PROJECTS - 2017
Out Into the Field
Land Arts of the American West provides a unique opportunity for participating artists to experience the Southwestern bioregion, environment, and communities through one-on-one experiential processes while working individually and collaboratively on creative embodied projects, research, and artistic experiments. In 2017, artists engaged in a wide variety of topics through interdisciplinary creative approaches. These included: rights of nature, more-than-human kinship, eco-critical creativity, sustainability/bioremediation, life cycles, nature + poetry, and environmental justice. The following images are in-process documents from these Field Investigations, ensuing creative research, and finished projects.
Participating Student Artists
Viola Arduini
Isabel Arnold
Adele Ardent
Amy Hulshoff
Alex Kinney
Ruby Pluhar
Paul Ross
Mikala Sterling
Participating Santa Fe Art Institute Equal Justice Resident Artists
Syrus Marcus Ware
Melisse Watson
Gil Ngolé
Xenia Benivolski
Su-Ying Lee
LAAW student Mikala Sterling works on the ruins of a former Mining Mill in Cunningham Gulch, Colorado.
Ruby Pluhar, The Sky and The Stars, Rio Grande Headwaters, Colorado
A "drawing machine" by SFAI artist in resident Gil Ngolé
experiments in empathy, Adele Ardent and Paul Ross, Gila River, New Mexico
Viola Arduini creates a human-scale Bowerbird nest at Angel Peak, New Mexico.
Bark Sculpting, Ruby Pluhar, Angel Peak, New Mexico
Singing to the cave, Issy Arnold, Muley Point, Utah
Time-lapse watercolors of Muley Point, Utah, Mikala Sterling
Holding Water, Paul Ross and Jeanette Hartmann, Headwaters of Animas River, Colorado
Sky/Mirror, Alex Kinney
A site-specific projection by Jenn Hart-mann and Ryan Henel, Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico
Under the guidance of local artist and teacher, Orien MacDonald, LAAW students learn how to prepare yucca leaves for weaving rope, Gila, New Mexico
Blindfold Walk, Paul Ross and Adele Ardent, Muley Point, Utah
Gold and Emerald Dancer, Ruby Pluhar, Gila, New Mexico
A locally gathered food harvest arranged for a time-lapse video production, Mer-Girl Gardens, La Villita, New Mexico
Splitting Stone, Paul Ross and Viola Arduini, Muley Point, Utah.
Clouds of Colour, Ruby Pluhar, White Sands, New Mexico
Let You In, Adele Ardent, White Sands, New Mexico