Select Lectures & Panels

2019

  • “Maps, Lines, Paths: Insights and Art,” Keynote Address, ARLIS/NA 47th Annual Conference, Salt Lake City 
  • Land Art Symposium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
  • “The Spiral Jetty Encyclo,” Utah Chapter of the Fulbright Association 
  • “Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty,” Southern Utah University, Cedar City 
2018

  • Land Art Symposium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
  • “Utah’s Earthworks: The Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels,” West Texas A&M University 
  • “The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: An Entrée to an Earthwork,” Friends of the Marriott Library, Sunday Afternoon Books and Authors, Salt Lake City 
2017

  • “Drawing from the Spiral Jetty: Robert Smithson and Art History,” AP Art History Professional Speaker, Salt Lake City   
  • “The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: An Entrée to an Earthwork,” 12 Minutes Max, The City Library, Salt Lake City 
  • “Drawing from the Spiral Jetty: Robert Smithson and Utah,” Utah Humanities Book Festival, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts 
  • “What the Hell, Rozel?” Reading, conversation, and book signing at Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City  
2016
  • "What Artists See: Views on a Lake in Crisis," panel moderator, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum
2015
  • "The Double World: Stewardship & Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty," University of California, San Diego
  • “Art/Art History Careers: Preparing for the Future,” Department of Art & Visual Communications, Utah Valley University 
  • “Humanities Career Panel,” School of Arts and Sciences, Westminster College 
  • “Symposium in Honor of William Agee,” Hunter College, City University of New York, New York City 

2014
  • "NONESITE," keynote speaker,  AIA Utah Young Architects Forum, Ladies Literary Club, Salt Lake City
  • SALT, in conjunction with the exhibition Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto, Weber State University
  • Elemental Ways of Seeing: The Art of Great Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, University of Utah
  • Saline Stories: An Oral History of Great Salt Lake (American West Center), Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City
2013
  • The Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels: Utah's Earthworks, Snow College, Ephraim, Utah
  • Extraordinary spaces: Site-specific collections and their challenges, Western Museums Association Conference, Salt Lake City
  • This is Your Brain on Art – Cognitive Psychology and Art, The Leonardo, Salt Lake City    
2012    
  • Land Arts and Activism, Lecture, Forum for Questioning Minds, Salt Lake City Public Library
  • "To be conscious of the actualities of perception": local/global attention and perception regarding Robert Smithson’s earthwork, the Spiral Jetty, Staging the Land: International Conference + Exposition, Avignon, France 
  • Sun Tunnels: Construction/Reconstruction, Lecture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
2011
  • Robert Smithson and the Spiral Jetty: The Center and the Circumference, Lecture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
            The Spiral Jetty Explained, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, watch here             
            The Spiral Jetty Experienced, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, watch here
  •  Art Beyond the Gallery Walls, KUER.org, Radio West, listen here
  • Utah's Sun Tunnels, KUER.org, listen here
  • Planting the Seed: Gardens, Growing, and Agriculture in Art, Keynote Lecture, Evening for Educators, Salt Lake Art Center in conjunction with the             exhibition Fallen Fruit of Utah
2010     
  • Slide Jam: Modern Marvels, Panelist, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
  • Earth Art: Evening for Educators, Keynote Speaker, Snow College, Ephraim, Utah
2009    
  • Feminine:Constructive, Gallery Lecture, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Utah
  • Rotating through time and place: The Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point, Lecture, College of Mining and Engineering, University of Utah
2008
  • Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Lecture, International Society of Salt Lake Research and Friends of Great Salt Lake Conference, Salt Lake City
  • Present Tense: A Post-337 Project, Panelist, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City 
2005    
  • "On Spiral Jetty: Construction, Conditions, New Interpretations" Robert Smithson Symposium, Panelist, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 
2004    
  • Spiral Jetty: A Visual History, Lecture, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, Salt Lake City 
2003    
  • Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Lecture, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City 
2002     
  • “Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty: An Interdisciplinary Approach” Evening for Educations: The Great Salt Lake, Keynote Speaker, Utah Museum of                    Fine Arts
  • Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Lecture, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles 
1998    
  • Entropy and Evolution: Retracing the Continual Construction of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Paper, ULA/MPLA Joint Conference, Salt Lake City 
  • Art in the Middle of Nowhere, Timeless Earthworks in Utah, Lecture, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City 
1996   
  • Entropy and Evolution: Retracing the Continual Construction of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Paper, 1st Regional ARLIS/Mountain West                   Conference, Flagstaff, AZ