Meet The Board

June VanDeKerckhove is a dedicated financial advisor with a passion for helping clients achieve their financial goals. When not working with numbers, she enjoys exploring creative outlets through arts and crafts, including watercolour, acrylic painting, and quilting. In the warmer months June spends much of her free time in her greenhouse and garden.

Terry Grant is currently sitting as the vice chair of the Moosomin Visual Arts Center Board.

Terry has always loved art in all forms and this has been the impetus to his contributions in the creation of MVAC. He has coveted funky homemade pieces and has collected all throughout his life. From antique mushroom lamps of our childhood, carved wooden old men faces found in a flea market in Cuba to eclectic pieces he has collected from family, markets and second hand stores, his life is surrounded in cherished art.

Terry’s art journey has so many faceted sides. He has tried his hand at many different art forms and his portfolio is ever expanding. Terry has worked with metal during silversmithing crafting with silver and copper , leather as he has made homemade leather goods, cake decorating with his wife Jen, glass as he has tried glass blowing and took numerous stained glass classes and fell in love with the process, water while he created wonderful water colours and played with shading and textures, words as he stumbled upon the joy of weaving them into poetry and has even found himself published, now he has turned his talents to clay.

His pottery can be found in the town of Moosomin and he is continuing to hone his craft. Terry has recently stepped into an instructor role in the clay studio and is truly loving the experience. He is excited to be a part of the board and focused on growing and promoting the arts and art community within Moosomin and the surrounding area.

According to Terry’s wife, he may or may not have a volunteering addiction. He is very community minded and excited to see the dream of a community artist consortium become a reality.

Jen has been involved in MVAC since its inception, working behind the scenes and supporting the transformation from dream to reality. She was instrumental in setting up the kitchen and stocking it to be ready for cooking programs. With decades of professional culinary experience she has made sure all culinary programming had all the bits and pieces to make beautiful meals, breads and memories. Jen has offered children’s cooking programs in the early days of the MVAC and it has taken off from there. She is very excited to be a part of the MVAC family and has decided to officially join the board.

Since being very young Jen has always loved cooking and baking. Her family can still remember all the home made soup nights and the kids birthday parties where each child got to decorate their own cake. Jen has imaginatively created gluten free breads and recipes that would rival the taste of the regular “poison” recipes, as Terry famously calls regular breads, cookies and dishes made with flour!

Jen wouldn’t consider herself to be a creative person but she has tried her hand at many

different forms of creative expression. Jen has decorated beautiful cakes since the kids were little, graduating from star tips and molded cake pans to multi tiered wedding cakes with fondant, sugar flowers and decorations. Jen has practiced cross stitch, counting patterns and working even precise stitches. She has sewn numerous projects and has most recently taken up quilting where she gets a chance to put her eye for color combinations and patterns together to make functional heirlooms for family and friends. Jen works in the Hospital kitchen where she is the head cook, in this role she is able to combine her skills of organization with her love of cooking. Jen is married to Terry and together they are the proud parents of three adult kids. She loves to spend her spare time (the little that Terry hasn’t filled with a new project) quilting, chilling with the family's 2 Schnauzers, camping, cooking, baking, and spending time with family and friends.