Edmonia Wildfire Lewis: Sculpting Life
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- In-person event
- 303, Paterson Hall, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Contact
- Paul Jasen , paul.jasen@carleton.ca
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. Presented by the College of Humanities and the School for Studies in Art and Culture.
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.