2024 Field Season

Virgin River fire -- Overton, Nevada. 2023:09:22 19:16:53.
Virgin River fire.

Syllabi + Program Materials

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

Map

Field Reports

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 

Firewood gathering -- Point of Rocks Canyon, New Mexico. 2023:10:23 11:31:25.
Firewood gathering.

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.

Kitchen setup for shade and performance -- Muley Point, Utah. 2023:09:05 06:59:14.
Kitchen setup for shade and performance.

Field Guests

Jo Harvey Allen — actor, playwright, writer

Terry Allen — artist, musician, writer

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.

Alex Gates — chef

James Harkrider — architect.

Aaron Hegert — artist with Everything is Collective teaching at Texas Tech.

Luke Koenig — Gila Grassroots Organizer with the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

Jesse and Irma Larriva — El Paso residents & alum parents.

Dionne Lee — artist teaching at Ohio State University.

Eliseo Martinez — Marfa resident.

Victoria McReynolds — architect teaching at Texas Tech.

Beth Menczer — artist.

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.

Meredith Reed & Benjamin Greenspan.

Ann Reynolds — art historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.

Cordelia Rose — creator of Whitewater Mesa Labyrinths.

J. Eric Simpson — artist and farmer in Lubbock and Land Arts 2014 alum.

Deborah Stratman — artist and filmmaker teaching at  of Illinois Chicago.

Hills Snyder — artist and creator of a kind of small array.

Aurora Tang — Center for Land Use Interpretation.

Kate Wingert-Playdon — architect teaching at Tyler School of Art + Architecture at Temple University. 

Contributions to Land Arts directly and exclusively assist in program operations and student scholarships. Gifts can be made online directly to the Land Arts Fund through the Texas Tech University Office of Institutional Advancement web portal.

Gifts can also by mailing a check to Texas Tech University System, Financial Services, Box 45025, Lubbock, TX 79409-5025. Please indicate ‘Land Arts Fund, Huckabee College of Architecture‘ in the memo. 

Any questions or interest in other support options can be directed to Kelly Dale Terrill at kelly.dale.terrill@ttu.edu or 806-834-4207.

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