Natalie Wood | |
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| Born | Trinidad |
| Alma mater | York University |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, curator, professor |
| Employer | George Brown College |
| Website | https://iamnataliewood.blogspot.com/ |
Natalie Wood is a Trinidadian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, curator, and professor. Her work focuses on popular culture, education, and historical research through visual arts and other media. The mediums of her art practice include painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and performance. [1] Through her politically-engaged and identity-based art she engages with issues of representation and challenges to hegemonic systems, and explores Black feminist, queer, and diasporic identity in historical narratives. [2] She is also a community-based queer activist. [1]
Wood was born and raised in Trinidad, relocating in 1984 to Toronto, Ontario to pursue a specialist degree in psychology, sociology, and women's studies from the University of Toronto. [3] [4] She later took studio courses and obtained a degree in studio art from the Ontario College of Art and an Master of Arts in art education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. [1]
She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Wood's studies focus on Black futurity, the design and performance of change, the healing role of artists in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and imagining and sustaining models of liberation in the face of anti-Black racism.
Wood is a professor in the Social Service Worker Program at George Brown College. [3] [1]
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Wood is a social work professor in the School of Social and Community Services at George Brown College, incorporating art into her research. [11] She serves as the Black Futures Coordinator at George Brown. [2] [ needs update ]
Wood co-founded the Social Innovation Hub (SIH) with Zuby Saloojee in 2014 at George Brown College. [12] [13] [14]