Prismatic BIPOC Residency 2025
VAM’s BIPOC Residency is a 4-month summer program dedicated to emerging Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) artists in Mississauga. This initiative provides artists with studio access, mentorship, and exhibition opportunities while fostering collaboration and creative development.
Residents are paired to collaborate on a new body of work, co-developing a shared theme that reflects their collective vision. The residency focuses on:
- Studio access at VAM
- Mentorship and networking with arts professionals
- Teaching opportunities at VAM
- Artistic collaboration and mentorship
- Professional and creative development
- A culminating exhibition featuring residents’ work
Both residencies offer a supportive and enriching environment for emerging artists to explore their practice, gain industry insight, and contribute to Mississauga’s vibrant arts community.
VAM’s BIPOC Art Residency is proudly supported by the Hazel McCallion Foundation.
Collaborative Team 1
Joy Adeola
Joy Adeola is a Nigerian-Canadian visual artist. Through storytelling, she explores human connections and self-relationships. Her work blends vivid contrast with warmth, revealing overlooked beauty in everyday life. By highlighting subtle moments, she invites viewers to pause, reflect, and appreciate the richness of the world around them.


Collaborative Team 1
Chantelle Dorafshani
Chantelle Dorafshani is a Filipino-Persian illustrator and designer based in Mississauga. Her work draws inspiration from music, nature, and her surroundings. With a passion for exploring both digital and traditional mediums, she loves to integrate the two in her work. Early in her artistic career, Chantelle is eager to create thoughtful artwork that will resonate with people of her surrounding communities and beyond.

Collaborative Team 2
Sereen Aziz
Sereen’s artistic practice is rooted in a desire to create beautiful scenes, whether personal, cultural, or imagined, that evoke a sense of wonder and introspection, and the quiet allure of nature. She primarily works in gouache, oil, and ink, and draws inspiration from the natural world, old storybook illustrations, surrealist imagery, and bold, moody colour palettes.

Collaborative Team 2
Jennifer Luxmore-Begin
Jennifer Luxmore-Begin is a creative, musician and educator, settler-Anishinaabe woman with roots in Mattagami First Nation. As an educator and artist, Jenn creates community, connection and embodiment of culture in everyday life. She believes in the power of play and upcycling to fuel our creativity, she is a mixed media artist and bead artist.
































