Syllabi + Program Materials
Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index)
Exhibition Documentation
Itinerary
28 Aug — Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art — Shallowater, Texas
29 Aug-2 Sep — Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
30 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 simulcast between Spiral Jetty and Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
11 Sep — Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah
11-18 Sep — Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
18-21 Sep — Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada
21-23 Sep — Gunsight Point above the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
23-25 Sep — Coconino Forrest, Arizona
25-27 Sep — Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
27 Sep-5 Oct – Lubbock, Texas
5-7 Oct — Two Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico
7-12 Oct — Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico
9&10 Oct — The Lightning Field, New Mexico
12-14 Oct — Gila Wilderness, Powerhouse Trail, Whitewater Labyrinths
14-18 Oct — Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
18-22 Oct — Mimbres River, New Mexico
22-26 Oct — Cabinetlandia, near Deming, New Mexico
26-31 Oct — Marfa, Texas
31 Oct-5 Dec — Lubbock, Texas
3 Dec — Final Critique at Texas Tech University
Feb-April, 2026 — Land Arts 2025 Exhibition at Museum of Texas Tech University
Participants
Amy Chender — buddhist meditator and instructor practicing awareness meditation as a discipline to capture the unconditional, unfabricated landscape through the camera lens both still and video.
Francess Archer Dunbar — poet, writer, and filmmaker from the waters of North Miami, Florida.
Joey Grimm — artist who likes to build furniture and spaces that are deeply intertwined with the material of their making who runs Holsum Studios in Kansas City, MO.
Natalie Marshall — visual artist who lives in New York’s Hudson Valley but dreams of the desert and has spent a lot of time at sea.
Miles Matis-Uzzo — artist, poet, and perfumer based in Austin, Texas who follows the ways material remembers, dissolves, and reforms.
Jennifer Seas — artist, writer, and curator whose studio inquiry emerges through experimentation with organic material, language, and language as material, creating dialogues between studio, site, and community that explore how the body and landscape shape each other.
Anika Todd — sculptor/media artist who investigates the human impulse to own and control; their works critique the cultural assumptions and legislative frameworks that legitimize private ownership of earth and sky.
James Warren — artist based in Queens, NY with a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, interested in the ways in which we construct and interpret the contemporary landscape.
Dominika Wilk — emerging nomadic artist driven by the idea of the Archaeology of the Present, creates hybrid, polyform installations, photography and paintings.
Elle Wolfley — artist and educator rooted in New Mexico, curious about home- and place-making over time.
Land Arts 2025 Field Resident — Monty Paret — Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Utah, where he writes and teaches on modern and contemporary art and visual culture addressing early twentieth-century European Art, especially the Bauhaus school of art and design, as well as issues of land art and land use in contemporary art.
Land Arts 2025 Program Assistant — Skylar Perez — PhD student in Land-Use, Planning, Management, and Design at Texas Tech University and an artist-researcher whose work explores soil care, Microbial Urbanism, and the integration of biology into the built environment through architecture, agriculture, and design. His practice emphasizes environmental data, multispecies collaboration, soil health, and the Llano Estacado as a testing ground for alternative ecological futures. An alum of Texas Tech, Rhode Island School of Design and Land Arts 2019.
Land Arts Program Director — Chris Taylor — architect and educator.
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 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.
Maira Kalman — artist.
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.
Emily Lawhead — curator at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Victoria McReynolds — architect teaching at Texas Tech.
Andrea Nasher — cultural activator.
Rob Ray — artist, designer, technologistartist, designer, technologist teaching at California State University, San BernardinoCalifornia State University, San Bernardino.
Ann Reynolds — art historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.
Cordelia Rose — creator of Whitewater Mesa Labyrinths.
Ingrid Schaffner — curator.
J. Eric Simpson — artist and farmer in Lubbock and Land Arts 2014 alum.
Deborah Stratman — artist and filmmaker teaching at University of Illinois Chicago.
Hills Snyder — artist and creator of a kind of small array.
Aurora Tang — Center for Land Use Interpretation.