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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.
Wilson will join UT professor of biological anthropology Dr. Chris Kirk, and paleontologist Dr. Pamela Owen, associate director of the museum, in conversation. 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.
Learn more and register:
https://sciencemuseum.utexas.edu/events/dig-evening-photographer-sarah-wilson
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2400 Trinity St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78712