{"id":12515,"date":"2026-01-28T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/?p=12515"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:41:55","slug":"edmonia-wildfire-lewis-sculpting-life-with-gloria-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/2026\/edmonia-wildfire-lewis-sculpting-life-with-gloria-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Edmonia Wildfire Lewis: Sculpting Life\u2019 with Gloria Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12516 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-240x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digital-Poster-26W-Talk-Gloria-Bell-scaled-1.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"cu-details not-prose\">\n<li class=\"font-bold\">In-person event<\/li>\n<li>303, Paterson Hall, Carleton University<\/li>\n<li>1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6<\/li>\n<li><strong> Cost: <\/strong> Free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>Gloria Bell\u2019s 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, M\u00e9tis 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.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s book project, <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Eternal Sovereigns<\/em>, 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\u2019s games, and missionary accounts, Bell\u2019s 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 qu\u00e9becois de la recherche sur la soci\u00e9te et la culture (FRQSC) New Researchers Award for the multi-media research project\u00a0<em>Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists and Travelers Reframing Rome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/ahcs\/people-contacts\/faculty\/gloria-bell\">McGill.ca<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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