Finding Water in the West

A view of Monument Creek in Colorado with two beaver dams

Erin Elder’s From Source to Mouth Shares the Stories of Monument Creek

In From Source to Mouth, artist Erin Elder takes a multifaceted, community-sourced approach to researching Monument Creek in Colorado Springs.

Sage Behr • June 06, 2023

Mural of the Rio Grande with data points, at SITE Santa Fe.

Finding Water in the WestNew Mexico

Going With the Flow: Stories of Water and Site-Specific Actions at SITE Santa Fe

Stories of water in the Southwest are told through the lens of artists in Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters at SITE Santa Fe.

Lauren LaRocca • May 16, 2023

At the center of Embodied Ecologies exhibit was a collaborative art piece titled “Woven Lake,” a model of the Great Salt Lake conveying the evaporation between the historic highs of the water level in the 1850s with present-day levels.

Finding Water in the WestUtah

Environment, Disability, and the Drying of the Great Salt Lake

As Utah faces the evaporation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah artists are finding ways to orient themselves in disaster by considering the relationship between disability and environment.

Parker Scott Mortensen • April 26, 2023

View of a road in Boulder, Colorado, with blue dots affixed to the trees, indicating potential flood levels.

Finding Water in the WestColorado

Looking Back at Weather Report: How Eco Art Has Shifted as Climate Change Becomes All Too Real

Reflecting on Weather Report, Lucy Lippard’s 2007 exhibition in Boulder, Colorado, Paige Hirschey discusses how the field of eco art has changed.

Paige Hirschey • April 03, 2023

The artist collecting river water for the workshop.

Finding Water in the WestMexicoTexas

Janette Terrazas: An Artist’s Fight to Preserve Water at the Border

Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.

Edgar Picazo Merino • March 10, 2023