Colorado Art Ranch

Colorado Art Ranch 2015 ARTPOSIA: Art + Land/Water

Monday, September 21, 2015 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
  • Library Hall

Artposia: A public forum designed for people who appreciate literature, contemporary art and the multidisciplinary exploration of ideas.

Spend an evening with the Colorado Art Ranch artists in residence  for the 2015 Art + Land/Water Residency at The Nature Conservancy's Carpenter Ranch. As their one-month residency comes to a close, join the artists for a slideshow and talk about their creative work and its intersection with the land and water in the Yampa Valley.

About the Art + Land/Water artists and their September projects

Tama Baldwin is a photographer and writer whose subject is the intersection of human institutions and instruments with wild nature as it otherwise might exist without our presence on the planet. Her current projects include a book about wilderness civilizations, a collection of photographs of the far northern tundra biome, as well as bodies of work on the absence of natural darkness and landscape as experienced at a
high rate of speed. She has degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Salisbury State University, The State University of New York, and Ohio University. She has received an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, a Fulbright, as well as residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In July and August 2013 she joined a team of artists and scientists surveying archeological sites in the arctic as part of the Aldo Leonardo Wilderness Art and Science Collaboration sponsored by the Colorado Art Ranch and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Foundation. Her work has appeared recently in nationally juried group shows at The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1650 Gallery in L.A., the Minneapolis Photo Center, and the Greg Moon Gallery in Taos, New Mexico. New work is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Center of Photography 2015 Members Exhibit and in the exhibit “Center Forward” at the Center for Fine Art Photography. A series of her photographs of a river in Ontario will be included in The River, a nonfiction work by Helen Humphreys due out in October, 2015. In the autumn of 2016, she will join the Arctic Circle Residency’s expedition team of artists and scientists sailing around the island of Svalbard to explore sites of human habitation in the high arctic.

Tatjana Jovancevic was born in one of the Republics of former Yugoslavia, presently Bosnia and Herzegovina. She came to the United States in 1991 where she currently resides. Art making has been a part of her life as far as she can remember—her father saved her first drawing from when she was two years old. She earned a BFA in Visual Communication and studied art by taking numerous courses. She started exhibiting publicly in 2009.Tatjana’s art is informed by her origin from a country divided by war. Themes she explores deal with the issues of land, belonging, detachment, and reconciliation. Her background is studio art, including works on paper and mixed media, and land art which she practices mostly in the urban environment.

Necole Zayatz was born in 1976 and currently lives in Buffalo, NY. She is a multimedia artist who uses digital and analog processes in her creative adventures. She grew-up on a horse farm in New Hampshire where she learned to be resourceful and to entertain herself. Her work is influenced by the excessive amounts of plastic in our lives and where it ends up. She imagines various environments that could be interpreted as exaggerations of current everyday conditions (such as a plastic apocalypse). She received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The School of Art and Design at Alfred University in 2007 and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2013. Her single and multi-channel video work and print work have been exhibited in galleries, film festivals and museums nationally and internationally.

About Colorado Art Ranch
Colorado Art Ranch is a nomadic arts organization founded on the belief that the arts are an agent for change. It travels to Colorado towns each year to sponsor one-month residencies for visual and literary artists from around the world. Colorado Art Ranch also hosts a public forum to promote conversations on how art, and science intersect with land and social issues. Colorado Art Ranch envisions a world where creative interdisciplinary thinking is cultivated, valued, and used to solve land and social issues.