Catherine Tammaro

Catherine Tammaro was born in Toronto, and raised in Toronto and the US. She has a 50-year history of multidisciplinary art making. Her multi-media works have been exhibited in traditional/alternative gallery spaces and her written works and musical compositions have been published in various online blogs and installations. She is a seated Tradition Keeper for the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation; Speckled Turtle Clan. Catherine is Akin Studio’s premiere Indigenous Elder Artist in Residence, the Chair of the Children’s Peace Theatre Council, is the Elder for the Toronto Indigenous Business Association and an Elder for  Ojibiikaan, the Visiting Elder at OCADU and Elder in Residence at Evergreen Brickworks, and one of two at Taiaiako:n Historial Preservation Society. She is the Chair for the Indigenous Advisory Committee at the Toronto Arts Council and is working with many agencies, city wide and beyond, to advise and facilitate art making/teaching workshops, as well as maintaining her own art practise regarding spiritual and ever changing realities as they pertain to our connection to the sacred multiverse ~