Lecture
Time:
Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape
Date:
4:00 pm –
5:00 pm
McCollum Hall Room: Acklie Family Student Commons
1875 N 42nd St
Lincoln NE 68583
Lincoln NE 68583
Join Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes. Like a virtual field trip to the Nebraska Sandhills, but through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides, visual artist Fritz will discuss and share photographs from her new book, “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape.” The book examines, in provocative ways, the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and now includes some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey.
This is event is presented as part of the Rural Reconciliation Project’s Land & Water series.
To register, visit https://go.unl.edu/field-guide-register.
About Professor Dana Fritz:
Through photography Dana Fritz explores how we shape and represent the land. She is currently Hixson-Lied Professor of Art in the School of Art, Art History & Design. Fritz’s work has been exhibited widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia and her prints and artist books are held in museum and library special collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Fritz is the author/photographer of two books: Terraria Gigantica: The World under Glass, (University of New Mexico Press, 2017,) and Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape, (University of Nebraska Press, 2023.)
About the Rural Reconciliation Project:
Launched in 2021, the Rural Reconciliation Project is a research and engagement initiative hosted by the University of Nebraska College of Law. Led by co-creators and Nebraska Law professors Jessica Shoemaker and Anthony Schutz, the Project pursues an honest accounting of rural past and present, while looking toward a more vibrant rural future. The Project is supported in part by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship awarded to Shoemaker from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Project fundamentally aims to create space for more truthful, critical assessments of what has transpired and is transpiring in rural America. Since its founding, it has been a catalyst for conversation in the rural and legal spheres.
This is event is presented as part of the Rural Reconciliation Project’s Land & Water series.
To register, visit https://go.unl.edu/field-guide-register.
About Professor Dana Fritz:
Through photography Dana Fritz explores how we shape and represent the land. She is currently Hixson-Lied Professor of Art in the School of Art, Art History & Design. Fritz’s work has been exhibited widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia and her prints and artist books are held in museum and library special collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Fritz is the author/photographer of two books: Terraria Gigantica: The World under Glass, (University of New Mexico Press, 2017,) and Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape, (University of Nebraska Press, 2023.)
About the Rural Reconciliation Project:
Launched in 2021, the Rural Reconciliation Project is a research and engagement initiative hosted by the University of Nebraska College of Law. Led by co-creators and Nebraska Law professors Jessica Shoemaker and Anthony Schutz, the Project pursues an honest accounting of rural past and present, while looking toward a more vibrant rural future. The Project is supported in part by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship awarded to Shoemaker from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Project fundamentally aims to create space for more truthful, critical assessments of what has transpired and is transpiring in rural America. Since its founding, it has been a catalyst for conversation in the rural and legal spheres.