Atlantis’ Board of Directors is:

Paul Henderson, President (Struts Gallery)
Paul Henderson is an artist and arts worker based in Sackville, NB. He has been working as the Director of Struts Gallery, Sackville’s oldest artist-run-centre, since 2021.

Cat Bluemke, Vice-President (Centre for Art Tapes)
Cat Bluemke is an artist working primarily in game design, expanded reality, and performance. Her work has been exhibited internationally with prominent institutions including Rhizome and the New Museum (2020) and the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) as part of the American pavilion’s corollary exhibits. Recent exhibitions include LikeLike Gallery (2025), the Fotomuseum Winterthur (2024), the Milan Machinima Festival (2024), and the Singapore Art Museum (2023). As of publication, she is the Executive Director of the Centre for Art Tapes in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, NS).

Bethany MacKenzie, Treasurer (Union House Arts)
Bethany MacKenzie (she/they) is a Queer Settler, emerging artist, and arts administrator currently based in eastern Ktaqmkuk, on the unceded homelands of the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq (also known as Newfoundland). They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (2021) from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and is the Director of Union House Arts (UHA) since the spring of 2022.

Catherine Arseneault, Secretary (F-Stop Studio)
Catherine Arseneault is an artist and cultural worker living and working on the traditional unceded territory of the Wəlastəkwiyik and Mi’kmaq Peoples (Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada). As a lens-based artist, she mainly works in silver print and analogue photographic techniques. Her creative process explores the intuitive nature of intrapersonal communication and internal dialogues. She holds a BFA from Université de Moncton. Her work has been shown in several group and solo exhibitions and she has taken part in creative residencies. Since 2018, she has been consistently involved in local cultural initiatives - including ATLANTIS. In 2023, Catherine officially took the lead in founding F Stop Studio Inc. — a new artist-run public access darkroom in Moncton.

Ashley Hemmings, Director at Large (Eastern Edge)
Ashley Hemmings is a visual artist and arts administrator based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. They completed their BFA in Visual Art at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2018, and an MFA in Visual Art at the University of Windsor in 2021. Their practice considers craft in the contexts of environmental anxiety, community, and queerness. In 2024, Ashley was the inaugural winner of the Excellence in Fine Craft Award from VANL-CARFAC. They are the Executive Director of Eastern Edge ARC, and the founder of the NL Queer Craft Club. Outside of their art life, they play soccer and flat-track roller derby.

Manny Travers, Director at Large, (Third Shift)
Manny Travers (he/him/il) is a queer multidisciplinary artist and arts administrator living in Menaquesk (Saint John), New Brunswick. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University with a double minor in Art History and Visual Communications & Culture, alongside a Certificate in Contemporary Management of Arts & Culture from the University of New Brunswick. He is the Executive Director of Third Space, an itinerant artist-run centre. His artistic practice includes drawing, sculpture, and printmaking themed around nature and purposeful incompleteness.

Emily Muckler, Director at Large (Galerie Sans Nom)

Sally Wolchyn-Raab, Director at Large (Eyelevel)
Sally Wolchyn-Raab (she/they) is an Ashkenazi/settler interdisciplinary artist, critical writer and arts administrator based in K'jipuktuk (Halifax). She holds an MFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, works as the Artistic Co-Director of Eyelevel and freelances as a grant writer for artists and grassroots organizations. Her work with arts organizations spans a range of institutions over the past 15 years in a mix of administrative and artistic roles, with a focus on transparency, community building and justice.

Lisa Theriault, Director at Large (This Town is Small)
Lisa Theriault is a visual artist originally from and currently based in Prince Edward Island. Through her art practice, she explores our relationship to place and how it shapes and is shaped by society. She primarily creates drawings, but she also makes videos, animations, installations, and miniatures. Theriault graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art from Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB). She has most notably presented artworks at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, PE), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton, NB), Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen (Moncton, NB), and Artch (Montréal, QC). Her work has been supported by PEI Artist Grants, Quebec Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her recent presentations include a solo exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adapation and as part of a thematic residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She is currently the executive director of the artist-run centre This Town Is Small in Charlottetown, PEI.