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Charlie Bettigole Charlie Bettigole is the Director of the GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Skidmore College. In this role, he teaches Skidmore’s GIS courses, and facilitates collaborative research between other faculty, students, staff, and external partners. Bettigole’s expertise lies in geospatial analysis and remote sensing, applied through the lens of landscape ecology. His research has always focused on “science to solutions”, nesting his research in questions driven from on-the-ground needs. This has led Bettigole to work on projects from counting all the trees in the world, to modeling land use-change and its effects on wildlife in Vermont, to renewable energy siting, to the development of tools to assess the ecological and climate impacts of farm and ranch management practices. Prior to Skidmore, Bettigole worked at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, starting two academic research programs: the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative and Quick Carbon. Both organizations continue to focus on outcome-based approaches to land management in the American West and beyond. Over his six years at Yale, Bettigole developed expertise and connections in the worlds of grazing, soil health, land management, and invasive species. During this time, he also had the privilege to work on Ucross: A Portrait in Place with Bill, Jenn, Yoshi, Joseph, Cynthia, Cedra, and Erika. |
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Cynthia Brinich-Langlois Cynthia Brinich-Langlois completed undergraduate studies in studio art and environmental biology at Kenyon College, and received an MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited her prints, books, and video animations in solo and group shows throughout the United States and abroad, and her work is included in the Iowa Print Group archive at the University of Iowa, the SGCI collection at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, as well as the Center for Art + Environment collection at the Nevada Museum of Art. Brinich-Langlois is the Print & Narrative Forms area technician and teaches printmaking and digital art as a Lecturer in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she continues to make work that explores the intricacies of the natural world. website: cynthiabrinichlanglois.com |
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Bill Gilbert Part of my ongoing experiment in constructing a portrait of place by walking the surface of the planet, terrestrial/celestial navigations honors the relationship desert peoples have with the sky by weaving together heaven and earth. Each walk inscribes the land with the patterns of stars earlier cultures created to project their world into the night sky. In this series, I employ pedestrian and satellite technologies using google earth to establish GPS points for each star and my body to then inscribe constellations by walking them onto the ground. website: unm.edu/~wgilbert/ |
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Lauren Greenwald Lauren Greenwald is a visual artist and educator working primarily in photography and video, exploring landscape, perception, and the experiential. Greenwald received her M.F.A. in Studio Art, with a minor in Museum Studies, from the University of New Mexico, and her B.A. in Art History and French from the College of Charleston. During her time in New Mexico, she participated in Land Arts of the American West and the Collaborative Lithography program at the Tamarind Institute and worked with New Mexico arts institutions SITE Santa Fe and Radius Books. She is a regular contributor to Fraction Magazine and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education. Greenwald lives and works in Oceanside, CA, where she is Head of Photography in the Art Department at MiraCosta College. |
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Jeannette Hart-Mann Jeannette Hart-Mann is Director of Land Arts of the American West and Assistant Professor of Art & Ecology in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico. She is an alumni of Land Arts of the American West (2000), earned a BFA, summa cum laude, and University Honors, summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico (2001), and a MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2012). She is co-founder and collective cohort of SeedBroadcast, a creative multi-platform agri-Culture project employing collaborative engagement, grassroots story making, and free-source seed action. Her artistic practice is centered in a desire to counter oppressive power structures through examining and cultivating transpecies relationships and ecologic processes as acts of resistance to germinate resiliency. Her methodologies are interdisciplinary spanning across video, sculpture, photography, installation, experimental media, print, performance, farming, writing, and activism. website: terradigest.com |
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Yoshimi Hayashi Yoshimi Hayashi is an artist that resides in California. He is a professor of art at MiraCosta College in Oceanside. He holds a Masters in Fine Art from the University of New Mexico, a Master of Science in Psychology from the California State University, Stanislaus, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Hayashi incorporates his Japanese sensibilities for the love of the simple, vapid, and ephemeral, with the Western rigor for conceptual and psychological analysis. His recent work has incorporated ideas of a “place” and takes into consideration of how artworks work in relationship to certain site. The work is often created on site after extensive study of the location and its people. The work incorporates mixed media ranging from video, woods, ceramics, fiber, paper, and metals, and Hayashi is particularly drawn to materials that are mundane and fragile as a metaphor for the human condition. Aside from his art practice, he has curated a number of exhibitions that have traveled internationally and organized art related projects. Most recently he has exhibited in Japan at Koumi Kougen Museum, Shiga Kougen Museum, and Toumi Museum of Art. website: miracosta.edu/officeofthepresident/pio/meetfaculty/yoshimi_hayashi.html |
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Joseph Mougel Joseph Mougel received an MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico, and has exhibited and lectured about his artistic practice both nationally and internationally, with examples of his work featured in such publications as Art Takes Miami, ARTL!ES Magazine, Art Papers, and After Image, as well as in books, including The Contact Sheet. Mougel’s photographs are included in a number of institutional collections, including the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Print Study Room at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, The Surplus Room at Elsewhere Artists Collaborative, and Green Street Press at the University of Georgia. Through his work, Mougel examines his own identity as a first generation American and a former Marine through still imagery, sound, video, and installation, where conventions of the traditional photograph persist. Joseph Mougel is currently an Associate Professor of Art and area head of Photography & Imaging at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. website: josephmougel.com |
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Erika Osborne Erika Osborne received her BFA from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Osborne has exhibited work dealing with cultural connections to place and environment nationally and internationally, including shows at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Nevada Museum of Art and the Chautauqua Institute. She is currently represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a recent Fulbright fellowship. Her work has been highlighted in books surveying the evolution of land and environmental art in the West, and she has been a contributing author for Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: Art in Community and Environment. Osborne’s work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine. For the past 15 years, Erika Osborne has taught painting and drawing alongside environmental field courses such as Land Arts of the American West, Wilderness Studio, Place:Appalachia, Art and Environment and Cultural Extraction: Energy in the website: erikaosborne.com |
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Cedra Wood Cedra Wood grew up in the Texas panhandle, and after receiving her MFA at the University of New Mexico, has revolved around NM while participating in numerous residencies, including Teton Artlab (Jackson, WY), The Arctic Circle (Svalbard, Norway), and Sagehen Creek Experimental Forest and Biological Field Station (Truckee, CA). She has received a research fellowship at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and grants from the Harwood Emerging Artist Fund, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (via the Land Arts Mobile Research Initiative), and the Roswell Artist-In-Residence Foundation. Cedra Wood’s paintings and drawings are the result of ongoing investigation into human/ecological relationships. Engaging with ideas of belonging and survival, Wood interweaves human characters and natural environments, sometimes mimicking the tactics of other, better-adapted creatures in order to create imagery that is by turns comical, wistful, discomfiting, and surreal, investing the landscape with the significance of allegory. website: cedrawood.com |
