
PhD student Meg Hamilton Wilson will present a talk at the UW-Madison Arboretum Research Symposium on February 6th at 10:30am.
Wilson, a 2024 UW-Madison Arboretum Research Fellow and winner of the inaugural CHE Nelson Art & the Environment Award presents their ongoing projects “transborders/plantwise” and “Mapping Walnut Tree Relations at the Arboretum Border.” Utilizing queer methods to traverse, wander, and (at times) get lost in the ecotone between visuality-adjacent-ecology and ecology-adjacent-visuality, these projects critically engage border discourses, and trouble the grounds between the space “within” and the built environment “without” by attending to black walnut tree reproduction from generation to generation across the border fence: from freeway shoulder, to abandoned lot, to Arboretum, to backyard.