Artist Talk
Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 2:00pm, Recital Hall
FREE - with Registration
Tom Wilson is a musician, visual artist, and writer of novels and non-fiction. At the age of fifty-three, it was revealed to him that he was adopted, and his parents were Kahnawake Mohawk. Since then Wilson has explored what his white upbringing means against the juxtaposition of his family and culture.
Visit the Installation in the Isabel Art and Media Lab, September 11-30 2025
Installation and accompanying video explores the systemic erasure of Indigenous culture resulting from the residential school system. Portraying a colonial classroom, the exhibit includes nine rebuilt residential school desks with photographs of children’s families inside. As you move further in the rows, the images disappear, representing the loss of identities, family, culture, and language.