Today, I drove down to meet Mathias Hughey and Emily Boone, the brave souls who have taken on the task of making art at a Long Term Ecological Research Site. This will be their blog and our secondary communication method as the ten week summer experience unfolds. We discussed their possible projects, from kites to research, through machines that mimic tumbleweeds and creating land art on site. They make formal permit applications on Thursday, so we are moving quickly on identifying a summer project.
This experience is a rare one for any artist and particularly rare in undergraduate art education. To be given time and space and possible collaborators, is an amazing gift. We are grateful to the SEV, to Scott Collins and to NSF for funding the REU program in general and the art interns in particular.
