Lake City Artposium & Artist Residency 2011
A transdisciplinary collaboration to envision future uses for the Ute Ulay Mine and town site
Art and Science Residency: July 15-August 15, 2011
Artposium: August 13, 2011
Lake City, Colorado
Atrposium Schedule
Hardrock Revision will use a boundary-crossing approach called a transdisciplinary collaboration to envision new solutions for the inactive Ute Ule Silver Mine. LKA International, owner of the mine, has proposed donating the mill and town site to Hinsdale County. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Fostering Creative Collaborations
Founded on the belief that change in a community must come from within, Hardrock Revision is an experiment to test the effectiveness of art-science collaborations in identifying new solutions to thorny problems. The project will involve diverse stakeholders in bridging the schism between interest groups. The goal is to have every community member feel ownership of the process and the outcome.
Colorado Art Ranch, a nomadic interdisciplinary arts organization dedicated to fostering creative problem solving throughout rural Colorado, is leading Hardrock Revision.
A jury selected the following seven talented individuals to be members of Hardrock Revision’s collaboration team. These artists, writers, and practitioners are donating their time to help envision solutions for the Ute Ule Silver Mine’s mill and town site.
Hannah Fries
Massachusetts poet and associate editor of Orion Magazine
Hannah is a poet with an MFA from Warren Wilson and an interest in ecology and natural history. She enjoys engaging science in her work, having studied chaos theory in relation to poetry. She brings her experience as an editor—working with writers to help them articulate their ideas as artfully and effectively as possible—and her oral and written communication skills to bear both to facilitate good group dynamics and to help express the outcome of Hardrock Revision. Her contributions will draw on her pro-fessional experience making interdisciplinary connections—among people, communities, culture, and nature; among wide-ranging issues and subjects; and among unlikely allies with unexpected common ground.
I feel that art (as well as science) has a responsibility to the
wider community, and it is a deep privilege to be part of a project
that is so actively about putting art and science to work, in partnership. -Hannah Fries
Bland Hoke
Wyoming transdisciplinary artist and sculptor
Bland is an experienced public artist who is currently working on his MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons in New York City. Inspired by the use of discarded and neglected resources, he is relentlessly resourceful and able to envision and implement alternative uses for undervalued and overlooked materials, people, places, and situations. As a participant within a transdisciplinary team, he is fluent and experienced in collaborative settings. He has an open mind and faith in the creative process, which is essential in the process of working on a complex problem. Bland hopes to be able to use the Hardrock Revision experience to address resource issues in his home state of Wyoming.
I am motivated by demonstrating new possibilities with the hopes of inspiring others to do the same. —Bland Hoke
Julia Lewandoski
Public historian, writer and musician
Julia is a historian living in Montreal, Quebec. She received her B.A. in American History & Literature from Harvard University and has worked on diverse public history and community projects. Her primary interests are rural and indigenous history, cultural geography, and how imagined landscapes interact with lived experiences. She brings insight into, and respect for, the challenges faced by Western communities with dependence on both natural extraction and tourist economies.
Interpretive work to liberate a historic site from binary understandings could make room for community redefinition and economic revitalization. —Julia Lewandoski
Anna Macleod
Irish sculptor, curator, and environmental artist
Anna is a lecturer in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Over the past 10 years, her art practice has been concerned with landscape studies and an investigation of the competing values placed upon the resources of the land. Through research and collaborations with landscape specialists, her work seeks to generate knowledge and provide new platforms to (re) imagine futures through interdisciplinary activities. She is enthusiastic about working toward a realizable future for the Ute Ule town site that will benefit Hinsdale County.
I see my role as a citizen artist to be at the core of my relationship with a
broad spectrum of publics and audiences. —Anna Macleod
Lydia Moyer
Videographer, documentarian, and educator
Lydia Moyer is a visual artist and media maker who lives and works in central Virginia. She earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina and is leads the new media program in the art department at the University of Virginia.
She has experience engaging with complicated issues from a creative standpoint and is sensitive to the fact that there are always multiple sides to every story. As a Hardrock
Revision team member, she hopes to apply her skills in art, videography, permaculture design, and mapmaking.
I love that we have no idea where this might take us. The unknown is exciting. —Lydia Moyer
Becky Sobell
Landscape architect from Manchester, England
Becky is a landscape architect and senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has worked on a number of complex, award-winning landscape projects across the UK, from inception to completion on site. Becky is interested in the complex patterning of human interactions with other fauna, flora and geological phenomena. Her work involves collaboration with communities, as well as other professionals. She sees Hardrock Revision as a remarkable laboratory for testing ideas and ways of working.
Obsolescence is an important issue in the 21st century. How we respond to superseded infrastructure is crucial to the future success of our communities. —Becky Sobell
Linda Wysong
Oregon public artist and community collaborator
Linda Wysong, an Associate Professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, is a cross-disciplinary artist who examines the connections between the natural and built environments. Her work includes public art, performance, video, and urban planning. Educated at the University of Maryland she now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Linda’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally. She brings a firmly held perspective that the natural and industrial systems can and should co-existence
in a mutually beneficial manner.
I am intrigued with the possibility of a transdisciplinary
community that works collaboratively to imagine the future.
—Linda Wysong
Hardrock revision Leadership
Grant Pound, Executive Director of Colorado Art Ranch, is the Project Leader. Through the programs of Colorado Art Ranch, Grant has connected communities, inspired collaborations, fostered creative exploration, and built the creative capital of rural areas. His groundbreaking work has been recognized for promoting art as a catalyst for change.
Advisors
Most of the following advisors will be giving public talks at the Mary Stigall Theater in Lake City. Presentation Schedule
Rob Blair, Ph.D. has a degree in geology from the Colorado School of Mines, is the editor of Western San Juan Mountains: their geology, ecology and human history, and is the co-founder and president of the Mountain Studies Institute in Silverton, Colorado.
Todd Bryan, Ph.D., Senior Associate with The Keystone Center, is the Project Facilitator. He has 15 years experience as an environmental mediator working with government agencies, tribal governments, non-governmental organizations, industry, and communities, where he develops collaborative approaches to environmental and natural resource decision-making.
Ronald Cohen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, is an expert in the development and optimization of micro-biological treatment systems for mine drainage.
T. Allan Comp, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in history and leads the OSM/VISTA Team and Brownfields Initiatives at the Office of Surface Mining in the U.S. Department of the Interior. He founded AMD&ART, a non-profit that integrates the Arts and the Sciences in environmental remediation.
Liz Francisco is an archaeologist working for the BLM. She has worked as an archaeologist for the NPS, USFS, and the BLM. She worked for ten years in Mesa Verde National Park as a backcountry archaeologist specializing in the documentation and stabilization of Ancestral Puebloan architecture. Since 2008, Liz has been very active in the preservation of the historic mining sites along the Alpine Loop and is currently overseeing the restoration of the Tobasco Cabin on Cinnamon Pass and hopes to begin another large scale restoration project at the Golconda Boarding House in the near future.
Jonathan Lovekin, MS is a geologist with CTL Thompson, a Denver-based integrated geo-technical, materials, geo-structural, and environmental engineering company.
Chris Ray, Ph.D. is a Research Associate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Univer-sity of Colorado and an expert on pikas, an indicator species.
Joseph Ryan, Ph.D. is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Colorado and co-author of the Center for the American West’s Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines in the West.
David Stiller, Ph.D., author of Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment, is a hydrologist, geologist, water resources consultant, educator, and former executive director of the North Fork River Improvement District.
Hardrock Revision will:
- Increase communication and break down barriers between the mining and environ-mental groups.
- Host a two-day public Artposium to present the team’s vision for the mine site and facilitate community discussion of the vision
- Produce video and print documentation of the Hardrock Revision project
- Develop guidelines for conducting future transdisciplinary collaborations
- Broaden the community’s horizons and inspire them to use creative problem solving to address the many economic, social, and environmental issues that rural towns face.
Lake City 2011 Artposium
August 13, 2011
Registration: $45
Free for Hinsdale County Residents
Lunch: $20
Reception:$15 Donation optional
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We have secure online registration, but if you don't like that new-fangled stuff, you can call Grant Pound (executive director) at 303.279.5198 or send a check to:
Colorado Art Ranch
6878 Taft Court
Arvada, CO 80004
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