November 22, 2008 – February 28, 2009


Field Reports
                                                                           Documents and Strategies
                                                                           from Land Arts of the American West

                                                                           Temple Gallery is supported in part by
                                                                           the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and by
                                                                           Friends of Temple Gallery
 

WORKSHOP

Performing Land Arts: The Philadelphia Experiment
Temple Gallery
January 16 – February 28, 2009
Reception: Friday, January 16, 6 - 8 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. 3rd Street

In conjunction with Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West, exhibition organizer Chris Taylor and Kate Wingert-Playdon, a professor of architecture, Tyler School of Art, will work with university students to examine Philadelphia as a landscape and an interpretative site.  For a week in January, the group will participate in a charrette, putting the working methods of Land Arts  into action in Philadelphia.  Participants will work collaboratively and on their own individual projects. Among the guest speakers will be Matthew Coolidge, Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles.  

Students:
Gretchen Batcheller, Temple University, Fine Arts
Andrea Marie DeVico, Temple University, Architecture
Marisa A. Lopez, Temple University, Architecture
Sarah Muehlbauer, Temple University, Fine Arts
Jess Perlitz, Temple University, Fine Arts
Jenna Price, Temple University, Fine Arts
Nicole Rinier, Temple University, Fine Arts
David Rueter, Oberlin College, Political Theory
Marcello Lopes Schiffino, Temple University, Architecture
Kristina Simcic, Temple University, Architecture
Kaitlin Westphal McDonald, Temple University, Architecture
Xiao D. Zhang, Temple University, Architecture

 

Images, top: Jerry Brody with students above Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 31 AUG 2006. Bottom: Exploring Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (1970), Rozel Point, Utah, 08 SEP 2004.  Photo credits: Chris Taylor.