Evening for Educators
September 1, 4:30-6:00 P.M.

Join colleagues in this professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers. Preview fall exhibitions Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000-2006 and Bill Gilbert: Physiocartographies. Participate in a guided discussion of selected works of art which present strategies to forge interdisciplinary connections between the visual arts and language arts, geography and science; schedule fall field trips. Light refreshments will be served. FREE and registration not required.

PUBLIC RECEPTION FOR LAND/ART EXHIBITS
September 25, 5:00-7:00 P.M.

Please join us for the Public Reception for our two concurrent LAND/ART exhibitions Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000-2006 and Bill Gilbert: Physiocartographies. Light refreshments will be served. FREE and open to the public.

Notes from Abroad: Thoughts on Israeli Landscape
Roi Kuper, UNM Art Museum Artist-in-Residence
Tuesday, October 6th, 5:30 P.M.

Born in 1956, the Israeli photographer Roi Kuper has since the mid-1980s been working in the landscape, philosophically exploring and investigating it in both black and white and color work. Kuper has recently been honored with solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Art, and the Tate Modern, London, as well as being included in group exhibitions at museums in New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Berlin, Vienna, and Guangdong (China), among other cities. He will be in Albuquerque during the Land Arts project for September to November, 2009.

Mr. Kuper’s artist residency, hosted by the University Art Museum in collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History, is made possible through a generous grant from The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century
October 13, 5:30-6:30 P.M.

Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. The UNM Art Museum is pleased to host this pre-screening of an episode of the fifth season of the PBS series Art:21. Compassion features three
artists - William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems - whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.

Dispersal/Return event: Panel Discussion
November 3, 5:30 P.M.

Co-curator Michele Penhall welcomes back current participants in the Land Arts of the American West Program to share their most recent field experiences.

Land Arts of the American West: Investigations in Place
Bill Gilbert, Lannan Chair and Director, Land Arts Program of the American West,
Dept. of Art and Art History
Tuesday, November 10th, 5:30 P.M.

Bill Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Dept. of Art and Art History in 1987. He has long held an interest in redefining the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. This vision became a reality—the Land Arts of the American West Program, an interdisciplinary, field based studio curriculum—with support from Dean Christopher Mead, College of Fine Arts, former UNM President Louis Caldera, and Patrick Lannan, president of the Lannan Foundation who endowed the Lannan Foundation Chair in the Land Arts of the American West program, which Gilbert now holds. 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. Two years later, he began collaborating with Chris Taylor from The University of Texas at Austin, and during the next four years they traveled with dozens of students, guest artists, writers and historians throughout the Southwest and parts of Mexico. 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. http://www.landartnm.org/speakers.html#billgilbert.

Land Arts FilmFest

All films will be screened in Keller Hall, located in the Center for the Arts adjacent to Popejoy Hall. Screenings will held on consecutive Thursdays in September beginning at 5:30 PM.

In celebration of the exhibitions Dispersal/Return and Bill Gilbert: Physiocartography, the UNM Art Museum will present a Land Arts FilmFest,a month-long festival of films about significant large-scale earthwork and conceptual art projects created across the United States since the 1960s.

September 3, 5:30 PM

Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism (25 mins.)
This documentary, produced by the Open University in the United Kingdom, explores the challenging dialectic of site-specific works by Robert Smithson and Richard Serra through an examination of seminal works by both artists.

James Turrell: Passageways (26 mins.)
In this overview produced by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2006, James Turrell discusses his research on natural light and presents to the audience his masterpiece Roden Crater, located in Northern Arizona, which he has worked on since 1972.

September 10, 5:30 PM

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty (35 mins.)
Robert Smithson reveals the evolution of this monumental work, arguably one of the most famous earthwork projects, which resurfaced in Utah's Great Salt Lake in 2005 to new audiences and acclaim after being submerged for 30 years.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Valley Curtain (28 mins.)
This Academy Award nominated film, directed by David and Albert Maysles, follows the construction of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's enormous (142,00 sq. feet of orange nylon) curtain suspended between two mountains in Rifle, Colorado.

September, 17, 5:30 PM

Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (52 mins.)
This video portrait weaves together interviews with Ana Mendieta, other artists and filmed records of her earthworks and performance pieces to render a vivid testament of her extraordinary talent cut short in 1985 by her untimely and tragic death.

September 24, 5:30 PM

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands (57 mins.)
Completed in May of 1983, this documentary traces Christo and Jeanne-Claude's seven-day installation in which they and some four hundred volunteers wrapped the eleven islands in Biscayne Bay in pink polypropylene fabric.