Syllabi + Program Materials
Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index)
Exhibition Press Release
Exhibition Documentation
Itinerary
28 Aug — Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art — Shallowater, Texas
29 Aug-2 Sep — Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
31 Aug — Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
2-6 Sep — Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah
6-8 Sep — Goblin Valley, Utah
9-11 Sep — Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah
10 Sep — From Dawn till Dusk: an online encounter between two earthworks by Robert Smithson
11 Sep — Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah
11-18 Sep — Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
18-20 Sep — Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada
20-22 Sep — North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
22-24 Sep — Coconino Forrest, Arizona
24-26 Sep — Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
26 Sep-4 Oct – Lubbock, Texas
4-6 Oct — Two Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico
6-11 Oct — Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico
8&9 Oct — The Lightning Field, New Mexico
11-15 Oct — Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
15-19 Oct — Mimbres River, New Mexico
19-23 Oct — Cabinetlandia, near Deming, New Mexico
23-28 Oct — Marfa, Texas
29 Oct-5 Dec — Lubbock, Texas
22 Nov — Final Critique at Texas Tech University
Feb-April, 2025 — Land Arts 2024 Exhibition at Museum of Texas Tech University
Participants
Hallie Ayres — researcher, writer, and occasional curator who grew up in Austin, Texas, and lately lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Levi Baruch — multidisciplinary artist and aspiring craftsman based in Philadelphia, frequently returning to Western Massachusetts with a BA from Wesleyan University.
Viola Bordon — artist working with craft and landscape, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. violabordon.com
Ian Dippo — artist and landscape architect based in Austin, Texas, originally from the west coast of Michigan.
Isaac Dunne — artist based in Brooklyn, New York with a BFA in sculpture from Hunter College whose work is primarily concerned with the possibility of queer architectures.
Laura Friedman — greenhorn field botanist with University of Montana, co-author of A Point Reyes Herbarium, musician and founder of Hallowed Ground concert series, BFA Design + Ecology, SAIC, Permaculture Design Certificate, Natura Institute.
Alexander Garza —architectural designer and aspiring creative individual at Texas Tech University, motivated by the historical and contemporary, the arts and sciences, the natural and artificial.
Jennifer Loyd — poet, translator, and editor with an MFA from Purdue University, pursuing a PhD at Texas Tech whose writing appears in Best New Poets 2022, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, Swamp Pink, and elsewhere.
Caleb Mancillas — architectural designer, wanderer and thru hiker from Austin, currently based in McKinney, Texas.
Talia Brown — writer, artist, alum of Hampshire College and Land Arts 2021 and Program Assistant.
Chris Taylor — architect, educator and Program Director.
Field Guests
Joe Arredondo — director of Landmark Arts at Texas Tech.
Steve Badgett — artist with SIMPARCH.
Curtis Bauer — poet and translator teaching at Texas Tech.
Matthew Coolidge — director of Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Gretchen Dietrich — director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Curtis Francisco — geologist from Laguna Pueblo.
Aaron Hegert — artist with Everything is Collective teaching at Texas Tech.
Jesse and Irma Larriva — El Paso residents & alum parents.
Dionne Lee — artist teaching at Ohio State University.
Victoria McReynolds — architect teaching at Texas Tech.
Sina Najafi — founder and editor of Cabinet
Andrea Nasher — cultural activator.
Sean O’Brien — architect with O’Brien Architects.
Monty Paret — art historian teaching at University of Utah.
Ann Reynolds — art historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.
J. Eric Simpson — artist and farmer in Lubbock and Land Arts 2014 alum.
Deborah Stratman — artist and filmmaker teaching at of Illinois Chicago.
Aurora Tang — Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Kate Wingert-Playdon — architect teaching at Tyler School of Art + Architecture at Temple University.