Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally and is represented in many corporate, private, and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. Her artistic practice includes installation, drawing, object-making, photography, film, writing, and community-engaged collaboration and performance; it has explored the fisheries, the body, female labour, placemaking, the nature of knowledge, and notions of the “local.” Hall was the first artist-in-residence in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University and was their inaugural Public Engagement Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2013, she received an Interdisciplinary PhD from Memorial University.
Jerry Evans is a senior Mi’kmaw visual artist, curator, and filmmaker. His work has explored his Indigenous heritage through painting, printmaking, and film, and he curated First, the 1996 inaugural exhibition of Indigenous art in Newfoundland and Labrador. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is represented in many corporate, public, and private collections, including at the Indigenous Art Centre. The Middle River is his first major community collaboration with another artist and represents his ongoing exploration and celebration of Mi’kmaw and other Indigenous experience in Newfoundland and Labrador.