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To read recent reviews and interviews, click here.
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To learn about Gretchen's previous readings, exhibitions, or performances, click here.
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To contact Gretchen, click here.
2023-2024 commitments ~ stay tuned for more!
Upcoming:
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November 20-27, 2024: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts (Saratoga, CA)
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January 3-5, 2025: Seasonal Oasis Sabbatical (teaching virtual workshop with Randolph Lundine)
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January 25, 2024: "Watershed Soundscape" Concert @ Patagonia Opera House (Patagonia, AZ)
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Spring 2025 includes teaching "Literature & Environmental Justice" @ University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX),"Writing with Air" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center, Interdisciplinary Arts Fellow @ Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity & the Arts (Sheridan, WY), and more
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April 28-May 2, 2025: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
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May 2-31, 2025: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, CA)
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May 20, 2025: Great Salt Lake Audubon (Salt Lake City, UT)
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More planned ~ stay tuned.
Recent:
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November 9, 2024: "Watershed Soundscape" Concert @ Empire Ranch, Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (Sonoita, AZ)
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November 2 (December 7), 2024: "Writing with Earth: Finding Form in an Uprooted World" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson, AZ)
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October 7-11, 2024: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
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September 18-October 2, 2024: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, CA) including Dear Body of Water @ Lowrider Art Showcase on September 21.
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July 27, 2024: Dear Body of Water @ Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum for "The Magic of Monsoons" (Tucson, AZ)
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July 1-7, 2024: Dear Body of Water @ Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity & the Arts, University of Wyoming (Sheridan, WY)
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May 24-June 7 2024: Dear Body of Water @ Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (Millrun, PA)
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May 20-24, 2024: "Literary Ecologies" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
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April 13, 2024: Dear Body of Water celebrates Earth Day @ Montalvo Arts (Saratoga, CA)
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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)
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March 12, 2024: Life in the Tar Seeps @ Georgetown University (DC)
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February 5, 2024: "Life in the Tar Seeps" @ Skylark Books (Columbia, MO)
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January 6, 2024: "Writing with Fire" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center
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January 5-8, 2023: Sonoran Oasis Sabbatical @ Randolph Lundine (Tucson, AZ)
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December 14, 2023: "Poets for Science" @ AGU Conference (SF, CA)
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December 1-15, 2023: Lucas Artist Fellow @ Montalvo Arts (Saratoga, CA)
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October 28, 2023: "Writing with Water" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson, AZ)
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October 24, 2023: "Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Arts Research & Integration" @ UA Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ)
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October 16-20, 2023: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
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October 4, 2023: "Water as Muse & Collaborator in Community-Based Arts Practice" @ PlanetTexas 2050 University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
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September 14, 2023: "Renewable Land Ethics through Land Arts" @ Harwood Museum of Art (Taos, NM)
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September 2023: Aldo & Estella Leopold Writer-in-Residence @ Carson National Forest (New Mexico)
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August 23, 2023: "Life in the Tar Seeps" @ University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Social @ Hotel Congress (Tucson, AZ)
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June 25-July 21, 2023: Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute & Summit @ St. Andrews University (Scotland)
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May 2023: Aldo & Estella Leopold Writer-in-Residence (New Mexico)
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April 24-28, 2023: "Writing the Landscape" @ Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
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April 18, 2023: "Life in the Tar Seeps: Book Launch" @ University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center, 35th anniversary featured speaker (SLC, UT)
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March 23, 2023: "Ugliness Restored: 'Woman-Ochre in the History of Art" @ University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ)
Gretchen is also a Senior Lecturer at the Univ. of Texas at Austin
focusing on literature and environmental justice.