FEATURED ARTISTS

Eric Hanson

Daniel Tucker Gallery at the Ah Haa School for the Arts

Eric Hanson is CEO of Blueplanet VR and a faculty member at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. With a background in design, architecture, photography and feature film visual effects, Hanson currently creates volumetric VR content spanning landscape, natural history and cultural heritage. In a collaboration with the Ah Haa School for the Arts, Hanson will host the Blueplanet VR Immersive Experience: Revealing Histories — Reimagining Landscapes. He has created an interactive exhibition that immerses visitors in the largest historic research program in the Four Corners Region. The ONWARD Project offers visitors a rare chance to explore a virtual retelling of the American West, recreating storylines from the historic Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition. The project gives voice to the people impacted by the expedition, the communities culturally related to the land and the original inhabitants of ancient Puebloan sites.

Experience this special VR program during the Art Walk on Friday, or Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM–5 PM.

Beth Moon

Slate Gray Gallery

Beth Moon (subject of Trees, and Other Engtanglements) is known for her ethereal photography of the world’s oldest trees — giant redwoods, bristlecone pines and baobab trees. Her haunting black and white portraits explore how the passing of time is represented in the sturdy trunks, gnarled roots and outstretched branches of these ancient beings. Moon brings her subjects to life using platinum printing, a labor-intensive process noted for its luminosity and almost3-dimensional quality. Her recent book of photographs features one of Africa’s natural wonders, the baobab, which can live to 2,500 years old with water-storing trunks that can grow to over 100 feet around.