e.putnam

I am an art historian and curator living and working on unceded Algonquin Anishinabek territory. A doctoral student at Carleton University, I am a junior member and PhD researcher for the Worlding Public Cultures project and work as an image research associate for the Art Canada Institute. My research considers how art oriented around archives, counter-archives, and the anarchive can transform the way knowledge is understood, and expand the capacity with which we can interact with museum spaces. While my frame of knowledge is situated within the context of Canada – both in subject research and through lived experience – I am motivated by the desire to connect Canadian Art Histories within a global context through relational frameworks of interpretation and collaboration. My primary scope of theoretical interest includes activism and social justice, memory studies, worlding, and potential histories.