february, 2023
Event Details
Opening Reception for the Land Arts 2023 Exhibition | Texas Tech University College of Architecture Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th Street
Event Details
Opening Reception for the Land Arts 2023 Exhibition | Texas Tech University College of Architecture
Museum of Texas Tech University
3301 4th Street
Friday, February 17th
6 – 8pm
Free and open to the public
The opening reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. Friday, February 17, 2023, at the Museum of Texas Tech University at 3301 4th Street in Lubbock, Texas.
The exhibition culminates the semester-long transdisciplinary field program Land Arts of the American West presenting documents and constructions by students Ty Cary, Elise Coleman, Macaella Gray, Walker Guinnee, Miranda Klein, Emily Lee, Megan McKenzie, and Zoe Roden. Within the Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture, Land Arts is a “semester abroad in our own backyard” where architects, artists, historians, and writers camped for fifty nights while traveling 5,522 miles overland to experience major land art monuments—Double Negative, Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, The Lightning Field—while also visiting sites expanding our understanding of what land art might be such as pre-contact archeology of Chaco Canyon, scientific exploration at the Very Large Array, and military-industrial operations in the Great Salt Lake Desert. To negotiate the multivalent meaning of these places and shed light on strategies to aid their comprehension we invite the wisdom of field guests—writers, artists, and interpreters—to join specific portions of our journey. 2022 field guests included Matt Coolidge and Aurora Tang of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, artist-filmmaker Deborah Stratman, musician, artist Dionne Lee, and Cabinet magazine editor Sina Najafi among many others. Land Arts hinges on the primacy of first-person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular. The Land Arts 2022 Exhibition will continue through April 23, 2023.
Gallery Hours and Events
The exhibition is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 10am – 5pm and Sundays 1-5pm. Admission is free.
For additional information about Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech or to schedule an interview with Chris Taylor contact him by phone at 806-834-1589 or email at [email protected]. Information about the College of Architecture can be found at http://arch.ttu.edu, and the Museum of Texas Tech University by visiting https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/.
https://landarts.org/category/exhibitions/
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/architecture/
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/
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Time
(Friday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
3301 4th Street