Tatsuki Hoshihara—visual artist from Japan, with BA and MA from Musashino Art University, Japan, 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.
Liza Yeager—documentary radio producer from Oregon.
Roberto Becerra – architecture student working on MARCH at Texas Tech Liz Janoff – artist and urbanist with BFA from New York University Matthew Mendez – artist based in San Antonio with BA from St. Mary’s University Kaitlin Pomerantz – artist with MFA from University of Pennsylvania Claudia Vásquez – artist based in Santiago, Chile joining as a field resident
Emily Rabinowitz (Program Assistant)
Chris Taylor (Program Director)
Arrival at the Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University is a transdisciplinary field program dedicated to expanding awareness of the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of our planet. The program leverages immersive field experience in the desert southwest as a primary pedagogic agent to support research that opens horizons of perception, probes depths of inquiry and advances understanding of human actions shaping environments. Land Arts attracts architects, artists, and writers from across the university and beyond to a “semester abroad in our own backyard” that travels 6,000 miles overland while camping for two months to experience major land art monuments—Double Negative,Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, The Lightning Field—while also visiting sites to expand understanding of what land art might be, such as pre-contact archeology, military-industrial infrastructure, and sites of contemporary wilderness and waste. Throughout the travels, and on-campus, participants make work in response to their experience, which is exhibited at the Museum of Texas Tech University to conclude the field season.
Student participants have come from North America, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom to study at Texas Tech during or after their work at the universities of Pennsylvania, Texas at Austin, Iowa, South Florida, California at Berkeley and Riverside, Carnegie Mellon, New York University, Goldsmith’s in London, Cranbrook, Rhode Island School of Design, Whitman College, Bard College, and Yale.
The program structure includes enrollment at Texas Tech in the Land Arts studio and seminar with 9 graduate or advanced undergraduate credit hours (an optional 12 credit hour graduate certificate is also available), two months of fieldwork from late August through early November, followed by a return to the campus studio for the remainder of the Fall term. Work produced is exhibited publicly the following Spring.
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Land Arts was founded in 2000 at the University of New Mexico by Bill Gilbert with the assistance of John Wenger. From 2001 to 2007 the program developed as a collaboration co-directed by Bill Gilbert and Chris Taylor, then at the University of Texas at Austin. In the fall of 2008, Taylor moved to Lubbock and the program operates autonomously from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico and College of Architecture at the Texas Tech University. For information about the program at UNM see http://landarts.unm.edu/. In January of 2009, the Nevada Museum of Art announced the creation of the new Center for Art + Environment and the acquisition of the archive of Land Arts of the American West.
Journey 1
Chaco Caynon, New Mexico – 25-27 Aug
Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah – 28-31 Aug
Moon House, Cedar Mesa, Utah – 31 Aug
Epicenter, Green River, Utah – 1-3 Sep Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah – 4-6 Sep Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah – 7 Sep
Wendover – CLUI, Utah – 7-13 Sep Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada – 14-16 Sep Las Vegas Piece, near Elgin, Nevada – 16 Sep
North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona – 17-20 Sep
Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico – 21-23 Sep
Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico – 23 Sep
Lubbock, Texas – 24 Sep-1 Oct
Journey 2
Adobe Alliance, Presidio, Texas – 3-5 Oct
Marfa, Texas – 6-11 OctAdobe Alliance – 8 Oct
Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico – 12-15 Oct
Very Large Array, near Datil, New Mexico – 13 Oct The Lightning Field, near Quemado, New Mexico – 13-14 Oct
Mimbres River, New Mexico – 16-19 Oct
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona – 20-23 Oct Cabinetlandia, Deming, New Mexico – 24-27 Oct
Twin Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico – 28-29 Oct
Lubbock, Texas – 30 Oct
Fiona Bennitt – art and geology student at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington Henry Brown – artist with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design Mark Freres – architect pursuing a masters degree at Texas Tech University Nicholas Keys – artist from Australia with an MFA from Bard College Caleb Lightfoot – architect pursuing a masters degree at Texas Tech University Ashley May – artist pursuing an MFA at the University of California at Riverside Sadie Richter – architect pursuing a masters degree at Texas Tech University
Emily Rabinowitz (Program Assistant)
Chris Taylor (Program Director)
Journey 1
Twin Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico
Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
Chaco Caynon, New Mexico
Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah
Moon House, Cedar Mesa, Utah
Goblin Valley, Utah
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
Intrepid Potash, Wendover, Utah Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada Las Vegas Piece, near Elgin, Nevada
Point Sublime, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Lubbock, Texas
Journey 2 Cabinetlandia, Deming, New Mexico
Mimbres River, New Mexico
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
Dipping Vat Tank, Gila Wilderness, New Mexico
Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico Very Large Array, near Datil, New Mexico The Lightning Field, near Quemado, New Mexico
Chinati and Judd foundations, Marfa, Texas Adobe Alliance, Presidio, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Michael Norris – architect pursuing a masters degree at Texas Tech University
Gabriela Reyes – architect pursuing a masters degree at Texas Tech University
J. Eric Simpson – artist with a bachelors degree from Texas Tech University
Matti Sloman – artist with a masters degree from the Rhode Island School of Design
Anthony Zuefeldt – architect pursuing a masters degree at Texas Tech University
Ted Carey (Program Assistant)
Chris Taylor (Program Director)
Journey 1
Twin Buttes, White Sands, New Mexico
Chaco Caynon, New Mexico
Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah
Moon House, Cedar Mesa, Utah
Goblin Valley, Utah
Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah
Wendover – CLUI, Utah
Intrepid Potash, Wendover, Utah
Double Negative, Mormon Mesa, Nevada
Las Vegas Piece, near Elgin, Nevada
North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico
Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
Lubbock, Texas
Journey 2
Marfa, Texas
Huaco Tanks, Texas
Cabinetlandia, Deming, New Mexico
Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico
Very Large Array, near Datil, New Mexico
The Lightning Field, near Quemado, New Mexico
Mimbres River, New Mexico
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
Tonto National Forest, Arizona
Twin Buttes, New Mexico
Lubbock, Texas
Edward (Ted) Carey – artist from Philadelphia with an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Elsner – designer from Richmond, Virginia who has practiced in New York City and Austin
Kyle Griesmeyer – architect pursuing a masters degree at the University of South Florida in Tampa
Jana La Brasca – art historian with a bachelors degree from University of California at Berkeley
Bristen Lee Phillips – artist from the Llano Estacado pursuing a bachelors degree at Texas Tech
Jaclyn Pryor – performance/installation artist based in Flagstaff, Arizona who has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin
Carl Spartz (Program Assistant)
Chris Taylor (Program Director)
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