Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- In-person event
- 303, Paterson Hall, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Cost: Free
Join Professor Gloria Bell (McGill University, Department of Art History and Communication Studies) for a discussion of the work of Edmonia Wildfire Lewis, the Rome-based, 19th-Century Ojibwe and Haitian-American sculptor.
About the Speaker
Gloria Bell’s research and teaching examines visual culture focusing on Indigenous arts of the Americas, primarily from the nineteenth century through to contemporary manifestations. Currently, her research focuses on exhibition histories of First Nations, Métis and Inuit arts in the early twentieth century in Italy, Global Indigenous studies, decolonizing and anti-colonial methodologies, materiality studies, global histories of body art, and the importance of art as living history.
Bell’s book project, Eternal Sovereigns, focuses on the relationships between Indigenous American cultural belongings, material sovereignties, and exhibition histories in Italy. Through an analysis of the artworks of Indigenous artists, statuary of Indigenous American delegations, children’s games, and missionary accounts, Bell’s research presents the mobility of Indigenous visual culture, and the global circulation of Indigenous artists and artworks in cosmopolitan spaces such as the Vatican. Dr. Bell is the principal investigator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant (SSHRC) and Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la sociéte et la culture (FRQSC) New Researchers Award for the multi-media research project Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists and Travelers Reframing Rome.
(From McGill.ca)