Artists who want to apply for the Bureau of Land Management’s new artist-in-residence program in the White Mountains National Recreation Area must do so by Friday.
The BLM will host an artist for a week in April at the Wickersham Creek Trail Shelter in the White Mountains north of Fairbanks. The April 14–18 residence is open to emerging or established artists working in nearly any media — including painting, printmaking, photography, writing and music. The BLM provides transportation between Fairbanks and the cabin, but artists are responsible for their daily expenses. Artists are expected to donate the use of a piece of artwork inspired by their time in the White Mountains to help promote public lands. The BLM plans to offer several residencies annually in different seasons and locations, including another in the White Mountains and a summer residency in the Fortymile region...more
The BLM has artists-in-residence, the FS has quotas, fish get all the water, I've done sprung forward and God bless America or what's left of her.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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