The Art Box - Episode 90 - Barrick Museum of Art - A Cornocopia of Land Art Wisdom - Meet Hikmet Sydney Loe - MDM

The best thing about Hikmet's interview with us was that I got to edit it and listen to it again about another twenty times.  You may know her as Katie Hoffman's co_curator for the Modern Desert Markings exhibit at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, we know her as the consummate art professional and friend that we could have talked to for days. Born and raised on the east coast, Hikmet Sidney Loe fell in love with the Great Basin's deserts and the environs of Great Salt Lake. She is an author, curator, and educator whose work examines the changeable nature of the earth and addresses our perceptual and cultural constructs of the land. She draws inspiration from the smaller patterns found in the larger environment and from the changeable nature of land, water, and sky.  She is the author of the award winning book The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place (2017), the first book in a new series devoted to our cultural and regional understanding of Land art from the 1960s and 1970s. In 2021 she was named as a Research Fellow with Holt/Smithson Foundation; her work centered on organizing the artist Nancy Holt's extensive library for research purposes. https://www.hikmetsidneyloe.com/