Exhibits
My contributions, in research and writing, to a variety of public exhibits.
Parched
The Flagstaff Arts Council commissioned eight Arizona artists to explore the landscape of water in the arid Southwest in Parched, an exhibit on display at the Coconino Center for the Arts from August 2020 through January 2021. It’s now on display at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona. I wrote a sequence of four essays […]
Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land
In 2017 I oversaw a team of students who conducted research into the lasting legacy of uranium contamination in northern Arizona. They interviewed oldtime miners and environmental scientists, water managers and Downwinders. The documentary panels they produced formed part of the Hope and Trauma art exhibit at the Coconino Center for the Arts.
A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
The collaborative exploration of Glen Canyon/Lake Powell that photographer Peter Goin and I carried out in our book A New Form of Beauty went on display at the Museum of Northern Arizona in late 2017. It was on view through April 2018.
Dislocated: Stories from the Navajo New Lands
In the 1970s the federal government relocated numerous Navajo families from their longtime homes to a faraway tract of ranchland. I oversaw a team of NAU students who went to the Nahata Dziil Chapter to gather stories.
What Has Passed and What Remains at Flagstaff’s Pioneer Museum
Flagstaff’s Pioneer Museum hosted a large multimedia exhibit based on our Ecological Oral Histories project. It was a change to see and hear the stories of ranchers, Native farmers, foresters, and other elders who’ve watched the land for decades.
