I’m a Portland-based artist and educator, writing in my capacity as Director of the outdoor art program Wide Open Studios, a project of Signal Fire. We’re seeking candidates for our summer programs and I wonder if you’d please consider sharing this opportunity with the UCLA art community.
Briefly: Wide Open Studios offers art, writing, and ecology courses on public lands. We teach our students low-impact camping skills from the ground up, introduce them to the natural and cultural history of the places we work, and invite them to expand their creative practice through a series of remote and site-informed projects. It’s a life-changing experience for students and instructors alike. We curate each cohort to assemble a diverse group, and we do offer scholarships.
I’m attaching a PDF flyer, and we have a zoom info session next Tuesday. Feel free to connect me to students directly if you know a good candidate. They can learn more at wideopenstudios.org.