Land Arts of the American West

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Land Arts of the American West is a studio-based field program

Chaco Canyon and Roden Crater function as celestial instruments; and that the Very Large Array
is a scientific research center with a powerful aesthetic presence on the land. We spend the semester living and working in the landscape with guest scholars that expand the range of our definition in disciplines including archeology, art history, architecture, ceramics, criticism, writing, design, and studio art. The immersive nature of how we experience the landscape triggers an amalgamated body of inquiry where students have the opportunity of time and space to develop authority in their work through direct action and reflection. Land Arts hinges on the primacy of first person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular.

Land Arts of the American West started at the

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The book Land Arts of the American West documents the history and development of the program was published by the University of Texas Press in April 2009.

Program directors

  • Bill Gilbert, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico
  • Chris Taylor, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University

Sites visited

Past field guests

Past field guests include Nick Abdalla, Tori Arpad, Joe Arredondo, Steve Badgett,

Lucy Lippard, Barry Lopez, Graciella Martinez, Susannah Mira, Onézieme Mouton, John Poch, Rob Ray, Lea Rekow, Ann Reynolds, Jack Risley, Lori Ryker, Jack Sanders, Michael Scialdone, Kathleen Shields, Susan Spring, John Stokes, Marianne Stockebrand, Deborah Stratman, Simone Swan, Mary Tsiongas
, Henry Walt, Blaine Young, and Joe Zuni.

References

  1. ^ Kennedy, Randy (May 3, 2011). "The American West as Classroom, Art and Metaphor". New York Times. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

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