Naty is standing against a black back drop, wearing a light pink button up shirt & beaded necklace. Head tilted to the side with a smile & glitter being tossed in the air. They have a colourful cosmic tattoo sleeve on their right arm.

Naty is standing against a black back drop, wearing a light pink button up shirt & beaded necklace. Head tilted to the side with a smile & glitter being tossed in the air. They have a colourful cosmic tattoo sleeve on their right arm.

Headshot by Jahmal Nugent - @ninjahmal

Naty Tremblay

Interdisciplinary Artist & Educator for Transformative Justice & Regenerative Reciprocity

Naty Tremblay (they/them) is an identical twin, working class mad & white bodied trans person with mixed french Canadian, muskrat métis & ashkenazi jewish ancestry. Naty has had the honor of co-creating a broad body of interactive multidisciplinary projects, workshops & gatherings exploring identity & power, regenerative reciprocity, healing justice & magics of the natural world, amongst other things. Naty has a BA in Integrated Media from OCADU, 20+ years building experiential street scholarship, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Social Practice & Transformational Change Program at the University of Guelph researching the Transformative Justice praxis of Queer, Trans & Two spirit urban communities in so-called canada, Turtle Island. Naty is mystified by seeds, the cosmos and interspecies entanglements.

Naty ran the interdisciplinary community arts for social change training program for marginalized youth leaders at Sketch working arts for a decade and is a former ED of Rittenhouse: A New vision (2020-2022), Canada’s oldest abolitionist organization. Naty has been supporting grassroots co-learning in Transformative Justice for 10+ years. They are a proud founding member of the Switch Collective which has been mounting roving queer political performance works since 2016, as well as the Trans Healing Arts Web (THAW) which uses community arts gatherings to center the healing & creativity of Trans folks. They were awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation Community Artist Award in 2021.