The Storied Wilderness: How to Tell the Human History of a Wild Place

Washington State University
Department of English presents

The Storied Wilderness: How to Tell the Human History  of a Wild Place

Debbie Lee, Professor, Washington State University
Dennis Baird, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho

Friday, February 1, 2013
12:10 p.m. – 1 p.m.
WSU’s Bundy Reading Room
Avery Hall

In 2010, Debbie Lee and Dennis Baird were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant to create an archive of historical documents, photos, and oral histories chronicling the human history of one of the wildest places in the lower 48 states—the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana.

As their grant comes to an end, Lee and Baird reveal the history of this 1.3 million acre landscape that was among the first places granted wilderness designation with the Wilderness Act in 1964. Originally home to the Nimiipuu and Salish Indians, the Selway-Bitterroot has been fiercely protected by preservationists throughout the centuries. In the 1930’s Bob Marshall, founder of the Wilderness Society, invested so much energy protecting the area that it was originally supposed to bear his name.

In addition to the archive and oral histories, Lee is writing a creative nonfiction book about the region, weaving her own travels through the larger history of the place. Baird will show treasures from the new archive (such as Gifford Pinchot's diary where he talks to his dead wife in the wilderness) and Lee will read a short excerpt from her book.
  

Bikini kill - Rebel Girl

'I FINK U FREEKY' by DIE ANTWOORD (Official)

Patrick Manning

Delta

Land in Water

http://pcm.pcmxa.com/

Rebecca Solnit

Interview with California Reads author Rebecca Solnit Wanderlust: A History of Walking - 3min Highlights from Matthew Earnest's piece, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, based on the book by Rebecca Solnit presented at New York City's Ice Factory festival at the Ohio Theatre July 14-17 2010. Wanderlust was commissioned and first presented at Cleveland Public Theatre in May of 2010.

Still Life Resources

John Mann

http://www.rockpapercloud.com/

Rebecca Sittler

http://www.rebeccasittler.com/

Laura Letinsky

http://lauraletinsky.com/

Joel Peter Witkin

http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm

Laurent Millet 

http://www.laurent-millet.com/

Art Competitions, Juried Exhibitions, Art Festivals and Shows

Art Competitions, Juried Exhibitions, Art Festivals and Shows

ArteEast - Arts and Cultures of the Middle East and its diasporas | Calls for Submissions

ArteEast - Arts and Cultures of the Middle East and its diasporas | Calls for Submissions

110: Mapping SEP 4, 1998, This American Life

http://kingsculturalmap.wordpress.com/

What is a map? (Excerpt from Community Mapping ‘zine by Hannah Lewis)

-Maps are powerful.

-Maps have interests or an argument to make.

-Maps are socially constructed.

-Maps are often conventionalized (they become seen as true or real).

-Maps are shaped by (and shape) political, economic, social, and cultural discourses of the time.

-Maps are a means of communication that many people find appealing.

-Maps come in many forms, such as aboriginal maps of stories, songs, or dreams showing the convergence of boundaries between realms.

-Maps have different ways of representing time.

-Maps are relational—they represent relationships between spatial or physical elements, cultural values and abstract ideas. For example: a road map shows the distance between physical places, but also shows cultural relationships in place names and abstract ideas, such as wilderness or adventure.

-Maps reflect the map-maker’s worldview: the relationship between the map’s creator and the topic is important to consider.

Printmaker Randy Bolton at WSU

Randy Bolton will be here Thursday the 10th and Friday the 11th and will present his lecture at 5pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium on Thursday with a reception to follow in Gallery 2. I also encourage you to join us for dinner afterwards at the South Fork - the sign up sheet is in the office.

Randy will also be available to meet with both BFA/BA, and MFA students for individual critiques during his visit, and you will find the sign up sheet for this in the office as well.

Randy's exhibit in Gallery 2, titled 'Scene Better Daze', will run January 7 - February 15.

-Kevin Haas

Randy Bolton was born in Dallas, Texas in 1956, and received a BFA from the University of North Texas in 1978 and a MFA from the Ohio State University in 1982. Bolton has taught in many visiting artist positions across the country, including four years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1989–2002, Bolton was Professor of Art and Printmaking Area Coordinator at the University of Delaware. In 2002, Bolton was appointed Head of the Print Media Department and Artist in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Bolton’s work has been exhibited widely since 1982. Recent one-person and group exhibitions include, Twice-Told Tales at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan; Two Sides to Every Story, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York; Books of Nonsense, Evergreen House, Baltimore, Yes, We, Can, Things Are Rarely What They Seem and Chase, Tumble, Slide, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Three American Artists, Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland, Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art. Bolton has participated in artist residencies and his prints are in many corporate and museum collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Public Library.