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

Geanna Dunbar and Amber Phelps Bondaroff: Artists in Residence

9 mars 2026 – 8 mars 2027

Geanna Dunbar and Amber Phelps Bondaroff: Artists in Residence

About the Exhibition

The MacKenzie Art Gallery welcomes Amber Phelps Bondaroff and Geanna Dunbar as Artists in Residence for 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.”

Visitors had the opportunity to meet Amber and Geanna and watch the installation take shape on February 26 and 27, and March 5 and 6. Now complete, the artist intervention is open through 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.

Une femme souriante, coiffée d'un bonnet en tricot rouge et vêtue d'une chemise imprimée léopard, tient dans ses bras un bébé heureux vêtu d'une grenouillère à motifs orange, à l'intérieur d'une pièce lumineuse. Le bras gauche de la femme repose sur un objet en bois fixé au mur.

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.

Une personne aux cheveux verts et noirs, vêtue d'une robe à rayures noires et blanches, marche en tenant des boissons devant un large public assis dans un cadre intérieur lumineux. La foule est floue en arrière-plan.

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.