Staff
Get to know KIAC’s administrative team
Karen DuBois
Executive Director
kdubois@kiac.ca
Karen has had a long history of involvement with the arts. She was a founding member of and long time volunteer for the renowned Dawson City Music Festival and has served on many arts related boards and committees. In 1999, she took a break from her position as an adult educator at Yukon College to become the Programs Manager for KIAC’s first three years. When she returned to the College, she assisted with the administration of the Arts for Employment program, and the development of the KIAC School of Visual Arts curriculum and program design. Karen joined KIAC as Executive Director in May 2008. She is a 3rd generation Dawsonite –and has raised two 4th generation Dawsonites.
Tara Rudnickas
ODD Gallery and Artist Residency Director
gallery@kiac.ca
Tara grew up in Toronto, received a BFA from ECIAD in Vancouver and has wandered around some random countries and small towns since then. Over the past 5 years she has been involved with KIAC as a volunteer, exhibiting artist, student and board member. Now she has a desk with a nice lamp. Tara continues to work in photography, installation, sewing, drawing, crochet and her garden.
Emma has spent much of the last decade working in the non-profit sector engaging youth and building community through the delivery of arts-based education programs. As an artist and facilitator, Emma is passionate about inspiring positive change through the creative process. She finds joy in outdoor adventures, singing songs and getting messy making art. Having lived many places around the globe, Emma accidentally fell in love with the North when she started running programs at the Inuvik Youth Centre in 2008. Dawson was a logical next stop at the other end of the Dempster, where she completed the Yukon School of Visual Arts program in 2010. Emma is now developing her juggling skills at KIAC.
Matt Sarty
Presentation & Events Coordinator
events@kiac.ca
Matt grew up in the small town of Westville, Nova Scotia and completed a BA in English Literature and Art History at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. During these years in Sackville, Matt toiled away playing drums in various bands, working at the Owens Art Gallery and CHMA, the campus-community radio station. Matt found his way to Dawson City as a touring musician in 2010 and has yet to find reasons to leave. After working as Production Assistant at the Dawson City Music Festival, Matt continues to volunteer for the festival, occupy the Events chair at KIAC, and investigate comfortable lounging opportunities throughout the territory.
Dan Sokolowski
Producer, Dawson City International Short Film Festival
filmfest@kiac.ca
Yet another transplanted Ontarian, Dan attended the first Dawson City International Short Film Festival as a visiting filmmaker. Eight years later, after many return trips as KIAC Artist in Residence, ad hoc teacher and other sundry jobs, he and his partner Laurie are back for his second try at the Film Festival... and he may just stick around until he gets it right. Dan continues to thrive in obscurity as a filmmaker and has just finished his 18th short film. Please add to his visitors count at www.sokcinema.ca/.
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