Katie Butler-Major
(Secretary)
Katie Butler Major, from St. John’s, graduated from Memorial University in 2008 with a degree in English (specialization in Drama) and a diploma in Performance and Communications Media. She has worked for numerous not-for-profit organizations such as the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, Rabbittown Theatre Company, the New World Theatre Project and VANL-CARFAC. Katie is also an actor. Past credits include: Wit (SWFT), 5 New Very Short Plays in the Sand (newfoundlandartistx), Love You Forever and More Stories by Robert Munsch; and Closer (c2c theatre). She is currently the Communications and Marketing Officer at Resource Centre for the Arts.
Pepa Chan
Pepa Chan is a self-taught visual artist, art educator and collector originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the gallery assistant at St. Michael’s Printshop and a screen printer at Living Planet Studio in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Chan is interested in the lost, the tortured, the sick and the tormented. Her work focuses in unravelling memories embedded in objects, especially toys, and working with childhood trauma as a strong focus. Chan works with sculpture, painting, printmaking, performance and installation art. In addition to being part of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection, Chan’s work has been featured in exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. She also holds various private collections in North America, Argentina and the UK.