Land Arts 2023 Exhibition
Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture and Museum of Texas Tech University announce the LAND ARTS 2023 EXHIBITION.
The opening reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. Friday, February 23, 2024, at the Museum of Texas Tech University at 3301 4th Street in Lubbock, Texas. Please enter from the North.
The exhibition culminates the semester-long transdisciplinary field program Land Arts of the American West presenting works by students Tatsuki Hoshihara, Lorri Kershner, Rohan Khanna, Maeve Kirk, Heidi Landau, Stirling Lemme, Laurel McLaughlin, Stinne Storm, and 2023 field resident artist Dionne Lee.
Within the Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture, Land Arts is a “semester abroad in our own backyard” where architects, artists, historians, and writers camped for fifty-three nights while traveling 5,576 miles overland to experience major land art monuments—Double Negative, Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, The Lightning Field—while also visiting sites expanding our understanding of what land art might be such as pre-contact archeology of Chaco Canyon, scientific exploration at the Very Large Array, and military-industrial operations in the Great Salt Lake Desert. To negotiate the multivalent meaning of these places and shed light on strategies to aid their comprehension we invited the wisdom of field guests—writers, artists, and interpreters—to join specific portions of our journey. 2023 field guests included Aurora Tang of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, historian C.J. Alvarez, artists Deborah Stratman and Steve Badgett, art historian Ann Reynolds, and Aaron Hegert and Eric Simpson of Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art, among many others. Land Arts hinges on the primacy of first-person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular. The Land Arts 2023 Exhibition will continue through 21 April 2024.
Gallery Hours and Events
The exhibition is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 10am – 5pm and Sundays 1-5pm. Admission is free.
About Land Arts 2023
The Land Arts 2023 field crew includes participants Tatsuki Hoshihara, visual artist from Japan, with BA and MA from Musashino Art University, Japan, and 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, and 2023 field resident artist Dionne Lee.
Sites on the 2023 itinerary ventured from the Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art to Cebolla Canyon, Jackpile Mine, Muley Point, Goblin Valley, Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, Center for Land Use Interpretation Wendover, Burnt Spring, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Double Negative, Trick Tank, Chaco Canyon, Marfa, Cabinetlandia,
Field guests for 2023 were C.J. Alvarez, Joe Arredondo, Steve Badgett, Trey Burns, Gretchen Dietrich, Curtis Francisco, Alex Gates, Walker Guinnee, James Harkrider, Aaron Hegert, Tamara Johnson, Jana LaBrasca, Jesse & Irma Larriva, Mike Lagg, Dionne Lee,Megan McKenzie, Monty Paret, Ann Reynolds, Zoe Roden, Ingrid Schaffner, J. Eric Simpson, Deborah Stratman, Hills Snyder, Aurora Tang, and Paula Wilson.
Land Arts 2023 field season was made possible with generous operational support from Andrea Nasher, the James Family Foundation, Matti and Henry Brown, and Rhotenberry Wellen Architects. This was the third year with the Land Arts Support Vehicle possible with a gift from Owl Call Radio.
Chris Taylor, director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech, leads the program and was assisted in the field by Talia Brown from Duluth, Minnesota.
About the Huckabee College of Architecture
The Huckabee College of Architecture at Texas Tech University is located in Lubbock where architectural education has been offered since 1927. The college includes undergraduate, graduate and PhD students and over fifty faculty members. Graduate certificate programs are offered in Digital Design Fabrication, Health Care Design, Historic Preservation, Urban and Community Design, and, Land Arts of the American West, as well as an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Land-Use Planning, Management, and Design.
About the Museum of Texas Tech University
Established in 1929, the Museum is an educational, scientific, cultural, and research element of Texas Tech University. It is a not-for-profit institution by virtue of being a part of Texas Tech University. The Museum’s purpose is to support the academic and intellectual mission of Texas Tech University through the collection, preservation, documentation, and research of scientific and cultural material and to disseminate information about those collections and their scientific and cultural topics through exhibition, interpretation, and publication for primary, secondary, and higher education students, the scholarly community, and the general public. The Museum aspires to provide the highest standard of excellence in museological ethics and practices, while pursuing continuous improvement, stimulating the greatest quantity of quality research, conservation, interpretation, exhibition, and education, and providing support for faculty, staff, and students. The Museum is a multi-faceted institution that includes the main building, the Helen Devitt Jones Auditorium and Sculpture Court, Moody Planetarium, Natural Science Research Laboratory, and Lubbock Lake Landmark, an archaeological and natural history preserve.
For additional information about Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech or to schedule an interview with Chris Taylor contact him by phone at 806-834-1589 or email at chris.taylor@ttu.edu. Information about the College of Architecture can be found at http://arch.ttu.edu, and the Museum of Texas Tech University by visiting https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/.