Margaret Watkins, Not an Everyday Life: A Conversation with Mary O’Connor
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Tickets Required
Location: Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hamilton-born photographer Margaret Watkins made ground-breaking artistic contributions that remained unrecognized for many decades before and after her death. However, to use this fact to construe her life as a tragedy would be an error, according to Mary O’Connor, Professor Emeritus English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
O’Connor has devoted a significant portion of her interdisciplinary academic career researching Watkins’ life and work, and during this animated in-person discussion with Senior Curator Tobi Bruce, she will reflect on Watkins’ sense of humour, perseverance, and lifelong immersion in music, art and culture—as a means to better unpack her life and photography.
$10 Member
$15 General
Image: Margaret Watkins by Frances Bode (detail), Clarence H. White School of Photography, 1921, vintage gelatin silver print. © Collection of Joseph Mulholland, Glasgow.
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