Texas Tech University

From Here to the Horizon Events

Join the Museum of Texas Tech University for a series of events offered in conjunction with the exhibition From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez.

 

Reading & Book Signing

Kurt Caswell

October 3, 2024
6 PM

Free event. RSVP required.
Reception immediately follows

Kurt Caswell
Professor and Director of Honors Arts & Letters
TTU Honors College

Kurt Caswell is the author of five books of nonfiction, most recently, Iceland Summer: Travels Along the Ring Road, with 35 full-color illustrations by artist Julia Oldham. Winner of a Foreword Indie Silver Medal for science writing, Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog, tells the story of the first animal to orbit the Earth, the Soviet space dog Laika, who flew on Sputnik II in 1957. An Inside Passage won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. He is co-editor with James Perrin Warren of Going to See: 30 Writers on Nature, Inspiration, and the World of Barry Lopez. Caswell’s essays, stories and reviews have appeared in American Literary Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ninth Letter, Orion, Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Terrain.org, and other publications. He is a graduate of both the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College (MA), and the Bennington College Writing Seminars (MFA). He is professor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, where he teaches writing, literature, and an intensive study abroad course walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

To RSVP: Call (806) 742-2443 or email jouana.stravlo@ttu.edu.
This event is a co-production by the Museum of Texas Tech University and the Museum Association.

 

LECTURE:
On the Border of Earth and Sky

Laura Dassow Walls

November 12, 2024
6 PM

Free event. RSVP not required.
Reception immediately follows

Laura Dassow Walls
Professor Emerita
University of Notre Dame

Laura Dassow Walls is Professor Emerita at the University of Notre Dame, where she taught American literature, particularly the American Transcendentalists, and the history and theory of ecological thought. Previously she taught at Lafayette College and the University of South Carolina. Her biography Henry David Thoreau: A Life (Chicago 2017) received Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography. Her other books include the award-winning Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (2009); Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth (2003); and Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (1995). Currently she is working on a literary biography of the American writer Barry Lopez.


Any questions or concerns can be directed to Kristin Loyd at kristin.d.loyd@ttu.edu or call (806) 834-7471.

This event is a production by the Southwest Collection.

 

LECTURE: Land, Light, and Film

Toby Jurovics

November 14, 2024
6 PM

Free event. RSVP required.
Reception immediately follows

Toby Jurovics
Director of the Barry Lopez Foundation
for Art & Environment

Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. Prior to this, he was chief curator of Joslyn Art Museum from 2011 to 2020 and a curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Princeton University Art Museum. An expert on nineteenth and twentieth century American landscape photography, he has curated over fifty monographic and group exhibitions of photography, painting, works on paper, and new media. In 2010, he organized Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and he has published essays on Thomas Joshua Cooper, Steve Fitch, John Gossage, Andrew Moore, William Sutton and the New Topographics. Most recently, he authored the exhibition catalog, From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez.

To RSVP: Call (806) 742-2443 or email jouana.stravlo@ttu.edu.
This event is a co-production by the Museum of Texas Tech University and the Museum Association.