Ruth Phillips
February - June 2014
Ruth B. Phillips, director of the Museum of Anthropology and professor of art history and anthropology at the University of British Columbia, has long been engaged in a historical reexamination of Native North American art studies. Her publications include Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900 (University of Washington Press, 1998) and the survey Native North American Art (Oxford University Press, 1998). At the Clark, Phillips will complete her book on Native American visual arts from the Great Lakes Region between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on themes of cultural encounter and transculturation.
