Visual artist and Métis curator of the White Water Gallery in North Bay Clayton Windatt reflects on the false divide between artist-run and community centers on the one hand and high art and contemporary theory on the other. Community art can be as excellent as high art and also most responsible to local reception and understanding of that work. Re-conceptualize the image of the artist as a solitary studio genius and think through the collaborative development model, especially in the context of Indigenous art within a neo-colonial context. Join us in reflecting on Glen Sean Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks, resilience, and transformation.

“The secret ingredient in art is insight, intention, the will that you put into things. If it’s done with intention and they try to have an emotional response from the audience, then it’s going to be successful. Intention can serve as a space, a container, for things to happen within.” - Clayton Windatt

Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. (May 15, 2015)