The Tett Artist Residency provides an opportunity for creative incubation within a thriving and multifaceted community hub of artistic creation, learning and exchange. The Tett Artist Residency program aims to invigorate Tett Centre as a space where artists work and create, foster new community connections, and support the growth of local, emerging artists.
This annual program supports emerging Katarokwi/Kingston-based artists across disciplines with three-month residencies and unlimited studio access. Look out for the call for applicants for our 2027 Tett Artist Residency cohort in September 2026.
Meet the 2026 Tett Artists in Residence
Kellyann Marie and Brittany Dale - Winter
Kellyann Marie and Brittany Dale are bringing together two distinct practices to create work that reflects both of their research and lived experiences. A dialogue between our artistic histories and methods: Brittany’s work centres on Indigenous arts, including quilting and beadwork, to acknowledge colonial histories while honouring resilience; Kellyann’s practice explores Southern identity, matriarchal storytelling, and the experience of poverty through figurative quilting and found materials.
By celebrating the second hand (second hand in that there is a proverbial hand to hold in objects from having been held), Kellyann Marie works to connect queer life-art-home-godliness. The resulting work is paintings and textiles layered with personal narrative, meeting functional objects glorious in their usefulness—always centring the mark of the hand (to be thankful to have hands and that they would be so sweet as to leave a kiss on everything they might touch).
Brittany Dale explores stories of survival and joy while confronting the ongoing erasure of Two-Spirit, Trans, and Queer Indigenous peoples through interdisciplinary practice. Under the stage name Kopy Cat, they have become a recognized performer in Ontario’s burlesque and cabaret community, using movement and narrative to challenge colonial norms and celebrate queer seduction.
Jarena Lee - Spring
Jarena Marie Lee (She/They) is a Black Queer American interdisciplinary artist based in Katarokwi Kingston, Ontario. With a background in Fine arts and Theatre Performance, Lee’s works onstage, on screen and on canvas are calls to the intersections and beauties of the Black Queer American and Canadian experience. Through mixed media portraiture and performance, Lee centres the Black feminine, and the politics of unapologetic being, as an act of resistance.
Lee is co-creator of the Best Budz Collective with writer, Sarra Mirghani. Their collective explores the possibilities of imagining futures of the Black Queer Diaspora through performance, film and visual arts. Best Budz work highlights the complexities that exist within identity and abstract them into the realms of satire and the absurd.
Lee is not only multidisciplinary with media but also through collaboration. Their work highlights themes of identity, community, connection and discovering ancestral histories as pathways of envisioning liberated futures.
Lee Jones - Summer
Lee Jones is a digital media and fibre artist who creates interactive textiles. E-textiles (or electronic textiles) might sound like science-fiction, but are actually a fun and easy way to learn all about electricity and physical computing. In her practice she works with craft communities and develops DIY toolkits so individuals can design and create interactive soft technologies to suit their own needs. She also loves running community e-textile workshops at art galleries and makerspaces, and creating interactive participatory artworks.
More on her website: LeeJones.ca
Shanique Peart - Fall
Shanique Peart is a first-generation, Afro-Canadian, multidisciplinary artist, educator, and arts administrator based in Kingston, Ontario. With a background in dance, photography, performance, and storytelling, her work explores the intersections of movement, identity, and environment.
Shanique’s exploratory essence led her to become a self-taught dancer. Since then, she has explored and become versed in Hip-Hop, Freestyle, Dancehall, Afro Fusion, Modern, and Urban Contemporary styles.
Rooted in collaboration and inspired by community, Shanique blends artistic disciplines to craft stories that reflect shared experiences and collective memory. Through vibrant compositions, she seeks to foster connection and evoke emotion.
Beyond performance, she is actively involved in creative projects across theatre, education, and arts administration, continuing to build spaces where art, culture, and community meet.
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