Interview with William L. Fox

Bill standing in a crevasse at the snout of the Worhtington Glacier, Alaska, 2008. photo by Matt Coolidge

William L. Fox, who is variously called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer, has published ten books on cognition and landscape, numerous essays in art monographs, magazines and journals, and fifteen collections of poetry. He is also an artist who has exhibited in group and solo shows in seven countries. Fox is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, and has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Clark Art Institute, and the Australian National University. He is currently the director of the newly established Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.

smudge studio interviewed Bill in New York City in November 2008.

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Interview with Matthew Coolidge

Matt at South Base in 2007, photo by Jamie Kruse

smudge studio interviewed Matt about the Center for Land Use Interpretation's work. We focused on how the CLUI uses media to create a perspective--a way of seeing the landscape.

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