Patricia Huntsman (she/her)
Practice Name: Patricia Huntsman Culture + Communication
Role: Practice Lead & Cultural Strategist
Bio: Patricia is a two-time nationally award-winning cultural strategist. She has worked across Canada and internationally in senior roles in the creative industry for over 25 years. Her team practice offers a full roster of arts management, cultural policy writing and planning, and communication services tailored to Building Communities Through Culture. Patricia works with an intersectionalist lens as a settler on Thi Skwithe (“Big Island” in Hul’qumi’num’) on Coast Salish Territories, and in keeping with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Patricia has worked extensively with Indigenous and equity-seeking colleagues, and in diverse regional and underserved communities throughout Canada.
In 2016, Patricia completed a two-part residency program New Fundamentals: Leadership in the Cultural and Creative Industries at the Banff Centre. She holds a Diploma in French Studies (18th-20th C. French Literature and Art History) from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and an MBA from North America’s oldest public university—the University of New Brunswick, where she also earned a B.A. in experimental psychology (visual perception concentration). An avid supporter of visual and performing arts, she has served as a director on notable boards across Canada and maintains active memberships in professional associations including the Canadian Museums Association, the Creative City Network of Canada and Americans for the Arts.
Areas of Interest:
Creative placemaking
Organization transformation
Local culture-led economics in Canada
Systems change; Anti-oppression and decolonization advocacy
