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New York Art Book Fair, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/80c8a53f-8da0-43b9-bfe0-0ae1c411b8f6/%28c%29HeatherRasmussen_DSCF4726.jpg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Installation view at Probably Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/71a565e9-3687-42d3-b085-162d8d1ecdb0/%28c%29HeatherRasmussen_DSCF4621_b.jpg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Installation view at Probably Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/291f861f-058c-4de7-b508-e30a8368f000/Screenshot+2024-07-15+at+9.10.52+AM.png Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out IMA 2022 Spring/Summer Vol.37 The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment Published in IMA, a Japanese photographic magazine, chief editor of Aperture, Lesley Martin, introduces Unseen California to an international audience and writes: “American landscape photography cannot be disentangled from the colonial history of Northern Europeans surveying, settling, and selling the American wilderness. Contemporary American photographers working toward a greater awareness of our current climate crisis and a more complete understanding of human impact on the natural world have fully absorbed these lessons. The challenge today is how to approach environmental issues with a holistic understanding of the complex forces that shape our landscape. How can photography about the environment and our use of it grapple with the natural world, while also addressing the politics, and the economic and social histories of the land in which we live? Unseen California’s proposition and ambition feels tremendously invigorating in an area of photography desperately in need of reinvention.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/dbac2f98-2cdf-4105-8336-65561f2ea49e/Unseen_Publications.jpg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Unseen California’s book and artist limited edition folio are now available on our Webshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/2d9835a9-89b5-4546-aacf-6724a22aa2fc/Screenshot+2025-01-30+at+7.28.04+PM.png Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out The title of the exhibition comes from Jennifer Moxley’s Fragments of a Broken Poetics: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/867c1e55-42bd-4720-a08a-caf27652f2a5/%28c%29HeatherRasmussen_DSCF4625.jpg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Installation view at Probably Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/0f6bca3e-e41b-4d18-8dd4-2ca06c442047/Penumbra_Unseen_California.jpg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Penumbra Foundation is pleased to present: Field notes from Unseen California Aspen Mays, Dionne Lee, Karolina Karlic, Mercedes Dorame and Tarrah Krajnak Opening Reception: Thursday, October 19, 6–8 pm. October 19, 2023 — January 15, 2024 Related Programming: Panel discussion | Saturday, October 21, 1 pm | Kindly RSVP with Aspen Mays, Karolina Karlic and Mercedes Dorame. Moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA. The discussion will center on the artists’ experience as the an inaugural cohort of the arts research initiative Unseen California. This event includes the launch of a limited edition portfolio of risograph prints by the imprint theretherenow and Unseen California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/ac6e6fed-0928-4755-81c9-6f490d6c6c50/unnamed.jpg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out The title of the exhibition “ Unseen California Language Has No Weather” comes from Jennifer Moxley’s Fragments of a Broken Poetics: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/05034d13-a03b-4a3b-865c-4a02fedd5141/email_square_white.png Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Unseen California will be at the SFABF. Join us July 20, 2-3pm at the TIS table for a book signing with artist Tarrah Krajnak, Mercedes Dorame, and Karolina Karlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/114ccd57-9548-4868-85bc-65eb472e99a2/IMG_1816.jpeg Arts Field Research - Community Engagement - Make it stand out Unseen California launches new risograph publication, “Language Has No Weather: Field Notes From Unseen California” at the NYABF, April 24-28, 2024. https://www.unseencalifornia.com/arts-field-research/emerge-j4rcb monthly 0.5 2024-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594596240381-PY2O20V3Q9AG56XTX43L/mapbycampusprint.jpg Arts Field Research - Research Mission UC Natural Reserve System interactive map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/55858d0a-5c84-4b9c-a176-c764a137888c/Unseen_2024_2026_Group.jpg Arts Field Research - Research Mission - Make it stand out 2024-2026 Research Cohort: Shao-Feng Hsu and Lacey Lennon are our current artists-in-residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1656641169060-V9ZTPUDCVWC9M97802YL/UnseenCalShanaLopes_Lee_Dorame.jpg Arts Field Research - Research Mission - Make it stand out SFMoMA Archives visit with photography curator Dr. Shana Lopes and artist researchers Dionne Lee and Mercedes Dorame. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1656639216463-IFYLPKT4LURILP2PGN38/Unseen+NewsletterJune+2022+.jpg Arts Field Research - Research Mission - Make it stand out 2021-2023 Inaugural Research Cohort: Karolina Karlic, Dionne Lee. Mercedes Dorame, Tarrah Krajnak, Aspen Mays. Five women artists took part as the inaugural group of Artist Researchers working across the California landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1656638411701-20BOW5FEJJB3Q4ILIGOT/IMG_8668.jpeg Arts Field Research - Research Mission - Make it stand out Artist Researchers: Aspen Mays and Mercedes Dorame viewing a bald eagle nest. https://www.unseencalifornia.com/arts-field-research/education monthly 0.5 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594535462053-J4JORGOTX1UQBH0DW2M7/DSC_0598.JPG Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning UCSC Art students, UC Granite Mountains Natural Reserve. Prof. Karolina Karlic and Prof. Norman Locks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594535574722-EZNHFSNCLCHN1JYQQ9U2/_DSC2972-2.jpg Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning UCSC Art students, UC Big Creek Natural Reserve. Prof. Karolina Karlic and Prof. Norman Locks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594534838814-BT2CXC408CZAGRAOGZRH/_MG_9801.JPG Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning - Mallory Mahon “I went into the UCSC Art Major as a Freshman in 2016 and graduated in 2020. I knew of the photo field trips to the UC Natural Reserves (Mojave and Big Sur), but never actually went on one until my third year of college. I wish I had gone sooner! I had never felt a stronger sense of community within the art department until I attended my first photo field trip. Spending a couple days living, exploring, eating together, and creating with people who have similar creative interests as you is a powerful learning experience. As a photographer, the world is my place to learn--not a classroom. The photo field trips to UC Natural Reserves were the most important part of my college education” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594534756892-4N6TQRVUZAJZ9MPVZRAK/Roll6852_KodakPortra400_img3.jpg Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning UCSC Art students at UC Big Creek Natural Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1595019857501-EFFUGW27WPG22XI030ZZ/scanbw0333LightRoom.jpg Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning Artwork by UCSC Art student: Natalie Del Castillo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594858678108-ZD1JZXMKUMVW3XSP70HL/IMG_1896.JPG Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning - Edgar Cruz UCSC’s Art & Environmental Studies double major, student, Edgar Cruz, a UC Big Creek Natural Reserve. “The photography research trips led by Karolina Karlic and Norman Locks were one of the most impactful experiences in my undergraduate studies at UCSC. Studying both Art and Environmental Studies, these trips guided me towards an interdisciplinary research approach to photography. I was introduced to the UC Natural Reserve System, during my first photo research in the spring quarter of my second year, visiting the Big Creek Natural Reserve. I went in not knowing anyone at all, but by the end of it, I felt so loved and welcomed by my fellow art majors. This was the beginning of the community I built throughout my time in the art department. I was able to build a relationship with my photo professors, actively meeting with them one on one, and become an active member of the community. As an artist, these trips were really important in helping me question and explore the ideas behind my work, which was new for me at the time.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1595640801504-LCRU8WC55O7GEWQ0GFVR/scan1054.jpg Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning - Brian Young UCSC Art students at UC Big Creek Natural Reserve. Photograph by Edgar Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1594535520692-6J7MDD6X9HYYRNZI4A96/mojave.jpg7.jpeg Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning - “The photography research trips led by Karolina Karlic and Norman Locks are truly life changing opportunities for students at UC Santa Cruz. Through visiting the Big Creek Natural Reserve during spring quarter 2019, I was able to not only explore the essential role of travel and research more thoroughly within my art practices, something I had not considered immensely beforehand, but also develop stronger connections with my peers and professors as a double major in art and film and digital media. I had the privilege to have such memorable experiences of bonding with my peers and discussing our different perspectives and approaches to art based on our different backgrounds, deepening my sense of relationship to the community present within the art department. These memories and conversations helped me realize the interrelation of art and film to me despite my different approaches to these mediums. Through being in a less institutional, more natural environment, I was able to reflect on my identity and the influences of my experiences and memories to my photographs, moving images, paintings, and prints. I grew to more strongly understand the importance of my environment and overall surrounding atmosphere to my work. I was inspired to delve more into my art practices and using mixed media. This photography research trip was extremely valuable to my education as an art student and truly helped shape the rest of my career and opportunities I took as a UC Santa Cruz undergraduate, including studying abroad and working independently more with faculty members.” UCSC Art students at UC Granite Mountains Natural Reserve visiting the Kelso Sand Dunes in Mojave, CA. Prof. Karolina Karlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/1595643015872-G5UTRF67NZJOXYEHQIA2/fall2018_5.JPG Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning Artwork by UCSC Art student: Edgar Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a350c357a1604c25d975d/c93a2f4f-6b4c-47d2-a3ff-b5b769bc2a6b/Karlic_MennaBarreto_art_UCSC.jpg Arts Field Research - Teaching & Learning - Make it stand out IAFR course students with Unseen California artist in residence, Dionne Lee, at the Granite Mountains UC Natural Reserve in the Mojave Desert, Fall 2023 .Prof. Karolina Karlic and ProfJorge Menna Barreto UCSC’s Immersive Arts Field Research course invites students to embark in field research, delving into the unique landscapes of California through the UC Natural Reserve System. This fall, the class traveled to the Ano Nuevo Natural Reserve and Pie Ranch. Through hands-on exploration, participants were prompted to forge a connection with the sites, unraveling the intricacies of site-specificity while cultivating their own inquiries about these locations. The journey unfolded against the backdrop of contemporary art concepts, with a focus on the intersection of land and artistic expression. Throughout this course, students navigate and reflect upon the myriad factors that define a “site,” exploring how each location offers rich possibilities for creative engagement. The curriculum emphasizes the acquisition of research skills tailored to the historical, political, cultural, and environmental layers of each site. This multifaceted approach provides students with a foundation for generating arts research projects that challenge conventional notions of “nature” and “landscape.” Central to the course is an exploration of urgent themes of our times, including California’s land, issues of access, and questions of equity. By examining these topics through the lens of arts discourse, students will gain a nuanced understanding of the complex interplay between art, environment, and society, fostering critical perspectives and encouraging innovative approaches to creative expression.