Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape: Dana Fritz

2025 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print Artist
February 4–August 2, 2025

Dana Fritz’s photographs in this exhibition make visible the forces that shaped the Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands’ Bessey Ranger District in the Sandhills. This hand-planted conifer forest was overlaid onto a semi-arid grassland in an ambitious late-19th-century experiment to create a timber industry and change the local climate. In black-and-white close shots and panoramic views, Fritz beautifully highlights the natural and human-defined patterns on the land.