PAST MICRO-PUBLISHING SUMMER RESIDENTS

2025

AYSHA WHITE

Aysha White is a multimedia journalist, graphic-designer and artist. She is the Associate Editor of Maisonneuve Magazine, a Canadian print periodical. In her spare time, she operates Pink Heart Press, a micropress and creative studio dedicated to the intersection of art and journalistic publishing. With the support of grants she has published Montreal Smoked Meat: A Secret History (2023) and The Alt Muslim Scrapbook (2025). 

During the residency, Aysha will explore her experiences growing up Muslim after 9/11 in Ottawa, creating a print-work that interrogates the notion of belonging and memory. She will combine techniques from her work in journalism with her artistic practice, bringing together collage, ephemera, typography, and experimental poetry sourced from documentary research materials.

>Instagram: @aysha.white
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MACY SIU

Macy Siu (she/her) is an artist and design researcher who is driven by expression and empowerment tied to the hyphen of in-between spaces. Working at the intersection of art, law, and design, she brings a systems lens to understanding change and shaping more society-centered design approaches.

During the residency, Macy will explore soft bureaucracy as a community practice – offering herself as a notary pop-up that asks: what might a creative legal service feel like as a way to rethink how we witness, sign, and move through official processes? Entangled with her own histories, places, and politics, this is an experiment in grounding ephemeral notary interactions into a tactile, shareable zine of reimagined artifacts and rituals. Macy hopes to challenge herself to work more in draft, showing the mess and fragments usually edited out of official documents, and to let form be shaped by the people she witnesses.

>Instagram: @_macysiu_