Toby Jurovics, founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art and Environment in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will present a gallery walk-through at 5:30 p.m. March 9 at Sheldon Museum of Art.
The talk will explore “From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez,” a Sheldon exhibition that celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than 90 works donated by 50 American photographers. The gift was in honor of Lopez, an American author, essayist and nature writer whose work is know for humanitarian and environmental concerns. Lopez died in 2020 at age 75.
For more than five decades, Lopez wrote about the landscape in lyrical prose that offered a vivid and passionate account of humankind’s relationship with the natural world. Best known for “Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape,” which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1986, Lopez was the author of dozens of essays and works of fiction and nonfiction, including the recently released “Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World.”
Admission to the event is free.
