Syllabi + Program Materials
Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index)
Itinerary
Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art — Shallowater, Texas
31 Aug-4 Sep — Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
1 Sep — Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
4-8 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
13-19 Sep — Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
19 Sep — Burnt Spring, Utah
20-22 Sep — North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
22-24 Sep — Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada
24-26 Sep — Coconino Forrest, Arizona
26-28 Sep — Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
29 Sep-4 Oct – Lubbock, Texas
5-10 Oct — Marfa, Texas
10-14 Oct — Cabinetlandia, near Deming, New Mexico
14-18 Oct — Mimbres River, New Mexico
18-22 Oct — Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
22-27 Oct — Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico
24&25 Oct — The Lightning Field, New Mexico
27 -29 Oct — Two Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico
30 Oct-5 Dec — Lubbock, Texas
5 Dec — Final Critique at Texas Tech University
Feb-April, 2024 — Land Arts 2023 Exhibition at Museum of Texas Tech University
Participants
Tatsuki Hoshihara — visual artist from Japan, with BA and MA from Musashino Art University, Japan, MS from SCI-Arc, Los Angeles.
Lorri Kershner — interior designer, environmentalist, avowed art nerd, and returning poet from Santa Cruz, California, and Marfa Texas.
Rohan Khanna — visual artist and writer living a nomadic existence.
Maeve Kirk — writer from Bonners Ferry, Idaho with an MFA in fiction from the University of Alaska Fairbanks who is currently thawing out while pursuing a PHD in poetry from Texas Tech University.
Heidi Landau — visual artist/performer based in Austin, Texas with a BFA in drawing from the University of Florida.
Stirling Lemme — landscape architecture grad student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studying the typologies of rural landscapes.
Laurel McLaughlin — educator based in Philadelphia, among other things.
Stinne Storm — poet and architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Liza Yeager—documentary radio producer from Oregon.
Dionne Lee — 2023 Field Resident. Artist and educator. www.dionneleestudio.com
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.
Joe Arredondo — director of Landmark Arts at Texas Tech.
Steve Badgett — artist with SIMPARCH based in Chicago.
Trey Burns — artist, educator, writer, and co-founder of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park.
Matthew Coolidge — director of Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Gretchen Dietrich — director of Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Curtis Francisco — geologist from Laguna Pueblo.
Alex Gates — Chef and restaurant owner.
Walker Guinnee — artist and Land Arts 2022 alum.
James Harkrider — architect and restaurant owner.
Aaron Hegert — artist with Everything is Collective teaching at Texas Tech.
Tamara Johnson — artist, educator and co-founder of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park.
Jana La Brasca — art historian PhD candidate at University of Texas at Austin and curatorial assistant at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Jesse & Irma Larriva — El Paso residents and parents of alum architectural designer.
Mike Lagg — artist and founder of MoMA ZOZO.
Dionne Lee — artist teaching at Ohio State University.
Megan McKenzie — historian and Land Arts 2022 alum.
Andrea Nasher — cultural activator.
Monty Paret — art historian teaching at University of Utah.
Ann Reynolds — art historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.
Zoe Roden — art historian and Land Arts 2022 alum.
Ingrid Schaffner — curator at Hauser & Wirth, formerly 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.
Hills Snyder — artist, musician, curator, writer with kind of a small array
Aurora Tang — curator, researcher, CLUI program director, Otis College of Art and Design & University of Southern California School of Architecture.