Our Team

Caitlin is an artist and arts administrator of mixed European background living and working on Treaty Four Territory. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Regina and is one of the co-founders of Articulate Ink Press, Saskatchewan’s first artist-run printmaking centre (ext. 2011). She has held multiple positions at the MacKenzie since joining the team in 2012 and maintains an active studio practice that includes painting, creating site-specific installations for events, screenprinting and performance. Her work has been exhibited in group shows and festivals across Saskatchewan and Manitoba, including the Art Gallery of Regina, the Estevan Art Gallery and the Sherwood Branch of the Dunlop Art Gallery.

Brittany Yang has been at the MacKenzie Art Gallery for almost 10 years, and finds the most inspiring part of her job is creating a lasting impact in our community.

Her personal life motto is « Kale in one hand, champagne in the other », and the best piece of advice she’s ever been given is that the answer is always no, until you ask.

May Ngui has come from a diverse background in Sales & Marketing, and has past experiences working in other museums and galleries, including the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the Cumberland Art Gallery located at the Saskatchewan Legislature Building.

May enjoys arts and music, supporting charitable organizations, and party planning and hosting…  But what she loves the most is baking assortments of desserts and pastries in her spare time, and has even had her recipes published in a recipe cookbook.

May’s philosophy, “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —  Paulo Coelho

She looks forward to seeing you at the MacKenzie!

Nicolle Nugent values community and art education as the foundation for her professional and creative practice. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (1999) and Bachelor of Education (2001) from the University of Calgary. After working in Regina Public, Catholic and rural school divisions, Nicolle began working at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in education, where she is currently developing exhibitions and programming for a wide variety of audiences as Curator of Education. Nicolle has participated in many professional development opportunities including Making Museums Matter, Cultural Resource Management Program taught by Stephen E. Weil (University of Victoria), as well as several National Art Education Association (NAEA), Canadian Art Gallery Educators (CAGE), engage (United Kingdom), American Alliance of Museums, Art Museum Educators Consortium, and Canadian Museums Association workshops and conferences. She has presented at engage International Summer School (2006) in Portugal and has also been an active member of the Canadian Art Gallery Educators executive since 2009, occupying Senior Chair, Past Chair, and Case Study positions. Nicolle’s passion for creativity also includes an active writing practice and an addiction to making natural apothecary. She lives with her husband and two daughters just outside of Lumsden, Saskatchewan.

Felicia Gay (muskego inninu iskew/Scottish ) is a community member of the northern island community of Cumberland House, SK, on Treaty 5 territory and is a member of the Opaskwayak Swampy Cree Nation, MB. Felicia is a curator working with the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. Before her role as curator, she was the gallery’s first Mitacs Fellow, a cross-appointment with the University of Regina, as a Ph.D. candidate. Her research investigates Swampy Cree-centred curatorial methodology and praxis in institutional spaces. In 2021, she received the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC. In 2018, Gay received the Saskatchewan Arts Award for Leadership for her curation and advocacy work with Indigenous artists, which began in 2004. In 2006, with Joi Arcand, Felicia co-founded and served as the artistic director of the Red Shift Gallery, a contemporary Aboriginal art space in Saskatoon, SK. In 2025, Felicia received the King Charles Coronation Medal for her impact on the arts in the prairies. Her recent projects include The Art of Faye HeavyShield (retrospective and tour), accompanied by a publication of the same name. Gay was the winner for the 2025 Saskatchewan Book Awards (Indigenous Writing for The Art of Faye HeavyShield). Her most recent project is Beads in the Blood / mīgisak mīgohk: A Ruth Cuthand Retrospective exhibition, national tour and publication.

Lillian O’Brien Davis (she/her) is the Associate Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. She previously held the position as Curator of Collections and Contemporary Art Engagement at the Goldfarb Gallery of York University. She has curated independent projects with Nuit Blanche Toronto, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto), and the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba. Her writing as appeared in BlackFlash magazine, Canadian Art online, C Magazine, Insight Magazine, and RACAR Art History Journal. From 2021 until 2025 Lillian was one of two inaugural Visiting Curators at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery. In 2023, Lillian was the recipient of the David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence. Lillian was born in Tkaronto (Toronto) and she holds a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies and a BA Hons. In the History of Art and English Literature from the University of Toronto.

Ken Duczek started working for the MacKenzie in the fall of 1988. Through much of this time he delivered the Provincial Touring Program making over 800 community visits, delivering approximately 8300 tours to over 320000 people. Sharing art and creativity inspires him in new program opportunities at the MacKenzie.

His bucket list lottery dreams include travelling to Europe visiting cathedrals and walking by virtually any ocean in a warm location, but he’d gladly spend more time with Wendy and their family, walking their happy pup Ginger and photographing all. His life as a movie title would be “Count it all Joy.”

Colton Bates grew up farming with his family on Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan. East of Pense, Colton had easy access to schools in Regina, where he studied before moving to Toronto in 2011. There, he earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts in the field of Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. With these experiences, he has cultivated a career as a programmer of screen-based media, a lecturer on topics of popular culture and as a land-based educator. He is, however, more than the product of where he has lived, what he has done and how he writes, he is ‘green and growing’.