we're gonna die gallery

Elisa shigehiro

Elisa Shigehiro is a Japanese Canadian painter and tattoo artist. She is currently a full time tattooer specializing in illustrative black work fine line at Jade & Dagger Tattoo in Calgary, Alberta. For tattoo work, see @spinster.tattoo on Instagram; for painting/illustration work, see @elisashigehiro.

BRi Strong

Bri Strong (they/them) is of settler ancestry, namely Icelandic, Hungarian, German and English. They are living as an uninvited guest within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples. They have a reverence and deep gratitude for the Tsawout First Nation and their ongoing stewardship of the land.

@bad_taiste

Bri's life is governed by queer love and a protectiveness over people’s creative lives The activities that help counter a persistent existential concern include artmaking, world-building and community care. Their favourite playgrounds are art + design, transdisciplinary collaborations and writing circles.

They are an Alberta University of the Arts alum in Moh’kinstsis and currently leads a creative agency that they co-founded with their twin. Over the past decade, Bri has helped start autonomous collectives, test new frameworks for learning + teaching, and worked as an exhibiting artist. They continue to learn from and collaborate with some of the most exciting people on the planet

Bri’s hope is to accidentally illuminate something meaningful to someone through drawing or writing one day. For now, they live with an acute awareness that they are a future earth snack. So, they spend their free time getting the garden ready