Meet the
Thinking Rockers
Miranda Bouchard
Artistic Director
Miranda Bouchard (she/her) is an artist, curator & arts manager with 18+ years’ experience in the non-profit arts and culture sector. Her Algoma roots and residence inform her focus on process- and craft-based practices, intergenerational sharing, and projects unfolding in rural places where such practices are prevalent. She’s drawn to stories, traditions and modes of making that survive and retain their salience, despite the passage of time. Miranda enjoys contributing creatively as an invested collaborator, establishing reciprocal connections with artists & communities, and supporting the realization of projects through sustained dialogue and exchange. She’s studied art, art history, nonprofit management, puppetry, and community economic & social development at the University of Guelph, Toronto Metropolitan University, Humber College, Algoma University and LAB University of Applied Sciences’ Institute of Fine Arts (FInland). She has apprenticed in community arts practice with Ruth Howard and Jumblies Theatre + Arts, and has been mentored in arts management by Rudy Ruttimann and Phyllis Novak of SKETCH Working Arts.
STAFF Team
Devaney Boulter
Community Arts
Programming Assistant
Devaney Boulter (Waa Waa Tay Nii Mii Wiin Ikwe - Dancing Northern Lights Woman) is an Ojibwe youth from Red Rock Indian Band. She is passionate about culture, community, and helping others. Getting more involved with her culture has been a meaningful part of her life, and has inspired her enrolment in Sault College's Indigenous Social Worker program fir Fall 2026. Now living in Desbarats/Bruce Mines, Devaney loves spending time in the community and with friends, caring for her chickens, ducks and turkeys, and fishing. A dedicated figure skater, Devaney is working towards her NCCP coaching certification which will enable her to teach CanSkate this coming season. She is also a jingle dancer, bead artist, and proprietor of DBeads Native Arts.
Anna Reich
Community Arts
Programming Assistant
Anna Reich is a passionate community builder, maker, educator and coach who works in ways that privilege meaning-making and relationship-building with the people and places around her. For many years, she owned and operated Anna's Bakeshop, where she channeled her creative energy, artistic vision and hospitality into making beautiful cakes and cookies for weddings, birthdays, and other gatherings and celebrations. A recent graduate of Anishinaabe Studies at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig/Algoma University, Anna is excited to bring her love of creativity and community to Thinking Rock's mission to spark artful social change across the Algoma region.
Board of Directors
Katina Schell
Graphic Designer &
Website Coordinator
Katina Schell (she/her) brings 14+ years of experience in a business setting providing graphic design, public relations, and marketing assistance. She is a graduate of Algoma University with a BA Honors, in Graphic Design, Creative Writing and Visual Arts. Having recently relocated back to this region, Iron Bridge, and she looks forward to utilizing her previous work experience and professional skill base
to help members in this area.
Robin Sutherland
Founder
Robin Sutherland is a settler artist, social entrepreneur, professor and business owner. She was raised at Kegos Camp (now Northern Skies Resort) on land forever stewarded by the Aanishinaabe people in the region currently known as Algoma. After graduating with a degree in Theatre and Arts Management at the University of Toronto, she worked in Toronto’s arts and non-profit sector where she managed community-based projects at a local and national scale. Working in the arts sector in Toronto, she connected with influential community artists Ruth Howard (founder of Jumblies Theatre) and Phyllis Novak (founder of SKETCH Working Arts). Under their mentorship she incubated her vision of creating a professional community-based and equity-focused arts organization that would serve the rural and Indigenous communities of Central Algoma. Robin moved back to Algoma permanently to realize this vision by launching Thinking Rock Community Arts in 2013. As Artistic Director and with the support, mentorship and collaboration of many local artists and Indigenous Elders and community leaders – including Miranda Bouchard and Elders Gerard Sagassige, Marly Day and Elsie Bissaillon - Robin oversaw the development and presentation of the Thinking Rock’s acclaimed Gigidoowag Ziibiik/ The Rivers Speak Community Play. The final performance was presented in Mississaugi First Nation in September 2017 following a five-year community-engaged artistic process that engaged four thousand community members. In 2018 Robin was awarded the Gamechanger of the Year Award by the Algoma Visionary Awards for her work with The Rivers Speak. Robin stepped away from her role at Thinking Rock Community Arts in 2021 to have her second child. Since then she has helped establish the Algoma Community Foundation as Founding Executive Director and worked as a Professor at the Community, Economic and Social Development (CESD) program at Algoma University. She is currently the Owner/Operator of Northern Skies Resort, a fourth generation cottage resort which she is expanding to include arts and wellness retreats, events and residencies in collaboration with local artists and Indigenous communities. Robin holds a BA in Theatre and Arts Management from the University of Toronto, an MSc in Health, Community and Development program at the London School of Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation from the University of Waterloo. She is pursuing a Creative Writing Certificate through the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.