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CATEGORIES:Exhibits (Museum, Gardens, ...)
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SUMMARY:"Autoimmune System" in the LookOut! Gallery
DESCRIPTION:
 From Monday, October 29, through Friday, November 
 16, the LookOut! Gallery at the RCAH will 
 be featuring Will Wilson's "Autoimmune System," 
 a collection of contemporary photos that 
 engage the historical relationship of photography 
 to the colonization of Native North Americans 
 as a tool for decolonization. The LookOut! 
 Gallery is open 12 to 3 p.m., Mondays through 
 Friday.\n
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 William (Will) Wilson is a Diné 
 photographer who spent his formative years 
 living in the Navajo Nation. Born in San Francisco 
 in 1969, Wilson's complex and nuanced 
 oeuvre fully developed while studying photography 
 at The University of New Mexico (MFA, writing 
 a dissertation on the photography of Milton 
 S. Snow), as well as during his undergraduate 
 studies at Oberlin College. 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.\n
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 Wilson is also an educator 
 and has held visiting professorships at the 
 Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin 
 College, and the University of Arizona. Recentlly, 
 Wilson managed The National Vision Project, 
 a Ford Foundation funded initiative at 
 the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa 
 Fe, NM, has been an important advisor in the 
 development and implementation of the NMArts/Navajo 
 Nation TIME 2012 collaboration and 
 is part of the Science and Art Research Collaborative, 
 a group based at the Santa Fe Institute.\n\n
 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: Residential College in the Arts and Humanities\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://rcah.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Katie Wittenauer\n
 Contact phone: (517) 884-6290\n
 Contact email: wittenau@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://rcah.msu.edu/news-events/events/autoimmune-system-lookout-gallery\n
LOCATION:LookOut! Gallery
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