Ruth B. Phillips

Ruth B. Phillips is a leading scholar and curator of Indigenous art in North America. Her groundbreaking 2011 publication Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums was nominated for the Donner Prize. She has served as a Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and co-founded GRASAC, the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures, which provides Indigenous community members, academics, and museums with digital access to heritage held in repositories around the world.