2025 TETT ARTIST RESIDENCY - Applications Closed
The Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning accepts applications for the Tett Artist Residency for Katarokwi/Kingston-based emerging* artists across various disciplines, including visual arts, literary arts, photography, time-based media, curation, digital art, and more. Residencies are three months in length and selected artists will have unlimited studio access during that time.
Applications for 2026 will open in August 2025.
Meet the Selected 2025 Tett Artists in Residence
We are excited to announce the selected artists for the 2025 Tett Artist in Residence program: Callia Silverton, Erin Kennedy, Jabra Mitwasi, and Rowynne Grant. Each artists brings a unique practice and perspective, and we can't wait to see what they create while in the Tett studios. We are thrilled to welcome this diverse group of artists to the Tett!
Jabra Mitwasi - Winter
Jabra Mitwasi is a Palestinian designer and artist passionate about Arabic Calligraphy and graphic design. He holds a master’s degree in design from the University of Sunderland (2019) and has over 15 years of teaching experience at Dar al-Kalima University-Bethlehem, specializing in typography and calligraphy. Mitwasi has always pursued self-development in art, taking numerous workshops in video editing, drawing, painting, artistic cloth dying, stained glass, ceramics, and more. His commitment to exploring diverse mediums and techniques is exemplified by his creation of a large polystyrene sculpture for Caritas Hospital’s 50th-anniversary celebration. In addition, he studied icon painting in Greece and Palestine, producing Byzantine and Jerusalem School-style icons, and participated in screen printing workshops, broadening his artistic range. His portfolio includes a joint video installation project and several contemporary calligraphy paintings. Now based in Kingston, Ontario, Mitwasi continues to push the boundaries of his artistic practice, especially through contemporary interpretations of Arabic Calligraphy. Passionate about community engagement, he has held exhibitions and workshops that celebrate the cultural and visual significance of Arabic Calligraphy.
Instagram: @jabraartstudio
Erin Kennedy - Spring
Erin “RobotZwrrl” Kennedy is an eccentric robot maker and analogue astronaut based in Kingston, Ontario. She develops robots that address environmental challenges in creative ways through new media art and kinetic sculptures. Erin engages with local environmental stewards of all ages when testing the robots outdoors in public through a hands-on format, allowing them to tangibly see the steps involved in creating and envisioning future solutions. Nature inspires her robot designs and how they respond to the dynamic environment. Erin's skills span electronics, mechanical design, firmware programming, and fabrication. She unconventionally learned to build robots by being self-taught online and through mentorship, leading to studies at International Space University. To pursue her ideas further she founded Robot Missions Inc.
http://robotzwrrl.xyz
Instagram: @RobotZwrrl
Rowynne Grant - Summer
Rowynne Grant is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Kingston, Ontario, with a foundation in graphic design from George Brown College. Her work spans digital art, watercolour, acrylics, and coloured pencils. Rowynne’s practice is inspired by nature, abstract art, and comic books, exploring complex textures, patterns, and the interplay between natural and human-made elements. Her approach combines fine art and sustainability elements, using layered textures and unconventional canvases to evoke a sense of curiosity and connection. An advocate for accessible art, Rowynne has a passion for fostering community engagement through creative workshops. She founded Collage Club in Toronto—a gathering for community members to create art from repurposed materials—and plans to relaunch it at the Tett, offering collaborative sessions to inspire participants’ creativity.Grounded in her design expertise, commitment to sustainability, and love for community-driven projects, Rowynne's residency will focus on creating accessible, interactive art that reveals beauty in unconventional materials and shared experiences.
Instagram: @peach.moss
Callia Silverton - Fall
Callia Silverton is a Kingston-based artist who grew up in Toronto, Ontario. She works mainly with acrylic paints, but uses an array of media including digital, gouache, graphite, and pen & ink. She seeks to capture the light and mood of scenes with thick daubs of paint and is influenced by the impressionist art movement. Callia studied fine arts at Sheridan College before completing her HBSc at the University of Toronto (UofT). She is currently completing her master’s in anatomy at Queen’s University. Callia’s love of art and love of science stem from the same innate curiosity about the world around her. Her curiosity and connection are expressed in her artistic works which represent people and places she loves. Callia has spent time as an illustrator for various university newspapers, an art-director of a student-run café at UofT, and as a volunteer painting teacher at a hospital in Toronto. In high school, Callia’s yearbook superlative was “Most likely to have a painting hung in the Louvre”, and while the Louvre might be a bit of a stretch, she hopes to break into the Canadian art scene. For now, she continues to explore, connect, and create.
https://www.calliasilvertonfineart.ca/
Meet the 2024 Artists in Residence