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Hope, Heart, and the Humanities
How a Free College Course is Changing LivesJean Cheney and L. Jackson Newell, editors, with Hikmet Sidney Loe, Jeff Metcalf, and Bridget M. Newell
University of Utah Press, 2016
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells the story of how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors to improve the lives of people with low incomes who face barriers to attending college. For over a decade, this course has given hundreds of adults, some of them immigrants or refugees, the knowledge, confidence, and power to rechart their lives.
Readers will go inside Venture classrooms to see what occurs when adults enter serious discussions about literature, critical writing, art history, American history, and philosophy. Apparent also are the difficulties nontraditional students, who range in age from 18 to 60, often encounter in a college classroom and the hard choices they and their teachers make. What readers may remember most are the stories and words from people whose views of the world broaden and whose directions in life changed.
Interview with Tom Williams at Access Utah
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo
Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and PlaceHikmet Sidney Loe
University of Utah Press, 2017
Copublished with the Tanner Trust Fund, J. Willard Marriott Library.
Robert Smithson’s earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece from local materials, one that spirals counterclockwise into the lake and appears or is submerged with fluctuations in the lake’s locally red, saline water.
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson’s writings for encyclopedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson’s many points of reference in creating it. Visitors and armchair travelers, too, will discover how much significance Smithson placed on regional considerations, his immersion in natural history, his passion for travel, and his ability to use diverse mediums to create a cohesive and lasting work of art. Containing some 220 images, most of them in color, with some historical black and whites, The Spiral Jetty Encyclo lets readers explore the construction, connections, and significance of Smithson’s 1,500-foot-long curl into Great Salt Lake, created, in Smithson’s words, of “mud, salt crystals, rocks, water.”
Winner of 15 Bytes Book Award for Art Book.
Finalist for the Utah State Historical Society Best Book Award.
The Sun Tunnels Encyclo
Exploring Nancy Holt's Earthwork through Perception and SiteHikmet Sidney Loe
University of Utah Press, 2027
The Sun Tunnels Encyclo: Exploring Nancy Holt’s Earthwork through Perception and Site affords new information on the artist’s iconic work of land art. American artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014) extended her practice into the land, employing light, vision, and perception through photography, film, installations, and poetics. By creating her expansive earthwork Sun Tunnels (1973-76), Holt became a leader within the land art movement. Through her eponymous essay (1977) and film (1978), Holt presents the work through interdisciplinary topics: scientific (astronomical, mathematical, geologic, architectural) and regional (historical, cultural). Land use (Indigenous peoples, migration, military, industrial) joins poetry and philosophy to extend the work’s site-specificity. Through these myriad subjects, The Sun Tunnels Encyclo explores Holt’s pronouncement: “the center of the work becomes the center of the world.”