Avery is co-founder and Artistic Director of Groupe Ensembl’arts, a nonprofit organization formed in 2013 under its original name Art Crush. As a nod to its roots, Art Crush remains the name of its annual main performance series. Productions and performances of this multidisciplinary ensemble include the simultaneous interaction of visual arts, instrumental music and dance together within a space.

The ensemble is dedicated to innovative outreach projects within the community, to educating the public about their unique art form and to presenting high quality performances in venues throughout Canada.

History
In 2013 Avery founded the multidisciplinary project Art Crush, which was recently incorporated as the nonprofit organization Ensembl’arts Group in 2019.
Inspired by the patterns, constraints, notation and arrangement systems of the music and dance disciplines, she explores these in her own practice of live painting alongside music and dance performances. During these performances she views her role as ‘the painter as scribe’, engaged in reactionary live painting.
In 2016 she completed a two-week residency, ‘Tactile Museum’, at the Montreal artist centre Eastern Bloc in collaboration with a dance choreographer whose movements controlled a hanging network of lines and suspended fabric panels.
In 2017 Art Crush performed at the Salle Bourgie in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with innovative Baroque group Ensemble Caprice. Mécénat Musica noncerto has produced several videos for Art Crush, filmed in Montreal and Fredericton, New Brunswick. In early 2018 Avery co-curated an Art Matters exhibit with Marie Lemieux at the Articule gallery around this theme of multidisciplinary performance, ‘Art Crush in Time’.
During a month-long residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Avery continued her research on the Art Crush project, creating dozens of live-painted artworks and a set of specialized painting tools. This work, entitled ‘The Painter as Scribe’, was exhibited at the VAV Gallery in Fall 2017.
Avery recently completed a 23 minute live-painting video commissioned by pianist David Jalbert, to visualize his recording of Phrygian Gates by composer John Adams.
In 2020, Avery along with other members of Ensembl’arts were invited to perform in the outdoor summer series Mini-concerts santé, and for the virtual edition of festival Music and Beyond in Ottawa.