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Wanda Nanibush

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator, and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation. She is currently a guest curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario and touring her exhibition The Fifth World. Nanibush has a master's degree in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and has taught doctoral courses on Indigenous history and politics at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published in many places including the books Women in a Globalizing World and This is an Honour Song, as well as catalogue essays on Jeff Thomas, Adrian Stimson, Rebecca Belmore and more. She has organized round-dances, candle light marches, concerts, and teach-ins as part of an Idle No More group in Toronto. She continues to work in defense of women, children, land and water.

Books by Wanda Nanibush

Moving the Museum

Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO

edited by Wanda Nanibush & Georgiana Uhlyarik

Wordless: The Performance Art of Rebecca Belmore

by (artist) Rebecca Belmore
edited by Florene Belmore
foreword by Glenn Alteen
contributions by Curtis Collins, Jen Budney, Wanda Nanibush, Jessica Jacobson-Konefall, Kathleen Ritter & Richard William Hill

Violence No More

The Rise of Indigenous Women

by (author) Wanda Nanibush

Rebecca Belmore

Facing the Monumental

edited by Wanda Nanibush

Toronto

Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989

edited by Wanda Nanibush & Georgiana Uhlyarik

Rita Letendre

Fire & Light

by (author) Wanda Nanibush & Georgiana Uhlyarik

Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity

edited by Scott Watson & Lorna Brown
by (artist) Beau Dick, Chief Robert Joseph, Linnea Dick, Wanda Nanibush, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Tarah Hogue & Shelly Rosenblum