E.O. WILSON DAY IN MOBILE

Duke University professor and photographer Alex Harris approached famed naturalist and scientist, Edward O. Wilson, to collaborate on a book about Wilson’s native world of Mobile, Alabama. Their book became a universal story, one that tells us where we all come from and why we are here, and was titled “Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City,” followed by an exhibition of the same title in 2012, presented at the Mobile Museum of Art. Twenty years after that first exhibition, a selection of Harris’s photographs and Wilson’s evocative quotations are presented once again in a tribute exhibition and program celebrating the work and life of E.O. Wilson. A special program, introduced by Mobile writer and filmmaker, Ben Raines, will be presented at the Mobile Museum of Art on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the program of speakers and filmed selections will be followed by a reception and exhibition opening in the museum gallery. For more information visit https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/our-programs/e-o-wilson-day-in-mobile/