Saturday, October 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Working Land Symposium

Please invite your students and colleagues to join us for the Working Land Symposium. Held in conjunction with the special exhibition, Eyes On the Land, The Working Land Symposium will explore our creative, literary and personal relationships to place. Acclaimed regional scholars will present on their relationships to the working landscape followed by a panel discussion by the artists featured in the Eyes on the Land exhibition.

SCHOLAR PANEL

Dona Brown, Professor of History, University of Vermont. Brown’s work has explored both local and national 20th century back-to-the-land movements.

John Elder, Professor, Middlebury College. Elder’s special areas of interest include American nature writing and modern American poetry of nature. His recent writings have combined discussion of literature, Vermont landscape descriptions, natural history and personal memoir.

Robert Thorson, University of Connecticut. Thorson is a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut and coordinator of the Stone Wall Initiative. His research interests include stone walls, kettle lakes and ponds, and Henry David Thoreau and 19th century science.

ARTIST PANEL

Cameron Davis teaches painting, drawing, perspectives on making, and transdisciplinary courses on art, ecology and community at the University of Vermont.

Brian D. Collier is an artist, educator and re-naturalist. His projects manifest as public projects, exhibitions and multi-media presentations.

Gowri Savoor creates environmental sculpture and works on paper. She brings art to communities and believes in the power of participatory art events.

Susan Abbott’s oil and watercolor paintings examine the specifics and mood of place, especially the New England working landscape.

$50 for General Admission; $35 for Museum Members; and $15 for Students. For additional questions please contact symposia@shelburnemuseum.org or call 802-985-3346, x3392.