Desert Placemaking: the Role of Atmosphere in the Artwork of James Turrell and Rafa Esparza

Celina Osuna will be speaking on as part of the Extractivism in the Americas exhibition, organized by the Environmental Arts & Humanities working group. Dinner provided. Please use the RSVP below.

About the speaker

Celina Osuna is a scholar and an artist. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, and her research, with an emphasis on Indigenous and Latinx Environmentalisms, explores aesthetics of desert places in literature, art and film and their impacts on cultural imagination and geopolitical relationships to land. Her monograph, “Desert Distortion,” is forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press later this year, and she is the co-editor of Storied Deserts: Reimagining Global Arid Lands (2024).