Nina Elder, Fall
OSGF
Two-Week Curated Artist in Residence, Fall 2019
Artist and researcher Nina Elder currently lives in New Mexico, where her multidisciplinary work focuses on changing cultures and ecologies. She is the co-founder of the Wheelhouse Institute, a women’s climate leadership initiative. Nina lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, and has recently held positions at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Anchorage Museum in Alaska, and as a Researcher in Residence in the Art and Ecology Program at the University of New Mexico.
While at OSGF, Nina went through archives, books, and the land in order to research ways in which natural objects had been described, creating a cyclical poem that listed her findings. Learn more about her here.