Skawennati is an artist and an independent curator who holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design Art Major) and a Graduate Diploma of Institutional Administration (Arts Specialization) from Concordia University in Montreal. She had served as a board member at Galerie Oboro and is the co-founder of Nation to Nation <www.nation2nation.org>, a First Nations artist collective established in 1994. In 1996 she produced the first CyberPowWow <www.CyberPowWow.net>, which has evolved into an ongoing, online gallery/library and chat space. As Curatorial Resident at the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre for the Arts, she mounted Blanket Statements, an exhibition of art quilts, and The Peopleís Plastic Princess, a survey of more than thirty years of Barbie art. In July 1999 the Australian Network for Art & Technology invited Skawennati to Darwin for a month to tutor at the National Indigenous School for New Media. During a two-year stint in San Francisco she produced Arts Alliance Laboratoryís monthly CRIT (Critical Reviews of Interactive Technology) nights and co-curated ìNew Fangleî for GenArtSF. Recent projects include Artist for the Ethical Treatment of Humans, her own personal subvertisement campaign; and Imagining Indians in the 25th Century <www.ImaginingIndians.net>, a web work created for the Edmonton Art Gallery. Her current fixation is a web-based digital video jukebox undertaking called 80 Minutes, 80 Movies, 80s Music. Please visit www.skawennati.com to learn more.
