William (Will) Wilson is a Diné photographer who spent his formative years living in the Navajo Nation. Born in San Francisco in 1969, Wilson studied photography at the University of New Mexico (Dissertation Tracked MFA in Photography, 2002) and Oberlin College (BA, Studio Art and Art History, 1993). In 2007, Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, and in 2010 was awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts (1999-2000), Oberlin College (2000-01), and the University of Arizona (2006-08). From 2009 to 2011, Wilson managed the National Vision Project, a Ford Foundation funded initiative at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and helped to coordinate the New Mexico Arts Temporary Installations Made for the Environment (TIME) program on the Navajo Nation. Wilson is part of the Science and Arts Research Collaborative (SARC) which brings together artists interested in using science and technology in their practice with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, 2012 (ISEA). Currently, Wilson’s work can be seen at the Portland Art Museum in: Contemporary Native American Photographers and the Edward S. Curtis Legacy, Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star and Will Wilson. He is the Photography Program Head at the Santa Fe Community College.
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Part of Climate Justice Now! Art and Environment Today, a series of free Monday/Wednesday evening lectures, featuring a diverse array of guest speakers, all leaders in the area of climate justice and cultural politics, which will explore the current imperatives for making a just transition to a post-carbon future. Curated by professor T.J. Demos.
Free and open to the public.
Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:00pm.
Parking $3
Presented by the Arts Division, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, and Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence.