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Article: LAND ARTS FOUNDER TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ART MUSEUM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 6 -- The University of New Mexico issued the following news release:
Bill Gilbert, founder of Land Arts of the American West at the University of New Mexico, will present his work and teaching philosophy at the UNM Art Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 5:30 p.m. Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Department of Art and Art History in 1987.
The Land Arts of the American West program, an interdisciplinary, field-based studio curriculum, was conceived by Gilbert in his interest to redefine the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. In 2000 along with Professor Emeritus John Wenger and a dozen eager students, Gilbert initiated the first Land ...