Image: Bill Gilbert, "For John Wesley Powell, Attempts to Walk the Grid, September 7, 2006", digital print, 2009
PUBLIC TALK - Tuesday, November 10, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum Lower Level
BILL GILBERT, LANNAN CHAIR AND DIRECTOR, LAND ARTS PROGRAM
UNM DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
Bill Gilbert will present his lecture "Land Arts of the American West: Investigations in Place"
Bill Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Dept. of Art and Art History in 1987. The Land Arts of the American West Program, an interdisciplinary, field based studio curriculum was conceived by Gilbert in his interest to redefine the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. In 2000 along with Professor Emeritus John Wenger and a dozen eager students, Gilbert initiated the first Land Arts trip which covered five states and some 8,000 miles. He later collaborated with Chris Taylor from The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Gilbert will discuss this "experiment" in pedagogy, as he calls it, and how this has both affected and intersected with his work as an artist and a teacher. Following the lecture, Gilbert will sign copies of his new book Land Arts of the American West, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009) which he co-authored with Chris Taylor.
Land Arts of the American West website:
landarts.unm.edu
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
