Texas Tech University
Huckabee College of Architecture
and Museum of Texas Tech University
announce the LAND ARTS 2025 EXHIBITION
An opening reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. Friday, February 27, 2026, at the Museum of Texas Tech University at 3301 4th Street in Lubbock, Texas.
The exhibition culminates the semester-long transdisciplinary field program Land Arts of the American West presenting works by students Amy Chender, Francess Archer Dunbar, Joey Grimm, Natalie Marshall, Miles Matis-Uzzo, Jennifer Seas, Anika Todd, James Warren, and Dominika Wilk.
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-six nights while traveling 6,051 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. 2025 field guests included Matt Coolidge and Aurora Tang of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, artists Maira Kalman, Dionne Lee, Rob Ray, 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 2025 Exhibition will continue through 19 April 2026.
Gallery Hours and Events
The exhibition is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 10am – 5pm and Sundays 1-5pm. Admission is free.
Joins us for the Art Forearm launch party on Saturday 28 February 2026 from 6-8pm at CO-OPt Research + Projects. Art Forearm, a new biannual online publication founded by artist and curator Jennifer Seas is a project conceived during the 2025 Land Arts of the American West program at Texas Tech University, where Seas participated alongside the artists featured in this exhibition. Two Land Arts participants serve on the Art Forearm board, and several exhibiting artists are contributors to the inaugural issue. The launch will include a welcome by Seas, a reading by Skylar Perez, and other AF activities.
About Land Arts 2025
The Land Arts 2025 field crew includes 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, and Dominika Wilk, emerging nomadic artist driven by the idea of the Archaeology of the Present, creates hybrid, polyform installations, photography and paintings. Land Arts 2025 was joined by 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 was 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.
Sites on the 2025 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, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Double Negative, Trick Tank, Chaco Canyon, Two Buttes, Plains of San Agustin, The Lightning Field, Whitewater Labyrinths, Chiricahua Mountains, Mimbres River, Cabinetlandia, and Marfa.
Field guests for 2025 were Joe Arredondo, Steve Badgett, Curtis Bauer, Matthew Coolidge, Gretchen Dietrich, Curtis Francisco, Alex Gates, James Harkrider, Aaron Hegert, Maira Kalman, Luke Koenig, Jesse and Irma Larriva, Dionne Lee, Emily Lawhead, Victoria McReynolds, Andrea Nasher, Rob Ray, Ann Reynolds, Cordelia Rose, Ingrid Schaffner, J. Eric Simpson, Deborah Stratman, Hills Snyder, Aurora Tang.
Land Arts 2025 field season was made possible with generous operational support from Andrea Nasher, the James Family Foundation, Matti and Henry Brown, Rhotenberry Wellen Architects, Jill and David Pierce and Sean and Mary O’Brien. This was the fifth 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.
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 by phone at 806-834-1589 or email at chris.taylor@ttu.edu. Information about the Huckabee 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/.