Meet The Board
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Chair
Krista Crellin is the Chair of the Moosomin Visual Arts Centre. She was born and raised in Moosomin and lives here now with her husband, Devon, and their three daughters. Krista is an award-winning professional portrait photographer and owner of Krista Crellin Photography. She is also the Executive Director of the Professional Photographers of Canada. Art has always been an important part of Krista's life, one of her favorite things to do is plan and daydream about her next creative project. Her passion for art and the desire to serve her community was the catalyst for the creation of the arts centre. She can't wait to see all the beautiful art created there!
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Joy is a registered counselling therapist with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada and student member of Canadian Professional Counsellors Association as she furthers her career. Joy is dedicated to helping people find their inner joy and discovering the strength that lives within them. She is a decendant of residential school surviors and carries traditional Indigenous knowledge and healing into her private practice. "Miyo Pimatisiwin" – " living the good life" focuses on the transformative journey of post-traumatic and emotional growth. As a survivor of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Joy's goal is providing compassionate, holistic, and empowering counselling services to a broad demographic. She is the founder of Find Your Joy Counseling in Moosomin, Saskatchewan. She is also the proprietor of The Family Stones artwork and is one of the founding members of the Moosomin Visual Arts Center. Joy began her artistic journey as a means to coping with PTSD and is passionate about healing through creation. She is currently completing her art therapy coaching certificate.
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June VanDeKerckhove is a dedicated financial advisor with a passion for helping clients achieve their financial goals. When not working with numbers, she enjoys exploring creative outlets through arts and crafts, including watercolour, acrylic painting, and quilting. In the warmer months June spends much of her free time in her greenhouse and garden.
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Vice Chair
Terry Grant is currently sitting as the vice chair of the Moosomin Visual Arts Center Board.
Terry has always loved art in all forms and this has been the impetus to his contributions in the creation of MVAC. He has coveted funky homemade pieces and has collected all throughout his life. From antique mushroom lamps of our childhood, carved wooden old men faces found in a flea market in Cuba to eclectic pieces he has collected from family, markets and second hand stores, his life is surrounded in cherished art.
Terry’s art journey has so many faceted sides. He has tried his hand at many different art forms and his portfolio is ever expanding. Terry has worked with metal during silversmithing crafting with silver and copper , leather as he has made homemade leather goods, cake decorating with his wife Jen, glass as he has tried glass blowing and took numerous stained glass classes and fell in love with the process, water while he created wonderful water colours and played with shading and textures, words as he stumbled upon the joy of weaving them into poetry and has even found himself published, now he has turned his talents to clay.
His pottery can be found in the town of Moosomin and he is continuing to hone his craft. Terry has recently stepped into an instructor role in the clay studio and is truly loving the experience. He is excited to be a part of the board and focused on growing and promoting the arts and art community within Moosomin and the surrounding area.
According to Terry’s wife, he may or may not have a volunteering addiction. He is very community minded and excited to see the dream of a community artist consortium become a reality.
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Rose Mailloux is a creative force to be reckoned with. Born in Alberta and raised in Saskatchewan, she has transformed her life's challenges into opportunities for growth, healing, and inspiration. With a passion for psychology, art, music, and creative expression, Rose dedicates herself to spreading mental health awareness, support, and encouragement.
As a published author, Rose has released her debut book, "Bipolar Flower," under the pen name E.R. Magdalen. This accomplishment marks the beginning of a promising writing career, with multiple books in the works.
Rose's artistic talents extend to various mediums, including:
1.Watercolour, acrylic, and sketching: She has explored different techniques and styles, showcasing her versatility as an artist.
2. Commissioned murals: Rose designed and painted two life-size murals, infusing them with vibrant colours and energy.
3. Catholic cards, mugs, and notepads: Her artwork adorns these items, which she sells, sharing her creativity with others under the business name of Eccentric Rose Art.
4.Photography: Rose honed her photography skills, working in the past as a freelance reporter and capturing memories at weddings and graduations.
Rose currently volunteers at MVAC, where she assists with teaching children in the after-school program. This experience has allowed her to grow both personally and creatively.
Through her experiences, Rose Mailloux has learned valuable lessons and developed as a person. She can’t wait for her next adventure!
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Jen has been involved in MVAC since its inception, working behind the scenes and supporting the transformation from dream to reality. She was instrumental in setting up the kitchen and stocking it to be ready for cooking programs. With decades of professional culinary experience she has made sure all culinary programming had all the bits and pieces to make beautiful meals, breads and memories. Jen has offered children’s cooking programs in the early days of the MVAC and it has taken off from there. She is very excited to be a part of the MVAC family and has decided to officially join the board.
Since being very young Jen has always loved cooking and baking. Her family can still remember all the home made soup nights and the kids birthday parties where each child got to decorate their own cake. Jen has imaginatively created gluten free breads and recipes that would rival the taste of the regular “poison” recipes, as Terry famously calls regular breads, cookies and dishes made with flour!
Jen wouldn’t consider herself to be a creative person but she has tried her hand at many
different forms of creative expression. Jen has decorated beautiful cakes since the kids were little, graduating from star tips and molded cake pans to multi tiered wedding cakes with fondant, sugar flowers and decorations. Jen has practiced cross stitch, counting patterns and working even precise stitches. She has sewn numerous projects and has most recently taken up quilting where she gets a chance to put her eye for color combinations and patterns together to make functional heirlooms for family and friends. Jen works in the Hospital kitchen where she is the head cook, in this role she is able to combine her skills of organization with her love of cooking. Jen is married to Terry and together they are the proud parents of three adult kids. She loves to spend her spare time (the little that Terry hasn’t filled with a new project) quilting, chilling with the family's 2 Schnauzers, camping, cooking, baking, and spending time with family and friends.
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Lyla is a retired dental therapist who enjoys volunteering in the community and crafting.
She devotes time to traveling with her several grandchildren and supporting their sports activities.She enjoys learning new skills and sharing her knowledge of crafting with others.
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When she’s not busy being a financial planning whiz, cheering on her son’s latest game, or navigating the whirlwind of her daughter’s dance season, Kyla can be found volunteering at the Moosomin Visual Arts Centre, tossing out ideas and keeping the artists and patrons fed. A lifelong lover of the performing arts—piano and musicals are her jam—she’s passionate about supporting creativity in all its forms. Whether she’s brainstorming event concepts, prepping food for an opening, or just admiring the work of those with steadier hands, she brings enthusiasm, humor, and an uncanny ability to find the best snacks at any gathering.
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J’aime is the treasurer of the Moosomin Visual Arts Centre and the founder of Breeze Business Management, a virtual bookkeeping firm that served clients across Canada (now sold as she shifts focus to her next venture). With over a decade of experience, she built expertise across trades, retail, hospitality, construction, and creative sectors (including pottery and private chefs), as well as insurance, logging, and rental properties, and is an Elite Advanced QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before accounting and business management, J’aime was a professional songwriter in Toronto, served as Director of Member Services at the Canadian Recording Artists’ Association, and founded The Snow Lake Initiative, a social enterprise supporting creative entrepreneurs across Canada.
In 2021, Breeze began beta testing The Accounting Club Software, which became fully operational across Canada by 2024; J’aime no longer runs The Accounting Club, and Waystone Software (her software company) is currently on the backburner while she gets Moosospin Studio off the ground.
J’aime relocated from Huntsville, Ontario to Saskatchewan in 2022 and has lived in Moosomin since July 2024, working remotely to support her team and clients across Canada. She also co-runs Little Film Fest on the Prairies with Kyla and runs thingstodoinmoosomin.ca.
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I'm a self-taught designer from Ukraine, currently working as a graphic designer in "The World-Spectator". I have a broad experience in modern & illustrative logo design, business cards, posters, advertisement etc.; creating logo reveals and 2D animation; drawing digital illustrations in 3D; watercolor patterns for textile, cards and wedding invitations, etc.