University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) art professor Dana Fritz specializes in photography at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.

Fritz also does creative research, otherwise known as creative activity at UNL. Creative research can include photography, writing, music and multiple other mediums.

She noted that her students are becoming more and more interested in the physical mediums, questioning if the students miss physically interacting with their work.

The Great Plains are facing an ecological crisis as the Eastern redcedar rapidly spreads, transforming vital grasslands into woodlands. Due to fire suppression and changing land use, this "Green Glacier" threatens biodiversity, water resources, and ranching livelihoods. Journalist Carson Vaughan explores the urgent need for prescribed burns and conservation efforts to save one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems.

My time talking with Dana Fritz absolutely flew by. We had the great fortune of meeting each other in Denver this May, after seeing each other’s talks at the national SPE conference. I have admired her work for many years and am so glad to take time to talk with her.

This sensitively installed exhibition features the work of the Environmental Photographers Collective, comprised of six artists of national stature “who all create work focused on environmental concerns...and the transition to a post human centered world.”

“Environmental photography” might evoke pretty landscapes or, conversely, grim scenes of devastation. These works do variously celebrate nature and call attention to disruption, but in far more subtle and complex ways, and through diverse approaches.

The Nebraska National Forest at Halsey is the largest hand-planted forest in the Western Hemisphere. UNL Professor of photography Dana Fritz joins Pat Leach to talk about her new book describing this unique ecosystem. “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape” is filled with environmental essays, maps as well as historical and contemporary photographs.

2021 Limited Edition Catalog
UnBound10! Juried +Invitational Group Show
Edition of 200, individually numbered
Published by Candela Books

As the gallery concludes its tenth season, we're excited to announce that Candela Books will be publishing limited edition catalogs for this year’s UnBound10! Exhibition.

Exhibition catalog for Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment, hosted by the San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco Public Library.

Exhibition Dates:

SFCB June 4 - September 26, 2021

SFPL June 19 - September 5, 2021

Main Branch, Jewett Gallery

88 pages; full-color catalog includes essays by exhibition jurors Betty Bright, Mark Dimunation (Chief of the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress), and Ruth Rogers (Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College) Photos of all exhibited artwork and artist website info is also included.

To understand our place within nature as part of the whole is an eminently social and existential matter. The environmental crisis and the frequency of natural disasters we have experienced last decades, including the pandemic tragedy, which in essence was caused by an ecological imbalance, indicates the urgency for a different logic of conceiving, interacting and projecting the natural world. The artistic community and its ability to expand the social mind have an essential role in creating a new value system concerning the environment, which breaks through modern anthropocentrism and the antagonism between nature and culture.

"Four men sitting behind the table rose as Thomas and the other tribal members came into the room."

By Louise Erdrich

Art By Dana Fritz

from

Spring 2020

How Earth Endures

By elevating our responsibilities and stewardship to each other, we forge our mutually shared concerns for the earth and the ways in which we communicate these ideas through visual culture.

Views Removed by Dana Fritz was selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was pleased to interview Dana to gain further insight into this body of work.

Dana Fritz investigates the ways we shape and represent the natural world in cultivated and constructed landscapes. She holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Arizona State University. Her honors include an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship, a Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange to Japan, a Society for Photographic Education Imagemaker Award, and Juror’s Awards in national exhibitions.

Biosphère II est un site expérimental construit entre 1987 et 1991 pour reproduire un système écologique artificiel clos situé à Oracle, dans le désert de l'Arizona. Cette structure avait pour but de tenter de recréer un écosystème viable à l'intérieur d'un immense dôme fermé. On y avait reconstitué différents écosystèmes : une forêt tropicale humide, un océan avec sa barrière de corail, une mangrove, une savane, un désert, un terrain réservé à l'agriculture, un habitat humain.

“Land Use,” a group exhibition at Stephen Bulger Gallery featuring photographs by Robert Burley, Dana Fritz, Geoffrey James and Jamey Stillings, is unified by two related yet qualitatively distinct subjects: human activity and human presence, in nature. There exists a ready framework with which to examine each photographer’s relationship to specific locales and topographies of common interest: James and Burley have each photographed the 19th-century parks of Frederick Law Olmsted, and the city of Toronto, extensively. Other close affinities exist: James’s photographs of the United States-Mexico border, titled Running Fence, are in the vicinity of the American southwest, which is here the focal region of works by Stillings and Fritz. Common subjects are deferred for this exhibition, however, giving precedence to each photographer’s unique interpretation of “land use.”

25th Noorderlicht International Photofestival exhibition catalog

A new book of photography examines some of the world’s largest landscapes contained under glass. Dana Fritz, a professor of photography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, spent 10 years on Terraria Gigantica, photographing spaces at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona and the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. NET News’ Ariana Brocious talked with Fritz about her approach to capturing these human-made vivaria.

Featuring the work of over forty artists including Michael Berman, Erika Blumenfeld, David Taylor, Basia Irland, Patrick Dougherty, Catalina Delgado Trunk, and Shelley Niro.

Introduction by Bill Gilbert
Essays by Lucy Lippard, William L. Fox, Nancy Marie Mithlo, and MaLin Wilson-Powell

Hardbound
11.5 x 10.5 inches
170 pages / 110 four-color illustrations
ISBN: 9781934435175

Documents a two-part exhibition that sprung from the work of Michael Berman, Guggenheim Fellow, who is both esteemed in the contemporary art world and a longtime activist with several environmental organizations.

Photographs by Michael P. Berman, Krista Elrick, Dana Fritz, David Taylor, Jo Whaley
Essays by Mary Anne Redding, William DeBuys, Rebecca Solnit

Softbound
9 x 12.5 inches
48 pages / 24 images
ISBN: 9781934435212