Join Art History faculty member Kayla Gibbons on Thursday, February 22nd at 6:30pm via Zoom to learn about our Arizona destination program, and how you can earn 3 Art History credits this June on an epic road trip! To attend the info session register for the Zoom link here. 

Both road trip and field study, Picturing Arizona examines the role of wet-plate photography in shaping our ideas of the American Southwest at the height of westward expansion. Through a close read of the 10,000-year-old stories within Arizona’s National Parks and Monuments, our attention is directed towards the histories and peoples these early photographs failed to represent.

Site visits include a 150-room ancestral pueblo built around 1125 CE, Mary Colter’s Desert View Watchtower at Grand Canyon National Park, and Paolo Soleri’s experimental arcology (architecture/ecology) Arcosanti. This 12-day journey across Arizona spans a vast geologic time scale and examines the persistence of human invention against an unforgiving landscape and centuries of displacement. In addition to daily excursions, the course includes a tintype workshop at Taliesin West with guest artist, Will Wilson.

Our programs have very limited enrollment and fill quickly.