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PEDAGOGY & COLLECTIVE CARE

2001-current

This work engages pedagogy, mentorship, curatorial practice, and community-building as forms of collective care. Across academic, experimental, and community-based contexts, WhiteFeather creates conditions for artists, ideas, materials, and knowledge to come into relation through shared processes of learning, making, exchange, and collective inquiry.

BIOART IN CANADA

A SSHRC-funded national research initiative led by Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter to map the histories, infrastructures, and future directions of bioart across Canada, through knowledge synthesis and public engagement. BioArt in Canada is also currently a research-group-in-residence within the Artistic Intelligence Forum.

Curatorial Work

WhiteFeather's curatorial work moves across academic, exhibition, and unconventional contexts. Projects span apartment vernissages bringing together painting, video installation, music performance, poetry readings, and interactive works; a mini performance festival; exhibitions of student work; a sex toy exhibition engaging embodied perspectives on sexuality and creativity; an international textile exhibition focused on digital textiles; and a season long exhibition at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic.

BIOART COVEN

Bioart Coven is an international technofeminist collective of witches, artists, and biohackers reclaiming biotechnology through ritual and experiments in kitchen science to foster greater bodily autonomy and interpersonal power. Working through unconventional biolab spaces, the coven engages fermentation, bodily materials, and DIY tools to activate the body as both teacher and keeper of personal and collective knowledge.

Mentorships & Formal Teaching

Dr. Hunter's pedagogical practice spans academic, experimental, and community-based contexts, integrating mentorship, curriculum development, material innovation, and lab-based instruction. She has taught internationally for 25 years across textiles, bioart, feminist technoscience, and expanded material practices, supporting artists and researchers in developing independent methodologies. Teaching is a reciprocal and generative process, where new knowledges emerge through hands-on experimentation and collective worldbuilding.

Workshops & Collective Practice

Workshops are sites of collective experimentation, where participants engage hands-on with creative practices, collaborative problem solving, and community building. Delivered across domestic, institutional, and community spaces, these sessions foster learning through making and shared inquiry. Through critical framing, guided exercises in material exploration, and interative feedback loops, participants develop their own approaches to working with material fluency, living systems, bodily knowledge, and feminist technoscience.