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CARFAC Ontario has an seven-person Board of Directors who each serve a two-year term. The Board of Directors are:
Laurent L Vaillancourt (President) is based in Hearst, a predominantly francophone town along Hwy 11 in Northeastern Ontario. A founding member of BRAVO, an arts service organisation for Franco-Ontarians and of GNO, an artist run center in Sudbury, Laurent has been a member of CARFAC since 1976. He received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Université de Montreal (1989) and the main theme of his work relates to territory.
Deirdre Logue’s film, video and installation work focuses on self-presentational discourse and the body as material. Deirdre's projects include Enlightened Nonsense, a series of 10 short performance films about repetition, her 12 channel self-portrait Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes, and her continuous counting project Rough Count. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have taken place at Oakville Galleries, the Images Festival – where she won both Best Installation and Best of the Festival – the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York and at articule in Montreal. She was a founding member of Media City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Images Festival, the Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, is currently the Development Director at Vtape and lives and works in Toronto.


Hans Engel (Treasurer) is a visual artist who works in mixed media painting as well as installations. He has a background that includes years as a young actor in film, television and stage and is a graduate of the National Theatre School Directing Department in Montreal. While working as the Assistant Artistic Director of Theatre at the Banff Centre for the Arts in the late 90s, Hans began painting and has since had solo shows across Canada and is in collections internationally. Currently Hans works for the Directors Guild of Canada and is on the Board of the Actor’s Fund of Canada. Hans is represented by Trias Gallery in Toronto.
April Steele is a practicing visual artist, arts administrator and freelance curator based in Peterborough, Ontario. Her studio practice focuses primarily in painting and mixed media sculpture and installation. She recently graduated with distinction from the Ontario College of Art and Design's drawing and painting program, and studied abroad in OCAD's Florence program. April is currently Communications Coordinator at the Peterborough Arts Umbrella, serves as faculty at the Art School of Peterborough, and coordinates Artsweek, Peterborough's annual city-wide festival of the arts. She is highly interested in advocacy for artists and cultural policy.
Yvonne Wiegers (Vice President) graduated with her MFA from the University of Calgary, where she earned the art department's sole nomination for the Governor General's Medal for her thesis show. Her artistic practice has led to many cross-cultural experiences in places such as Sri Lanka and Kossovo.
Tena Campbell (Secretary) graduated from the University of Windsor’s BFA program, where she is now pursuing a Bachelor of Education in Intermediate/Senior Art and English. She is a mixed media artist, who is heavily influenced by the continued travels that lend her a global perspective, while allowing her to return home with a deeper appreciation for the multiplicity of culture celebrated in Canada through the arts. She hopes to bring this dialogue into the classroom through the study of literature and visual art.

Stephen Remus is a visual artist who works in a variety of media including 16mm film, video, print and paint. He is the Director of Programming and Operations at the Niagara Artists' Centre, the hardest working artist-run centre in the nation! He gets his hair cut a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' roll.