Tona Wilson
Tona Wilson is a Hudson Valley-based artist whose practice spans drawing, artists’ books, and video. In the late 1990s she worked as a Spanish interpreter in New York State’s courts, prisons and jails. These paths converged when she came to WSW to produce Stories Behind Bars, a a quartet of books telling the stories of immigrants in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers. Tona has since returned to WSW to teach silkscreen in the Hands-on Art program and produce a new artist’s book, Dress Code Strictly Enforced.
Website
http://www.tonawilson.comResidencies
- Artist’s Book Residency Grant (2010) , Book Arts
- Art-in-Ed Artist’s Book Residency Grant (2017) , Book Arts
- Studio Workspace Residency (2019) , Etching