Regan Jane Hayward, Art Director + Art Curator
As an art director, Regan manages projects for various types of organizations, corporate business' and creative industry, who desire to incorporate visual art into their engagement programming and public relations objectives.
As an independent art curator specializing in interdisciplinary collaboration, Regan works with artists who share a vision to explore subjects and issues impacting personal development, collective consciousness, social and environmental change.
She works part time on her MA in Cultural Studies at University of Toronto, a graduate of OCAD University Curatorial Development, Art Criticism & Design, Ryerson University’s Arts & Entertainment Management Program, and Toronto’s CMU College of Make Up Art & Design.
Regan is active in the volunteer sector as a Director on the board of The Headwaters Arts Gallery at the Alton Mill Arts Centre in Caledon, the Downtown Brampton B.I.A., and she is a founding member of Brampton Arts Coalition Committee.
Her employment in the professional arts field includes serving in the role of Gallery Director at Beaux Arts Gallery, previously as the Special Event Manager for the Brampton Arts Council, and as a Corporate Image and PR Consultant for Jem Image Agency.
She launched her independent curatorial practice in October 2016. To date she has curated and done the project management for highly successful visual art exhibitions. Regan enjoyed the synergy of working with esteemed international artist jurors, such as Michael Pape, Fausta Facciponte, Lynn Schumacher, Olaf Schneider and Tony Vander Voet.
Regan’s focus and personal delight in her curatorial practice remains championing the work of many promising emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists, producing and presenting visual art exhibitions with themes that provoke reflective contemplation, wider social awareness and exciting engagement opportunities for patrons.
She also is talented at developing working partnerships between various industry organizations whose missions and goals align with her art curation practice; skillfully and successfully co-creating artistic exhibits, communications and innovative programs that support shared objectives.
Her personal artistic practice includes sketching, mixed media collaging and acrylic painting with an ethereal, highly symbolic, and surreal exploration.
written by E.C.Munson
Regan Jane Hayward, Managing Director of:
Beaux Arts Gallery, Downtown Brampton
To encourage and support emerging to established artists from all walks of life, with works in all mediums, and to raise the profile of visual arts and the creative community in the City of Brampton and beyond.
Regan Jane Hayward, Gallery Chair of:
Headwaters Arts Gallery, The Alton Mill Arts Centre
Headwaters Arts exists to bring together artists and supporters to promote the development, appreciation, and enjoyment of all arts in the Hills of Headwaters Region (Caledon, Dufferin County, Orangeville & Erin)