Edmonton-born Slovia is a maker by nature, a stylist by training, a scholar by need and entrepreneur by career. Slovia descended into the pandemic as a graduate student in the University of Alberta's Women's Studies Department and emerged from it a visual artist. Her artistic training, taken at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Extension, led to new expressions of social and political theory beyond word-smithery as she creates visual representations of social, political and cultural theory.With time and intention, she is painting her MA in Gender and Social Justice. Slovia remains grateful for the difference the University of Alberta has made in her life and work.
 

As a mixed-media artist, Slovia's current works are in acrylic and Chiyogami paper, a method developed in a period of acute disability due to a long-term condition when she was unable to open a tube of paint. The resulting change of style became a powerful lesson in the opportunities that arise from the necessity of approaching art and life unconventionally. Using the flower as a metaphor for the body, be it human, institutional, social, political, or environmental, Slovia explores and challenges themes of decline, depletion, extraction, accumulation, gender and power. She imagines a transformational justice within the structural hierarchies of our historical present. She seeks pathways to transform embodied realms by representing an authentic, agentic truth where diversity becomes a thriving vitality for all. Slovia doesn't avoid pain but refuses a lens of apocalyptic anxiety and attempts to construct a place where love lies beyond the acquiescence of tolerance.