Nature's Writers: Mentored by the Land
Presented in partnership with Arts + Literature Laboratory, the Wisconsin Science Festival, and FlakPhoto Projects.
Since 2019, Donald S. Clark has documented the places that have been instrumental in influencing the lives and words of both historic and contemporary nature and environmental writers throughout the United States. While we have always felt their passionate connection to their own environments, no book has ever made this visual connection between writers and their land before—the relationship between prose and place.
Featuring more than 40 of America’s most important writers, the content is as far-reaching as America itself: from sea to shining sea, forest to prairie, and mountain to coastline. Accompanying each gallery of stunning photography is a selected excerpt by the writer about their land. With the increasingly noticeable effects of climate change, the significance of these writers—and their personal connections to the environment—is even more timely.
This unique and compelling story of the land and how it has inspired some of our greatest poets and authors will make a wonderful gift for budding environmentalists, students of nature writing, or anyone interested in conservation.
Hosted by Andy Adams.
Donald Clark
Donald S. Clark is a Professor of Art/Photography at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He has taught photography for 30 years. The majority of his work deals with the environment and landscape issues. He is also interested in the relationships of people in their environment and how this relationship affects culture. He has exhibited his work throughout the U. S. and internationally. He lives in Lake Park, Minnesota.
Andy Adams
Andy Adams is an independent producer who blends digital communication, online audience engagement, and web-based collaboration to promote creative culture on and offline. Since 2008, he has directed digital communications at Overture Center for the Arts, a Wisconsin-based arts venue that presents more than 300 performances, exhibitions, and educational programs annually. He is the editor of FlakPhoto, a website that promotes the discovery of photographic image-makers from around the world. In his spare time, he hosts the FlakPhoto Network, an 11,000-member online community focused on conversations about visual arts culture.
FlakPhoto is an online photography channel that presents the work of artists, curators, bookmakers and photo organizations to a global audience of people who are passionate about visual culture. The site's main feature is The Collection, a digital archive of contemporary photographs which is updated five times weekly.