Education
– Canadore College, Graphic Design, Degree (2 year program), Graduated 2001.
– Canadore College, Multimedia, Certificate (1 year program), Graduated 2002.
– Nipissing University, BA Fine Arts (3 year program), Graduated 2008.
CV – Clayton Windatt – claytonwindatt(at)gmail.com
Memberships Affiliations
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective – Member
Capitol Centre Theatre – Member
National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition – Member
Theatre Ontario – Member
Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance – Member
Playwrights Guild of Canada – Member
Expressions Arts Gallery – Member
Canadian Artists’ Representation – Member
Access Copyright – Writer Member
Access Copyright – Visual Artist Member
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada – Member
Curatorial / Media Programmer Projects
findingtrackzero, GNO, Sudbury ON – 2020
distance between us, Écart, Rouyn-Noranda QC – 2020
Colonial Encounters, www.claytonwindatt.com – 2020
Wrestling, National Canadian Film Day, North Bay, ON – 2019
“AGENCY: ON WHO’S TERMS”, Lobby Gallery / Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists’ Collective Inc., Regina, SK – 2018
“AGENCY: ON WHO’S TERMS”, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2017
Go “Pop Culture” Yourself!, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON – 2017
Ojichaagobiishin, Ice Follies 2016, Lake Nipissing, ON – 2016
Wawasayg Film Festival, Aanmitaagzi, North Bay, ON – 2016
Wawasayg Film Festival, Aanmitaagzi, North Bay, ON – 2015
Wawasayg Film Festival, White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2014
Mishi-Namewag, Northern Lights Festival, Sudbury, ON – 2015
North of the 45th, Gallery 101 / National Art Centre, Ottawa, ON – 2015
Canadiana, 8fest, Toronto, ON – 2015
Integrated Opposition, Aanmitaagzi, Nipissing First Nations, ON – 2014
Development of Consciousness, Aanmitaagzi, Nipissing First Nations, ON – 2014
Ohkwamingininiwug, Ice Follies 2014, Lake Nipissing, ON – 2014
Midlife Crisis, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2014
Midlife Crisis, Ice Follies 2014, Lake Nipissing, ON – 2014
Midlife Crisis, Art Space, Peterborough, ON – 2014
MediaX, gallerywest, Toronto / White Water Gallery, North Bay / VideoPool, Winnipeg – 2013
REBEL, White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2013
Anaamimikom, Ice Follies 2012, Lake Nipissing, ON – 2012
Social Rejection, Crossroads Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2011
Social Rejection, Gallerywest, Toronto, ON – 2011
Media – Performance Art
Slaglines, Viva Art Action, Montreal, QC – 2019
The Space Between Us, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON – 2019
Break Something, ON THE EDGE Theatre Festival, ON – 2019
The Space Between Us (workshop), Sun Dog Theatre Festival, North Bay, ON – 2019
This is not for you, La Rencontre internationale d’art performance, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, QC – 2018
A lament for the Politicians of Canada, RIAPA, Montreal, QC – 2018
Freedom Exchange, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, ON – 2014
Undefined Protest, Artexte, Montreal, QC – 2013
Undefined Protest, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, ON – 2012
Gallery Pollution, ONFIRE Conference, Toronto, ON – 2010
Gallery Pollution, MOCCA Toronto, ON – 2010
Videography
“Walking and Falling” – Home – Writer / Director – 2019
“Some Stories…” – Urban Indigeneity – NFB & OFIFC – Writer / Director – 2018
“Reeaffirming Locality” – Home – Writer / Director – 2018
“People Live Up There” – Toronto International Film Festival – Co-Writer / Co-Director – 2017
“The End of the World” – Writer / Director
IFCO Origin 8 – 2016
Zakide Wawasayg Film Festival – 2016
Asinabka Film and Media Festival – 2017
ImagineNative Festival – 2017
No Corporate Memory – Writer / Director – Media X Video Pool / Gallery West – 2013
Feature Film
“Roommate Wanted” – Production Consultant – Different Duck Films 2015
“Agency of Vengeance: Dark Rising” – Assistant Art Director Black Walk Productions 2011
“Lifelines” – Production Consultant – Kanbar Entertainment 2008
“Intercessor: Another Rock ‘N’ Roll Nightmare” Art Design – Sub Rosa Studios
Television
Dark Rising: The Savage Tales of Summer Vale Assistant Art Director Defiant Empire 2011
Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town Special Promotions Accent- KITH Productions 2010
Short Subject
– The Autumn Girl – Art Design Boissonneault / Gamache – 2013
Documentary
– The Northern Artist Director/ Producer White Water Productions 2011
Publications / Essays / Articles
“THE ART OF CULTURAL DIPLOMACY BETWEEN PEOPLE, PLACES AND WITHIN RELATIONSHIPS”, mywebsite – 2020
“CHANGE MAKERS / MAKERS for CHANGE”, mywebsite – 2018
“Why I celebrate Simon Brault’s reappointment to the Canada Council for the Arts”, mywebsite – 2018
“Cultural Mediation”, CPAMO – 2018
“Indigenous symbols: lessons in what’s sacred“, Now Magazine, Co-Author Raven Davis, MAY 9, 2018
“First Sight“, Toronto Magazine, Jan 17, 2018
“Making Relationships“, Studio Magazine, Spring / Summer 2017 – Vol. 12 No. 1
“Primary Colours: Preparing a New Generation“, CMagazine, Issue 136
Interview “On show this summer: an inclusive new approach to Indigenous art”, Globe and Mail, June 2017
“Artistic Freedom Works Both Ways“, Muskrat Magazine, May 2017
Interview “Times have changed around cultural appropriation, but has the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?”, Globe and Mail, May 2017
“Making Relationships”, Studio Magazine, Fall/Winter 2016
“Duncan Campbell Scott was a Dickhead“, Muskrat Magazine, May 2016
Interview “O Canada, how can we be like you?“, ArtsHub, April 2016
Interview “Canada Council for the Arts strikes a new chord with funding model“, Rabble, March 2016
“NEW INDIGENOUS ARTS FUNDING“, Muskrat Magazine, January 2016
“When will you Rage?“, Muskrat Magazine, August 2015
Interview “On the Road with Daniel Joyce: Northern Ontario“, Canadian Art Magazine, July 2015
“Coping Mechanism: Revolution”, “Rebel” White Water Gallery, May 2015
“Does paint dream of Jinny Yu and itself become?“, Drain Magazine, Vol 11:1, 2014
“Aion Unbound of Lethbridge, Alberta”, Hamilton Artists Inc., September 2014
“Dialogues on Public Engagement in the Arts”, Canada Council for the Arts, May 2014
“Space – The Final Frontier”, Dispatch Magazine, April 2014
“Advocate Year Round”, ARCCO, September 2013
“When performance art crosses a line”, North Bay Nipissing News, June 2012
Theatre
“Ghosts at the End of Tomorrow”, Writer / Director, ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival, 2020
“Sparse Context”, Writer / Director, ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival, 2020
“Duality – Firestarter Cabaret“, Producer / Production Manager, Zakide, 2018
“The Life and Death of John the Milkman“, Producer / Production Manager, Proscenium Club, 2018
“Ipperwash”, Set Designer, Blyth Festival – 2017
“Serpent People”, Multi-Media, Aanmitaagzi – 2017
“The Life and Death of John the Milkman“, Producer / Production Manager, Proscenium Club, 2017
“I Live With Him Every Day“, Producer / Production Manager, Proscenium Club, 2016
“Dracula”* Set Design, Prop Design / Effects The Gateway Theatre Guild 2016
“The Life and Death of John the Milkman“* Prop Design / Effects Theatre North 2014
“Glengarry Glen Ross” Associate Producer The Gateway Theatre Guild 2014
“A Picasso” Set Design Burnt Toast Collective 2013
“Rag and Bone” Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2013
“Night of the Living Dead” Prop Design/ Effects J2 Productions 2012
“The Donnelly’s” Set Design, Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2011
“Macbeth” Set Design, Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2011
“Sugar Witch” Set Design, Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2010
“Witless” Set Design, Prop Design Rod Carley IndiPro 2010
“The Lieutenant of Inishmore“* Set Design, Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2009
“Farther West” Set Design, Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2009
“As Bees in Honey Drown” Set Design, Prop Design/ Effects Rep 21 2009
“Trojan Women“* Scenic Design NipU Theatre 2009
“Talking to Terrorists“* Set Design, Prop Design The Gateway Theatre Guild 2008
“Bear Clause“* Writer/Actor/Prop Design NipU Theatre 2007
* Poster Design
Public Exhibitions (solo)
– Thinking with Many Voices, Black Box Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2020
– nishkindiwag, Aanmitaagzi, Nipissing First Nations, ON – 2015
– Makadewaa Namewag, Underpass Bridge, Nipissing First Nations, ON – 2014
– Makadewaa Namewag, Factory Media Art Centre, Hamilton, ON – 2014
– Realityisnotwhatitusedtobe, 104 Main St. E. North Bay, ON – 2009
– Reboot, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2008
Public Exhibitions (Group)
– OBJECT HISTORIES, Eyelevel, Halifax, NS – 2020
– First Nations Art 2017, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, ON – 2017
– Spring Exhibit, Expressions West Nipissing Art Gallery, Sturgeon Falls, ON – 2017
– 50 Shades of Blue, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON – 2014
– CanKitsch, GEOLAB, Parry Sound, ON – 2013
Panel Discussions / Public Speaking
– “Survived Canada 150“, Power of the Arts National Forum – 2018
– “Hands of History with Indigenous Curator’s Panel“, Toronto International Film Festival – 2017
– “The Exchange – Indigenous”, CAPACOA Conference / CINARS Biennale – 2017
– “The Curation Transformation: Conscious Community Creation“, Sparc Symposium – 2016
– “10 Years, 10 Questions“, OCADU Indigenous Visual Culture Program – 2016
– “Cultural Town Hall: Timmins“, Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Center – 2015
Awards
– Chalmers Fellowship – 2014
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