Akash Inbakumar is an artist and workshop facilitator based in Toronto. Their interdisciplinary practice uses installation, costumes, and  performance to explore ideas of world-building, mythology, and kinship; entering partnerships with multiple mediums, tools, and processes, they conceive material-kin. These kin represent a world where craft objects play the role of carrying family lineage and storyteller, compared to the colonial west’s nuclear family. Queering how information can be passed down multi-generational/multi-specie networks. 

Inbakumar graduated from OCAD University in 2020 with a BFA in Material Art and Design and continued their textile studies at Kawashima Textile School (Kyoto) in 2023. They have shown work in Canada and abroad: Articule (Montréal), Kyoto City Art Museum, Textilmuseet Borås (Sweden), Art Gallery of Burlington, ArtAdress (Oakville) The Robert Mclaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto), Patel Brown Gallery (Toronto), and Xpace Cultural Center (Toronto). They are currently a resident at Terrarium (Toronto and have an upcoming solo exhibition at Craft Ontario (2026).

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Fataba (they/them) is an artisan, writer, movement and sound artist based in Tkaronto and
belongs to a lineage of artisans and farmers from Kenya and Sierra Leone. They spent their
formative years in downtown Toronto and across many parts of Kenya. Fataba’s artistic
collaborations tell a story of the poetics of relation, the affective registers of nature and
intimacy as an unfolding. Through the use of crochet, clay, glass, movement, sound and text,
their mixed-media artistic practice explores rituals & teachings shared in the hearth of the
temporal (aisuru). Their work has been exhibited at Its Ok Studios, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 198
Contemporary Arts and published in Down River Road Magazine, Jalada Africa, Burning House Press and Stedelijk Studies Journal.

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CUE x Capsules residencies 2024: In the fall of 2024 Terrarium launched their first artist residency, the artists in residence were selected through a recommendation process by peer artists in their community. Artists are provided 4 months of studio access, technical support and mentorship to expand their practices and reach their artistic goals. 

2024 Artists in Residence:

      

Kikeyah Alina Chavez (she/her) is I. I am a chicana p’urhépecha pilipina earth worker, seed keeper, curator, transdisciplinary artist. Being a warrior is my artistic practice. Fighting for the freedom to express our beauty. I am here to honour and embody the universal life force within me. My intentions and dreams are to heal memories and remember stories that have been buried so deeply by colonization. I am here to dream and co-create a future that uncovers and restores our indigenous and cultural brilliance and beautyfullness.
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Sun is a Queer Tamil artist and energy conduit based on the margins of Scarborough. They are a drawer, painter, sculptor, and textile artist who creates mixed media visual art. She is an earth worker exploring herbalism, somatics, and doula work. They are also a community builder and arts facilitator. Sun works with community organizations as a web and graphic designer. Check out their work at @lilsun.draws on Instagram or lilsun[dot]art
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