Tomorrow! Join us at Tablelands for the opening of Isaac Dunne’s I can not get no feed (cowboy blues). Saturday March 1st, 12-3pm. I can not get no feed (cowboy blues) is a site responsive sculpture that harnesses the winds of the Llano Estacado to play an elegiac song. Taking its form from the ubiquitous ranch gate, a vernacular architecture that dots the Llano and much of the rural Southwest, I can not get no feed is a threshold to nowhere and a monument to thwarted desire. This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art 6323 FM1294, Lubbock, TX 79415 @popularandsuccessful @landartsoftheamericanwest @land_arts

Join us at Tablelands for the opening of Isaac Dunne’s I can not get no feed (cowboy blues). Saturday March 1st, 12-3pm. I can not get no feed (cowboy blues) is a site responsive sculpture that harnesses the winds of the Llano Estacado to play an elegiac song. Taking its form from the ubiquitous ranch gate, a vernacular architecture that dots the Llano and much of the rural Southwest, I can not get no feed is a threshold to nowhere and a monument to thwarted desire. This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and was completed as part of #landarts2024. Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art 6323 FM1294, Lubbock, TX 79415 @popularandsuccessful @landartsoftheamericanwest @ttuhcoa #landart

Previewing @popularandsuccessful new work on the farm and greeting @markdineen Mark came down for a site visit in preparation for upcoming projects at Tablelands. Looking forward to sharing the project as it develops. We’ll be hosting public viewings of Isaac’s work in conjunction with the @landartsoftheamericanwest exhibition later this month. Times and dates announced soon

Always a pleasure to host this incredible field school program- @landartsoftheamericanwest @land_arts The Land Arts of the American West send-off dinner is an annual event that introduces Land Arts participants to the Llano Estacado as a unique bioregion and site of inquiry, as well as the arts community in Lubbock. Thanks to @curtis.bauer for the words, @joerajr for the incredible meal and sharing knowledge about indigenous foods, and all the artists who make Tablelands what it is- @treheraaron @delaney__logan @tatsucky_hoshy @m12studio Already looking forward to next year!

The Street Light Survey Project by 2024 Tablelands artists in residence @delaney__logan and @treheraaron This installation is up and running at Tablelands now! The Street Light Survey is an art project that examines urban ecology associated with street lights. The goal is to bring awareness to the wildlife that is attracted to and distracted by street lights and other night time lights through a simple self led biodiversity study provided at various locations. However, anyone can participate using iNaturalist from any where in the world. This project is a place for participants to share and learn more about what they found during events, but also continue to contribute their night time findings! We encourage you to discover, study, and share the biodiversity at a street light or house light near you. While night time lights provide a glimpse at what is active when we are sleeping, these organisms do have a “job” to do during these hours. Consider encouraging your community to reduce light pollution and find ways to minimize your own night lighting footprint. Many helpful suggestions are found at darksky.org/light-pollution/wildlife/

Meet 2024 Tablelands artists in residence @treheraaron and @delaney__logan This year they will be collaborating on projects at Tablelands, starting with an iteration of the ongoing Street Light Survey Project. Colorado-based artist, writer, and researcher Delaney Gardner-Sweeney uses installation, performance art, and durational sculpture to explore the intimate vernacular of a place as she investigates how these culturally integrated and place-based objects, moments, and motions reveal private stories and map emotion and affect within a landscape. Gardner-Sweeney received her BFA and BA from the University of Colorado and is working to complete an MFA in Art Practices from Arizona State University.The artist received the 2020 Prairiewood Preserve Residency in collaboration with Aaron D. Treher and Gardner-Sweeney’s writing and projects have been published in multiple publications including San Luis Valley, On Collecting (now archived in the Special Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder), Artistonish Magazine, Ecology of Practice, RADIUS Volume 1, and The Segmented Whole. Aaron Treher is an interdisciplinary artist, citizen scientist, and educator based in Boulder, Colorado. He earned a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. His artistic practice bridges the fields of art and science through public art projects, many of which unfold through collaborations and serve as habitat spaces for animals, enabling communities to engage with urban ecology. Currently, Treher serves as the Field Instructor for the University of Colorado Boulder’s Art and Environment Field School and as an Exhibit Developer at the Museum of Natural History. He was recently invited to participate in Art in the Open with The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an outdoor civic event promoting public engagement at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education.

Some pictures from the opening day of The Shallowater Silo Project, by @johnrobertcraft and @ted.laredo.art The Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art invites you to the opening of The Shallowater Silo Project, a duo of site-specific installations by Jack Craft and ted laredo. Join us Saturday April 20th from 4-7pm to experience the new installations and celebrate with the artists. Jack Craft & ted laredo: The Shallowater Silo Project. Two site specific installations. Craft and laredo team up to explore the possibilities offered by an empty grain silo located in the middle of a field in the heart of the Llano Estacado - a place where the Apache, the Comanche and the herds of bison traveled only when it rained. It is a place so flat that native son Terry Allen once commented “in Lubbock you can see sixty miles in any direction, a hundred if you stand on a can of tuna.” With his piece titled LOOK AROUND artist Jack Craft is addressing the vast horizon that is Lubbock and its environs by installing a mirror around the outside circumference of the silo. The piece reflects the light and the vast landscape around the silo, drawing the viewer in. As the viewer approaches, they slowly become aware of the reflected landscape. As one draws nearer the viewer is placed in the landscape and gives a disorienting impression of being able to see a full 360 degrees. Meanwhile inside the silo ted laredo has installed “tilted ellipse” - a rotating glittering iron orb suspended from the ceiling that interacts with a magnetic photo luminescent tape affixed to the inside perimeter of the silo. The elements merge within the space to suggest the expansiveness of the cosmos. Where: Tablelands is located at At’l Do farms, 6323 FM1294, Lubbock, TX 79415. Turn in on the dirt road just before the parking lot, look for the “Art” sign.

The Shallowater Silo Project, by @johnrobertcraft and @ted.laredo.art Spring 2024 at Tablelands Center

A few more images from @nicolle_lamere 2023 resident artist Nicolle LaMere invited visitors to witness a ritualistic burial of site specific soil spheres created from the land at Tablelands Center

Moments from an artwork by @nicolle_lamere Participants in this work chose a soil sphere, handmade by the artist, and returned it to the place it was collected from, documenting there experience along the way. Thanks to everyone who was here. What an incredible day!

Sunday 2/25, participate in an artwork by 2023 artist in residence @nicolle_lamere

Works by 2023 Tablelands artist in residence @nicolle_lamere These soil spheres, hand made by the artist and sourced from sites here at Tablelands, will be part of a happening hosted by the artist at the culmination of her residency