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# Presenting the 2017 Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/presenting-the-2017-art-environment-conference-at-the-nevada-museum-of-art/
- Published: 2017-07-25T15:57:35.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:26:54.000Z
- Description: Between October 19 - 21, the 2017 Art + Environment conference tackles subjects ranging from the cultural tectonics of the New World to the radical self-reliance and civic evolution of Burning Man.
- Author: Nevada Museum of Art
- Tags: Announcement, Event Announcement, Nevada Museum of Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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The [2017 Art + Environment Conference](http://bit.ly/2twZl0K?ref=hyperallergic.com) will traverse time and space across the unsettled terrains, shifting frontiers, and limitless horizons of a super-region we call the Greater West.

The Greater West was the last part of the planet to be explored and settled by *Homo sapiens*. It spans the entire west coast of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia, and across the Pacific Basin to Australia and New Zealand. It is a geography of frontiers characterized by vast expanses of open land, rich natural resources, diverse indigenous peoples, colonialism, and the ongoing conflicts that inevitably arise when these factors coexist.

The Conference investigates this exploration in multiple overlapping spheres: the cultural tectonics of the New World from Alaska to Colombia; the radical self-reliance and civic evolution of Burning Man; the fluctuating ecotones of rural/urban land use; and outer space—the ultimate mirror for humanity’s aspirations.

The triennial Art + Environment Conference is produced by the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada.

**Register online today at** [**nevadaart.org/conference2017**](http://bit.ly/2twZl0K?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.** Capacity is limited.