Eric Gansworth, professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, will be the final guest in the Haudenosaunee Speakers Series on Monday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson's Red Pit. His lecture, sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, English and Religious Studies, is free and open to the public.
Gansworth is an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation and was born and raised at the Tuscarora Indian Nation in western New York. He is the author of three novels, Mending Skins, Smoke Dancing and Indian Summers, as well as a book of poems and paintings, Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon.
He is a member of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
Gansworth began his creative work as a visual artist and eventually expanded to narrative as a way of furthering the storytelling he had developed visually. His work has been in shows across New York State, including "Revisiting Turtle Island," at the Niagara Arts and Culture Center, "Native Vision: Art through Haudenosaunee Eyes," at the Fanette-Goldman Gallery, "Art Creations from Tuscarora," at Neto Hatinakwe Ohnkwehowe and the "Keepers of the Western Door" Exhibit, co-sponsored by CEPA Gallery and the World University Games.
