Board of Directors

Meet our Board of Directors for 2023-2024

The Society of Canadian Artists board of directors is made up from 12 volunteer members from across Canada. Our Executive team consists of the President, Vice President, Secretary & Treasurer. Directors also chair various committees or are representatives for the geographical area in which they reside.

We are always looking for volunteers to fill various roles. If you are interested in being part of the board, please contact Manny Schulz, president@societyofcanadianartists.com

Executive officers

Manny Schulz SCA President & Director

Born in Winnipeg, Manny graduated from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture in 1981 and afterwards worked as a freelance artist. In 1985, Manny took a pause from his artwork to pursue his business career and obtained an MBA and an accounting designation. In 2016, following a 31-year hiatus from painting, Manny returned to his artwork and has exhibited his acrylic paintings in numerous galleries and juried competitions. Since 2020, Manny has had five paintings juried into Open International Juried Exhibitions curated by the SCA and in April 2021 was elected to the SCA.

Marissa Sweet SCA Past President

Marissa is a landscape and cityscape painter who, in merging her creative background with her practice of Feng Shui metaphysics, creates work about conservation. Her work explores interconnectivity with our environment and its importance. Marissa teaches in her home studio and at various private and public galleries and community centres.

Andrea Howson SCA Treasurer and Director

Andrea is an acrylic artist living and working in Belwood, Ontario. She completed a Fine Arts program with Honours from Sheridan College and is completing a graphic design program at OCAD University. Although she is diverse in her subject matter, her current focus is on farm life. Her style of artwork is naturally fluid, dynamic, and often intensely colourful. Her paintings show movement, rhythm, and energy, and above all, bring her imagination to life on the canvas.

VACANT Secretary & Director

VACANT Vice President & Director

Committee chairs

Roslyn Levin SCA Membership Chair & Director

Roslyn is a Japanese Brushstroke (sumi-e) artist. Amongst her awards, she is a three-time winner of the Ruth Yamada Award for sumi-e and a multiple Grand Prize winner in Shodo Canada's annual exhibit - juried in Japan. Her work has been featured in Circle Magazine Roslyn teaches sumi-e and has written “The Brush Dances” on how to paint in this medium. She has been a Studio Artist in Dragonfly Arts in Orangeville for 16 years. Roslyn paints mainly birds and animals and nature. Besides bringing beauty to the world, she wishes people become more aware of what we are losing due to environmental irresponsibility so those who have not awoken to the needs of our planet will become part of the solution to this problem.

Nancy Overbury SCA Exhibitions Chair & Director

Nancy uses heavy buttery layers of impasto and thin translucent glazes of paint applied with spatulas and found objects to emulate depth and to capture movement and feeling. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, where she studied Fine Arts but considers her most valuable art lessons were learned while studying in Nîmes, France. There she discovered how the quality of light and sky influence mood and motion. Her sources of inspiration lie in the natural landscape of Southern Quebec and the Laurentian Mountains.

Mary Gartlan Communications Chair & Director

Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Hungarian Immigrants, she was influenced early on by European culture, and her Godmother, a French Canadian Artist. She first began teaching Sketching and Watercolor, in Ajax, Ontario, with The Durham Board of Education from 1980 to 1989. Mary became involved with The Oshawa Art Association, first as Secretary, thereafter, holding a variety of positions throughout the years, (Juried Show Chair, Special Events Person, President, 2nd Vice President, Past President), and recently recognized with a Lifetime Membership. She is currently an Associate Member of the Society of Canadian Artists and the Pastel Artists of Canada. Various works of her art can be found in private collections across Canada, United States, Australia and Europe.

Kristina Billinger Newsletter Editor & Director

Toronto area artist, Kristina Billinger, is largely self taught and has studied with well known and award-winning Canadian Artists including Gordon Harrison, SCA AIBAQ and Philip Craig. Kristina’s paintings are inspired by the photos she takes while on vacation with her family as well as by the many Canadian Landscape artists that have come before her including The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, Maurice Cullen and Clarence Gagnon. Kristina is a member of a small group of artists in Oshawa known as the Sweet Art Group of Artists (SAGA) where artists enthusiastically share their work and ideas, is a new Associate Member of the Society of Canadian Artists, a member of the Artist’s Network of Riverdale, the Oshawa Art Association (OAA) as well as the East Central Ontario Artist Association (ECOAA) and the Federation of Canadian Artists.

Manny Schulz SCA Social Media Chair

VACANT Webmaster & Director

VACANT Publicity Chair & Director

VACANT New Member Liaison & Director

Monica Burnside SCA Fundraising and Sponsorship Director

Monica is a dedicated painter of landscapes, plein air, still life and portraiture . She paints in an impressionistic style in both brush and palette knife emphasizing the effects of light and contrast of colors. Her plein air and contemporary paintings have been described as unique and memorable. Monica is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists, was the elected Vice President of the Colour and Form Society in Toronto, an active member of FASM, Credit Valley Artisans and is a member of the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia, Canada.

Eugene Jankowski SCA Quebec Representative

Eugene holds a degree in Psychoeducation from the University of Montreal. Since a very young age, he has been involved in the arts, first as a painter and then, for the last thirty five years, as a stone sculptor. He has shown his works internationally as well as nationally. He is the founding President of the Association for Stone Sculptors (ASPM), and is also member of: the Conseil de la Sculpture du Quebec, the board of directors for the RAAV, and the board of directors of CARFAC.

VACANT Ontario Representative & Director

Sharon Fox Cranston SCA Atlantic Representative

Sharon Fox Cranston is a visual artist based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She is multidisciplined and works in oil, acrylic and pastel. A Signature member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Pastel Society of America, and a designated Master Pastelist of Pastel Artists Canada, Sharon has been creating fine art professionally for over 20 years. Her impressionistic style actively challenges the viewer to interpret the work for themselves. Sharon’s focus is on the texture, colour and rhythms of the rural landscape. “Creating art brings me joy, it gives my visual perception of the world a voice. I enjoy challenging myself to grow, to experiment, to explore new ways of looking at the world. Each one of my paintings is a visual record of where I’ve been, what I’ve seen, and how I’ve tried to express that moment to others.”

VACANT Western Representative

Amanda Kalcic Bookkeeper