NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Westminster College’s Foster Art Gallery will display the work of Yoko Ono.

“Passages and Wishes,” curated by Kevin Concannon and John Noga, invites visitors into a deeply personal and participatory experience with Ono’s powerful message of peace, imagination and action.

A central feature of the exhibition is the interactive, instructional work “Wish Tree,” where visitors are encouraged to write their personal wishes for peace on tags and hang them from the tree. At the close of the exhibition, these wishes will be returned to the artist and continue on in connection with Ono’s work “Imagine Peace Tower” in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Other components of the exhibition inspire and encourage reflection, participation and a renewed sense of purpose. A short film, “Passages for Light,” will be screened continuously in the gallery, highlighting Ono’s “Imagine Peace Tower” project.

For more than 70 years, Ono has been a visionary force in conceptual and performance art. Emerging in the 1950s and gaining international recognition in the 1960s, she has continuously challenged artistic conventions. Working across performance, poetry, sculpture, installation, writing, film, music and activism, Ono merges art and life into a powerful call for peace, participation and change. Her work invites viewers to imagine new possibilities and to become part of the creative process themselves.

“Passages and Wishes” will be on display Monday through Oct. 24 at Westminster’s Foster Art Gallery, located in Patterson Hall.

Concannon, a Yoko Ono scholar and professor emeritus at Virginia Tech, will deliver a free public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Witherspoon Maple Room 335 in McKelvey Campus Center. A gallery reception in the Foster Art Gallery will follow from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and admission is free.