Whitefoot and SAL
Partners in Art and Life
Caleb Witvoet + Sophia Lengle
1997
Caleb, born March 18, Calgary, AB
Sophia, born Oct 4, Edmonton, AB
Born in rival cities
2016
Sophia wins scholarship in student art competition to attend AUArts and moves to Calgary
Caleb decides to apply to art school on a whim and makes his portfolio in 10 days
Caleb and Sophia meet in Art History Visual Arts 110: Survey I (Liberal Studies) and are smitten immediately
They begin drawing, painting and designing together
2017
They build the Citrus Couch
Caleb declares jewellery major
Sophia declares fibre major
2018
ZOOMER art show
2019
They go on exchange together to the Maine College of Art
2020
They both graduate with honours from AUArts and move to Edmonton where they renovate a house together
2021
Sophia travels to Iceland for a textile residency
2022
Caleb has his first solo exhibition, in Ottawa at the L.A. Pai Gallery
Caleb is accepted into the Masters of Artistic Research program at KABK in Den Haag
Sophia is accepted into the Master of Fine Arts program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam
Caleb proposes to Sophia on a rooftop terrace in Rome and she says yes
Sophia and Caleb wed among friends and family in the Edmonton River Valley August 11
2023
BIJNA art show
Sophia and Caleb continue to work and live together in Den Haag
2022 seed jewellery for the snag and birds
2023 BIJNA
2022 Loom Makeshift
2020-2021 House Renovation and Garden Life
2018
2017 Building the Citrus Couch
animation desk
Esther M. Wafula
photopoetry
Esther M. Wafula is a Kenyan poet whose scholarly interests include exploring the power of writing, particularly poetry writing, for personal transformation. Her autoethnographic chapter “Turning Water into Wine: An Innovative Way of Overcoming Stress Through Poetry” was published by Springer in 2019.
Esther also enjoys writing poems in response to photographs, a topic she presented on at the Creative Bridges Conference convened by Lapidus International in 2021. Some of her photopoems have recently been published in the article Deep Calls to Deep: Photopoetry as a Process of Call and Response in the LIRIC Journal Volume 2 Issue 2: https://lapidus.org.uk/liric-journal-new-issue