04/30/2024
https://sciencemuseum.utexas.edu/events/dig-evening-photographer-sarah-wilson
Only a few seats left! Click the link below to RSVP for this Thursday eve at the Texas Science & Natural History Museum
Joining me in conversation will be paleontologist Dr. Pamela Owen and Dr. Chris Kirk, the amazing paleoanthropologist I’ve had the pleasure of going on digs with all these years. Tickets are free and open to the public, but make sure and click the link to RSVP.
Thursday, May 2nd. 6:30 -8:30
Event by Texas Science & Natural History Museum
2400 Trinity St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78712
Duration: 2 hr
Join us for a free public program with Sarah Wilson, celebrated photographer, artist and author of “DIG: Notes on Field and Family”, as she explores her grandfather's life's work as a paleontologist and her own search for fossils and existential perspective in the West Texas desert.
Sarah’s grandfather, Dr. Jack Wilson, was the founder of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Before he died, he gave Wilson three metal boxes of faded Kodachromes. Holding the slides up to the light, she realized that she and her grandfather photographed some of the same desert landscapes, from the same vantage points, only 50 years apart. This realization ignited an adventure, as Wilson followed the same paths her grandfather once took through the West Texas desert, digging for 40 million-year-old fossils and searching for answers to mysteries of Deep Time, and our place within it.
A reception and book signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase.
Attendance for this free public program is limited to 150 people, and a registration is required. RSVP at top link in bio.
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Join us for a conversation with Sarah Wilson, author of “DIG: Notes on Field and Family”; Dr. Chris Kirk, UT professor of biological anthropology; and Dr. Pamela Owen, paleontologist associate director of the museum.