Listening to the Land Gallery Guide

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 - JANUARY 6, 2024

BUNZL GALLERY

Eric William Carroll

Listening to the Land: Reimagining the Bartram Trail

Artists & Collaborators

Beginning in January 2023, the photographers featured in this exhibition were invited to explore and reflect upon 112-miles of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail. Listening to the Land features photography and photo-based installations by thirty-two artists and celebrates this region’s rich biodiversity while honoring each person’s unique and emergent relationship with the land.

Drawing inspiration from the trail itself, photographers were invited to enter an intimate world where the landscape was alive and waiting to be met, understood, and listened to. Together these artists contemplated their own wild origins while visually reimagining a time when humans moved in respect, harmony, and cocreative kinship with the natural world.

Angela Martin

Anna Helgeson

Anna Norton

Anne Cannon

April McNiff

Barron Northrup

Beate Sass

Brent Martin

Casey Visco

Drew Jorgensen

Eric William Carroll

Erik Mace

Frances Bukovsky

Joanna Parkman

Kaoly Gutierrez

Kaye Savage

Laura Rudkin Miniot

Lesley Ann Price

Liliana Vitale

Lisa Stockton Howell

Lu Mann

Lynn “Cricket” Woodward

Lynne Buchanan

Mike Belleme

Sam Brown

Sandy Johnson

Sarah Morgan

Shawn McIntosh

Starlett Henderson

Susan Patrice

Virginie Drujon-Kippelen

Yvonne Dalschen

Anna Helgeson

Driven by curiosity and humor Anna creates photographs, installations, performances and writing about race, gender, and queerness. She is deeply invested in realms of material culture that are dismissed or historically marginalized including craft, decorating, dinner parties, parades, and gardening. Anna earned a BA from Ripon College and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has exhibited, performed, lectured and published in various venues throughout the United States.

@awefulphotos

Anna Norton

A native of South Georgia, Anna Gage Norton received her MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art in 2005. Norton’s work deals with her relationship to place and centers around questions of historical and geological time, the animate and inanimate, permanence and transience. Her most recent documentary photography project is featured in Aint-Bad, Murze Magazine, Oxford American Magazine’s Eyes on the South, and Southern Cultures Snapshot: Climate and she is a 2021 Puffin Grant recipient.

@annanortonphoto

April McNiff

As a passionate nature photographer based in Western NC, April finds true inspiration amidst the breathtaking mountains. With a BFA in Photography and over 15 years in the field, her focus is on the beauty of flora, fauna, and landscapes. Through digital, she crafts captivating black & white and color works, inviting viewers to cherish the intricacies of nature’s wonders. Her goal is to highlight the importance of observing and appreciating these moments, capturing the essence of life’s fleeting beauty.

Barron Northrup

Barron Northrup is a photographer based in Asheville, NC. During the Covid lock down, he received his BA with highest honors from the University of North Carolina. He uses photography to examine the pandemic’s long-term impacts on life and society, grappling with visual art’s relationship to expectation, loss, and time.

@aprilmcniffphotos

@barronorthrup

Beate Sass

Beate Sass is an Atlanta-based photographer whose fascination with people and storytelling has been shaped by her childhood experiences traveling and living abroad and as a mother and advocate of a daughter who experiences disability. Beate utilizes the powerful and visual aspect of photography in combination with the written word to highlight and amplify the voices of those who are often overlooked.

Brent Martin

Brent Martin is the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy and co-owner of Alarka Institute and Expeditions, a cultural and natural history based business offering a wide selection of outdoor experiences and workshops. He has worked in conservation for over thirty years, and is also a folk artist, writer, and photographer. His most recent book, George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, explores the photographic career of George Masa and his photographic impact on southern Appalachian conservation.

@alarkaexpeditions

@beatesassphoto

Casey Visco

Casey Visco is an American photographer based in Asheville, NC. His current work explores subtle interactions in nature.

@caseyviscophoto

Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll is an artist making work that combines his interests in science, nature, and the history of photography. Carroll’s work has been shown widely and has been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Photography among others. After a nearly decade-long stint as a full-time professor, Carroll relocated to Asheville, North Carolina to focus on his creative practice.

@ericwilliamcarroll

Erik Mace

Erik Mace is a visual artist who uses photography, graphic design, and book arts as his tools of inquiry. He is deeply curious about the power of taking advantage of an individual medium’s limitations. His work is connected by a sense of restlessness and joy in expressly matching visual information, language, and experimental technique to subject matter, often with a focus on place and identity. Erik is an alumnus of the Contemporary Photography program at the ICP in New York.

Frances Bukovsky

Frances Bukovsky makes images about the body, place, and other beings in the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. Bukovsky grew up in rural New York and earned a BFA in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Since then, their work has been shown in places such as the United Nations HQ in NYC, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, and the Dyer Arts Center at RIT. They currently live in Marshall, NC.

@frances_bukovsky

@erik_mace

Joanna Parkman

Joanna Parkman is a floodplain specialist with interests in climate adaptation and green infrastructure. Based in Athens, Georgia, she earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and a BS in Ecology from Sewanee: The University of the South. Joanna has explored photography and storytelling through freelance science writing, as well as coursework at the Center for Documentary Studies.

Kaoly Gutierrez

Kaoly Gutierrez is a Mexican freelance documentary and portrait photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. She uses the medium of photography as a way to experience integration with herself and others. She approaches her work with curiosity to comprehend and document her identity and spirituality, as well as to deepen her understanding of different subject matters.

@joparkman

@kaolygtz

Kaye Savage

Kaye Savage teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. She is also director of Wofford’s Goodall Environmental Studies Center, and manages its Long Term Environmental Reflection residency program. Her artwork spans photography and mixed media/handmade paper, with placebased themes centered on terrain patterns, natural materials, and representations of scientific data. Her past research in environmental geochemistry, and her current art practice, are explorations of chemical, physical, and biological interactions across multiple scales of time and space.

@savage.kaye

Laura Rudkin Miniot

Laura Rudkin Miniot is a trail photographer based in Asheville, NC. She is exploring Southern Appalachia and photography following a lengthy public health career that focused on place and health. She takes her photos during pauses on hikes and drives, and is experimenting with techniques that suggest motion and volume.

@llrudkinminiot

Lesley Ann Price

Lesley Ann Price was born in South Africa and immigrated to America over thirty years ago. She pursued her passion for art and photography at Georgia State University. There she refined and further developed a keen eye for the mystery and beauty of the world around us. Lesley’s work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Her solo exhibition Lieba Papa was featured in the Atrium at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

@lesleyprice3

Lisa Stockton Howell

Lisa Stockton Howell is a documentary and travel photographer who enjoys collaborating with people and places to create images which reflect their stories. Raised in North Carolina, Lisa feels most at home in the NC mountains and enjoys wandering there with her camera.

@lisastocktonhowell

Lynn “Cricket” Woodward

While Woodward’s degrees are in biology and graphic design, her work has included fixing computers, guiding by horseback, framing art, making sandwiches, skinning birds, playing music, intaglio printmaking, and, most recently, designing and editing books for independent authors. But she’s been a photographer all her life — including work in portraits, events, products, art and photojournalism — and welcomed this opportunity to expand her “wonder-lust” into contemplative nature photography. She currently lives in North Carolina.

woodwardcreative.com

Lynne Buchanan

Internationally exhibited poetic climate photographer Lynne Buchanan is the author of Florida’s Changing Waters: A Beautiful World in Peril and The Poetry of Being. Her work focuses on water-related issues, climate change, biodiversity, and forest ecosystems. She is interested in how the health of the planet and human health are linked. Her images are reminders of what we are losing as well as a pathway to hope. Buchanan is based in Fletcher, North Carolina.

@lynnebuchananphotography

Mike Belleme

Mike Belleme is a freelance photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. His work ranges from longform documentary, to assignment-based editorial, photojournalism, and portraiture. His practice involves photographing from a space of emotional availability and vulnerability and exploring themes involving connection and disconnection from that space. Belleme is a regular contributor to The New York Times and other national and international media outlets.

Brown

Sam Brown is of Appalachia and has been exploring photography with and without a camera for over half of his lifetime. As he progresses artistically, his pursuits regress technologically into some of the craft’s simplest and most accessible forms. Sam is currently in the state of art where he finds most value in the experience of process and takes great joy in making use of equipment with previous lives. This artist draws much inspiration from the craft’s early pioneers.

@sambrownsaround

@mikebelleme

Sam

Sandy Johnson

Sandy Johnson is a visual storyteller, utilizing photography to showcase her tiny subjects. Her floral portraits, influenced by 60s pop art, reveal each wildflower’s inner reflection, “Beauty Sees Beauty.” Her obsession with miniatures led her to showcase the spring blooms in a special micro-climate a half mile from the Wayah Bald Trailhead.

@astorgoldart

Susan Patrice

Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and citizen artist. Her photography and public installations focus on the southern landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place and belonging. Since 2016, her work has primarily explored the nature of visual perception and its impact on our feelings of connection and kinship. She engages in intimate gestural conversations with the land through the use of handbuilt cameras designed in response to place. She lives in Marshall, NC where she is the director of Makers Circle, a center for the practice of contemplative photography.

@susanpatrice

Virginie Drujon-Kippelen

Virginie Drujon-Kippelen is a photographer whose work explores the visual representations of the natural world, investigating themes which include the sense of place, the notion of wilderness and the visualization of climate change. She engages with these questions through the practice of both documentary and conceptual fine art work.

@virginiedk

Yvonne Dalschen

Yvonne Dalschen is a German photographer based in Oak Ridge, TN. With a background in Comparative Literature, she is looking at signs and traces. She is frequently working with visual multiplicity through diptychs, layers and typologies. Her photography explores the history of place, human impact on the land, and the intersection of art and technology. Her work has recently shown at HeadOn Photography Festival Sydney, Eat/Art Johnson City, and was featured in Dek Unu Magazine.

@yvonnedalschen

Installations

Puc Puggy Stump Notes: Installation

Participating Artists

Kaye Savage

Joanna Parkman

Sarah Morgan

Franklin Greenway: Installation

Following Ancient Trade Paths

Participating Artists

Anna Helgeson

Casey Visco

Kaoly Gutierrez

Kaye Savage

Laura Rudkin Miniot

Shape of Summer: Cyanotype Installation

Participating Artists

Lisa Howell

Lynne Buchanan

Mike Belleme

Yvonne Dalschen

Shawn McIntosh

Angela Martin

Anne Cannon

Brent Martin

Drew Jorgensen

Liliana Vitale

Lu Mann

Starlett Henderson

Barron Northrup

Sandy Johnson

Yvonne Dalschen

Erik Mace