Dana
Claxton
604.876.3202

402-336 East 1st Ave. Vancouver Canada V5T 1A9 Tel/Fax
Email — Dana Claxton(a)bc.svmpatico.ca

FILM AND VIDEO WORK
Two Spirited - Experimental Documentary (production)
The People Dance - 48:00 Experimental Drama 16mm Sync Sound (post-production)
Untitled - 20:00mins 4 Channel Installation Drama DVC 1999
Yuxweluptun - Man of Masks 22:00mins Documentary Beta SP 1998
Look Honey, A Guerrilla Girl 2:00mins DVC 1997
Buffalo Bone China 10:00mins 1997 (installation and single channel)
The Red Paper 13:49mins Experimental Drama BAN 16mm Sync Sound 1996
I Want to Know Why 11:30mins 1994
Tree of Consumption 12mins 1994
The Shirt 6:30mins 1994
Grant Her Restitution 3:36mins 1991
INSTALLATIONS
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Beauty and the Beast (Group) 1997/8
Tribe & AKA, Saskatoon, (Solo) Video 1997
Vancouver Art Gallery, topographies (Group) Film 1996
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
Walter Phillips Gallery, Material Zones, Banff Centre 1998-9
Open Space, Red Interiors, Victoria, Canada 1998
Surrey Art Gallery, Red Interiors, Surrey Canada 1998
Presentation House, Urban Fictions, North Vancouver 1996
Museum of Modern Art, Walking with the Ancients, New York, NY 1994
Artspeak Gallery, Racing Thru Space, Vancouver 1994
GUEST LECTURER
University of Victoria - Fine Arts, Women's Studies and Anthropology Departments 1999
Simon Fraser University - Communications Department 1998
University of British Columbia- Art History Department 1998
Green College - Guest Lecture Series 1998
Surrey Art Gallery - Red Interiors - Curatorial Talk 1998
University of Saskatoon - Native Art Studies Department 1997
Simon Fraser University- Women's Study Department 1997
Capilano College - Art History Department 1995
Emily Carr College of Art and Design 1995,96,98,99
PANELIST
Beyond Tonto, Saskatoon Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, A Tribe Project 1998
Focussed on the shifting paradigm of Aboriginal media arts.
Current Trends in First Nation Art, Universities Art Assc. of Canada, Vancouver 1997
Video and slide presentation demonstrating new media from an aboriginal perspective.
Riders on the Storm: International Videomakers - A Mary Holmes Production 1997
Video presentation investigating the politics of identity in video art.

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CONTINUED
Writing Thru Race: Visual Art and Text Canadian Writers Union 1994
Addressed notions of memory and aboriginal media art practice.
Challenges in the Arts: Managing & Programming for a Multicultural Community
Arts and Design Programs Simon Fraser University 1993
Discussed issues of western hegemony and strategies to achieved cultural equity and autonomy for
First People and Communities of Colour in the arts.
Equal Representation in the Arts - A Conscience Effort in the 90's
Capilano Women Studies Guest Lecture Series 1993
Slide presentation demonstrating a curatorial attempt supporting cultural equity.
First Nations Art and Curation -Western Canadian Art Assc. Conference 1993
Discussed strategies of inclusion.
Overlapping Histories - Contemporary Art Gallery 1992
Addressed cultural appropriation in visual arts and the impact of the Indian Act regarding cultural
autonomy for aboriginal people.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Exhibiting Interdisciplinary Artist, Film and Videomaker 1991-99
Co-Director. I MAG e NATION - Aboriginal Film and Video Festival Vancouver 1998
Director. National Film Board of Canada 1998
Storyteller - Associate Producer First Story, Aboriginal Current Affairs 1997/98/99
Director All My Relations, Dramatic Vignette CBC 1998
Substitute Instructor. First Nations Art, Emily Carr College of Art and Design 1998
Instructor. Video Production and Native Youth, A Tribe Project, Saskatoon, Sask. 1998
Guest Curator National Artist Run Centres, Municipal Galleries 1991-1999
Jury Member. Canada Council Grants to Visual Arts Organizations: Exhibition/Dissemination
Assistance 1999
Jury Member. Aboriginal Arts Development Awards 1999
Jury Member. Aboriginal Arts Development Awards 1998
Peer Assessment Jury. Sask Arts Council Assistance to Galleries 1997
Jury Member. Canada Council Assistance to Artist Run Centres 1997
Advisory Member First Peoples Forum on Media Arts. Canada Council. 1996
Host. Ayuukhl Nisgafa - A Common Bowl Documentary 1995/96
Associate Producer/Researcher. Myths and Realities. Part of a four-hour documentary
about aboriginal communities located on the Pacific Rim. TV Ontario 1996
Advisory Member. Media Arts Awards to Organizations (BC) 1994/95
Gallery Director. Pitt International Gallery 1991-1994
Jury Member. Heritage Canada Film and Video Section 1995
Jury Member. Aboriginal Arts Development Awards 1993
Jury Member. Canadian Native Arts Foundation 1993
Director. Dominican Civil Service Assc. Produced by Canadian Labour Congress. 1993
CURATORIAL
PROJECTS
Red Interiors - A Look into First Nations Video, National Touring Exhibition Video Out 1998/9
Faye Heavyshield, The Heart As, Helen Pitt Gallery, 1994
Sharyn Yuen, Like A Plague of Locust, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1994
Kate Smiths Bed Show Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver Solo Exhibition 1993
First Ladies, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver1992 and A Space, Toronto, 1993
Joe Sarahan "Curse" of The Homo" Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1993 Saw Gallery, Ottawa, 1996

ABO, Video In, Vancouver International Video Series 1992
Neo Nativisi Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver Group Show Visual and Performing Artists 1991
PERMANENT
COLLECTIONS
The Vancouver Art Gallery- The Red Paper Installation (film & mixed media)
LIBRARY
COLLECTIONS
University of Victoria, Fine Arts and Anthropology Department, Victoria, Canada
White Mountain Academy of the Arts, Elliot Lake, Ontario
Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
University of York, Film and Video Library, Toronto, Canada
University of Saskatoon, Fine Arts Department Saskatoon, Canada

FESTIVALS
Taos Talking Festival, Taos, New Mexico, 99. IMAG e NATION, Vancouver, 98. L A. Freewaves. Los
Angles, Calf. 98. Beyond Tonto, Saskatoon, 98. Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival, 98.
Cinematheque Ontario, 98. Herland Festival, Calgary,96-8. Film & Video Festival Chicago, IL. 97.
Native American Film + Video Festival, National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian
Institution, New York, 97. Independent Film and Video Alliance, Montreal 97. Dreamspeakers Film
and Video Festival, Edmonton, Alta. 97. Taos Talking Festival, Taos, New Mexico, 97. Two Rivers
Native Film & Video Festival, Minneapolis, MN. 92-6. Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, New
York, 96. Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, Regina, Sask. 96. Yorkton Film and Video Festival.
Yorkton, Sask. 92/97.
VIDEO
SCREENINGS
Trinity Square Video, Toronto, 98. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY 98. Chaos and
Disaster, Ed Video, Guelph, Ontario, 98.History of Video Art, Video In, Vancouver 98. Reports, V
Tape Exhibition Project, Toronto, Ont, 98. Split Croatia. Aboriginal Video 19980ntario Art College of
Art & Design, 98. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 97. Kwantlen University College, 97. Video Verite,
Saskatoon, 97. Emily Art School of Art and Design 95-7. Sakewewak & Sask Film Pool, Regina, 97.
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA 96. Reviewing Canadian Video, Open Space, Victoria 96.
Winnipeg Women's Intl. Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg, 95. New View 95, Columbia South
Carolina, Media Arts Center 1995. Em Video, Calgary Video Screenings 94. Video In, Vancouver
20th Anniversary Screenings, 94.
ARTIST
PROJECTS
Flesh Eating Technologies. Published by the Banff Centre & Semiotexte 1999. The Christmas
Camera, grunt gallery 1998. Xenophilia. Western Front Magazine, Back Coyer, 1994
PERFORMANCE
Buffalo Bone China. A Tribe Project 1997 Saskatoon Sask.
SA - (revisited) Treaty 4 1994 Standing Buffalo Sask.
SA - (work in progress) Western Front May 1994 Vancouver Canada
Tree of Consumption grunt Gallery September 1993 Vancouver Canada
10 Little Poems Neo-Nativist Pitt Gallery September 1991 Vancouver Canada
BROADCASTS
WYBE 35 (Regional) Pennsylvania,USA 1998, WTN (National) 1995-98. Knowledge Network,
(Regional) 1998
KTSC/PBS (Regional) Washington, USA 1997. Free Speech TV (Regional) Boulder Co. USA 1997.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bell, Lynne. "Urban Fictions" Catalogue Essay. Presentation House. 1996 *
FeindeL Pat 'A Women's Place/' Current. March 1996
Fung, Richard. "If Walls Have Ears" Reports Brochure. V Tape. Toronto. Canada 1998
Kin Gaqnon. Monika. "topographies". Catalogue Essay. Vancouver Art Gallery. 1996*
Townsend-Gault. Charlotte. Canadian Art, "topographies" March 1997*
Townsend-Gauit Charlotte. Guide to Native North American Artists. St. James Press 1998*
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. Reservation X. Canadian Museum of Civilization 1998 *
Hewitt Chris. "Ten Great Things To Do". St. Paul Pioneer Press. Oct. 1996
Laurence, Robin. "Visual Art." Saturday Review, Vancouver Sun. Jan 1996
Masta'r Judith. "The Post-Colonial Landscape". BlackFlash. Summer 1996 *
Mastai. Judith. "The Elevation of BC Art". C Magazine Feb. April 1997 *
Rico, Diana. "Cultures Crash" LA Freewaves Festival Program. 1998
Schimke, David. "The Final Cut". Twin Cities Reader. Oct. 1996
Scott, Micheal. "Artists emerge in Topographies". Vancouver Sun. Sept 1996
Shaw. Nancy. "Tree of Consumption" Video In 25th Catalogue Essay, 1999 *
Walsh. Andrea Buffalo Bone China. Women, Bodies and Space: New Ethnographic Sites/Sights, eds.
J. Luce,
S. Frohlick, M. MacDonald. University of Michigan Press 1998*
* denotes illustrated text
EDUCATION
Simon Fraser University General Studies -1.5 years
Political Science, Women's Studies, Theatre and Business Administration, Art History, Public
Museums
Video In Studios Video Production. Vancouver Canada 1995,6,7
Technical and Hands on video production, pre/production/post - Theory in Media
SFU Downtown Positioning - Marketing Strategies 1988
How to be heard in a crowded marketplace, staking your claim in mass media. 3 day workshop.
SFU Downtown Funny Business - Writing with Humour for Media 1988
The art of intriguing and informative media releases for all types of industry.
Canadian Centre of Philanthropy - Grant Writing for the Non-Profit Sector 1987
How to raise funding.

AWARDS
1998 Canada Council. Film Production.
1997 Best Experimental Film. The Red Paper. Dreamspeakers Festival
1996 Heritage Canada. Film Production.
1996 Cultural Sen/ices Branch, Gov't of BC Film Production
1996 Canada Council. Film Installation
1994 Canada Council B Grant
1993 Canadian Native Arts Foundation. Curatorial Studies
1992 Cultural Services Branch, Gov't of BC Film Production