Join us for a symposium where scholars, curators, academics and students present interactive discussions focused on our complex relationships to land, water, place. Doors open at 9:30 am with coffee. Box lunch included. Beer reception to follow.
Keynote: Creative Ecologies and the Art of Climate Justice
TJ Demos | Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz
The Nevada Museum of Art: A Museum of Ideas
Ann M. Wolfe, Chief Curator | Associate Director, Nevada Museum of Art
Student Snapshot
Amy Smith | Poet and Student, Low Residency MFA, UNR, Lake Tahoe
Sarah Lillegard | Artist and Graduate, Low Residency MFA, Interdisciplinary Arts, UNR, Lake Tahoe
Betta Manalo | MS Student, Geography, UNR
Lunch
Field Work and Walking: Experiential Models for Interdisciplinary Research and its Impact on Teaching
Adam Csank | Geographer, Chair of Geography, UNR
Rick Parsons | Artist, Director of the Holman Art and Media Center, UNR
Kelly Chorpening | Artist, Chair of Art Department, Art History and Design, UNR
Art, Cognition, Landscape: The Center for Art + Environment
William L. Fox | Director for the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art
Student Snapshot
Bobby Lee | Landscape Photographer, Book Artist, MFA Student, UNR
Break
The Politics of Water: Equity, Ecology, Creative Expression and Connection
Kate Berry | UNR Professor, Geography
Sudeep Chandra | Biology, Professor of Limnology, Director of the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies
Rene Henery | Ecologist, Artist, Writer
Case Study: Drawing in Social Space
Art + Geography Collaboration by Noureddine Ezarraf and Qanat Collective, Morrocco presented by Kelly Chorpening and Adam Csank
Closing Synthesis
Colin M. Robertson | Senior Vice President of Education and Research, Nevada Museum of Art
Hosted Beer Reception
Courtesy of Ozmen Institute and Global Water Center
Symposium presented by University of Nevada Reno in collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art with support from the Benna Arts Excellence Endowment.
Image Credit: Peter Goin, The Lady of the Lake, Cave Rock. (From The Nature of Lake Tahoe, A Photographic History 1860-1960), 2021.