High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. Zine Roundup: Sweet simplicity http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16587 Since 1992, Dan Price has been publishing a hand-drawn, illustrated zine called Moonlight Chronicles from his tiny, hobbit-style home in a meadow in Joseph, Ore. No publisher Rebecca Clarren independent pen and ink drawings Moonlight Chronicles simple living Media zines Dan Price journalism artists media photographers writers Utne Independent Press Award Simple Shoes Western Culture hobos Jack Kerouac Henry David Thoreau 2010-10-14T22:47:22Z News Article Zine Roundup: Gone fishing http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16588 A 38-year-old female deckhand who calls herself Moe Bowstern created the zine called Xtra Tuf to explore the turbulent culture of the fishing industry No publisher Rebecca Clarren Moe Bowstern Media Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s artists herring Associations Coast fisheries media deckhands writers crab West independent Fishing Industry Zeke Grader zines independent journalism fi Art commercial fishing musicians Xtra Tuf Alaska salmon 2010-10-14T22:49:42Z News Article We need a new Civilian Conservation Corps http://www.hcn.org/wotr/we-need-a-new-civilian-conservation-corps Why not use the talents of unemployed photographers and other artistic types in a kind of Creative Conservation Corps? No publisher Stephen Trimble professional photographers unemployment Civilian Conservation Corps Stephen Trimble technological change artists Internet 2010-05-27T21:09:14Z News Article The artist, her caretaker, and eight years of letters http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15453 Maria Chabot – Georgia O’Keeffe: Correspondence 1941-1949 tempts with its glimpse into the life of a famous painter but finally fascinates with its portrait of Chabot and her life in Abiquiu, N.M., during World War II No publisher Laura Paskus Georgia O’Keeffe Maria Chabot letters correspondence artists women painters Abiquiu New Mexico Hispanic culture Barbara Buhler Lynes Ann Paden Ghost Ranch art history American artists 2010-02-05T09:24:24Z News Article The art of an alien landscape http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16739 In Westernness: A Meditation, poet and scholar Alan Williamson examines what it means to live in the West through the eyes of the region’s writers and artists No publisher Margaret Foley Human Beings and Nature painters poets Georgia O’Keeffe Willa Cather Leslie Marmon Silko novelists Westerness: A Meditation American literary tradition Alan Williamson writers Western American West artists landscape nonfiction 2010-09-09T20:29:08Z News Article Street artist Jetsonorama tries a new kind of healing in Navajoland http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/street-artist-jetsonorama-tries-a-new-kind-of-healing-in-Navajoland A black physician wheatpastes gigantic photographs outdoors to celebrate the tribe and human experience. No publisher Sarah Gilman artists doctors wheatpaste art Jetsonorama Navajo Nation life graffiti art 2012-03-23T15:02:52Z News Article Seeing the triceratops for the trees http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/seeing-the-triceratops-in-the-trees Paleontologist Kirk Johnson works with artist Jan Vriesen to create vividly realized landscapes of what Colorado looked like millions of years ago. No publisher Lisa Song paleontologists Jan Vriesen artists prehistoric landscapes Denver Museum of Nature and Science Kirk Johnson Ancient Colorado exhibit 2010-07-23T18:24:15Z News Article Sculpting a reason to love the wind http://www.hcn.org/issues/352/17180 Gary Bates creates mammoth metal sculptures out of discarded junk and sets them outside to turn and spin in the wind No publisher Ray Sikorski Gary Bates sculptors life Montana rural artists 2010-12-13T21:47:21Z News Article Peering into the life of the prairie http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15632 Photos and drawings from Candace Savage’s Prairie: A Natural History give glimpses of a beautiful, diverse region No publisher Staff Biodiversity Prairie Great Plains Candace Savage natural history science botany Joan A. Williams James R. Page photographers artists illustrators Science 2010-02-05T09:25:33Z News Article Painting for progress http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16179 Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the environment No publisher Jennie Lay Wilderness Joan Hoffman painters artists landscape art wilderness environmental activists hiking camping river rafting Steamboat Springs Colorado Petaluma California Yosemite Artist in Residence Nature Conservancy of Colorado Southern Utah Wilderness 2011-12-15T16:38:30Z News Article Oregon sculptor turns beach trash into meaningful art http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.4/Oregon%20sculptor-turns-beach-trash-into-meaningful-art Angela Haseltine Pozzi makes thought-provoking art from the trash that washes up on Oregon's beaches. No publisher Eliza Murphy beach trash recycling artists found materials beachcombing sculpture assemblage Angela Haseltine Pozzi 2011-03-25T15:24:47Z News Article No bones about it: two books on the disappearing Everett Ruess http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/no-bones-about-it-two-books-on-the-disappearing-everett-ruess Two new books tackle the mystery of Everett Ruess, who vanished somewhere in the Four Corners region in 1934. No publisher Traci J. Macnamara Finding Everett Ruess David Roberts Everett Ruess Everett Ruess: His Short Life Mysterious Death and Astonishing Afterlife artists Philip J. Fradkin explorers biography nonfiction 2011-09-16T19:33:58Z News Article Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15559 In Little Things in a Big Country, Hannah Hinchman shares a beautifully hand-drawn, hand-lettered journal of her adventures in Montana with her dog, Sisu No publisher Staff Human Beings And Nature Hannah Hinchman artists journals illustrators dogs hiking nature natural history Rocky Mountain Front watercolors drawings wildlife 2010-02-05T09:25:01Z News Article INNOVATE, Part III http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/innovate-part-iii Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, such as: Redefining rancher politics, A rediscovered renewable, Creating public nooks and crannies and more. No publisher Marty Durlin, Ray Ring, Sandra Tassel, Sarah Gilman, Terray Sylvester, Jennifer Anderson Bill Bullard ranchers mountain communities passive cooling artists nuclear power house calls Platte Valley Medical Clinic NuScale camping electricity urban youth hydropower alternative energy No Child Left Inside cattlemen's groups Mickey Fearn R-CALF microhydro power Diane Noton nuclear waste small-scale nuclear reactors rural health care Outdoor Opportunities Eric Jacobson urban parks Hyperion Power Generation doctors general practitioners corporate meatpackers outdoor recreation Green Justice big ag public art Portland City Repair Artists country of origin labeling Chris Radcliffe Marci Macfarlane 2010-02-05T09:12:51Z News Article His photographs trace the passage of time http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15848 Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago No publisher Renee Guillory Art Western History Mark Klett photographers Western Survey Manifest Destiny Yosemite in Time Rebecca Solnit Byron Wolfe Eadweard Muybridge Edward Weston Ansel Adams Western history Western landscape art artists Joseph Grinnell changing landscape photography 2010-09-30T15:07:45Z News Article