BOARD

The APAGA Board of Directors is made up of individuals from APAGA member organizations from all four Atlantic provinces. Please click here to learn more about our board of governance policy, and click here if you are interested in volunteering on a committee or board position.

APAGA Executive

MICHAEL MCCORMACK (PRESIDENT)

Michael D. McCormack (he/him) is an intermedia artist, curator, and educator of settler ancestry living in unceded territory of the Mi’Kmaq people in K’jiputuk (Halifax). He has worked extensively within the artist-run centre community as Director of Eyelevel Gallery from 2009-2013 and president and representative of the Association of Artist-Run Centres from the Atlantic from 2011-2013. He has worked as an independent curator for exhibitions, festivals and events, and as a guest curator for Nocturne: Art at Night (2016), Flotilla Atlantic (2017), and KIAC’s Natural & Manufactured exhibition (2018). Michael currently works as Assistant Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. He also works as a mentor and teacher with artists through organizations such as the Centre for Art Tapes, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, and NSCAD University.

ANDREA TERRY (VICE PRESIDENT)

Andrea Terry, a white-settler scholar, is the Director/Curator of the StFX Art Gallery at St. Francis Xavier University in Nalikitquniejk – Antigonish, Mi’kma’ki – Nova Scotia. Her curatorial practice, research, and teaching explore critical feminist art histories, museum studies, and modern and contemporary art in Canada. She earned her PhD (2010) and MA (2005) in Visual and Material Culture Studies from Queen’s University and her BA (Hons) in Art History from McMaster University (2002). She has taught at universities across the country, such as Carleton University, Mount Allison University, and Lakehead University. She has also curated exhibitions at Thunder Bay Art Gallery and Definitely Superior Art Gallery. Terry has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Curatorial Studies, Gender and Historyand the Journal of Heritage Tourism. Her first sole-authored book, Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2015.

MICHELE GALLANT (TREASURER)

Michele Gallant has been the Registrar/Preparator at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) since 1988. She has worked at Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, SMU Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the National Gallery of Canada.

She holds a BFA in Visual Art from York University and has studied Art Administration at Fleming College and the University of Victoria. She has served on the boards of the Nova Scotia Basketry Guild, Paradise Sisters Film Society, and APAGA for many years.

NISK IMBEAULT (SECRETARY)

Nisk Imbeault holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the Université de Moncton (1996). She also studied history and philosophy, then art studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. From 2001 to 2011, she was the director of Galerie Sans Nom, an artist-run centre. Since 2010, she has been the Director-Curator of the Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen at the Université de Moncton. She has been actively involved in various boards and committees supporting artistic practice in her community, including artsnb, APAGA and AGAVF.

BETHANY MACKENZIE (ATLANTIS REP.)

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). On top of their personal practice and administrative work, she also sits on the board of ATLANTIS (The Association of Artist Run Centres in the Atlantic) as their treasurer (2022-present). MacKenzie was the recipient of the Newfoundland and Labrador BMO 1st Arts Award (2021) and in 2024 was graciously awarded the VANL-CARFAC Mary MacDonald Award. Their artistic practice focuses on notions of labour, land-body relationships, and generational heritage.

DR. LAURIE DALTON (MEMBER AT LARGE)

Dr. Laurie Dalton, is Director/Curator of the Acadia University Art Gallery and Adjunct Art Historian in the Department of History & Classics. Her curatorial work emphasizes the role of university galleries as part of the critical academic space of a university, bringing in exhibitions of both contemporary and historical work that promote visual literacy. Her research interests lie in Canadian visual culture, heritage and exhibition history, in particular how meaning is a process of display, didactics and audience exchange.

KATHLEEN MACKINNON (MEMBER AT LARGE)

Kathleen MacKinnon has a double major in History and Art History from Mount Allison University and a postgraduate certificate in Museum Management and Curatorship from Fleming College. Prior to joining Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PE, as registrar in 2018, she was the collections manager of the Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, from 2014-2018. She has also lived and worked in Winnipeg, Ottawa and Halifax, all in the name of the arts.

MIREILLE EAGAN (MEMBER AT LARGE)

Mireille Eagan (she/her) is Curator of Contemporary Art at The Rooms in St. John’s, NL. She has curated more than 100 exhibitions, individually or as co-curator, including the nationally touring retrospective “Mary Pratt” and “Mary Pratt: This Little Painting” at the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Terra Nova Art Foundation’s Collateral Project at the 55th Venice Biennale.