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Biography and Curriculum Vitae
Stephanie Florence (they/them) is a Neurodiverse Non-binary interdisciplinary artist seeking to intertwine individualistic society through socially transformative art and question the colonial-capitalist-ableist status quo. They aim to be a leader in the arts through collaborative projects and empathetic action that engages community and builds knowledge. Florence completed an MFA at the University of Waterloo in 2023, where they received SSHRC funding, Alberta Arts Graduate Scholarship, and the Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship for their research into interspecies citizenship. Their artwork has travelled to 15 cities across Canada, Indonesia, and Norway, and they led two dynamic years of curation for the SkirtsAfire Theatre Festival. Florence produces artwork with humans, more-than-humans, salvaged materials, and the Land, resulting in narrative-based, site-specific, and public relational art interventions.
In 2021, Florence completed the Yorath House Studio residency, and found a permanent home for The Human Wheel at the Lowlands Project Space. In 2022, as a curator and project manager they collaborated with Norwegian collectives—LOCUS and LATERNA—to produce public artwork and organize a performance arts festival in Oslo, Norway. In 2024 they co-founded a national interdisciplinary arts collective, CARBON, and the collective built Solo-pollinator Homes for local community gardens with the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery and rare Charitable Research Reserve. They completed a 5-month Gardener-AIR at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, debuted Monster Pageant with Inter Arts Matrix at Schneider Haus National Historic Site, and with CAFKA in the Region of Waterloo. They have upcoming solo exhibitions with Homer Watson House and Gallery (Kitchener-2027), and PRAKSIS (Oslo-2027). They have published poetry with the Thunderbirds Collective and have upcoming publications with Danish Architectural Press and PRAKSIS. Florence is contributing to the Rethinking Tourism Network over the next several years with PRAKSIS, KORO, and Samong Haven, by participating in a residency and conference in Bali, Indonesia and a community art project and conference in Lofoten, Norway.
They use pronouns such as they, their, them, she, her, hers, he, him, and his, with a preference for they/them.
In 2021, Florence completed the Yorath House Studio residency, and found a permanent home for The Human Wheel at the Lowlands Project Space. In 2022, as a curator and project manager they collaborated with Norwegian collectives—LOCUS and LATERNA—to produce public artwork and organize a performance arts festival in Oslo, Norway. In 2024 they co-founded a national interdisciplinary arts collective, CARBON, and the collective built Solo-pollinator Homes for local community gardens with the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery and rare Charitable Research Reserve. They completed a 5-month Gardener-AIR at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, debuted Monster Pageant with Inter Arts Matrix at Schneider Haus National Historic Site, and with CAFKA in the Region of Waterloo. They have upcoming solo exhibitions with Homer Watson House and Gallery (Kitchener-2027), and PRAKSIS (Oslo-2027). They have published poetry with the Thunderbirds Collective and have upcoming publications with Danish Architectural Press and PRAKSIS. Florence is contributing to the Rethinking Tourism Network over the next several years with PRAKSIS, KORO, and Samong Haven, by participating in a residency and conference in Bali, Indonesia and a community art project and conference in Lofoten, Norway.
They use pronouns such as they, their, them, she, her, hers, he, him, and his, with a preference for they/them.
I combat the erasure of disabling and oppressive experiences through participatory art that empowers sensory-based counter-narratives and connections to the land. This tends to reveal segregating powers that devalue the collective spirit. Over my evolving artistic journey, I have learnt that I must prioritize meaningful collaboration and collectivity by being present, sensitive, and reciprocal. This means connecting deeply with and honouring the beings present in the work, while also respectfully embodying the contextual subject matter and histories. This can be extremely vulnerable and difficult to accomplish, often involving failure and unlearning.
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Rethinking Tourism Network 2025-2026
PRAKSIS, KORO, and Samong Haven to participate in a two part residency producing literature, workshops, art, and educational material to rethink tourism in Bali, Indonesia and Lofoten, Norway. Together we are building a network of resident community members, artists, and scholars to address over-tourism and colonial systems globally.
The soul of Bali is the people, culture, and ritual. Bali is a paradise because of the reciprocity that has stayed intact despite colonialism and globally commoditized tourism of the island and people.
Solo-pollinator Hotels with CARBON 2025
When building Solo-pollinator Hotels, conservationists and partners from rare taught CARBON and I the necessity of implementing virus-safe ceramic bee-tubes.
If I only think of humans as my community, then I have failed to unlearn and reimagine a world with interspecies citizens.
Portals into Discordia 2021-2025
While producing the audio and video work for Portals into Discordia, I spent over a year learning the non-verbal body language of Moss to make them an active art collaborator.
I am an extension of my Moss kin and if I listen through an embodied practice, the land and water integrate me into their communion. The invention of the individual is the greatest form of contemporary propaganda.
Echoes of this Land: Call to Action 52 (Buried Breath) 2023 - 2024
When writing the poem Buried Breath for Call to Action 52, I learnt Anishinaabeg from an Elder through invitation and worked with an Elk skin passed down in my family.
My settler ancestors brought me to Turtle Island and now I have been given this great gift to unlearn my colonial roots. How deep are these roots and can I heal my intergenerational trauma? When were we not colonized?
COVID COLLECTION 2020-2021
In 2021, I collaborated with SkirtsAfire to produce a short film and publish an anthology of poetry, art, stories, interviews, and writing by 26 diverse community members in Edmonton, Alberta, entitled COVID COLLECTIONS.
During the making and publication of COVID COLLECTIONS I learnt the significance of meeting with all the artists, poets, interviewees, and writers involved to inform my editing through deep listening.
PRAKSIS, KORO, and Samong Haven to participate in a two part residency producing literature, workshops, art, and educational material to rethink tourism in Bali, Indonesia and Lofoten, Norway. Together we are building a network of resident community members, artists, and scholars to address over-tourism and colonial systems globally.
The soul of Bali is the people, culture, and ritual. Bali is a paradise because of the reciprocity that has stayed intact despite colonialism and globally commoditized tourism of the island and people.
Solo-pollinator Hotels with CARBON 2025
When building Solo-pollinator Hotels, conservationists and partners from rare taught CARBON and I the necessity of implementing virus-safe ceramic bee-tubes.
If I only think of humans as my community, then I have failed to unlearn and reimagine a world with interspecies citizens.
Portals into Discordia 2021-2025
While producing the audio and video work for Portals into Discordia, I spent over a year learning the non-verbal body language of Moss to make them an active art collaborator.
I am an extension of my Moss kin and if I listen through an embodied practice, the land and water integrate me into their communion. The invention of the individual is the greatest form of contemporary propaganda.
Echoes of this Land: Call to Action 52 (Buried Breath) 2023 - 2024
When writing the poem Buried Breath for Call to Action 52, I learnt Anishinaabeg from an Elder through invitation and worked with an Elk skin passed down in my family.
My settler ancestors brought me to Turtle Island and now I have been given this great gift to unlearn my colonial roots. How deep are these roots and can I heal my intergenerational trauma? When were we not colonized?
COVID COLLECTION 2020-2021
In 2021, I collaborated with SkirtsAfire to produce a short film and publish an anthology of poetry, art, stories, interviews, and writing by 26 diverse community members in Edmonton, Alberta, entitled COVID COLLECTIONS.
During the making and publication of COVID COLLECTIONS I learnt the significance of meeting with all the artists, poets, interviewees, and writers involved to inform my editing through deep listening.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2023 Master of Fine Art (Art Studio) with Distinction, University of Waterloo
2019 Bachelor of Fine Art (Art Studio) with Great Distinction, University of Lethbridge
2017 Fine Art Diploma with Distinction, MacEwan University
Awarded Research and Project Funding
2025/4 - 2025/12 Co-Applicant with CAFKA, Arts Grant, City of Waterloo
2025/1- 2025/8 Principal Applicant, Waterloo Region Microgrant, Pat the Dog
2024/11 - 2026/1 Principal Applicant, Waterloo Region Community Fund for CARBON Collective
2024/11 - 2026/1 Principal Applicant, Waterloo Region Community Fund for Individual Artists
2022/5 - 2023/4 Principal Applicant, Bombardier: Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Masters, Social Science and Humanity Research Council
2022/1 - 2022/12 Principal Applicant, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund: Fall 2021
2022/1 - 2022/7 Principal Applicant, Waterloo Region Microgrant, Pat the Dog
2021/12 - 2022/7 Co-applicant, Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Program
2021/1 - 2021/8 Principal Applicant, Art Grant Individuals and Collectives - Major Artist-Driven Projects, Edmonton Arts Council
2020/6 - 2021/5 Principal Applicant, Creators’ Reserve Grant, Edmonton Arts Council
Awards and Scholarship
2023 2nd prize for the Waterloo Masonry Council of Ontario 2023 Competition: The Longevity of Masonry with architects Safaa Alnabelseya, Hania Shehab, and Parastoo Varshosaz
2023 Vermont Studio Center Grant, offered/declined
2022-2023 ARTS Senate Grad Scholarship
2022-2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship offered // declined
2022-2023 President’s Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo
2022-2023 Arts Graduate Scholarship, The Government of Alberta
2021-2022 Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship
2021-2022 ECF Bursaries and Awards, Edmonton Community Foundation
2019 Island Mountain Arts Endowment Scholarship, Island Mountain Arts
2019 Roloff Beny Award, University of Lethbridge
2019 Art Society Award, University of Lethbridge
2019 Art History/Museum Studies Gallery Award, University of Lethbridge
2018-2019 Art Endowment Fund, University of Lethbridge
2016, 2017, 2018 Jason Lang Scholarship, University of Lethbridge and MacEwan University
2018 University of Lethbridge Scholarship, University of Lethbridge
2018 John Clark Scholarship in Art, University of Lethbridge
2018 Mountain Standard Time: Search Engines Workshop Bursary, Trap\door ARC
2018 Excellence in Art Studio Award, University of Lethbridge
2017 Post-Diploma Entrance Scholarship, University of Lethbridge
2017 Barbara & John Poole Family Scholarship, MacEwan University
2016-2017 Student Initiative Grant, MacEwan University
Artistic Exhibitions and Public Artworks
2027/9 - 2027/10 Solo. TBA. PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway
2027/3 - 2027/5 Solo. TBA. Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/11/21 - 2025/11/23 Artist. Portals into Discordia, Mediated Chiasm, Curated by Danielle Petti, Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/11/10 Presenter. Interspecies Citizenship: A Matter of Living. Warmadewa International Interdisciplinary Studies Programme (WIISP), Rethinking Nationhood through Tourism Heritage and Ecology Conference with PRAKSIS, KORO, and Samong Haven, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
2025/10/26 Solo. Monster Pageant Parade, Glumen with CAFKA, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/9/28 Collaborator. Sound Climate Memory, Climate Fest, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/9/06 Artist. Monster Pageant, deSpectacle in collaboration with Inter Arts Matrix, Schneider House, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/5 - 2025/10 Lead Artist Gardener. 50/50 Garden of Resilience, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/3 Artist. Sacred Seeds. Art Mart. Femme Folks Fest, Region of Waterloo, Ontario
2025/2 Contributor. “Ribbon Zine” by Ellie Anglin, Kitchener Artist-in-Residence, Ontario
2025/1 Artist. Call to Action 52: Buried Breath, Echoes of this Land, Ottawa Arts Council, Ottawa, Ontario
2024/9/30 Artist. Call to Action 52: Buried Breath, Echoes of this Land, Dunlop Library, Regina, Saskatchewan
2024/9/30 Artist. Call to Action 52: Buried Breath, Echoes of this Land, President's Office, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2024/6/15 Artist. Call to Action 52: Buried Breath, a collaboration between Echoes of this Land and The Mush Hole, Lyons Family Studio, L.R. Wilson Hall, Hamilton, Ontario
2024/4/25 Artist. Call to Action 52: Buried Breath, Echoes of this Land, Grimsby Art Gallery, Ontario
2024/4 Collection. Call to Action 52. Poetic Echoes From The Land publication, by The Thunderbird Sisters Collective and Echoes from this Land, McMaster University, Ontario
2024/1 Collection. Call to Action 52: Buried Breath, Echoes of this Land, McMaster University, Ontario
2023/5/11 Solo. rinse and repeat. University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
2023/2/01 Artist. Discordia (Victims of Indigestion). Homer Watson Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2022/11/01 Collaborator. Nest(ling) Brick. Design at Riverside, Cambridge, Ontario
2022/9/01 Artist. Is it Exponential Growth or Rapid Decay? The Artery, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/7/07 Artist. Intrinsically Linked and Meatcute. TOAP@21, Island Mountain Arts Gallery, Wells, British Columbia
2022/5/20 Production Team Lead. LOCUS Bee Sancturary - Hilma’s Hive, Artwork of Tanja Thorjussen and Thale Blix Fastvold, Oslo, Norway
2022/5/06 Collaborator. Nest(ling) Brick. Clay and Glass Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2021/10/03 Curator of Film. Covid Collections. Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
2021/6/12 Artist. The Human Wheel. Lowlands Project Space, Edmonton, Alberta
2020/2/16 Co-Artist. Gluttony. Silverskate Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
2019/4/08 Artist. The Knife, Meatsacks, Simulacra, and Ex Carne, CaroEst. Open Studio Exhibition: University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2019/3/28 Artist. Red 40, Red 3. Earth Day Symposium, University of Lethbridge, Alberta.
2019/3/22 Artist. The Transition. Subaru Of Lethbridge Arts Recognition Awards, Subaru of Lethbridge, Alberta.
2019/3/08 Artist. My Breathless Duvet. Dr. James Foster Penny Building, Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/11/23 Artist. Infinite Falls. Student Pixel Exhibition, Dr. James Foster Penny Building, Lethbridge, Alberta 2018/9/22 Collaborator. Dispersions. Trap\door pop up gallery, 1267 2A Avenue N, Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/8/24 Artist. Gender Swing. Intimacy: Flip Fest Exhibition, Penny Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/4/16 Artist. Replaceable Parts and Gendered Spine. Faculty of Fine Arts Open House, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/3/15 Collaborator. Seismic Choreography. Galt Museum & Archives, Lethbridge, Alberta.
2018/1/05 Artist. Watering Broken Roots. You Are Here: Art + People = X, Helen Christou Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/7/02 Co-Artist. Weight of the World. Landmarks, Elk Island National Park, Alberta
2017/6/07 Artist. Floods and Flaying, Conflict, and Conscience. The Works, Exhibition of Landmarks, Alberta
2017/4/18 Artist. Nightmare, Watering Broken Roots, If Cranes Could Fly, and Floods and Flaying. The Orange Factory, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta
Curated Exhibitions
2025/10 Curator. Monster Pageant Parade, with CAFKA, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/9 Curator. Monster Pageant, deSpectacle in collaboration with Inter Arts Matrix, Schneider Haus National Historic Site, Kitchener, Ontario
2020/7 - 2021/7 Independently Contracted Visual Art Curator, Systemic Contractions // Covid Collections, SkirtsAfire Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
2019/9 - 2020/3 Independently Contracted Visual Art Curator, Complicated // Suspension: Em-Pathos, SkirtsAfire Festival, Stollery Gallery at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
2019/4 Co-Curator: Open Studio Exhibition, The University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/11 Co-curated: The Student Pixel Exhibition, The University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/3 - 2018/6 Curated: Here and There, The University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/4 Co-Curated: The Orange Factory, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta
Performance Art
2025/11/10 Artist. Interspecies Citizenship: A Matter of Living, Warmadewa University, Denpasar, Indonesia
2025/10/26 Artist. Monster Pageant Parade with CAFKA, Performers: Erika Lui, Lauren Prousky, and Kez Kiva; Musicians: Owen Vince, Anne Zhou, and Gianofranco Tiano Kitchener, Ontario
2025/9/28 Collaborator. Sound Climate Memory, Climate Fest, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/9/06 Artist. Monster Pageant, deSpectacle in collaboration with Inter Arts Matrix, Performers: Erika Lui, Lauren Prousky, Schneider Haus National Historic Site, Kitchener, Ontario
2023/5/27 Artist. Walking Tour on the Haldimand Tract, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/5/18 Artist. Walking Tour on the Haldimand Tract, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/5/11 Artist. Listening with The Apparatus, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
2022/12/14 Artist. moss interiors. On Campus, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/12/13 Artist. fractured listening: an invitation to displacement. University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/10/26 Co-Artist. Feng, V; Jia, C. Subliminal Domination. University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/10/23 Artist. This is Not a Drill. Artscape, Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Ontario
2019/4/08, 2019/03/30 Artist. The Knife. Open Studio Exhibition, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2019/3/08, 2019/02/11 Artist. My Breathless Duvet. Dr. James Foster Penny Building in Lethbridge, Alberta
2019/1/22 Artist. Conscious Horrors. University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/12/04 Co-Artist. Shanks, A; Solís, M. Ave Dominus. University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/10/24 Co-Artist. Shanks, A. Meatsacks. Coulees of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/9/22 Collaborator. Doody, T; Uchikura, G. Saving Seeds Action. Trapdoor Artist-Run Centre, 1267 2A Avenue N, Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/6/12, 2017/6/09 Co-Artist. McGinnis, V. Domination. The Works, Exhibition for Landmarks, Edmonton, Alberta
2017/3/24 Artist. If the Body is a Temple, Why are the Emotions and the Mind not? Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta
Artist Residency
2026/8 - 2026/9 PRAKSIS residency: Rethinking Tourism: Network for Creativity, Culture, and Community in Tourism, in collaboration with KORO, Lotofen, Norway
2026/7 Agua viva / Water residency, Santa Rosa Arts, Christina Lake, British Columbia, Canada
2025/11 PRAKSIS residency: Rethinking Tourism: Network for Creativity, Culture, and Community in Tourism, in collaboration with KORO and Samong Haven, Bali, Indonesia
2025/5 - 2025/10 Gardener in Residency, 50/50 Garden of Resilience, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/2/07 - 2025/2/09 Writing retreat: the Meaningful Mundane, Balsam Falls, Bancroft, Ontario
2023/10/22 - 2023/11/9 Sculpture residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, United States, offered // declined
2022/9 - 2023/9 Online Participant Artist, R20 - An Urgent Situation: Rethinking Tourism through Architecture, Art and Community, developed with Eleena Jamil Architect, Don Lawrence Architect, Rebel Architecture Lab, Samong Haven Bali, and Tanja Thorjussen, PRAKSIS, Norway
2022/10 MFA Residency, led by Bojana Videkanic, private location, Ontario
2021/10 MFA Residency, led by Logan MacDonald, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Ontario
2021/5 - 2021/8 Mentee of Lauren Fensterstock, Living in Question, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine. Online Residency
2021/4 - 2021/6 Yorath House Resident Artist, with Alicia Proudfoot, Edmonton Arts Council and the City of Edmonton
2021/4 - 2021/5 Online Participant Artist, 2021 Toni Onley Artists’ Project, with Artist Mentors: Michelle Forsyth, Rita McKeough, Joseph Sanchez, and Diana Thorneycroft
2019/6 - 2019/7 Resident Artist, Toni Onley Artists’ Project at Island Mountain Arts, with Artist Mentors: Diana Thorneycroft and Peter von Tiesenhausen
Artist Collectives and Groups
2023 co-founder of CARBON Artist Collective with Arcana Shanks, members: Alicia Proudfoot, Angela Begin, Breanna Barrington, Catherine Chan, Clara Laratta, Clyde Richard Brittain, Cri Kosti, Danielle Petti, Eric Almberg, Garvin Chinnia, Gwen MacGregor, Laura Admussen, Leila Refahi, Justine Langille, Rahel Elias, Rocio Graham, Rose L. Williams, Shannon Taylor-Jones, and Shawnee Danielle
2018-2021 co-founder of Autonomous Meatsacks with Arcana Shanks, members: Alicia Proudfoot, Autumn Sjolie, Eric Almberg, and Migueltzinta Solís
Academic Work Experience
2025/1 - 2025/4 Teaching Assistant, VCULT/FINE 101 for Doctor Bojana Videkanic, Fine Arts, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/7 - 2025/1 Writing and Communication Advisor of Graduate and Postdoctoral Programming, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/10 CTE660 Instructional Skills Workshop, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/4 - 2023/7 S.A.I.L. Instructor and Coordinator, Student Art Innovation Lab, Fine Art Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/9 - 2022/12 Sessional Professor, FINE 150, Fine Arts, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/1 - 2022/4 Teaching Assistant, FINE 223, Fine Arts, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/9 - 2021/12 Fundamentals of University Teaching, 20 hour program, The Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/9 - 2021/12 Teaching Assistant, FINE 100, Fine Arts, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2019/5 - 2019/9 Research Assistant for Leslie Sharpe, Fine Arts, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta
2018/4 - 2018/9 Research Assistant for Mary Kavanagh, Fine Arts, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/4 - 2017/8 Fine Art Faculty Assistant, Fine Arts, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta
Artistic Work Experience
2025/5 - 2025/9 Workshop Facilitator, Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/5/23 - 2026/5/22 Artwork Installation Technician, Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
2025/4 - 2026/10 Administration, Research Facilitator for Regionalizing Social Media, Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/3 - 2026/5 Administrator, Grant Writer, and Intern, Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/4 - 2026/4 Administrator for CARBON Collective, National Collective
2024/4 - 2026/4 Administrator and Project Manager for Monster Pageant, mentored by Inter Arts Matrix and Pat the Dog Theatre Creation, Kitchener, Ontario
2022/5 - 2022/7 Artist Intern and Festival Organizer with LATERNA (Inger-Reidun Olsen and Marianne Skjeldal), Oslo, Norway
2022/5 - 2022/7 Artist Intern and Project Manager with LOCUS (Thale Fastvold and Tanja Thorjussen), Oslo, Norway
2021/10 - 2021/11 Artwork Installation Technician, Art$Pay, Waterloo, Ontario
2020/10 - 2020/11 Round Table: Grants Consultation for Individual Artists, Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta
2018/1 - 2018/4 Museum Studies Internship, Art History/Museum Studies, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/4 - 2017/8 Contracted Independent Photographer for Landmarks with Partners in Art, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta
Workshop Facilitation
2025/11 Botanical Cyanotypes at Samong Haven with the children of Sumberkima, Bali, Indonesia
2025/10 Milkweed Papermaking Workshop, 50/50 Garden of Resilience, KWAG, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/10 The Art of Protest, Spectrum Arts, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/9 Dandelion Papermaking Workshop, 50/50 Garden of Resilience, KWAG, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/8 Botanical Harvest and Paper Making, Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/8 Sounds and Movement of the Land, 50/50 Garden of Resilience, KWAG, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/6 Botanical Scents and Poetic Murmurs, 50/50 Garden of Resilience, KWAG, Kitchener, Ontario
2025/6 Botanical Harvest and Paper Making, Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/4 Rock Your Thesis 3: Revise and Submit, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2024/3 Rock Your Thesis 2: Starting to write, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2024/2 Rock Your Thesis 1: Plan your project, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2024/1 Rock Your Thesis 3: Revise and Submit, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2023/10 Rock Your Thesis 2: Starting to write, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2023/9 Rock Your Thesis 1: Plan your project, Writing and Communication Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2023/9 Prints and Screen printing, CAFKA, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/7 Indigo Dye, Paper Making and herb identification, RARE eco camps, S.A.I.L., Cambridge, Ontario
2023/7 Indigo Dye, Y.A.C. campers, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/7/12 Community Paintings, Campfire concerts, Waterloo Square, Ontario
2023/7/8 Flag Making and Stamps, Cherry Festival, Cherry Park, Kitchener, Ontario
2023/7/1 Community Paintings Event, the Homer Watson Gallery, Waterloo Park, Ontario
2023/6/25 Flag Making and stamps, Multicultural Festival, Victoria Park, Kitchener, Ontario
2023/6/8 Making Instruments, Grande Porch Party, Uptown Waterloo, Ontario
2023/6 Prints and Stamps, Service Centre Employee Celebration Day, Waterloo Service Centre, Ontario
2023/6/3 Prints and Stamps, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2023/6 Exquisite Corpse Prints, WRDSB Alternative, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/6 Paper Making, Grande River Grade School, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/5 Cyanotypes and Mono-prints, St. Mary’s High, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/5 Shadow Drawings and Exquisite Corpses, Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Ontario
Artist Presentations and Conferences
2025 Presenter. Rethinking Nationhood through Tourism, Heritage and Ecology. The Rethinking Tourism Network and Warmadewa International Interdisciplinary Studies Programme, Warmadewa University, Bali, Indonesia
2025 Artist Talk at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2024 Deep listening of Place: presentation in collaboration with Clara Laratta. Gathering otherwise alongside: A field school in place, UAAC, Western University, London, Ontario
2024 Ethos of materiality: balance, bodies, branches and beinghood, Chairing in collaboration with Clara Laratta, UAAC, Western University, London, Ontario
2024 The Rotten Truth: Blooming in the Scummy Mess of Colonial-Capitalist Legacies, in collaboration with Clara Laratta, FEMeeting, Windsor University, Ontario
2024 Entangled Communication: Bridging the Species Divide with Collaborative Art Practices, in collaboration with Arcana Shanks, FEMeeting, Windsor University, Ontario
2024 Holistic Frameworks: Laying the Conversational Groundwork for Accessible Futures. The Futures of Writing Centres. The Canadian Writing Centres Association / association canadienne des centres de rédaction. Online
2024 What Could High PhD Student Engagement Look Like at Waterloo? 15th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, Ontario
2023 “I thought you could only do English there”: creating a new space/place for anti-oppressive teaching and learning within the writing centre. Unwriting the Centre Virtual Conference. The Canadian Writing Centres Association / association canadienne des centres de rédaction
2023 Session 105: Panel Discussion - Enacting Sustainable Pedagogies of Kindness and Care: Insights and Counterstories from the Peer Tutor Program at UWaterloo’s Writing and Communication Centre. 14th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference
2023 My wellbeing matters to your wellbeing: How UDL fosters caring learning environments for instructors and students. Online Pre Conference Panel, 14th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference.
2023 Panel Discussion. UDL & Wellbeing CoP: Centering Student Voices. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) & Wellbeing Community of Practice
2022 Shantz Presentation, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021 Guest Speaker, Microlearning Program Presentation by SkirtsAfire, Alberta. Online
2021 Artist Talk with Alicia Proudfoot and Stephanie Florence, hosted by April Dean. Yorath House Studio Placement, Edmonton, Alberta
2021 The Human Wheel. In the Weeds Artist Talks at Lowlands Project Space, Edmonton, Alberta
Texts, Publications, and Catalogues
Florence, S. 2025. “Echoes of Essence,” PRAKSIS and Danish Architectural Press, ed. N. Jones and R. Withers. Oslo, Norway. In Progress.
Lawrence, D; Florence, S; & Darkhabani, A. 2025. “A New Manifesto for Slow Tourism and Regenerative Architecture,” PRAKSIS and Danish Architectural Press, ed. N. Jones and R. Withers. Oslo, Norway. In Progress.
Anglin, E. artwork by Florence, S featured in “Ribbon Zine.” Kitchener Artist in Residence, City of Kitchener, Kitchener, Ontario.
Florence, S. 2024. “Call to Action 52.” Poetic Echoes From The Land, edited by The Thunderbird Sisters Collective, McMaster University, Ontario.
Florence-Wilson, S. 2023. rinse and repeat. UWSpace.
Florence, S; Sjølie, A. 2021. COVID COLLECTIONS. 1st Edition: 1-176 pages, printed book.
Florence, S; Shanks, A. 2019. "Minimalism and Extinction: Stephanie Patrice Florence". Murze. (9) 41-44 pages.
2019/4 Open Studio Studio Exhibition, 2018-2019. Ed. by Maruschak, N. University of Lethbridge.
Broadcast Interviews
2025/7/21 Interview with Marinus de Groot on the Gardener-in-Residence program at KWAG, Promenade: community radio magazine, Kitchener, Ontario
2021/10/24 Interview with Hiba Kamal-Choufi on COVID COLLECTIONS, CityNews, Edmonton, Alberta, Rogers Media
2021/6/21 Artist Talk and Interview with Curator April Dean, SNAP Gallery and Edmonton Arts Council, YouTube
2021/3/09 Interview with Tony King: SkirtsAfire exhibits ‘Systematic Contractions’, CKUA Radio Network, Edmonton, Alberta, CKUA Radio Network
2021/3/04 Interview with Cassidy Shandro: SkirtsAfire exhibits ‘Systematic Contractions’, NAIT Broadcasting program, Edmonton, Alberta
Artistic Professional Development
2025/5 Participant, Broom Craft: The Art of the Hand Broom with Amy Lou Taylor, Fulcrum Skill Share, Coyote Tales Farm Studios, Bancroft, Ontario
2025/5 Participant, From Hive to Flame: A Deep Dive into Beeswax Candle Making with Talli Chaimovitz, Fulcrum Skill Share, Coyote Tales Farm Studios, Bancroft, Ontario
2025/5 Participant, Gnome Home Bark Carving Intermediate Class with Cindy Frank, Chipping Away, Waterloo, Ontario
2025/3 Participant, “Strange Victory Performance Lab” with Tori Morrison and David Gagnon Walker, Femmes Folks Fest, Waterloo, Ontario
2025/2 Participant and Contributor, “Ribbon Zine Workshop” with Ellie Anglin, Kitchener Artist-in-Residence, Ontario
2025/1 Participant, “How to Apply for Grants” with Isabella Stefanescu, CAFKA, at Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/3 Participant, Artists’ Income Tax: Information Session, CAFKA, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/1 - 2024/2 Participant, Musicking and Shamanism (Celtic) Class and Creative Lab with Musician and Performer Mikey Kirkpatrick, Online
2023/8 - 2023/10 Participant, The Mystical in Art, Finding the Truth in Your Soul Expression with Artist Tanja Thorjussen, Online
2022/11 Participant, From Land Acknowledgement to Land Back! (for settlers), Amplify Restorative Justice, Waterloo, Ontario, Online
2022/9 Participant, COMPASS: to re-orient our practice of being together (WORKSHOP) led by lo bil, 7A*11D, Toronto, Ontario
2021/11 Participant, Research-Creation and Global Crisis: Interdisciplinarity, Creativity, and Collaboration with Natalie Loveless, SPAR²C, University of Alberta. Online
2021/11 Participant, Art, Activism and Global Crisis: Fiona Foley, SPAR²C, University of Alberta. Online
2021/10 Participant, LitFest Presents: Covid Collections, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
2021/9 Grant-Writing Clinic and Coworking Day, Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario. Online Workshop
2019/3 Participant, Cindy Baker: Words of Wisdom, University of Lethbridge, Alberta. Workshop
2019/2 Participant, Winter Survival Course, Karamat Wilderness Ways, Boreal Forest, Alberta
2019/2 Participant, Trail of Crumbs: An Interdisciplinary Creation Workshop with Andrea Spaziani, University of Lethbridge, Alberta. Workshop
2018/9 Participant, M:ST 9 Search Engines Workshop with Adriana Disman & Didier Morelli, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta. Workshop
2018/5 Participant, Leather-tooling workshop with Flint Leather, Lethbridge, Alberta. Workshop
2018/2 Participant, Articulations: Dr. Erin Manning - Synaesthesia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta
2018/1 Participant, Glass-blowing Workshop with Pixie Glass, Edmonton, Alberta. Workshop
Academic Professional Development
2025/2 Brave Conversations: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Learning System for Navigation in Dynamic Time, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/8 Teaching Graduate Students about GenAI use through the Literature Review Writing Process, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/8 Emergency Preparedness, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/7 Office Ergonomics (SO1056), University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/6 Cyber Awareness for Knowledge Workers, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/5 Accessibility Features for Zoom Hosts, Online Zoom, Waterloo, Ontario
2024/5 Sexual Violence Awareness Month - Speaker Series: Christine Taylor, Lillie Proksch, Nicky Carswell, Taneah Ugwuegbula & Jay Love, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/5 Sparking and Sustaining Engagement, University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, Ontario.
2024/2 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Methods, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2024/1 Intro to Project Management, Online, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/2 Cyber Awareness Essentials, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/7 SVPR101 Sexual Violence Awareness: Referral and Support, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2023/11 Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression Training, 10 hour program, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/6 - 2022/7 CTE7013 Research & Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships: A Learning Circle Series, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/5 CW2005 Alleviating Anxiety, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/5 INI202 You Don't Know What You Don't Know Part I, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/4 Waterloo International Pre-Departure Training, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/2 Culturally Responsive Teaching (CTE2409), Fundamentals of University Teaching, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/8 Accessibility Training, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/8 AccessAbility Services, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/8 Employee Safety Orientation (SO1001), University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/8 SO1100 Supervisor Orientation Online, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/8 SO1081 Workplace Violence Awareness, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/8 SO2017 WHMIS 2015, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Relevant Volunteer and Leadership Experience
2025/5 - 2025/9 Volunteer Gardener, Veradis Garden, KWAG, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/8 - 2025/3 Invited Advisor for paper making, KWAG Youth Council, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/12 - 2026/12 Appointed Councillor, Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, Kitchener, Ontario
2024/5 Volunteer. Moderator for The Futures of Writing Centres conference, CWCA/ACCR
2024/3 Volunteer. Peer Reviewer for The Futures of Writing Centres conference, CWCA/ ACCR
2024/2 - 2025/2 Volunteer Chair and Board Member for Public Art Working Group, Kitchener, Ontario
2023/6 - 2023/8 - Volunteer for CAFKA 2023, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2022/4 Volunteer for Sugar-Bush Clean Up, White Owl Sugar Bush, Kitchener, Ontario
2022/2 - 2023/03 Elected Fine Arts Graduate Student Association, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/10 - 2021/12 University of Waterloo Fourth-Year Mentorship Program, University of Waterloo, Ontario
2021/9 - 2021/10 Volunteer COVID Screener, IMPACT 21, Waterloo, Ontario
2021/7 Volunteer Gallery Attendant, Lowlands Project Space, Alberta
2019/11 Volunteer for Schmoozy, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
2019/1 - 2019/4 Art Booth for Earth Day, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/10 - 2019/4 Art Society Mentorship Program, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/8 - 2019/4 Public Relations Executive for the Art Society Club, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2018/6 Volunteer for Play Day with University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/10 - 2018/4 Volunteer for the Art Society, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/9 - 2018/1 Volunteer for University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2017/9 Volunteer Installation technician for the exhibition FIFTY, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2016/1 - 2017/4 Public Relations Executive for the Fine Art Club, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta
2016/10 Volunteer for Schmoozy, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
I, Stephanie Florence, acknowledge that I have conducted creative research and gained as a settler in the Indigenous land, amiskwacîwâskahikan, which is located on Treaty 6 territory, the traditional lands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. amiskwacîwâskahikan is home to a diverse range of Indigenous nations and peoples, including the nêhiyawak / Cree, Niitsitapi / Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Haudenosaunee / Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway / Saulteaux / Anishinaabeg, Tsuutʼina, and Inuit. I am committed to combatting colonization, racism, ableism, and cis-hetero-patriarchy by acknowledging my inherent privilege as a white Canadian settler and attempting to make inclusive safe spaces for all perspectives.
Subsequently, I do not believe the Canadian government or Crown has ever attempted to act with honour in any legal standing with Indigenous peoples as Modern Specific and Comprehensive Land Claims and Treaties are continuously broken. The “Doctrine of Discovery” and terra nullius are racist and antiquated forms of religious legal standing that do not give the colonial-Canadian-state a right to rule, discriminate, steal, and murder Indigenous peoples, their lands, and their sovereignty. In essence, Indigenous peoples are the rightful heirs of Turtle Island and should be consulted and considered in every decision that affects land and kin.
Currently, I am producing artwork on the O:se Kenhionhata:tie--Willow Creek watershed—or the so-called Haldimand Tract, which was "given" to Haudenosaunee peoples after the loss of their traditional home lands due to the American Revolution. Traditionally this land belonged to the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. As a second generation Canadian, I am grateful to the nations of Turtle Island and believe they are the rightful guardians and keepers of the land I have grown up in. I stand in solidarity with all Treaty peoples that further the systemic breakdown of racism and colonialism that is embedded deeply in the Canadian state.
Subsequently, I do not believe the Canadian government or Crown has ever attempted to act with honour in any legal standing with Indigenous peoples as Modern Specific and Comprehensive Land Claims and Treaties are continuously broken. The “Doctrine of Discovery” and terra nullius are racist and antiquated forms of religious legal standing that do not give the colonial-Canadian-state a right to rule, discriminate, steal, and murder Indigenous peoples, their lands, and their sovereignty. In essence, Indigenous peoples are the rightful heirs of Turtle Island and should be consulted and considered in every decision that affects land and kin.
Currently, I am producing artwork on the O:se Kenhionhata:tie--Willow Creek watershed—or the so-called Haldimand Tract, which was "given" to Haudenosaunee peoples after the loss of their traditional home lands due to the American Revolution. Traditionally this land belonged to the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. As a second generation Canadian, I am grateful to the nations of Turtle Island and believe they are the rightful guardians and keepers of the land I have grown up in. I stand in solidarity with all Treaty peoples that further the systemic breakdown of racism and colonialism that is embedded deeply in the Canadian state.
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