``I have had a lifelong love of designing and making things, that led me to start my creative career at the Ontario College of Art in the 1980s.

There, I realized that fabric design and screenp... rinting were the perfect artform for me. This all brought together my love of fashion/ sewing/drawing and colour. Textile design was also the perfect way for me to express my feelings, my feminist/political views and to (hopefully!) be self employed.

I became an indie fashion entrepreneur, with my business Peach Berserk in 1987. This business showcased my quirky, unique and progressive prints. My wildly popular studio/fashion boutique was open for 20 years, leading Fodor's Travel Guide to describe me as 'the undisputed monarch of Queen St West'.

Now from my reimagined store front space in Parkdale, Toronto, I run a screenprint studio/art space where I teach textile classes, host events and design/sell my screenprinted clothes. My line now is almost exclusively upcycled and repurposed. I love this 'new frontier' in my creative life and I feel I still have so much to say through textiles.
My current design/screenprinting classes are also so important to me. I am a visual arts teaching partner with the Toronto District School Board, and teach classes for Workman Arts in Toronto as well as at community centres, colleges, indigenous centres throughout Ontario and beyond. I have gone as far away as Northern Cambodia to teach my craft.

My DVD Screenprinting With Peach Berserk and Biz Tips for MisFits, and my book, Silkscreen NOW have sold internationally, and I'm now working on a new one too!``

Apanaki Temitayo is a Trinidadian-raised, Toronto-based bi-sexual, multi-disciplinary, multimedia fibre artist and art facilitator. She is the proud mother of three. Her canvas compositions are an exp... ression of her Trinidadian heritage and spirituality. Apanaki is currently represented in the Sales and Rental Program at the (AGO) Art Gallery of Ontario. She is a member of the Women’s Art Association of Canada. She was the (CAMH) Center for Addiction and Mental Health's 1st Artist in Wellness, 2019 - 2021. She was a featured artist at Kuumba Exhibit, Where She Went, She Thrived at Harbourfront Centre presented by Nia Centre for the Arts, 2021. She was the Workman Arts Artist-in-Residence for 2017 - 2018. She had featured in artwork Numb at Workman Arts, Being Scene 20th Annual Juried Virtual Exhibition 2021, and To Speak Without Speaking. She made her international debut at the North Charleston Cultural Arts Department, 9th Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibition: Maya Angelou, with her original artwork, Mama’s Watching in South Carolina. The first woman of colour to be featured in Room Magazine: Woman of Color Issue for 2016. Her original artwork Oshun Blooming was commissioned for the Grow Room Feminist Literary Festival 2018 in Vancouver and is now part of the private collection of Donna Slaight, Founder of The Slaight Family Foundation.

V Vallières is a Toronto-based, multi-media artist, working primarily in ceramics, textiles and printmaking. They hold a BFA from Concordia University and have attended residencies in Montréal, Monc... ton and Winnipeg. As a film curator, they co-programmed monthly film and performance events. V Vallières has received multiple grants for their work, which have been exhibited widely, and have had pieces acquired for the CAMH permanent art collection. They continue to produce work in community studios and identify as non-binary, queer and neurodivergent. They have worked in movie theaters for the past fifteen years and greatly enjoy visual stimuli.