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Wolf Babe is a collective of First Nations women and non-binary artists and curators, who recognize and work through the complexities of shared connections to the region we currently call home at the confluence of Kichi-Sìbì (Ottawa River) and Pasapkedjinawong (Rideau River), and our respective ancestral lands. We each carry knowledge arising out of our individual practices, our bonds to our First Nations communities, and the intergenerational ties long forged between our families.
We bring together our individual areas of interest and expertise in architecture, curatorial practice, public art, design, and research. Our collective centers notions of reciprocity, relationship and community, and gestures towards the subtle, the soft, the tender and quiet and discerns the extraordinary in the everyday. Our interests lie in the permeability between worlds, realms and multiple temporalities and the textured relations between persons and the animate landscape.
The global pandemic fostered a space for us to continue to build a support system within and through each other. Our practice is informed by dialogical processes and methodologies of visiting, and centers conversation and ethics of care and consent.
Wolf Babe tells stories, spills tea, shares food, laughs, resists, creates, celebrates, loves, and conspires to build a rounder and more just world.
We are:
Joi T. Arcand (she/her) is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 Territory, currently residing in Ottawa, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan. In 2018, Arcand was shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. Her practice includes photography, digital collage, and graphic design and is characterized by a visionary and subversive reclamation and Indigenization of public spaces through the use of Cree language and syllabics. She was the co-founder of the Red Shift Gallery, a contemporary Indigenous art gallery in Saskatoon. She was founder and editor of the Indigenous art magazine, kimiwan (2012-2014) and has curated several exhibitions.
Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow (she/her) is Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka and a member of Whitefish River First Nation with maternal roots in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory. Born and raised in in Ottawa, Ontario, Nahwegahbow is a PhD Candidate in Visual Culture at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature Art and Culture at Carleton University. She recently held the position of Associate Curator of Historical Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada from 2018-2024, and is now a Lecturer at Carleton University, teaching Indigenous Museology and Public History through a cross-appointment between the Department of History and Curatorial Studies. She has experience working with historical belongings in art institutions internationally, and has worked with contemporary Indigenous artists and communities on a range of creative and curatorial projects.
Danielle Printup (she/her) is a Hodinohso:ni / Anishinaabe arts worker and curator from Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, QC, with maternal roots in Ohsweken, ON. She has a Bachelor of Honour’s in Art History from the University of Guelph (2012). She later worked at the National Gallery of Canada before completing the RBC Indigenous Training Program in Museum Practices at the Canadian Museum of History. She has worked at Galerie SAW Gallery, the Indigenous Art Centre and the City of Ottawa's Public Art Program. She currently acts as Indigenous Cultural Engagement Coordinator at Carleton University Art Gallery. Most recently, Printup curated the solo exhibition Christian Chapman: Run to the Hills! which was presented at the Carleton University Art Gallery in September 2023.
Tanis Worme (they/them) is a Cree artist from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Treaty #6 territory. Worme is Plains Cree and a member of the Poundmaker Cree Nation, with maternal roots in Mistawasis Nehiyawak and paternal roots in Kawacatoose First Nation. Their growing body of studio work considers notions of memory through place while questioning the impulse of colonial thought imbued in created space. Worme is a graduate from the Ottawa School of Art's Fine Art Diploma program, specializing in traditional printmaking methods and oil painting. The scope of their practice also includes tattooing, drawing, collage, performance, and sculpture. Worme has their Bachelors of Architectural Studies from the Azrieli School of Architecture at Carleton University and is currently completing their Masters of Architecture at the University of Toronto. Most recently, Worme was a recipient of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellowship