The Arnold and Augusta Newman Lecture Series: Will Wilson
Will Wilson is the program Head of Photography at Santa Fe Community College and has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally. He has won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Photography, the NM Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and in 2020 was the Doran Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Will Wilson’s creative work centers around the continuation and transformation of customary Indigenous cultural practice. Through three primary projects – Auto Immune Response (AIR), The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX), and Connecting the Dots: for a Just Transition – Wilson expands the possibilities of what contemporary art can be and declares that traditional art is a living, breathing, and vital force that has always been innovative.
As honorary speaker of the annual Arnold and Augusta Newman Lecture, Wilson will provide an overview of his artistic practice and his work with The Carter’s current exhibition, ‘Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography.’ The event will conclude with a conversation and Q&A between Wilson and Casey Riley, Chair of Global Contemporary Art and Curator of Photography & New Media.