Team & Board

Lacking sleep, proper enunciation and basic social cues, Dale has been fumbling his way through marketing campaigns since….well, his memory is pretty shot too. If you see him stressed out and twirling his hair unconsciously, he’s having a good day.

Emma is a book reader, lover of music and concerts, tea drinker and Mother of Plants. She loves cats, naps and crafts. You can find her reading a book in the park, knitting away on her loom or embroidering something on whatever piece of fabric she can get her hands on. Emma loves all things arts, culture and community.

Jonathan is a genuine spirited multidisciplinary individual exploring all mediums, practices to bring new techniqueranging from abstract interpretive expressionism in acrylic to rorschach, aerosol stencil making and abstract fan art. Enjoys problem solving , skateboarding and playing piano. More recently practicing a style of forced collaboration with reclaimed materials to traverse every bizzare and common practice. A supporter of transformative and social justice connecting and sharing his experience/perspective with anyone to better support and assist the bridge between admin and program.

With almost 30 years of bookkeeping experience beginning in 1990 implementing self-taught practices to various art-based clients. In 2010 Loredana LaCaprara enrolled in a 42-week course with the Toronto Business Development Centre creating a business plan for her sole proprietorship LaLa Books, a bookkeeping service that catered to a niche market of Professional Artisans in the Arts and Film industries.

Paulina is an artist, arts educator, producer and creative consultant. When she is not on stage performing you can catch her going on epic adventures with her energetic kids. Paulina has a huge passion for travel, making art whenever possible and is a voracious reader.

Phyllis loves being outside as much as possible! Trees, flowers, big skies, water, cycling, walking, sweet winds blowing or even in a bit of rain. Reading, swimming and chilling in the summers with loved ones. Love the children – there are so many of them!

Rudy is a lover of all things water, the more immersion the better. She longs to be up north at Dyers Bay every year to spend time swimming, kayaking, reading and hanging in the hammock! This is precious time to connect with the outdoors with her wife and family. In 2013, she swam with the sharks, stingrays and old wise turtles in Belize, a paradise for any piscean!

Sahar Golshan is a writer and language learner. She lives on Indigenous lands governed by treaty relationships as both a settler and the daughter of refugees from Iran, Vietnam, and China. Sahar is developing a collection of creative non-fiction stories and Speaking My Language: a podcast on language and identity.

Sevi is a multidiciplinary artist who has an affinity for nature and animals. She is an avid swimmer and dancer as well, and that’s how she likes to keep fit; after all, she is a burlesque perfomer and wants to keep her bod in tip top shape. When she is not chasing after her adorable 2lb chihuahua, Harley, she can be found tending to her gardens. She is also all about lifting up and representing the trans community, and she runs an artful drop in for trans youth here at SKETCH where she is also an alumni from the Community Arts program.

Sonya Reynolds is a Toronto-based artist working in video and photography. As half of MidKnife Films, she has made several award-winning shadow-puppet animated videos illustrating otherwise forgotten true stories from Toronto’s queer history, which have screened internationally and been the focus of exhibits in collaboration with Videofag, Myseum, and the Glad Day Bookshop. When not at SKETCH you can find her in the park chasing after an extremely energetic toddler, or singing in her Dolly Partin tribute choir.