Catherine Page Harris
Catherine Page Harris,
Interdisciplinary Associate Professor, teaches Art & Ecology and Landscape
Architecture at the University of New Mexico in a split position with the
College of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture and Planning. She received
her BA from Harvard University, 1988, MLA from UC Berkeley, 1997, and MFA from
Stanford University, 2005. Harris works in art/design, and digital/analog
expressions. Her built work resides at Marble House Project, Dorset, VT, Deep
Springs College, White Mountains, CA, McCovey Field, SF, CA and The Violin Shop
in Albuquerque, NM, among other sites. Recent projects include the sharing
shelves, a creative placemaking project, the Red Water Pond Road
Community Peace Center, an NEA ArtWorks funded project to create a
space to memorialize the impacts of legacy mining on indigenous land, andsharing a drink, using video to create 3D drinking forms based on how
animals drink water from trail cameras. Trans-species Repast–sharing
meals with animals throughout northern Denmark and Vermont, USA is an
exploration of hierarchy, resources and landscape. Trans-species Repastwas recently shown at the UNM Art Museum(2016), the Land Shape Festival (2015)
in Hanstholm, DK, Marble House Project, Dorset, VT(2015) and the Wignall
Museum, CA, (2014). Current research includes exploring indigenous landscape
architecture, pursuing vertical definitions of urban wilderness in densifying
cities, and posthuman places in the urban fabric. Pedagogical foci include
indigeneity, video in landscape architecture, designing for climate change and
introducing design skills into art practice.
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