FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 3, 2007
FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact Jade Walker
    Director, Creative Research Laboratory
    email:crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu
    phone:(512) 322-2099
RECEPTION: Saturday, January 20, 6 to 9 p.m.
EXHIBITION DATES: January 20 - February 10, 2007
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12-5 p.m.

For further information about the Land Arts program, check out the website http://landarts.org or contact Land Arts faculty Chris Taylor, Assistant Professor of Design, University of Texas at Austin, at c_dog@mail.utexas.edu or (512) 471-0126.

LAND ARTS OF THE
AMERICAN WEST 2006

January 20 - February 10, 2007

Opening Saturday January 20, Creative Research Laboratory presents LAND ARTS 2006 Exhibition, introducing work by fourteen students from Studio Art at the University of New Mexico and Design at the University of Texas at Austin. The opening reception will take place 6 to 9 p.m. at Creative Research Laboratory, located at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Austin.

LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST is a studio-based, field study program dedicated to the investigation of land arts from pre-contact Native American to contemporary Euro-American cultures. Land arts practices include everything from constructing a road, to taking a walk, building a monument, or leaving a mark in the sand. LAND ARTS is a collaboration between Studio Art at the University of New Mexico and Design at the University of Texas at Austin and is funded in part by the Lannan Foundation and Andrea Nasher. This exhibition includes work from fourteen students who spent 51 days traveling over 7,000 miles during the Fall of 2006 to live and work in throughout the landscape of the southwest.

The exhibition features work in a variety of media produced in direct response to the program. The artists and designers featured in LAND ARTS 2006 include Jarrod Beck, Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Christine Casaus, Nicole E Danti, Chappell Ellison, Sean Lopano, Alexandra Lopez, Jimmy Luu, George Morrow, Joseph Mougel, Tanisa Sharif, Andrew Towl, Jennifer DePaolo VanHorn, and Emmalee Young. The exhibition is curated by faculty members Bill Gilbert and Chris Taylor.

LAND ARTS 2006 EXHIBITION was previously shown at John Sommers Gallery at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque December 5 – 14, 2006.

Creative Research Laboratory presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions of work by students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, and facilitates workshops, performances, demonstrations, seminars and collaborations.

The Laboratory is located in East Austin at 2832 E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., inside Flatbed World Headquarters. Free parking and bus service are available on Capitol Metro's route 18. Creative Research Laboratory is open from noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The activities of the Department of Art and Art History and the Creative Research Laboratory are open to the public without charge.

For more information about the Creative Research Lab contact Gallery Director Jade Walker, crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu, or 512.322.2099.

For more information about the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, contact Carolyn Porter, carolynp@mail.utexas.edu, 512.471.3379.

Jade Walker
Gallery Director: Creative Research Laboratory
2832 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78705
phone: 512.322.2099
email: crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu