Tue, Oct 26
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A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon, by Krista Elrick
The first artist to retrace the steps and revisit the landscapes of John James Audubon, from the East Coast, to the Gulf Coast, to the Heartland and Rocky Mountains. Krista Elrick will be in conversation with book essayists Gregory Nobles and Mary Anne Redding.
Date, Time & Location
Oct 26, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
Zoom
About the Event
This event will be on Zoom - register to watch on Zoom here.
This beautiful book, by Krista Elrick, with an introduction by James David Moran, essays by Gregory Nobles and Mary Anne Redding, and a conversation with the author by Joanna Hurley & Mary Anne Redding, offers a thoughtful meditation on the celebrated naturalist John James Audubon and the world he glimpsed in the 1820s and 30s.
In 2010, when photographer Krista Elrick began traversing John James Audubon country in search of the birds the nineteenth-century American naturalist observed, painted, and wrote about, she encountered scarcely a sighting. Instead, she found the lushly forested watersheds and waterways that Audubon had passionately described in his journals vastly altered with many of the bird species extinct and their supporting habitat all but disappeared. Industrial buildings, parking lots, and strip malls had overtaken much of the area, edging out the natural world.…