Curatorial Fellowship Program
Sandra Ngenge Dusabe | 2025
Sandra Ngenge Dusabe (gen-geh doo-sa-beh) is a painter, curator and cultural creator based in Ottawa, Canada. After completing her BFA at the University of Ottawa, she’s taken the knowledge and passion cultivated from her time in school and transferred that dedication and care to program conceptually coherent and authentic experiences catered to Black and Femme artists located on Turtle Island. While continuously balancing the advantages and drawbacks of making art in Canada, these challenges have yielded a continuous streak of successful events and exhibits presented through The Moving Art Gallery, her personal curatorial initiative. She has curated over 5 shows, which have been exhibited at Saw Gallery, Carleton University Art Gallery and SPAO: Photographic Arts Centre. She has also been exhibited as a painter in 7 shows, and has been the recipient of several grants from the City of Ottawa, Canada Council of the Arts and the Ingenium Foundation.
Regatu Asefa | 2024
Regatu Asefa (she/her) is a curator and art historian based in Toronto and Oxford, where she is completing her MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture. Her practice prioritizes non-visual sensory experiences and body engagement in the formations of place and identity, with a particular focus on arts of the Islamic world. In her current position as Curatorial Resident at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, she has been researching and exploring social experiences of scent through Islamic ceramics, focusing on the ways in which scent has articulated women’s social spheres. Recent curatorial projects include Behind the Curtain and My Body is Wherever it Has Something to Do as the inaugural Curator-in-Residence position at NAMARA | projects; Inviting the Conflict (Ottawa Art Gallery); 83 ‘Til Infinity: 40 Years of Hip-Hop in the Ottawa/Gatineau Region (Ottawa Art Gallery); and Where We Stand (Carleton University Art Gallery). She holds both an MA in Art and Architectural History and a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies.
Yanaminah Thullah | 2023
Yanaminah (Yah-nah-mee-nah) Thullah is an award-winning community builder with a rich background curating, public speaking, and consulting.
Named “One to Watch” by the Black Diplomats Academy, she has appeared on CBC Radio to discuss her curatorial work and has spoken on prominent stages such as the National Gallery of Canada. Known for curating exhibits and events that uplift marginalized artists, her notable projects include “Beyond The Body” with Design TO and “We Do Not Dream of Labour” at the Ottawa Art Gallery.
As a seasoned consultant, Yanaminah has worked with clients like the Department of Justice, COYA Productions, and Urban Alliance on Race Relations. Her diverse practice is rooted in a passion for world-building, informed by her trilingual degree (English, French, Spanish) in International Relations from the University of Ottawa, which has enabled her to work in various capacities both domestically and internationally.
She is committed to increasing representation and intercultural awareness in every space she engages with to facilitate institutional growth.
