CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

MA Spiritualities and Community Engagement (Theology) - Martin Luther University College (Wilfrid Laurier, Waterloo) degree to be completed April 2026

Diploma: Expressive Arts Therapy - The Create Institute (Toronto), graduated 2011

Canadian Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist, Perinatal Grief and Loss, Perinatal Birth and Reproductive Trauma - Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Trainings

Anti-Racism Course - Selam Debs

Advanced Psychotherapy, MMH Certificate Course - Postpartum Support International (PSI)

Level II Artist Educator – The Royal Conservatory

Toronto Metropolitan University - Fashion Communications (completed 3 years)

Professional Experience

2020-pres Catherine Mellinger EXAT, CC-PMH Expressive Arts Therapist in Private Practice

2021-pres YW Kitchener-Waterloo, Expressive Arts Therapist, group and individual

2020-2025 Together for Perinatal Mental Health Inc. Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

2021, 2025 Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council

2017-pres Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Artist-Educator/Expressive Arts Facilitator, outreach programs

2017-2022 Button Factory Arts, Artist-Educator/Expressive Arts Therapist, outreach programs

2019-2020 Chartwell-Westmount Long Term Care, Expressive Arts Therapist

2007-2013 The Royal Conservatory, Artist-Facilitator, Living Through the Arts & ArtsRehab program

2008-2011 Roots of Empathy, Curriculum Assistant

2000-2005 Outsourcing International Inc., Assistant to VP Marketing, Private Label Manager

Community Based Arts & Project Management

2025-pres Here, Hold My Grief Project in partnership with Birth Mark, funded by the Ontario Arts Council

2025 YWCA Hamilton, Pilot Expressive Arts Therapy Program, Red Cross Social Prescription Grant for summer arts program

2022-2023 SHORE50, in partnership with SHORE Centre, lead artist funded by the Ontario Arts Council and Region of Waterloo Arts Fund

2017-2021 Post-Part, collaborating artist, exhibited at Come Up to My Room (Gladstone Hotel, Toronto), Rendezvous With Madness (Toronto) and CAFKA’21 partner (Kitchener),

funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

2017 Collage and Connectedness, lead artist, in partnership with Conrad Grebel Centre for Peace Advancement/Grebel Gallery

2016 Pieces of Me, a postpartum community arts project, in partnership with Community HealthCaring (prev. KDCHC), funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

2016 Rights of the Child, with KickStart Arts

Artistic Collaborations

2024-pres (M)otherload, collaboration with Kristyna Balaban, funded by the Waterloo Region Community Foundation

2017 Deep Salt Water, suite of images produced for the book by Marianne Apostolides in artistic exchange process

Exhibitions

2025 Hello, My Name Is … Solo Exhibition, Arcadia Gallery (Toronto, ON)

2025. Becoming, as Rehoming - Group Show Curated by Coman Poon, Arcadia Art Gallery (Toronto, ON)

2025 $acred Motherhood - Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL)

2024 Woman: Defining Our Representation - Online group exhibition, Black House Artist

2024 (Un)paved - Mural, City of Kitchener’s Gaukel Block project (Kitchener, ON)

2024 Out of Sight - Group exhibition, Hamilton Arts Inc., (Hamilton, ON)

2024 Gifts of Madness - Group exhibition, Penticton Art Gallery (Penticton, BC)

2024 Faces & Figures - Online group exhibition, Site:Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY)

2023 Arts, Hearts and Healing - Group exhibition, 44 Gaukel (Kitchener, ON)

2022 Mixed Media - Online group exhibition, Site:Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY)

2021 Mother Complex - Online group exhibition, Button Factory Arts (Waterloo, ON)

2021 Post-Part - Lead artist/collaborator, outdoor interactive inter-arts project in partnership with the City of Kitchener (Kitchener, ON)

2021 “You are not wonderful just because you are a Mother.” - Online group exhibition, Artist/Mother Podcast

2020 Politically Charged - Group exhibition, Blue Line Arts (Roseville, CA)

2020 Post-Part - Rendez-Vous With Madness Festival, participating artist. Collaborators Adam Harendorf, Pazit Cahlon, Nat Janin (Toronto,

ON)

2019 Landscapes of the Interior// The mind and body of collage, Group exhibition Campbell River Art Gallery (Campbell River, BC)

2019 Collage - Group exhibition, Site: Brooklyn Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)

2018 Post-part - Come Up To My Room, Inter-arts installation in collaboration with Pazit Cahlon and Nat Janin (Toronto, ON)

2018 Deep Salt Water - Solo show, Toronto Public Library's Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre (Toronto, ON)

2017 The Jump Off - Group exhibition, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), (Lansing, MI)

2017 Deep Salt Water - Solo exhibition, Open Sesame Gallery (Kitchener, ON)

2017 Deep Salt Water - Gallery 345, with photographer Melanie Gordon (Toronto, ON)

2017 Shadow & Reflection - Group exhibition, Sebastapol Centre for the Arts (Sebastopol, CA)

2017 Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Arts Festival  (Vancouver, ON)

2017 Marvelous: International Exhibit of Collage - group exhibition, Sebastapol Centre for the Arts (Sebastopol, CA)

2008-10 Community curated group exhibitions, Octopus Project (Toronto) - Chroma, Hello, X, Small Wonder, FREE, Ladder, Everything Must Go,

Secrets (Nuit Blanche), One Ride Only, Push/Pull, Once, Pink Octopus

Grants & Awards:

2024 Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Artist Project Grant, (M)otherload in collaboration with Kristyna Balaban.

2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development, One North Clown and Creation workshop attendance.

2021 Ontario Arts Council, Engaging Communities and Schools - SHORE50 Project

2021 Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, Project Grant - SHORE50 Project

2020 The Awesome Foundation - Project micro grant - Post-Part

2019 Ontario Arts Council, Disability Project Grant - Let This Be Mine

2019 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant - Let This Be Mine

2019 Ontario Arts Council, Inter-arts Project Grant - Post-Part

2016 Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, Project Grant - Deep Salt Water

2016 Ontario Arts Council, Artist in Community Project Grant - Pieces of Me

Publications:

2025 Kinhouse Exhibition Catalogue

2024 Shards included in Geist Magazine, issue 126

2020 Two studies from Let This Be Mine featured in Room Magazine Issue 43.4, December 2020.

2020 Anemone, Colony, Whips featured within the essay “Abortion as a Feminist Pedagogy of Loss in Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water”

Feminist Studies, April 2019

2017 Weave featured in Issue #33 of Uppercase Magazine, April 2017

2017 Collage suite (cover and inset) created for Deep Salt Water, a poetic memoir by Marianne Apostolides, to be published by Book*hug,

Spring 2017.

2017 Whips, Mess Room featured in Room Magazine Issue 39.4

2017 Making the Cut: Volume 1: Bio and recent works published by Crooks Press, Australia

2015 Saute (4) used as cover image for the chapbook Heiress to a Small Ruin by Sarah J. Sloat. Published by Dancing Girl Press.

2014 Artist Profile, Kolaj Magazine, Issue 10, page 54- 57

2012 This is how far I made it featured in Poiesis; A Journal of Arts & Communication, Volume 14, pg 123