The Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

February 07, 2009 - April 19, 2009
Center for Art + Environment LAB
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline:: A Center for Land Use Interpretation Project

"The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a non-profit research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues. In August 2008, CLUI dispatched a team of artists and scholars along the 800-mile pipeline that transports oil southwards from Prudhoe Bay, to the terminal at Valdez. This photographic journey along examines how its unique construction draws a line across what would otherwise be considered wilderness. The Trans-Atlantic Pipeline compromises and defines what is labeled nature and culture."

[text and photography from NMA Web site. Caption: "Matthew Coolidge, The Trans Alaska Pipeline(detail), 2008, photograph. Photo courtesy of Matthew Coolidge."]

[NB: CLUI Director Matthew Coolidge will be a featured visitor in CCAI's 2009-2010 edition of Nevada Neighbors.]