John McDonald is a multidisciplinary artist and author from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. A sixth-generation direct descendant of Nehiyawak Chief Mistawasis, John is one of the founding members of the P.A. Lowbrow art movement and is the Vice President of the Indigenous Peoples Artists Collective. He has served as guest editorial writer for several international publications, has authored multiple performance art pieces and several self-published works. He has also contributed work to anthologies and secondary school textbooks. John has studied at prestigious University of Cambridge in England, where in July 2000 he made international headlines by symbolically 'discovering' and 'claiming' England for the First Peoples of the Americas. John is also an acclaimed public speaker, who has presented in venues across the globe. John has been honoured with several grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board. John lives in Treaty Six Territory in Northern Saskatchewan.
