Land Arts of the American West

is an academic program supporting field-based Art + Ecology courses at the University of New Mexico.

Our mission is to inspire and support environmentally and socially-engaged art practices

through field-based bioregional teaching, collective learning, interdisciplinary research, community collaboration, and creative forms of publication and exhibition.

Each semester our students learn from community partners and environmental contexts

as they further their own artistic practice, collaborate on community-facing projects, and produce professional exhibitions.

Find our full list of:
Projects
Partners

Every year we offer two courses—

Creative Agroecologies

Relational Ecologies

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Meet the people behind our program—

Learn more about the faculty of LAAW and UNM’s Art + Ecology program.

Meet the Faculty

Acknowledgments

LAAW program, faculty, and students acknowledge and give thanks to the original peoples and land-based communities where The University of New Mexico resides and the lands throughout New Mexico where our LAAW programing takes place. We recognize these are unceded territories and this colonial history of displacement, genocide, and ecocide is a legacy which we must acknowledge and find responsive ways to heal. We honor these lands and indigenous stewards past, present and future and look to our relations with Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache communities for guidance with the greatest humility and respect.

LAAW is financially supported by The University of New Mexico, The Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, and Lannan Foundation.

LAAW program, faculty, and students acknowledge and give thanks to the original peoples and land-based communities where The University of New Mexico resides and the lands throughout New Mexico where our LAAW programing takes place. We recognize these are unceded territories and this colonial history of displacement, genocide, and ecocide is a legacy which we must acknowledge and find responsive ways to heal. We honor these lands and indigenous stewards past, present and future and look to our relations with Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache communities for guidance with the greatest humility and respect.

LAAW is financially supported by The University of New Mexico, The Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, and Lannan Foundation.