Land Arts of the American West

Land Arts of the American West Land Arts of the American West is a semester abroad in our own backyard. http://landarts.org It is a semester abroad in our own back yard.

Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech is an transdisciplinary field program investigating the intersection of geomorphology and human construction. Each fall students venture across the American southwest camping for a two months while traveling six-thousand miles overland to explore natural and human forces that shape contemporary landscapes—ranging from geology and weather to cigarette bu

tts and hydroelectric dams. Sites visited include Chaco Canyon, Roden Crater, the north rim of the Grand Canyon, Double Negative, Sun Tunnels, Spiral Jetty, the Wendover Complex of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Bingham Canyon Mine, Lake Powell, Jackpile Mine at Laguna Pueblo, Chiricahua Mountains, Cabinetlandia, Marfa, the Very Large Array and The Lightning Field. Land Arts situates our work within a continuous tradition of land-based operations that is thousands of years old. Analysis of sites visited provides a basis for dialog and invention. Issues of spatial and material vocabulary, constructional logics, and inhabitation serve as the foundation for an investigation through making. Students construct, detail, and document a series of site-base interventions in a context that places emphasis on processes of making, experiential forms of knowing, and transdisciplinary modes of practice. The immersive nature of how we experience the landscape triggers an amalgamated body of inquiry where students have the opportunity of time and space to develop authority in their work through direct action and reflection. Land Arts hinges on the primacy of first person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular.

Land Arts 2025 ExhibitionLand Arts 2025 Exhibition Press Release...
01/22/2026

Land Arts 2025 Exhibition

Land Arts 2025 Exhibition Press Release...

Land Arts 2025 Exhibition Press Release

Syllabi + Program Materials Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) Map Field ...
08/25/2025

Syllabi + Program Materials Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) Map Field Reports Exhibition Press Release 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…...

Syllabi + Program Materials Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) Map Field Reports Exhibition Press Release Exhibition Documentation Itinerary 28 Aug — …

Land Arts 2024 Exhibition Press Release...
01/24/2025

Land Arts 2024 Exhibition Press Release...

Land Arts 2024 Exhibition Press Release

Syllabi + Program Materials Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) Map Field ...
08/20/2024

Syllabi + Program Materials Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) Map Field Reports Exhibition Press Release Exhibition Documentation Itinerary 28 Aug — Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art — Shallowater, Texas 29 Aug-2 Sep — Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico 31 Aug — Jackpile Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico 2-6 Sep — Muley Point, Cedar Mesa, Utah…...

Syllabi + Program Materials Syllabi (complete with itinerary, reader outline, and supplementary reader index) Map Field Reports Exhibition Press Release Exhibition Documentation Itinerary 28 Aug — …

01/26/2024

Land Arts 2023 Exhibition opens 23 February 2024, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Brine collection canal and former extraction facility, Wendover, Utah, 15 September 2023. Land Arts 2023 Exhibition Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture and Museum of Texas Tech University announce the LAND ARTS 2023EXHIBITION. The opening reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. Fr...

01/03/2024

Land Arts 2024 Applications OPEN - Encourage curious people to join us at Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture

2024 Land Arts Admissions Virgin River fire, Overton, Nevada. Photo by Chris Taylor. Applications Due Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 12 midnight CST. Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University is looking toward the 2024 field season casting vision and energy for potential participants. E...

Chaco Moon
11/21/2023

Chaco Moon

Moon rise over camp, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Photo by Chris Taylor.

11/21/2023

Fajada Butte

Camp with Fajada Butte in the distance, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Photo by Chris Taylor. Fajada Butte — 26 September 2023 - Categories: 2023 Field Reports. Tags: camp, Chaco Canyon - New Mexico, Fajada Butte, index, light, New Mexico, Sites.

11/21/2023

Night Camp

Night light at camp, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Photo by Chris Taylor. Night Camp — 26 September 2023 - Categories: 2023 Field Reports. Tags: camp, Chaco Canyon - New Mexico, index, Land Arts Support Vehicle, light, New Mexico, Sites, Topics.

11/21/2023

Birthday Cake

Candle lighting for Lorri’s birthday, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Photo by Chris Taylor. Birthday Cake — 26 September 2023 - Categories: 2023 Field Reports. Tags: 2023 Participants, Birthday, camp, Chaco Canyon - New Mexico, Fajada Butte, Heidi Landau, Laurel McLaughlin, Lorri Kershner, Maeve Kirk...

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