ECH welcomes Michelle Wilson as a Contributing Editor

4/21/2021

We are pleased to welcome Michelle Wilson as our newest contributing editor to the Embassy Cultural House.

Michelle Wilson is an artist and mother of French/British descent. In her current work she makes palpable the presence and absence of bison, as well as their inseparability from the land and its people. In the Euro-American archive, bison bodies have been used to convey colonial knowledge systems, and their story of survival has been used to perpetuate myths of 'settler saviours.'

This is the legacy that Wilson, as a feminist of settler descent, studying in colonial institutions, has inherited and is confronting. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Art and Visual Culture at the University of Western Ontario.

She is participating in the GardenShip & State project curated by Jeff Thomas and Patrick Mahon which will be presented in September 2021 at Museum London. An in-progress version of Michelle's multi-media (non-linear) dissertation can be viewed here.

Michelle is one of the exhibiting artists and a contributing editor assisting in the coordination with the upcoming Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth online exhibit live April 22, 2021. She also participated in the International Women's Day Exhibit: Go; Rise and Strike. Michelle’s new role as a contributing editor will strengthen the ECH’s already strong community partnership with Gardenship and State.

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The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located in London, Ontario, Canada on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.