Where Are They Now: Tiffany Raddi
In 2023, Tiffany Raddi, an alumna of Inuit Futures, served as the Curatorial Assistant to Christine Lalonde for the exhibition, Nick Sikkuark: Humor and Horror, at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa, ON. In this role, Tiffany was responsible for editing, researching, fact-checking, and writing some of the exhibition texts. Her duties included ensuring the accuracy of artistic captions, verifying artwork information with donors, and formatting labels. This exhibition was the first retrospective of Nattillingmiut artist Nick Sikkuark, spanning over forty years of his career, and ran from November 17, 2023, to March 24, 2024.
A unique challenge in this exhibition was the number of untitled artworks. Tiffany had the opportunity to contribute to the parenthetical naming process. A parenthetical title is provided by a gallery to differentiate untitled works from others in the exhibition. Tiffany crafted titles such as "Untitled (Wings, Fins and Paws)" and "Untitled (Facing Signs of Life)" to reflect the essence of the artworks.
Since her position at the NGC, Tiffany has joined the Inuit Art Foundation (IAF) as an Assistant Editor for the Inuit Art Quarterly (IAQ), where she had been working in the role of Copy Editor for over a year and a half. As a Copy Editor, she meticulously reviewed every piece of IAF collateral text within each magazine issue. This involved multiple rounds of editing and proofing to ensure that texts adhered to the Foundation’s style standards, were grammatically correct, and properly formatted.
Photo of Tiffany taken by Nikita Larter.
In her current role as Assistant Editor, Tiffany works closely with writers, guiding them through the stages of commissioning, editing, finalizing, and publishing both print and online articles. “It's been a great experience getting to see how writing evolves from the first draft to the final version,” she says. Tiffany cherishes the opportunity to interact with artists and writers—many of whom she’s admired for years—and learn about their artistic practice and processes. In addition to her editorial duties, Tiffany’s writing has appeared in several IAQ articles and newsletters. In her personal time, she is co-writing a multi-chapter, two-part fanfiction with a friend. “I’m enjoying writing and the experience of trying to edit my own work,” she shares, acknowledging the challenge of overcoming writer's bias and maintaining objectivity.
Tiffany began copy editing at the end of 2020 when she joined the Nagvaaqtavut | What We Found production team as the Project Script Editor. The team produced the audio guide for INUA, the inaugural exhibition of Qaumajuq held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq in Winnipeg, MB. This project set the standard for her editorial approach: “I never want to presume what someone means, and I aim to make them comfortable discussing edits with me. It prepared me for future copy editing jobs.”
Though becoming an editor was not what Tiffany envisioned when she began her postsecondary journey in the Arts, she has embraced the role with enthusiasm. “I don't know that anyone, including myself, anticipated that this is where it would lead, but now I am an editor at the IAF. I never would have imagined this when I first started at Carleton University.”