Syllabi + Program Materials
Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) and Bibliography
Itinerary
1-5 Sep — Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
2 Sep — Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
5-8 Sep — Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah
8-11 Sep — Goblin Valley, Utah
11-13 Sep — Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah
13 Sep — Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah
13-20 Sep — Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
20-21 Sep — Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada
21-23 Sep — North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
23-26 Sep — Coconino Forrest, Arizona
26-28 Sep — Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
29 Sep-5 Oct – Lubbock, Texas
6-11 Oct — Marfa, Texas
11 Oct — El Paso
11-15 Oct — Mimbres River, New Mexico
15-19 Oct — Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
19-23 Oct — Cabinetlandia, near Deming, New Mexico
23-28 Oct — Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico
25&26 Oct — The Lightning Field, New Mexico
28 -30 Oct — Two Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico
31 Oct-6 Dec — Lubbock, Texas
6 Dec — Final Critique at Texas Tech University
Feb-April, 2023 — Land Arts 2022 Exhibition at Museum of Texas Tech University
Participants
Ty Cary — anthropologist / ethnographer based in Colorado with BA from McGill and MS from University of Oxford.
Elise Coleman — designer / artist based in Amsterdam with BFA from U Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Macaella Gray — independent scholar based in Austin, Texas with BA in art history from University of Texas at Austin.
Walker Guinnee — artist based in Oakland, California with BA in art history from Mills College.
Miranda Klein — dark room photographer and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island with BA from Earlham College.
Emily Lee — artist and curator based in Austin, Texas with BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from University of Texas at Austin.
Megan McKenzie, secretary based in Philadelphia with BA in art history from University of Texas at Austin.
Zoe Roden — independent scholar based in Austin, Texas with BA in art history & humanities from University of Texas at Austin.
Talia Brown — writer / artist from Duluth, Minnesota (Program Assistant)
Chris Taylor — architect, and associate professor at Texas Tech (Program Director)
Field Guests
C.J. Alvarez — historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.
Steve Badgett — artist with SIMPARCH based in Chicago.
Katherine Bash & Duncan Kennedy — Land Arts 2003 alum & owl call radio.
Matthew Coolidge — director of Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Gretchen Dietrich — director of Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Curtis Francisco — geologist from Laguna Pueblo.
Aaron Hegert — artist with Everything is Collective teaching at Texas Tech.
Ian James — artist, photographer, and adjunct associate professor at Otis College of Art and Design.
Jesse & Irma Larriva — El Paso residents and architectural designer parents.
Dionne Lee — artist teaching at Ohio State University.
Caleb Lightfoot — Land Arts 2015 alum and architectural designer.
Beth Menczer — Art Farm.
Maggie Mitts — Land Arts 2019 alum and University of Texas at Austin Art History PhD candidate.
Sina Najafi — Editor of Cabinet Magazine.
Daisy Nam — director of Ballroom Marfa.
Andrea Nasher — cultural activator.
Matthew Passmore — artist with MoreLab.
Monty Paret — art historian teaching at University of Utah.
David Pierce — principal at Parallel and president of Design Leadership Alliance, College of Architecture, Texas Tech.
Kaitlin Pomerantz — artist, writer, educator, and land/water-steward based in Philadelphia, and Land Arts 2016 alum.
Ann Reynolds — art historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.
Alexander Robinson — landscape architect, educator, researcher, scholar, and associate professor University of Southern California School of Landscape Architecture & Urbanism.
Cordelia Rose — Whitewater Labyrinths.
Emily Eliza Scott — historian of art, architecture and environmental studies teaching at University of Oregon.
Ingrid Schaffner — curator at Chinati Foundation.
J. Eric Simpson — artist and farmer in Lubbock and Land Arts 2014 alum.
Deborah Stratman — artist and filmmaker teaching at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Aurora Tang — curator, researcher, CLUI program director, Otis College of Art and Design & University of Southern California School of Architecture.
Lucia Thomé — artist, builder, former director of special projects at RAIR, in Philadelphia.