WhiteFeather is an east coast Canadian artist, arts educator, advocate, writer, curator and arts administrator.
WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winner and has received international attention for her sculptural fibre-based works, constructed mainly from found and mixed media, including human hair, and bone. Her work deals with ideas around identity and physicality, affectation and instinct, where cloth can stand in for skin and/or bodily matter can become material for making.
WhiteFeather has shown her work in numerous solo exhibitions, group and collaborative exhibitions in Canada. WhiteFeather's work has been featured in several Canadian art magazines, such as MIX magazine (Toronto) and Visual Arts News (Halifax).
WhiteFeather is also a published poet, in periodicals, journals, anthologies and chapbooks across Canada.
WhiteFeather has been a faculty member and academic advisor at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD) since 2001, and is Executive Director at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton, NB. WhiteFeather serves as Selections Committee Chair for Gallery Connexion and writes freelance for various art, business and creative thinking magazines and blogs.
WhiteFeather holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree and a Certificate in Adult Education, both from the University of New Brunswick, as well as a Diploma in Fine Craft (Textiles), from NBCCD. WhiteFeather recently completed her first semester in the Fibre and Material Studies graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winner and has received international attention for her sculptural fibre-based works, constructed mainly from found and mixed media, including human hair, and bone. Her work deals with ideas around identity and physicality, affectation and instinct, where cloth can stand in for skin and/or bodily matter can become material for making.
WhiteFeather has shown her work in numerous solo exhibitions, group and collaborative exhibitions in Canada. WhiteFeather's work has been featured in several Canadian art magazines, such as MIX magazine (Toronto) and Visual Arts News (Halifax).
WhiteFeather is also a published poet, in periodicals, journals, anthologies and chapbooks across Canada.
WhiteFeather has been a faculty member and academic advisor at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD) since 2001, and is Executive Director at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton, NB. WhiteFeather serves as Selections Committee Chair for Gallery Connexion and writes freelance for various art, business and creative thinking magazines and blogs.
WhiteFeather holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree and a Certificate in Adult Education, both from the University of New Brunswick, as well as a Diploma in Fine Craft (Textiles), from NBCCD. WhiteFeather recently completed her first semester in the Fibre and Material Studies graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
