Born and raised on the east coast, Hikmet Sidney Loe fell in love with the arid desert lands of Utah and the environs of Great Salt Lake. She is an artist, writer, and teacher whose work draws inspiration from the smaller patterns found in the larger environment and from the changeable nature of land, water, and sky. Her work examines the changeable nature of the earth and addresses our perceptual and cultural constructs of the land.
She is the author of the award winning book The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place (2017), the first book in a new series devoted to our cultural and regional understanding of Land art from the 1960s and 1970s.
In 2021 she was named as a Research Fellow with Holt/Smithson Foundation; her work is centered on Nancy Holt's extensive library.
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Think Water Utah Digital Resources for Virtual Events, Utah Humanities. "Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah reading The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place by Hikmet Loe, with the author and Jaimi Butler (Great Salt Lake Institute, Westminster College)"
Holt/Smithson Foundation, through their robust programming, includes a Weekend Screening program. I provided a brief introduction to the Nancy Holt film "Bob with Books" (1971), with information found here.
RadioWest hosted a program in early December, 2020 in response to a mysterious obelisk found in Southern Utah. Click here for information and to listen to the program.
EXTRACTION: art on the edge of the abyss has worked for the past few years on programming to highlight extraction industries. A comprehensive Megazine was published in late 2020, which includes my essay on extraction processes in Utah's Great Salt Lake.
Hyperallergic published my article on a film by American artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014). The film (less than ten minutes) was previously thought to be lost; it elucidates Holt's interest in landscape, vision, and viewer engagement.
FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake included an article in their Spring 2020 newsletter, "Spiral Jetty through Time," in honor of the earthwork's 50th anniversary.
RadioWest hosted a program in early December, 2020 in response to a mysterious obelisk found in Southern Utah. Click here for information and to listen to the program.
EXTRACTION: art on the edge of the abyss has worked for the past few years on programming to highlight extraction industries. A comprehensive Megazine was published in late 2020, which includes my essay on extraction processes in Utah's Great Salt Lake.
Hyperallergic published my article on a film by American artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014). The film (less than ten minutes) was previously thought to be lost; it elucidates Holt's interest in landscape, vision, and viewer engagement.
FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake included an article in their Spring 2020 newsletter, "Spiral Jetty through Time," in honor of the earthwork's 50th anniversary.
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place (2017)
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Book chapter on teaching art history in the Utah Humanities Venture Program"Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors for hundreds of students who, for various reasons, faced barriers to attending college. This course has given them the knowledge, confidence, and power to rechart their lives." This book was published Fall 2016 by The University of Utah Press, edited by Jean Cheney and L. Jackson Newell with Hikmet Sidney Loe, Jeff Metcalf, and Bridget M. Newell. For book information, click here.
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Presented biannually at the Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, the Friend of the Lake Award "is given to a person, organization, or business performing outstanding work in education, research and/or advocacy to benefit Great Salt Lake." It was my honor to receive this award during the 2014 Great Salt Lake Issues Forum.
As a long-time observer of Great Salt Lake, and scholar of the earthworks that are part of its landscape, my interview is part of this oral history project.
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