page_title: Marianne Nicolson
hierarchical_section_title: Marianne Nicolson
caption_attribution_description: English: Marianne Nicolson's The Harbinger of Catastrophe (2017), part of the Transformer exhibit at National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Glass, wood and halogen-bulb mechanism.
context_page_description: Marianne Nicolson is a Dzawada’enuxw visual artist whose work explores the margins at which public access to First Nations artifacts clashes with the preservation of indigenous cultural knowledge.
  Born in Comox, British Columbia, she was trained by a master carver in traditional Kwakwaka’wakw design in the early 1990s.
  She utilizes painting, photography, mixed-media, sculpture, and installation to create modern depictions of traditional Kwakwaka’wakw beliefs, and has exhibited in Canada and throughout the world since 1992.
context_section_description: Marianne Nicolson (‘Tayagila’ogwa; born 1969) is a Dzawada’enuxw visual artist whose work explores the margins at which public access to First Nations artifacts clashes with the preservation of indigenous cultural knowledge.
  Born in Comox, British Columbia, she was trained by a master carver in traditional Kwakwaka’wakw design in the early 1990s. 
  She utilizes painting, photography, mixed-media, sculpture, and installation to create modern depictions of traditional Kwakwaka’wakw beliefs, and has exhibited in Canada and throughout the world since 1992.
caption: Nicolson's The Harbinger of Catastrophe (2017).
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