Course Description

Land Arts of the American West at UNM will offer an Art & Ecology Field Lab and Corequisite Seminar Course in Environmental Art + Regenerative Ecology. Seminars take place on campus every Friday from 9am – 1145 am and our Field Lab will take place during Spring Break (3/10 – 3/19) as a camping trip to Patagonia, Arizona for a week of intensive hands-on exploration with Borderlands Restoration Network. Students will learn about artists who create work using regenerative practices while applying these principles to their own student-centered field-based projects. Final student work will be published in a collaboratively designed artist book and presented during a public symposium. Course fees for each course is 377.50. Course fees cover all Field Lab travels expenses. food, and camp fees. Students must attend the informational meeting or meet one-on-one with faculty to register for these courses.

Contact LAAW Director, Jeanette Hart-Mann – hartmann@unm.edu

Texts

Note – all readings/video links will be provided to students.

• The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Tsing
• Introduction to Restoration Ecology, by Evelyn Howell, John Harrington, and Stephen Glass
• Ecovention, by Sue Spaid
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, Edited by Tsing, Swanson, Gan and Bubandt
• An Atlas of Radical Cartography, Edited by Liz Mogel and Alexis Bhagat
• Art in Action, by Natural World Museum
• Lessons from the Genius of Place (Video), by Helen and Newton Harrison
• Hope in a Changing Climate (Video) by John D. Liu

Requirements

Students assignments will include readings, participation in class discussions, a class presentation on regenerative art and ecology projects, field trips and research on local Albuquerque-based regenerative ecology sites, developing and designing a student-centered regenerative art and ecology project, collaboration on an artists’ book and public symposium.

About the Instructor(s): Jeanette Hart-Mann

Jeanette Hart-Mann is a farmer, artist, activist, and teacher committed to the transformative potential of traditional ecological knowledge, embodied land-based practices, creative engagement, and more-than-human-relationships. Her methodologies are iterative, emergent, and interdisciplinary. She weaves agroecology, wildcrafting, and ecological restoration with video, sculpture, photography, installation, and writing. Hart-Mann is Director of Land Arts of the American West program at UNM and Assistant Professor of Art & Ecology. LAAW@UNM