Land Arts of the American West

Syllabi + Program Materials

• Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index)
• Bibliography
• Map

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

1. Ty Cary, anthropologist / ethnographer based in Colorado with BA from McGill and MS from University of Oxford.
2. Elise Coleman, designer / artist based in Amsterdam with BFA from U Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
3. Macaella Gray, independent scholar based in Austin, Texas with BA in art history from University of Texas at Austin. 
4. Walker Guinnee, artist based in Oakland, California with BA in art history from Mills College.
5. Miranda Klein, dark room photographer and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island with BA from Earlham College.
6. 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.
7. Megan McKenzie, secretary based in Philadelphia with BA in art history from University of Texas at Austin.
8. 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.