Jon Claytor is a Sackville-based artist, painter, and writer. He co-founded SappyFest independent music and arts festival in 2006 and opened Thunder & Lightning Ideas Ltd. in Sackville, New Brunswick in 2013. He was born in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Moncton, Sackville, Halifax, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.
Jon Claytor’s work ranges from oil painting and watercolour to filmmaking, graphic novels and comics journalism. He was nominated for a Juno Award for the cover of Gord Downie's “Battle Of The Nudes.’
Recently, Jon has found graphic storytelling to be his passion and true calling. His memoir, Take The Long Way Home was published by Conundrum Press in 2022 and has written many illustrated interviews for the CBC. He has recently finished a fictional graphic novel about growing up among monsters in a small maritime town called Nowhere. Currently he is working on a book about the toxic drug supply affecting rural New Brunswick with harm reductionist Ashley Legere.
Jon holds an MFA from York University (2012), attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (1991), and holds a BFA Mount Allison University (1998).
Photo credit: Carolina Andrade
Synopsis
Take The Long Way Home
A classic road trip memoir about love, family, and surprisingly conversational wildlife.
Take The Long Way Home
Sessions in which Jon Claytor participates
الأربعاء 20 مارس, 2024
A personal look at how a move to Moncton at the start of my highschool years in the late 80’s permanently shaped my outlook on life and art. How a unique mixture of French and English, punk music and visual art, and a pre-internet do-it-yourself cultural community placed New Brunswick and more specifically Moncton simultaneously on the outside edge of popular culture and also in the middle of something unique a...
Sessions in which Jon Claytor attends
الثّلاثاء 19 مارس, 2024
Chorus(es): Machine à présence poétique, is an interactive literary installation combining poetry, sound art and digital visual art. The Frye Festival, Galerie Sans Nom and Productions Rhizome are proud to partner in the presentation of this work at the GSN from March 19 to April 28.For more info: https://www.galeriesansnom.org/choeurschorusIn the center of a dark room sta...
الخميس 18 أبريل, 2024
Dates de l’exposition: 18 avril au 30 juin 2024
الجمعة 19 أبريل, 2024
السّبت 20 أبريل, 2024
À bord du tapis roulant, Spock, Astérix, Jean-Paul II, Mick Jagger, Bill « Spaceman » Lee, Bob Barker, Greta Thunberg et bien d’autres sont convoqués tour à tour pour illustrer l’impasse vers laquelle se dirige la société de consommation. La méduse est un récit qui témoigne de l’importance de prendre la main qui nous est tendue pour que les ténèbres de la maladie et du deuil se dissipent enfin.Les bédéistes Paul Bossé et Boum ...
Dans le désarroi qui s'abat sur le sud de la Louisiane à la suite de la guerre de Sécession, André Boudreaux, dix-sept ans, découvre la vie auprès de son grand-père Drozin. Ce vétéran sudiste, devenu un homme riche grâce à l'arrivée de la voie ferrée, tente de regagner son prestige et son pouvoir politique. Mais le meurtre sordide de l'oncle d'André, les élections mouvementées de 1882 et les visées politiques ...
These remarkable works address the pressures of conformity, exile, lifelong disentanglement, and grappling with darkness. Join our four authors as they share what we don't always see on the page.
الأحد 21 أبريل, 2024
Enjoy delicious tea and sweets as four writers offer glimpses to their unique literary worlds, and read excerpts accompanied by interdisciplinary artist Martin Daigle.
The Geographies of DAR is a captivating film that explores the life and literary works of renowned Canadian author David Adams Richards.Through stunning visuals, insightful interviews and excerpts from his writings, the film uncovers the profound connection between Richards’ personal experiences and Eastern Canada’s Miramichi, the region that shaped his storytelling.The mas...
الإثنين 22 أبريل, 2024
الأربعاء 24 أبريل, 2024
Join us as we travel down memory lane to celebrate 25 years of the Frye Festival!You can see the menu here.
الخميس 25 أبريل, 2024
Both of these collections embody the selves we see reflected in humanity and the natural world. From love and desire to environmental collapse and capitalism, we journey deep in the natural (dis)order of things with Jake Byrne and Meghan Kemp-Gee.
الجمعة 26 أبريل, 2024
A novel about the unshakeable animosity between a brother and sister and a community increasingly divided as the feud spirals further into vendettas and violence each year. Through seasons of want and uncertainty, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart the reveals itself to be the most formidable adversary each person faces. A pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution....
السّبت 27 أبريل, 2024
Canadian short stories are always a cause for celebration. Host Stephanie Domet is joined by Lisa Moore, editor, as well as contributors Sharon Bala and Ryan Turner to talk about what makes a good story, what attracts them to the form, and perhaps share who has written some of their personal favorites.
Decisive encounters, ravages of weather, and quests for truth and justice are some of the elements we confront in these magnificent works. Join our four authors as they share what we don't always see on the page."
"Entre la taïga et la toundra, un jeune couple inuit du Nunavik se découvre et apprend à s'aimer. Accompagnés de leurs chiens, les qimmiit, Saullu et Ulaajuk parcourent un continent encore sauvage, tous libres et solidaires.Quelques décennies plus tard, une avocate est dépêchée sur la Côte-Nord pour défendre un meurtrier inuk dont les victimes sont d'anciens policiers de la Sécurité du Québec. Sa quête de justice l'emmènera au-delà de ce qu'elle avait imaginé.Roman vérité, Qimmik r...