Syllabi + Program Materials
Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index — upload soon)
Itinerary
26 Aug — Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art — Shallowater, Texas
27-31 Aug — Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
28 Aug — Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
31 Aug-4 Sep — Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah
4-6 Sep — Goblin Valley, Utah
6-7 Sep — Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah
8 Sep — Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah
9-16 Sep — Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
16-19 Sep — Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada
19-21 Sep — Swamp Point above the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
21-23 Sep — Coconino Forrest, Arizona
23-25 Sep — Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
26 Sep-3 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
11-14 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
1 Nov-4 Dec — Lubbock, Texas
2 Dec — Final Critique at Texas Tech University
Feb-April, 2027 — Land Arts 2026 Exhibition at Museum of Texas Tech University
Participants
Elliott Andrew — artist and writer working in sculpture, photography, and new media, recently based in Mexico City, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis.
Nora Ashwood — graduated from the Cooper Union and a Fulbright in Germany and (before, during, and since) makes and finds things.
Lexi Benton — project manager and architectural designer in Austin with a Bachelor of Design in architecture from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.
Sadie Bills — artist, writer, and educator based in NYC with roots in Northern California. She is interested in how social infrastructure shapes personal relationships to land, and in the roles artists are equipped to play. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in Art Education from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Sean Donahue — artist and electrician from New York and North Carolina with a BS in Sustainability and the Built Environment from Appalachian State University and is a current MFA candidate at Cornell’s Image Text.
Morgan Gage — visual artist from Austin, Texas whose work explores themes of memory, erosion/entropy, and environmental relationality. The core of Morgan’s practice is rooted in the tradition of plein air drawing — where they render through meditations on temporal space which results in colorful expressionist worlds that emphasize playfulness as a virtue.
Jimmy Hughes — artist welder based in the United Kingdom. Graduate of Manchester School of Art, currently working as a welder-fabricator at ‘Tom Faulkner Furniture’.
Benjamin Stieler — artist and clown based in Philadelphia interested in framing and revealing the messy forces that shape our worlds, hidden in plain sight.
Minha Virk —artist and budding researcher from Plano, Texas. Rooted in the histories of South Asian and Islamic cultures, her creative practice explores themes of ritual, diaspora, and placemaking across land and sound. She recently graduated from Smith College with a degree in Religion and American Studies.
Land Arts 2026 Field Resident — naveed alam — poet, translator, traveler, and a doctoral candidate in the English department at Texas Tech University where they often ponder the ecopo(e)litics of “poetry” and “translation” as they translate and transcreate the fifteenth century weaver-poet, Kabir.
Land Arts 2026 Program Assistant — Joey Grimm — an artist who likes to build furniture and spaces that are deeply intertwined with the material of their making. He runs Holsum Studios in Kansas City, MO. Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts from the University of Delaware and alum of Land Arts 2025.
Land Arts Program Director — Chris Taylor — architect and educator.
Field Guests
J. Alvarez — historian teaching at University of Texas at Austin.
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.
Jesse and Irma Larriva — El Paso residents & alum parents.
Dionne Lee — artist teaching at Ohio State University.
Victoria McReynolds — architect teaching at Texas Tech.
Andrea Nasher — cultural activator.
Monty Paret — art historian teaching at University of Utah.
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 University of Illinois Chicago.
Hills Snyder — artist and creator of a kind of small array.