Printmaking / Scholar
Ursula Lang is a geographer, writer, and artist. Her work explores the interwoven natures of environment and society. Ursula’s first book, Living with Yards, chronicles how urban residents engage in creative practices, often distinct from environmental policies and projects, and reveals how these practices both unsettle and reinforce dominant relationships to land, property and the commons. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and edited volumes. She is based in St Paul, and affiliated with the Minnesota Design Center.
At the Anderson Center, Ursula focused on a new major project about geology and geological expertise across Minnesota, Roadside Geopoetics. Drawing on her ongoing archival, ethnographic and site-based research, she developed a series of works on paper to advance the visual components of the broader project. On December 14, Ursula offered a presentation and Q&A about this work in progress, including Red Wing area geology, at the Goodhue County Historical Society.