Natalie Majaba Waldburger

Aqua¸Blunt, Miami, FL

NEXT at Art Toronto, Blunt, October Toronto, ON

Berlin/Toronto 1982-2012, July-Aug, Zweigstelle Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by Rae Johnson, Henrjete Mece, artists Stephen Andrews, Rebecca Baird, Yael Brotman, Jane Buyers, Cathy Daley, Andy Fabo, Oliver Girling, Harold Klunder, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Gord Rayner, Tanya Reid,and Julie Voyce among others

 Backyard, Aug 1-26, curated by Elizabeth Fearon, Toronto, ON

When Night Falls, Jan 12-Jan 28, group exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Indiscretions: Narrative Painting Now, Jan 26- Feb 25^th, Grenfell Campus Art Gallery, Memorial University, Cornerbrook, NL

AAF LA, Blunt, January, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Awards and Grants

OCAD University, Faculty of Art Teaching Excellence Award, 2020

Canada Council Research Creation Grant, The Drawing Board, 2020

Canada Council Strategic Funds Digital Grant, The Drawing Board, 2020

OCAD U Research Seed Grant: Exploration, The Drawing Board, 2019

Canada Council Research Creation Grant, The Drawing Board, 2018 

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance, University of Toronto Art Museum, 2017

SSHRC Grant, Official Collaborator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2017 - On the neural processes underlying the role of contours, contour junctions and symmetry for aesthetics and artistic expression, Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Ph.D.,University of Toronto

PD Funding, The Drawing Board, Faculty of Art, OCAD U, The Drawing Board, 2017

Ada Slaight Professional Development Funding, Faculty of Art, OCAD U, May 21, 2016

Ontario Ignite program – PanAm Parapan Am Games 2015, with Spencer Harrison

OCAD U Research Seed Grant: Exploration, 2015

Canada Council, Research-Creation 2005

Canada Council, Research-Creation 2001

Canada Council, Research-Creation 2000

Canada Council, Research-Creation 1999

Imperial Artist Award, 2004 

Royal College of Art Scholarship and Travel Grant, 2003

Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist, 2002

Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist, 2000 

Toronto Arts Council Projects Grant: 1997, 1998, 2000 

Ontario College of Art Medal of Excellence, 1996

Selected Publications/Presentations/Conferences/Panels

• “Intersecting Issues Within Figurative Pedagogy” Panel, ROUNDTABLE Rethinking Figure Drawing from Both Sides of the Easel, moderated by Amanda Burk, with Michelle Forsyth, UAAC-AAUC-University Art Association of Canada Conference 2022, Toronto,ON
• The Drawing Board, 
• Artist Talk: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art, SVA NYC, May 16, 2022
• Life is about Life: Environmental Agency in Artmaking,
• Impact and Allegory: Arts and Design Projects Towards Institutional Change,
• Healthier Materials and Sustainable Studio Practices, FoA May curriculum, Faculty of Art, OCAD U: May 11, 2021, with Victoria Ho 
• Biodegradability as a Methodology: Bio-plastics Workshop
• “The Drawing Board”, The Drawing Board, Canadian Art Teacher Journal, Canadian Society for Education Through Art, 2021
• COVID-19 Pedagogies: Tools, Content and Strategies Speakers Series- Teaching Studio Online: Challenges & Rewards, Moderator Pam Patterson, March 21, 2021
• “Performing the Institution” Panel, The Drawing Board, CAA-College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, NY, May 2019
• “From the Figure to the Body”, Chair, UAAC-AAUC 2014, OCAD U, Toronto, October, 2014 with Gemma Anderson, JJ Lee, Amy Swartz, Randy Lee Cutler, Helen Gregory 
• “Sum of All our Parts: An Exploration of Body Politics and Language”, moderator, Feminist Art Conference 2014, Toronto, March 8, 2014
• “The Current Climate of Studio Critiques: A Round Table Discussion”, Presenter with Lucy Chan, Chair: Amanda Burk, UAAC-AAUC University Art Association of Canada Annual Conference 2013, 

Curatorial Activities/Jury

• AICAD Conference 2021, Jury member
• Festival of the Body, February 2020, Great Hall OCAD University, with Wrik Mead, Lead faculty: Julius Poncelet Manapul 
• Body Electric: Exhibition in conjunction with the International Conference on Residency Education, October 2015, 2016, 2017, The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), Jury member 
• Festival of the Body, February 2018, Great Hall OCAD University
• Embodied Resistance, Feminist Art Conference Exhibition, January 12-24, 2017, Great Hall, OCAD University
• Festival of the Body, February 2017, Great Hall OCAD University
• Embodied Resistance, Feminist Art Conference Exhibition, January 12-24, 2017, Great Hall, OCAD University
• Body Electric: Exhibition in conjunction with the International Conference on Residency Education, October 2015, 2016, 2017, The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), Jury member 
• Festival of the Body, March 2016, Great Hall OCAD University
• Art Toronto, Oct 2015, OCAD University, Ada Slaight Project, Curatorial lead, with CCP graduate students Tak Pham, Barbora Raceviciute, Ada Slaight curatorial project of OCAD University alumni
• Looking Forward, Looking Back: Feminist Art Conference, September 2015, curatorial lead and installation
• Blunt Collective, 2009-2013, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto Embodied Resistance, Feminist Art Conference Exhibition, January 12-24, 2017, Great Hall, OCAD University
• Recommender for external opportunities for OCAD students 2015 - 2016 BMO, Art Mur, Walnut Studios and Gallery

Residencies

Permaculture Art and Design, Wa Samaki Ecosystems, Trinidad and Tobago, Oct 8-Oct 20, 2022

Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art, SVA NYC, May 15– June 18, 2022

Narratives in Global Space Residency, Aug 2020 – July 2021

Role: Co-facilitator, Led by J. Manapul with the participation of Dr. M. Largo, York U, and Prof. J. Chavez, Mapua University, Manila, Philippines

• Partnership with Mapua University, Philippines, and OCAD University residency through the COIL program
• Daily film screenings of five films with accompanying panels: June 21-25 in partnership with Reel Asian Film Festival and OCAD U Live
• Moderator and panelist accompanying the film screenings with filmmakers and guests:  Richard Fung, Fritz Pinto, JJ Lee
• President's Award Ceremony, June 27, 2021

The Summer Institute Residency, The Drawing Board, OCAD U, June – August 2018

From the Laboratory to the Studio: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art, SVA NYC, May 14 – June 25, 2016

Royal College of Art London, UK. Residency and Exchange, July-August 2004

University Administration

Ada Slaight Chair of Contemporary Painting and Print Media

Description:  First named Chair in the Facutly of Art.  Cluster of programs, Drawing and Painting, Printmaking, Digital Painting and Expanded Animation

Student numbers: 800

Faculty: 70 facultry members including all full and part-time faculty across all three program areas

Budgets: DRPT annual budgets and the yearly contributions comprised a total DRPT budget of $50,000

Donation: Ada Slaight Donation of 3 mil, included scholarships, infrastructure renovations to the program areas, and 50,000/year directed to the Chair to support program initiatives.

Key responsibilities: Provide academic leadership in designated program areas and support the implementation of the Academic Plan and strategic priorities of the University, including the Diversity & Equity Action Plan. Convene and Chair meetings with faculty and curriculum leaders to lead the review, development, and implementation of new and revised curriculum. Oversee and manage the Ada Slaight Donation to the program and implement student-centred and faculty-led programming.

Interim Chair Sculpture/Installation and Life Studies

Student numbers: 61

Faculty: 10

Budgets: SCIN annual budgets and the yearly contributions comprised a total $20,000

Donation:  Nora Vaughan endowments provided $13,000/year for Thesis Professional Development Exhibitions

Key responsibilities: Provide academic leadership in designated program areas and support the implementation of the Academic Plan and strategic priorities of the University, including the Diversity & Equity Action Plan. Convene and Chair meetings with faculty and curriculum leaders to lead the review, development, and implementation of new and revised curriculum. Work closely with Associate Dean, Academic Affairs on the development of recruitment and retention strategy for designated programs, Participate in undergraduate program reviews and in the preparation of the Self-Study in compliance with the OCAD U Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP)

Lead Faculty: Life Studies

Description: The development of this new specialization was part of my mandate as a Tenure-Track hire.  Design, implementation, and leading a new specialization, Life Studies, a cross-disciplinary approach to figuration, the body, and embodiment.

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Student numbers: 60

Faculty: 9

Donation: 100,000 multi-year donation from the Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation

Key responsibilities: Facilitate the success of the cross-level learning, collaborative teaching and learning environment by managing course content across all levels of the specialization, managing academic resources and scientific lab equipment including microscopes, growing equipment, and bio-plastics equipment, managing donation expenditures, donor relations such as hosting donors at student exhibitions, classroom visits, and presentations, collaborating on donation requests and donation reports.

Projects: Lead Faculty

OCAD U at Art Toronto 2020, International Art Fair, Oct 28-Nov 8, 2020

Role: Lead faculty and mentor

Partnership oversight: Glen Lowry, Executive Director & Advisor to the Provost: Partnership with University Arts London (UAL)

OCAD U at Art Toronto 2018, International Art Fair, Oct 26-Oct 29, Ada Slaight CPPM Project

Role: Lead faculty and mentor 

Partnership oversight: Glen Lowry, Associate Dean Outreach and Innovation, Faculty of Art

OCAD U at Art Toronto 2015, International Art Fair, Oct 26-Oct 29, Ada Slaight CPPM Project

Role: Lead faculty and mentor, Chair of Drawing and Painting

The Biodesign Challenge (BDC) and Summit OCAD U, ON and Genspace, NY 

September 2016-July 2017 

BDC Summit: MOMA, NYC, June 20-25 

BDC Exhibition: School of Visual Art, NYC, June 20-25

Role:  Primary Faculty Advisor

Life Studies Specialization/Masters of Museum Studies, U of T/Ontario Science Centre Partnership 

Role: Lead faculty

Exhibitions at the Weston Idea Gallery curated by graduate students

• ·       The Prosthetic, May-August, 2015
• ·       The Art of Invention, May-August, 2014

Festival of the Body: Launch of the Life Studies Specialization, OCAD University, with Wrik Mead

January 12-February 12, 2015

A month-long series of events, three panels, and two exhibitions in conjunction with the Pan Am/Parapan Am 2015 games and the launch of OCAD University’s new specialization Life Studies.

• ·       Part I: Whose Body? 
• ·       Part 2: From the Figure to the Body

Panel 1: From the Figure to the Body with OCAD U faculty curators, Natalie Waldburger, Wrik Mead, Ryan Rice, Bogdan Luca, JJ Lee, Christina Sealy, Moderator: Amy Swartz

Panel: 2 Art and Athleticism as it relates to identity, ability and performance. Matthew Strang, Adam Lancia - Parapan Am athlete, Andrea Nann - Dreamwalker Dance Company, Moderator: Dr. Spencer Harrison

Panel 3: Life Studies: Art and Science

This panel will investigate the threshold between art and science which is increasingly generative for the new specialization in Life

Studies with Nina Leo - Assistant Professor, OCAD U, Suzanne Anker - Bio Art Lab, NY, Francis LeBouthillier - Assistant Professor, OCAD U, Moderator: Dr. Caroline Langill

OCAD U Partnership with TIFF 2012-2013:  Cronenberg Retrospective and Virtual Gallery

• ·       Planning of the virtual museum Cronenberg retrospective 
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Service to the university

1. Senate: Senator-at-large 2013-2017, 2019-2020
   1. Senate Teaching and Learning Committee
   2. Research Committee
   3. Academic Emergency Response Committee -COVID19 
   4. Senate Quality Assurance Committee
   5. Senate Executive Committee
   6. Joint Senate/Board of Governors Committee
   7. Senate Policy and Planning Committee
   8. Sustainability Committee, 2017-present
   9. Sustainability Committee: Co-Chair with Maya Mahgoub-Desai, 2019-2020
      1. Worked closely with co-Chair and Victoria Ho, Sustainability Coordinator, ODESI
      2. Initiatives of the Sustainability Committee
         1. Proposing and implementing sustainability language in Course Outlines through inclusion of language in the Course Outline Builder
         2. Regular committee meetings
         3. Presentations
            1.    FoA May curriculum meeting: May 11,2021, Session F: Healthier Materials and Sustainable Studio Practices
            2. Sustainabilty Sharing June , 2021
            3. Re-thinking sustainability
            4. Sustainability Survey for faculty

vii. Communities of Practice: Sustainability practices shared faculty resources

viii. Zero Waste Working Group

1. Developing the Sustainability Minor
2. Revising the Material Innovation Centre
3. Faculty Focus Group
4. ODESI - Equity Advisory Committee member
5. BIPOC Committee member and Chair
6. Decolonising Studio Education Committee 
7. IQAP External Review Committee – OCAD U Industrial Design
8. Faculty of Art Committees
   1. Drawing and Painting 2011-2021
   2. Life Studies IQAP Committee 2012-2014
   3. Life Studies Curriculm Committee 2014-present
   4. Curriculum Innovation Committee of Faculty, Art 2014-2019
   5. Figure Exhibition Committee
   6. Festival of the Body Committee
   7. Interdisciplinary Studies
   8. Juries
      1. AICAD 2021 conference panel
      2. Awards and medal jury Sculpture/Installation 2021
      3. Excellence in Research Awards 2021: DRA and ERA
      4. Office of Research and Innovation Seed grant December 2020
      5. Excellence in Research Awards 2020: DRA and ERA
      6.  
         1. Office of Development
         2. Fundraising for student projects
         3. Hatch donation: Life Studies
            1. Dec 3: Hosting donors for an online site visit and introducing them to Life students and their work
            2. Final Donation report for 2020-1
            3. Successful proposal for increased multi-year funding 2021-2024
            4. Hiring Committee: Associate Dean, Faculty of Design
            5. Hiring Committee: Associate Dean, Faculty of Art
            6. Decanal Review Committee
            7. Merit Committee

Curriculum Development

Lead Faculty, Life Studies and Life Studies Curriculum Committee lead, 2012-present

• ·       Wrote and designed a full slate of courses for Life Studies which included all second, third and fourth year (thesis) courses for the Life Studies specialization taking into account the universities Academic Plan, Program Learning Outcomes, and Degree Learning Expectations in the Faculty of Art 
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Faculty of Art DRPT Curriculum Committee 2011-2021

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Curriculum leader, First Year Drawing, 2012-2013

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Co-Chair, Drawing Curriculum Committee, 2012, with Professor Sylvia Whitton 

Intro Painting Curriculum Committee, 2011-2013

This course is intended for Direct Entry Drawing and Painting majors and represents an amalgamation of the First Year Colour Explorations Course and a comprehensive painting course.  The committee met frequently in the Fall term to draft proposals for Faculty of Art Curriculum Committee, Senat, and Senate Committees

Curriculum Leaders Committee 2012-2013

The committee of course Leaders of the First Year Program met three times in the Fall 2012 and January 2013. Our most recent meeting led to the possibility of designing an integrated First Year Program which will hopefully lead to more discussions.

Cross-Disciplinary Studies committee 

• ·       May curriculum committee meetings
• ·       Attended the initial meeting in Fall 
• ·       Assisting with an OCAD Course Scan to determine which courses could be included in the Cross Disciplinary Studies Specialization

Hybrid Course Development, Drawing and Painting Program, Faculty Curriculum Development Centre,

Meta-Figure: The Body in Paint