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.

Events are FREE but RSVP is required. To RSVP: Call (806) 742-2443 or email jouana.stravlo@ttu.edu.

 

Reading & Book Signing

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.

 

LECTURE: Land, Light, and Film

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.

 

For questions about this event, please email laura.ray@ttu.edu.

These events are a co-production by the Museum of Texas Tech University and the Museum Association.