Dana Fritz: Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape (video)
As part of the Project’s ongoing Land & Water program series, we were thrilled to host Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes.
Fritz joined the Rural Reconciliation Project in person at the University of Nebraska College of Law on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, and we are delighted to be able to share a recording of her presentation, complete with her evocative photography, available below. Consider this like a virtual fieldtrip to the Nebraska Sandhills—through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides. Visual artist Fritz discusses her new book, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape, examining the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and including some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey.
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Dana Fritz —
Through photographic books, prints, and exhibitions Dana Fritz explores how we shape and represent the land, engaging ideas about climate change, environmental history, and ecology in a place-based practice. Fritz’s work has been exhibited widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her prints and artist books are in museum and library special collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, 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.)
