This fall Leyla Pavão Chisamore joined Agnes as Program Assistant. In this role, her focus is administrative coordination, which includes public outreach, facilitating children’s tours, school invoicing, studio materials and leading the occasional tour.

Chisamore is an aspiring historian researching gender, sexuality, heresy and witchcraft histories in the late medieval/early modern periods, as well as contemporary feminist art and art historical practice. She is the former President of the Board of Directors at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and a Summer Intern at Union Gallery. She is currently a BA (Honours) candidate at Queen’s University (History & Art History), with a certificate in Gender and Sexual Diversity through the Department of Gender Studies.