Public lecture by Matika Wilbur, Native American Photographer

EVENT: Public lecture by Matika Wilbur, Native American Photographer
PLACE: BTSU theatre
DATE: Wednesday, November 5, 2014
TIME: 4:00PM-5:30 PM with reception to follow

The Department of Ethnic Studies in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies is hosting photographer Matika Wilbur's visit to BGSU on Wednesday, November 5, 2014. She will present a public lecture on Wednesday November 5, 2014 at 4:00PM in the BTSU theatre. Drawing on her photography, Ms. Wilbur will speak of her art, her strategic position as a Native American artist, contemporary representations of Native Americans, and of the contemporary lives of Native Americans.

Matika Wilbur is a graduate of Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, MO, and the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara. Wilbur is a widely acclaimed photographer whose work has been presented, among others, at the Seattle Art Museum, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in France.

Wilbur's work has focused on Native American life and the telling of alternate stories from within the community. Her current project, Project 562, is a work-in-progress that involves a journey across the United States. Wilbur seeks to record through photography the contemporary lives of Native American tribes, especially those arenas that hitherto have been inaccessible to people outside the tribes.

Of Swinomish and Tulalip descent, Wilbur is uniquely positioned to provide an intimate portrait of the diversity of lives within Native America.  Project 562 takes its name from the 562 federally recognized Native nations in 2012 when she began the project. Funded by Kickstarter donations, the project has seen Wilbur traverse across California and the Pacific Northwest where she has photographed members of over 70 tribes. The archive she is putting together will be ground-breaking, preserving and presenting an historical record of contemporary Native life in the United States.

See: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matika/562-a-photo-project-documenting-native-america