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Summer 2013 Studio Arts Field Study in Wyoming 







	

	
Studio Arts offers this three-credit seventeen-day Field Study Intensive 
in Wyoming through the University Honors College for the fifth 
consecutive year. Students meet in Denver in July for two days of museum and studio visits and then head north via the Snowy Range Pass to Rock 
River, Wyoming, northwest of
Laramie. Situated in the high altitude short grass prairie between the 
Laramie
Mountains and the Medicine Bow Range, students work between an 
encampment
of tents on the Spring Creek Preserve’s 6,000 acres, the Longhorn Motel 
in Rock
River, and makeshift studio space in a 1919 era Bank Building. This 
year's Field Study includes a trip to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert outside Lucin, Utah, and the White Mountain Petroglyphs of Wyoming's Red Desert.
	     
	



Gallery
July 2: Our Polaroid Project begins at DIA: grounding our experiences of Wyoming and environs
July 2: After an afternoon at the museum, studio visits and dinner in the mountains with Timothy Weaver and Katie Kaulbach
July 3: Megan's first taste of Bison
July 3: Crossing the line on 287N - Julia, Theresa, Kristi, and Megan
July 3: Polaroid - Crossing the state line and now in Wyoming
July 3: Libby Flats Observation Area on the Snowy Range Scenic Byway
July 3: At Lake Marie with Medicine Bow Peak rising above the lake
July 3: Cascade from Lake Marie down into French Creek Canyon
July 3: On the way back down to Centennial we spied two red fox pups romping in the meadow (MK)
July 3: On the way back down to Centennial we spied two red fox pups romping in the meadow (MK)
July 4: The science students introduce us to the property via a map they made working with Hali Felt (MK)
July 4: Introduction to the Spring Creek Preserve - a Longhorn Beetle finds the National Aviary's Steve Latta
July 4: The Prairie Dog, our beloved mascot (TB)
July 4: The science students check their small mammal traps left overnight and find numerous small mice (MK)
July 4: Ammonite fossil on Spring Creek's red ridge
July 4: Ammonites on the red ridge (TB)
July 4: Ammonite find (TB)
July 4: Field Study Director Edward McCord introduces students to Wyoming's State Reptile the Short-Horned Lizard (MK)
July 4: Theresa, Megan, Kristi, Julia, and Edward McCord
July 4: Megan and the Short-Horned Lizard
July 4: Delanie finds an elk antler, which we will borrow and return (MK)
July 4: The old eagle's nest (MK)
July 4: While visiting the old eagle's nest we rouse a Golden Eagle from its perch
July 4: Kristi and the Short-Horned Lizard now named Frieda (MK)
July 4: Kristi eats a red ant - its folic acid defense mechanism "tastes like lemon"
July 4: Edward McCord unveils the Doc Quarry where science students have been excavating the past six years
July 4: The Doc Quarry
July 4: Petrified wood from trees long gone
July 4: Inspecting the petrified wood - Theresa, Julia, and Kristi
July 4: Dinosaur bone found on the surface year's ago
July 4: Investigating the dinosaur bone ~140 million years old (MK)
July 4: Theresa after perfoming the dinosaur bone authentication test 
July 5: Waning light at the teepee rings (MK)
July 5: First night camping on the property, science art students playing Pass the Pig in the sunset
July 6: Exploring the shale searching for fish scale fossils (Kristi finds one!)
July 6: Shale layers (TB)
July 6: Cattle bone carcass in the "quick sand" of the bentonite exposure (MK)
July 6: Julia investigates the concretions at the preserve's bentonite exposure
July 6: Kristi tests the concretion's strength and balance
July 6: Beautiful Whiskey bottle artifact found at the base of the red ridge
July 6: Polaroid - Post-bentonite hike
July 6: A 13-Lined Ground Squirrel, mascot of the camp, named Clarence by the science students (MK) 
July 7: Setting up more of the studio, the side kitchen will serve as the Etching studio with ferric tank and gear
July 7: Etching press
July 7: Cabinet and counter for etching inks and chemicals
July 7: Julia's work space
July 7: Julia discussing collage attempts
July 7: Theresa's work space
July 7: Kristi's work space outside of the etching studio
July 7: Megan's work space 
July 7: Chicken Tikka Masala for dinner!
July 7: Late night in the bank building studio
July 8: Julia helping Theresa find innertubes in Laramie (TB)
July 8: Laramie bike store donations - thank you!
July 9: A small part of Theresa's progress (TB)
July 9: Late afternoon stop en route to the Rodeo
July 9: Hostler's General Store across the road from the motel in rainbow light
July 9: Julia printing and cutting in the motel
July 10: Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (TB)
July 10: A recent addition at the Spiral Jetty (TB)
July 10: Lake level at the jetty, "the lake the color of pale blood" from the brine shrimp (TB)
July 10: Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty - Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah
July 10: Polaroids - Spiral Jetty
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah - notoriously difficult to find but we persevered!
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah (MK)
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah (MK)
July 11: Julia atop Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah (TB)
July 11: Julia atop Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Julia atop Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah (TB)
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah - the projected sun shapes wax and wane with the movement of the clouds
July 11: Our group in Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Delanie in Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - Lucin, Utah
July 11: Polaroids - Sun Tunnels
July 12: White Mountain Petroglyphs of Wyoming's Red Desert (MK)
July 12: Polaroids - Shoshone birthing rock, White Mountain Petroglyphs