our neighbourhoods. Through participatory installations and community contributions, the project invites reflection on what makes communities thrive, and what resources are often missing or unequally distributed across the city. AuthentiCity centres on community care, accessibility, and collective imagining, while helping transform the gallery into a space that reflects shared civic life.”

All are welcome to visit the Learning Centre on February 26 and 27 and March 5 and 6 from 1 to 3 PM to meet Amber and Geanna, and to watch their installation take shape. Once complete, the artist intervention will be open from March 9, 2026, to February 7, 2027. Visitors are encouraged to share their thoughts about creating healthy community spaces through an ongoing self-directed program of creativity and discovery. 

For more information, please contact Ken Duczek, Coordinator of Learning Initiatives, at kduczek@mackenzie.art or call 584-4250 ext. 4290. 

A smiling woman, Geanna Dunbar and Amber Phelps Bondaroff: Artists in Residence, in a red knit hat and leopard print shirt stands indoors, holding a smiling baby in orange patterned clothing on her hip while leaning against a wall with a wooden paddle.

Amber Phelps Bondaroff

Amber Phelps Bondaroff (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, musician, community organizer, mother and settler, living on Treaty 4 Territory (Regina) since 2012. She centres relationships and care in her work and teaching across creative disciplines. They worked as Programming Director at Neutral Ground, Artist-Run Centre from 2017-2023 and are a co-founder of Swamp Fest, an annual, community-centred music and arts festival in Regina. Amber is currently the chair of the Heritage Neighbourhood Association, a community she has called home since 2019. She earned an MFA in Intermedia Arts from the University of Regina in 2014 and a BFA in Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2007.

A person with green hair and glasses, wearing a black and white geometric-patterned dress, carries two jars while walking past a seated audience in a large, well-lit room featuring Geanna Dunbar and Amber Phelps Bondaroff: Artists in Residence.

Geanna Dunbar

Geanna Dunbar is a Cree-Métis spoken-word poet, visual artist, body-modification artist, and entrepreneur from Regina, with a special interest in sustainable art and interdisciplinary community collaboration. Geanna works in mixed media collage, sculpture, acrylic, street art, chalkboard, window painting, and large-scale murals. She is the YWCA 2024 Women of Distinction Award Winner for Indigenous Resurgence in Action. Her work with The Path of Reconciliation, the longest mural in Saskatchewan, was internationally featured at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington and published by Hyperallergic, an online magazine based in Brooklyn, NY.

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