ABOUT
The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History (CUJAH) is a student-run association that aims to showcase the talents of Concordia University’s undergraduate Art History and Fine Arts students by means of an annual journal publication and conference event.
CUJAH strives to provide students with academic and professional opportunities through workshops, events, and online resources. CUJAH is composed of an executive team, an editorial team, and a design team and is assisted by faculty members in the Department of Art History.
We acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters we now call Montreal. Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
Executive Team ↴
Tess Larsen
Editor-In-Chief
Tess Larsen is a writer and emerging art historian based in Moh'kinstis (“Calgary”) and Tiohtià:ke (“Montréal”). Her practice in theatre and performing arts is deeply intertwined with her passion for visualizing radical avenues for embodiment and subjectivity. In their study of Art History at Concordia University, their academic work explores memory and archival practices, and the relationships between Blackness, subjectivity, and representation. Having previously served as the Managing Editor for CUJAH Vol. XXII, Tess is grateful to spend the final year of her undergraduate degree continuously invested in accessible not-for-profit publishing and community building.
Joys Sekpon
Co-Creative Director
Joys Sekpon is a multi-passionate artist devoted to expressing her creativity in its plurality. She works across image-making, writing, and performance, not as separate pursuits but as a unified act of world-building. When creating images, she moves between analog and digital, documentary and fiction, stillness and motion but always aims for the same thing: emotional resonance. She is interested in contrasts: what is public and what is intimate, what is ordinary and what is otherworldly, what is seen and what remains hidden. Above all, her work seeks to affirm life.
With a background in Professional Theatre, she is currently pursuing a BFA in Film Production and Art History.
Managing Editor
Anna Evans-Cook
Anna Evans-Cook (she/her) is an interdisciplinary writer and artist from Tkaronto (“Toronto”). She is currently studying in Tio’tia:ke (“Montreal”), pursuing a double major in Creative Writing and Sculpture at Concordia University. Her work explores stories embedded in physical objects and, conversely, uses objects to convey narratives. In her writing, this exploration appears through fragmented memories and sentimental heirlooms. Anna’s creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Ultraviolet Magazine and Young Voices Magazine.
Béatrice Pelletier
Co-Creative Director
Béatrice Pelletier is a multi-media artist and musician from Montreal currently studying filmmaking at MHSoC. With A DCS in Media Communication and Studio Arts, her practice includes filmmaking, fibre arts, painting, sculpture, and design. In her works, she merges her diverse artistic passions with a focus on tactile nostalgia. Having had art installations showcased around Montreal, Béatrice is drawn to building community from the shared intimacy of two people looking at a piece together.
Elliot Stocking
Events and Conference Co-Director
Elliot Stocking (they/he/she) is an artist and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal currently pursuing a BFA in Sculpture with a minor in English Literature. Their artistic practice considers Handicraft (crochet, beading, whittling, etc.) and Drag as accessible yet protected methods of self-processing and multi-modal utterance. Through the material mediation of questions and answers, Elliot practices a resistant yet autotelic way of creating; care and time become satisfactory mediums for ‘resolved’ work. While Elliot is primarily a maker, the histories of accessibility and queerness in art deeply inform their work. Though still finding their niche, Elliot brings passion and obsession to everything they do. They are also a researcher at the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Lab in the Milieux Institute, where they examine digital subjectivity and representation in videogames.
Willa Whitaker
Outreach Director
Willa Whitaker (she/her) is a third-year Studio Arts student at Concordia, serving as the Outreach Coordinator for CUJAH. As a fine art student, her passion for art history is at the forefront of both her academic studies and creative practice. Grounded in physical media experimentation, Willa’s studio work takes inspiration from northern renaissance oil painting traditions, as well as other contemporary inspirations. Her creative practice and art historical research explore representations of femininity and human connection to the natural world.
Ines Marchand is in the final year of her undergraduate degree at Concordia. They are majoring in Art History with a Minor in English Literature. Through her studies, she developed a passion for the intersections of literature and art, as well as themes of feminism and identity. As co-director of events and conference, they look forward to bringing people together and meeting other passionate peers. Her favourite movements are contemporary and neoclassical art.
Inès Marchand
Events and Conference Co-Director
Jackie Geldart
Financial Director
Jackie Geldart is a student in Studio Arts and Art Education at Concordia University. Their work has a focus on sustainability and (re)using materials. The exploration of multimedia textiles, technology and woodworking are central to their creation process. They have professional experience with non-profits and they volunteer for community-lead initiatives. Find them on the weekend with the tools out, making something.
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