Community Affiliate and Artist

G. Scott MacLeod holds a BFA specialization in printmaking and MA in Art Education from Concordia University and is a critically acclaimed artist, photographer, musician, filmmaker, scriptwriter and graphic novelist. His artwork is in many permanent collections, including that of the Musée du Québec, The National Gallery of Canada and Dr. Jane Goodall Institute. He is a performing songwriter and recording artist with four releases https://gsmacleod.bandcamp.com Scott was a co founder and member of the international art collective La Raza Group www.larazagroup.com whose focus was on art outreach through muralism from 1987 to 2005. In 1991 he represented Canada in Dublin Ireland for the European City of Culture festival at the Guinness Hop Store Gallery. Scott attended the Banff Center for the Arts on the Tevie and Arliss Miller Scholarship in 1987 and the Leighton Artist Colony in 1992. In 1988 he studied master prints and drawings at the Uffizi Print and Drawing Room in Florence on the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Scholarship. He is a fellow at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico https://wurlitzerfoundation.org/alumni where he attended two residencies in 1996 and 2001. In 1999 her was the recipient of the William Blair Bruce European Travel Fine Arts Scholarship from the Canadian Scandinavian Foundation to research his Norse Ancestry. In 2001 Scott created A Brief Canadian History www.abriefcanadianhistory.com a program to teach indigenous and Canadian history through music and storytelling. He was the artist in residence at the McAuslan Brewery from 2004 to 2008 and founded this artist in residency program and the Centre St. Ambroise cultural centre. He was co founder and coordinator of La Semaine des arts NDG Arts Week and creator of https://ndgartwalk.com His thesis project was the documentary Dans l’Griff – In Griffintown (2013) http://ingriffintown.com about the French community of Montreal’s Griffintown neighbourhood. This film won the 2014 Oral History Award of Excellence in the Oral History Center of Montreal from Concordia University and along with his other thesis research this project was featured at the Centre d’histoire de Montréal from 2015 – 2016 https://www.flickr.com/photos/chmmtl/albums/72157658629764089/ and https://www.griffintowntour.com In 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023 he received a number of grants to attend the SIM residency in Reykjavik Iceland to work on his Norse Woman’s Saga film and graphic novel series. Scott has produced, directed and animated 11 documentaries and animated films in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada https://www.macleod9.com/films.html MacLeod has complete Episode 1. Indigenous Lands, First Settlers and Irish Immigration (2022) and Episode 2. Colonisation and Industrialization (2024) for his four part series, Griffintown – A People’s History from Settlement to industrialization and gentrification. MacLeod also consults, lectures and gives workshops on his work to promote and develop better business and creative art practices http://macleod9.com/lectures.php He currently produces illustrations, educational films, graphic novels, web tours and exhibitions with MacLeod 9 Productions https://www.macleod9.com as teaching tools for schools, libraries, cultural centres, museums, Parks Canada and the public. From 2020 to 2024 MacLeod has worked for LEARN Quebec on the iBelong and iBelong Here projects https://hosted.learnquebec.ca/belonging/comic-zine/ and ELAN https://artistsinspire.ca/artist/g-scott-macleod/