Artist in Residence

CANM Artist in Residence captures windows to the past

The Artist-in-Residence Program at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, in partnership with the Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance, connects people with the highest density of ancient cultural sites in the U.S.

NED ROZELL: 2014 BLM Artist-in- Residence in Eagle, Alaska

In August 2014, the BLM hosted Fairbanks writer Ned Rozell as its first summer Artist-in- Residence. Rozell, the author of four books, has written a weekly science column for 20 years for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute. He’s also a contributing writer for Alaska Dispatch News.

Rozell spent his residence from Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, in the Yukon River community of Eagle. There, he worked on an old writing project that had languished for years.

BLM's 2015 White Mountains Artist-in-Residence

Late winter is a glorious time in interior Alaska, a welcome relief after the darkness and subzero temperatures of January and February. That’s when winter Artist-in- Residence Deb Horner works in the sunshine and warmer afternoon temperatures, interpreting the public lands of the agency’s White Mountains National Recreation Area north of Fairbanks.