2023-2025 commitments ~ stay tuned for more!

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Upcoming:

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• Spring 2025 includes teaching @ The University of Texas at Austin (TX), Seasonal Oasis Sabbatical with Randolph Lundine, eco-writing workshops with UA Poetry Center (AZ) and Oak Spring Garden Foundation (VA) and Neltje Center (WY), and other commitments. Fall 2025 leads to Rhodes College (TN). Stay tuned!

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Recent:

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• April 10-13, 2025: "Listening with Water" @ Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity & the Arts​ / University of Wyoming (Sheridan, WY)

• March 8, 2025: "Writing with Air" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center

• January 25, 2024: "Watershed Soundscape" Concert @ Patagonia Opera House with University of Arizona (Patagonia, AZ)

• November 20-27, 2024: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts (Saratoga, CA)

• November 9, 2024: Watershed Soundscape Concert @ Empire Ranch, Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (Sonoita, AZ)

• November 2 (December 7), 2024: "Writing with Earth: Finding Form in an Uprooted World" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson, AZ)

• October 7-11, 2024: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)

• September 18-October 2, 2024: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, CA) including Dear Body of Water @ Lowrider Art Showcase on September 21.

• July 27, 2024: Dear Body of Water @ Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum for "The Magic of Monsoons" (Tucson, AZ)

• July 1-7, 2024: Dear Body of Water @ Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity & the Arts, University of Wyoming (Sheridan, WY)

• May 24-June 7 2024: Dear Body of Water @ Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (Millrun, PA)

• May 20-24, 2024: "Literary Ecologies" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)

• April 13, 2024: Dear Body of Water celebrates Earth Day @ Montalvo Arts (Saratoga, CA)

• April 11-12, 2024: "Listening to & with Water: Blue Humanities & Life in the Tar Seeps" and premiere of libretto for MEDUSA (composer Jocelyn Hagen, soprano Susanna Phillips, SDSU Wind Symphony) @ Balboa Theatre (San Diego, CA)

• March 12, 2024: Life in the Tar Seeps @ Georgetown University (DC)

• February 5, 2024: "Life in the Tar Seeps" @ Skylark Books (Columbia, MO)

• January 6, 2024: "Writing with Fire" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center

• January 5-8, 2023: Sonoran Oasis Sabbatical @ Randolph Lundine (Tucson, AZ)

• December 14, 2023: "Poets for Science" @ AGU Conference (SF, CA)

• December 1-15, 2023: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts (Saratoga, CA)

• October 28, 2023: "Writing with Water" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson, AZ)

• October 24, 2023: "Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Arts Research & Integration" @ UA Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ)

• October 16-20, 2023: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)

• October 4, 2023: "Water as Muse & Collaborator in Community-Based Arts Practice" @ PlanetTexas 2050 University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)

• September 14, 2023: "Renewable Land Ethics through Land Arts" @ Harwood Museum of Art (Taos, NM)

• September 2023: Aldo & Estella Leopold Writer-in-Residence @ Carson National Forest (New Mexico)

• August 23, 2023: "Life in the Tar Seeps" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Social @ Hotel Congress (Tucson, AZ)

• June 25-July 21, 2023: Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute & Summit @ St. Andrews University (Scotland)

• May 2023: Aldo & Estella Leopold Writer-in-Residence (New Mexico)

• April 24-28, 2023: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)

• April 18, 2023: "Life in the Tar Seeps: Book Launch" @ University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center, 35th anniversary featured speaker (SLC, UT)

• March 23, 2023: "Ugliness Restored: 'Woman-Ochre in the History of Art" @ University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ)

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Gretchen is also a Senior Lecturer at the Univ. of Texas at Austin

focusing on literature and environmental justice.