http://www.maryellenlongart.com/archiveimages daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883072464-BZ5QS2W14BYDWJN4R2TA/WP06.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2005-06 Varied showings: Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; "San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, La Jolla, CA; New Jersey City University, Jersey City; Shy Rabbit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO; Vivo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (nature-altered paper, wire, natural elements) Placed in varied collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883072464-BZ5QS2W14BYDWJN4R2TA/WP06.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2005-06 Varied showings: Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; "San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, La Jolla, CA; New Jersey City University, Jersey City; Shy Rabbit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO; Vivo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (nature-altered paper, wire, natural elements) Placed in varied collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882814079-9NOD32SZNEXF3BB645JA/bonnet.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Decades 10 small handmade books hanging from a vintage baby bonnet. Each book contains a journal of experience, etc. and represent a decade of the artist's life, (bonnet, threads, varied papers, ink) collection of the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712353687469-256GE0L7ZRJEHGBXZJX0/IMG_7180.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - 180 Days 180 Days "Travel Visions", The Art Library, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2001; "Members Show", Center for Book Arts, NYC. 2002; San Diego Book Arts in Santa Fe, NM and San Diego, CA During a 6 month visit to New Zealand, I made a page for each day with an image and notation of day and place. The pages were tied together in 6 day bundles. (New Zealand handmade flax paper, thread, box, green stone, prismacolor, ink) Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882838510-KMX1Q4L9QWLO6IDH4N5P/Gradations.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Gradations of Grey, 2008 A collection of drawings of mountains, collaged on nature-altered paper. (book covers of slate, stonehenge paper, ink, sumi ink, solvent-transfer text) Collection: Special Collections, UCSD, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882893162-OW6KQ9CE66WYFLL3EKQF/Lang.+Found.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Language Found. 2008 San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, UCSD, La Jolla, CA; "Wide Open". Business of Art, CO. Springs Found boards became a backdrop for small books containing drawings on nature-altered paper. The palm-book style holds the boards together. (nature-altered boards, paper, ink, twine) collection: Special Collections, UCSD, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882905479-IN492WOK7AJXOHNVWER0/Lang.Bound.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Language Bound, 2008 Vivo Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2011; The found boards became a base for flax and mulberry paper bundles. Collection: Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882935102-IQVXIKJJOXT98XMAR6A8/The+Wild...JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - The Walk The Wild The Way, 2012 The book is contained in a custom-made box of walnut and class. Collection: Athenaeum Music & Music Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882951666-MMPG1UDC0Q2CKVOR4UJ6/TheWild.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - The Walk The Wild The Way (detail) Pages are alternated with marking inspired by bark larvae and text about the environment - a stab binding. (nature-altered paper, Japanese paper, scorch, digital print, thread) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883071236-ZI5MVCOHU4UCOVHHZACW/WinterP.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2007-08 "San Diego Book Arts Juried Exhibit; Land Gallery Book Show, Albuquerque, NM (nature-altered paper, natural elements, solvent-transferred text, coptic bound - contained in a wood box. Bark-paper book cover and box top) collection: Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883040733-TBL4554IOFK2QZMMHDR7/WP+12.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2011-12 "San Diego Book Arts", Cerritos Library, CA; Grafias Gallery, Nantucket, MA A palm-leaf binding holds pages with text about the process of burying paper under winter snow. (nature-altered and imported paper, linen thread, solvent-transfer text) Collection: Special Collections, UCSD. La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883012986-GU3BGCKDAEYVWMHUJ7G9/Unlived+Life.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - The Unlived Life of Mary Ellen "Juried Show", Durango Arts Center, CO Book speaking of my thoughts on not receiving a chemistry set when I was young. Contained in a vintage chemistry set. (digital photographs and writings. Secret Belgium binding.) Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882918983-3N7E4C2GNAE8UW6F3H7K/ShintaiScroll.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Shintai Scrolls, 1982 Using bark fragments and my handmade paper began my work in sculptural forms when I moved to a forest environment in Colorado. (handmade paper (kozo/gampi fiber) and bark, oak base) Collection: Baylor University, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1430336667675-D7SPJCG7ZMN2UQRDDXWN/IMG_9011.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - To Learn About the Pine, 2014 The burnt bark fragment inspired this book. The pages were cast on aspen trees. Scorch was applied to the edges of the pages. The text was taken from the words of Basho, a famous Japanese poet. (burnt bark, handmade Kozo paper, twine, birch bark collage, ink) Exhibited: Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO Collection: Mandeville Library, Special Collections, Geisel Library, UC San Diego, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1453071995844-8CM3X9XBKAIW7NG76EEF/IMG_0599.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Barn, 2015 Photographs printed on vellum paper, slate cover from barn roof private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1445549474048-VKD09JZXIHF8ZTDT37FD/Stored+Secrets.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Secrets of the Burn, 2004 Scrolls of delicate paper are wrapped with fragments from a massive fire near my studio. These peelings from aspen trees were gathered after the fire. The scrolls became a containment of memory and story. Exhibited:Center from Book Arts, New York City; Durango Arts Center, CO (Best in Show)/ Paper-Book Intensive, Steamboat Springs, CO; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; San Diego Book Arts, UCSD collection: Penrose Library, Special Collections, University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263551557-SKOH8879BKKV5GCKK5LA/IMG_031.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Journey in the San Juans, 1993 7”x7”x40” found rusty elements, threads, wood blocks, variable and seaweed papers, photographs, prism color Collection of Mark Long and Rebecca Todd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1467642467132-SRGZGR3FW8LU45ITGGBF/IMG_9785.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - SPINE collection of Mark C. Long, Keene State College, Keene, NH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1519856578494-ZOHCHGOKVRXR0J973LTR/Beware.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Beware 4 1/2" x 3.3/4" x 1" (box 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" x 2") A porcupine was gnawing parts of my house and there was no choice but to exterminate it. It was buried nearby and after winter, the bones were found white and clean. My son sent me the poem "The Porcupine" by Gallway Kinnell. (altered book, quills, bone, box covered with Japanese paper, press-on letters, leather, sand, ink, pigment) Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882821523-9BF01XJNYAH0QH651KOI/Gateway.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Passage, 1983 Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983 (handmade paper of kozo/gampi/straw fibers), branches, oak base) private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882895282-3NU47GHKMDIMAFKTSCIY/SandoSign.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Sando Sign, 1983 Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983 (handmade paper of kozo/gampi fibers, willow, oak base) Russell Engineering, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882943733-J7K4Z5S3MGEZNMDQIKCZ/Torii.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Torii, 1983 Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983 (handmade paper of kozo/gampi fibers, willow, oak base) private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424122110288-4EN93NQM2EW7XIP6ATR8/Lichen.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Lichen "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, CO; Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO; William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ; Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA (Informed by photographs of lichen on rock, nature'altered paper backed by canvas, with applied charcoal, dry pigment, and sands. 7'x13') Collection: Colorado Public Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604266044495-HGJF0SL6UNT9EAMZ19PP/Wasp%2BFeather%2BPaper.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Wasp, Feather, Paper Collage of antique, various and handmade papers private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263113877-K7QB3RX7O82K63SNHMQ8/TapaAfrikan.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - Tapa Afrikan 2011 - Tapa cloth collage with calligraphic drawing private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263977362-WW6VG6VZ8VZTYN2RD8EO/PassingWisdomBirds.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - The Passing Wisdom of Birds, 1993 Collage on board, photograph (text: Spanish conquest Mexico and killing of birds) Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263357863-N2JQ04L6AH0PY7FMIEYN/Wasp+paper+mask.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Mask Wasp paper glued on cast paper private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265050674-7F9IC3543HCXT1IB5M3B/WP87.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 1987-88 Paper buried under winter snow. Being printed by the forest detritus Part of an annual ritual. 1983-present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264118020-005PPUJ14V9E0KZQM6LI/WP+09+bacon.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2008-09 nature-altered, scorched, charcoaled, sanded, sumi-inked, with conte-crayon Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263761000-9TSTN8BXNG4QQ78JI1G6/MountainMissionary.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Mountain: Missionary Ridge Imported papers, prismacolor, rock (text: Gary Synder) Shown at Center of Book Arts, NY, NY Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264018695-W16N0H68K17PXFE1F96H/WaspMaze+Baylor.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Wasp Maze, 2014 Nest interior, imported and vellum papers, wasp paper Shown at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO Collection of Special Collections, Baylor University, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264618426-2L5KI2HO2BQ1HVKEUSJB/RootsIntoRiversWP13-14.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2013-14 (Roots into Rivers) Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263787143-VJ9NH8XJEO2KZGXU4WTA/Bird+Song+open.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Bird Song. 1996 handmade paper, foil, ink, thread, driftwood (Text: bird sonograms) Collection: Caroline Corre, Center for Book Arts, Verderonne, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265133047-R7D5L4RUB7HZAF67GZWW/wP+14-15+AthenLJ.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2014-15 Walking the Trail, El Diente Collection: The Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264372754-5YHBSPEMY22K9W1F2TGP/Roots+into+Rivers.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2013-14 detail of inside pages nature altered, vellum and varied papers, prismacolor drawing private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264801997-IL7GO4OXEIT502MGSIR2/Wp+17-18+copy.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2017-18 (Recipes for Saving Planet Earth) nature altered paper, photographs, recipe box Collection: The Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264858115-1Y76ARTYFURKZC4SJLEU/Bainbridge.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Tangle, 2014 altered photography, fishing bobbin, imported papers Bainbridge Museum of Art, WA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265534684-FLAZF0U0JLU61Q0QDBGF/Wonder+Women+cover.+DUjpg.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Wonder Women, 2018 doll arms, silk, varied papers Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265571466-CUE0QQX1T0EAKE37EUUL/Wonder+Women.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Wonder Women (inside detail) ink- jet printed text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264182768-FNBUVT15N38W8QVXS9KC/ThreadingsAthen.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Threadings, 2019 collaged nature-altered, linen threads sewing through the pages collection: Special Collections of University of Denver, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604270949259-NWA1X8H89UT7R4EREM0Z/at+70.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - At Seventy 8 (2” sq.)books with text of the writings of May Sarton Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1623101765547-8AU0J8A07XTUI05EFCV2/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Stroke A wood box ( 9” x 11” x 4”) containing 10 folios telling the story of artist’s 2018 stroke event, memory scrolls, scorched wood ball. (shown with artists’ book “Veinings”). Collection of the Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1637168084588-TEY789GXRGS8BAP3CIAV/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing 2019-20 Collection: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701884372805-RG1FQUXR8MIHENAER1YX/IMG_7767.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - The Collage Book A collage collection made through the years. Special Collections, University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701885254478-5BU5HZTZRYYD2D45P2VY/IMG_7788.JPG ARCHIVE IMAGES - The Collage Book detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701885405674-53TJ5HPCHX5Y3OGD0LSD/IMG_9384.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Imaging Japan An accordion book in the lacquered book with element. Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1696007719430-JSPBEQMBRN5MEAQR297Y/Excorism.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Untitled Mixed Media Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701885982994-KZSJDWDVFVHCQ548UH7L/Falling+Colors+smaller.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Falling Colors Mixed media collage, 30”x22” ,2023 Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701889335924-08X0WBLGPDIPA6CJ01J8/Earth+Press.jpg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Earth Pressing installation Assemblage of earth pressed papers, with burnt worm markings approximately 30” square - Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701903290148-SBU9ASLTBIA7ZEPKS8W4/Inheritance.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Inheritance Collage, 12’ x 9” 2023 (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701903945437-L7KOK51C4T7AW9YGNLGY/IMG_8656.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Forest Library Photographs Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1707778253683-23AS1RULJ01WP0QVBRGL/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Aspen Pencil drawing, 7’ x 40” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712350467915-U9NLYFXPL72FGC4572R0/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing Book 11” x 11” x 3” Coptic bound book (Documentation of Winter Pressings from 1995 - 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712356069704-NLVWJOR8Q1WDNA40YZKE/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Winter Pressing Book detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712356405214-I9IKM6QON6R3BMKCPM2F/IMG_9431.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES Detail - Winter Pressing Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721163250447-1B08T6CTACSYYKLZYHN2/Dominicalito.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Dominicalita Mixed Media Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721163641492-NG9H12EF6270MO2QN5N0/Closure.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Closure Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1731522247670-WWN9982PSKIDXROYNV0V/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Cloud Paper Root Kozo-gampi handmade paper, University of Denver Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721427257149-ZYL66TOIVVNS6TRBCO7A/Phastasm.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Phantasm 14” x 80” Mixed Media Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721427689997-UOBFX3P5B6V31DAZGLE5/NZ+1999.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - New Zealand, 1999 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1732144855305-6ZUV15ZWWORUIU3HKFYH/Falling+Colors.jpeg ARCHIVE IMAGES - Falling Colors 30” x 22” Drawing/Collage Private Collection http://www.maryellenlongart.com/gallery daily 1.0 2023-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1606180252942-5O3H7M2CBDEUNTPWCYUS/Black%252BMoon.jpg GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1678218937358-4TVFF5E8HOWKSNGI20JI/Dance4.jpg GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424123345735-Q3K9AUL01T64GN9MS8NR/NAOSHIMa.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424391514334-HUQSGWYJG6OLSPZ55TLB/BurntSec.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424545389793-K7X55C64KW6OTZEHSSLR/IMG_7724.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424551992115-BHYO2WRNEJH9O2MR7Y2P/Dunedin.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424559323437-8RG3HPWY0ZM0Y6P2O7XO/A+Rarity.jpg GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424559610503-7EAYNFSDINBB7T258F31/Nile.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424559970195-S0C8LTJH6CFQSV9DLZ6V/Emergence.jpg GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424560400654-054DLWXWV89G53ET5LGC/AspenWrap.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424560865237-FUESAU5YRHNI1FAE9UUU/IMG_9796.JPG GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424724523114-G4PZKSHBJXTI27WDZ1MY/Dominicalito.jpg GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424736987492-WFX0MTKWS81FWMIG4ESV/CloudRootPaper.jpg GALLERY http://www.maryellenlongart.com/installationimages daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424821257041-GDZOIKWKP2QYWIG2TTMH/Excorism.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Excorism "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, 1992 (stonehenge paper, charcoal, pigment, natural elements) parts of this installation available, contact the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424821257041-GDZOIKWKP2QYWIG2TTMH/Excorism.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Excorism "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, 1992 (stonehenge paper, charcoal, pigment, natural elements) parts of this installation available, contact the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869774481-79HCUKL0IC1HKDIQ8743/AspenForest.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Aspen Forest The ghosts of dead aspen trees are referenced in cast paper (inner-bark fibers kozo and abaca) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869829666-54TRPHB51LW5A69Q2F99/Aspen.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Detritus "Novel Constructions", Long Beach Museum of Art, 2009 (room-size installation including seven books of nature-altered and handmade paper, dried leaves, cut logs, kozo-abaca fiber) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869920382-DUX2V2SJLHXRU7V8F17V/Detritus.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Detritus Walk Capital Rotunda, Santa Fe, New Mexico (cast paper of kozo-gampi fiber, forest floor detritus, book sculpture) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869780253-DR2TU8JSPS7EYTV8S42B/Clouds.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Cloud Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado (kozo-gampi fibers, taken from cloud photographs) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869932111-1F4DIZ6I00GTS21VAXF2/EarthBedding.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Earth Pressing LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California, 1987 (nature-altered paper) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870040173-2X30E3X0Q1MTIDJWTAK2/Forest+Stories.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Forest Stories "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 1992 12 scrolls with scorched text. Floor baskets contain elements of the stories. (kozo/gampi fibers, scorch, natural elements) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870053615-SSCN2C8MHV6JXT5WNRP2/F.Walk+detail.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Forest Walk (detail) "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 1992 A floor installation of forest detritus, photo-copied aerial maps with stamped text of quotes from environmental writers. (leaves, dirt-rubbed and nature-altered papers, lake-bottom detritus, photographs, glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870049252-Y5WEQIDB7CAQ1YZ0VJJ9/Forest.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - From the Forest "Artists' Books of Significant Scale", Cal Poly, Pomona, California A one room installation with three works, "From the Forest Library' and two "Winter Pressing" works. (nature-altered paper, vintage books. oak and aspen leaves) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870079994-B9VDWUYZHA89IBKQXV49/fr+Forest+Library.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - From the Forest Library "Artists' Books of Significant Scale", Cal Poly, Pomona, California, "Journey of the Artist", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, Colorado An installation of pages that came from my Forest Library (books laid down on the forest floor for over a decade) (vintage book pages, matte medium) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870088559-H51NARB7CCE41B8RYUN8/ForestWalk.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Detritus "Hot Pursuits", a group exhibit at Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado (nature-altered and dirt-rubbed papers, leaves, photographs, Detritus book of aspen handmade paper) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870112280-53VMLT3XCWN5Y7NOR02D/Japan+Box.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Japan Box The Art Library, Durango Arts Center, CO, 2006 An exhibit of small artists' books and objects that contain a memory of traveling in Japan. Journal, photograph, and mixed media are used to capture moments and experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870117386-IA7183X8OQTGRJIJD414/Letters+Home.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Letters Home "Home", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, 2007 A vintage oak display case contains letter my father wrote home from France in WW I. Various photographs are also displayed. Excerpts from the letters and the lyrics from the song byJohn Stephens and Will.I.Am, "Coming Home" - are printed on the bottom of the case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870147579-HBVZ56GTFFCBITA3AOUD/Mapping.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Following the Passage: Mapping a Friendship A collaborative installation with poet Grace Cavalieri, poet and Kathryn Moller, Prof. of Theater, Artposium, Colorado Art Ranch, Durango Arts Center. (handmade paper (kozo/gampi fibers), photographs, poetry, dancers, musician) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870169526-VNF9TJJ49GPUARX31HPK/NatBundle.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Nature Bundles Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2006 Combinations of natural elements pinned to the wall with insect pins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870183974-ZGIL2CNT3BTAFIFC3INN/SSS.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Sands, Signs, Symbols "Colorado Artists", The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PN, 1990 Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 1991 "Artists' Book Show", Capital Rotunda, Santa Fe, NM, 1993 "On Returning", Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA. 1993 (4 handmade paper (kozo/gampi fibers) scrolls with cast paper baskets filled with sands from the America West. Scrolls have penciled text with sanded and scorched images.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870215204-QN31Y03CIIFCOVD3JCC7/WP.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Winter Pressing with bark books Durango Arts Center, Colorado (nature-altered paper with handmade paper (kozo/abaca fibers) books cast on bark, lichen inclusions, threads) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870240041-F02U5SCYV3CV9CQ52AMT/Where+did+TheyGo.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Where Did They Go? "Yard Sculpture Show": PS 26 School, Plummer School, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1999 (books, chain, book pages, photo-copied photographs (enclosed in acetate), photographs, box) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870206002-C9SFNBQQR0GZ7FTS3G34/Roots.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Talisman "Sweetheart of the Arts" exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Coloraro, 2012 The complete installation. Other installations of Talisman are smaller. (collage on nature-altered paper, pinned to the wall with insect pins) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870206369-DC4AT6UNECAUJM2GXVUD/Tea.JPG INSTALLATION IMAGES - Imagining India "Sweetheart of the Hearts", exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2012 (painted tea bages attached with insect pins to the wall) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424391151109-QH0S20WPP66EL2ZFSNVM/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Roots into Rivers "Journey of the Artist", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, 2014 (nature-altered paper, sand, ink) available https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424566048734-ZFMCVR0HU9NUXA2DWVKG/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Roots part of a traveling exhibit "Roots" 2010-14- The Land Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Durango Arts Center, CO;, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA; and the Ah Haa Gallery, Telluride, CO (twenty drawings (each 12" x 9") using charcoal and conte crayon)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424635313590-4Z1VWILBLLU35SWS7YWJ/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Rootings "Roots", traveling exhibit 2010-14 each piece 6" sq. nature-altered paper, tea bags, sumi dyed root, earth (contained in tea bag) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1428091980020-WFDNOMKWJ7NF6T6U5FCI/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Through the Forest Durango Arts Center 2014 Nature altered spirit papers, held by a stone, on a forest path are weathered by winter passing. These "artifacts" have been pinned to the wall with centered transfer lettering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1428096872121-9QDLBSOUIIQ1HRX315C0/IMG_9182.jpg INSTALLATION IMAGES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1428096949714-514JXDWBHDJ4DF56S956/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION IMAGES - Wasp Washi Scrolls Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO. 2014 Handmade Kozo paper with inclusions of wasp-made paper sewn with thread. 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OPEN STUDIO PREVIEW http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/11/22/open-studio monthly 0.5 2015-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1448232193033-7CAQ9PMHQ0H0J3PV3QZR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - OPEN STUDIO http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/9/24/parade-of-homes-durango-co monthly 0.5 2015-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1445547894179-YB7JCNGAAH8ENCMZO6DA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - PARADE OF HOMES, DURANGO, CO http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/8/19/artists-books-on-the-road monthly 0.5 2015-08-19 http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/8/5/book-arts-workshop monthly 0.5 2015-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1445548563114-85O6RBU6E7G5ARXGUFYC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/7/20/art-showing-in-hesperus monthly 0.5 2015-07-20 http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/7/6/environmental-art-workshop-aka-land-art monthly 0.5 2015-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1445548927304-7O0NN529EH1HH3AIP0F9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - ENVIRONMENTAL ART WORKSHOP (AKA: LAND ART) http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/6/22/telluride-truck-show monthly 0.5 2015-06-22 http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/6/8/reception-night-at-the-stronghouse-gallery-in-telluride monthly 0.5 2015-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1433816879542-KGDS1BAE5U1J01NQWJPZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Reception Night at the Stronghouse Gallery in Telluride http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/5/28/telluride-exhibit monthly 0.5 2015-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1432848797526-41GVN0KMJFCWKU6KH8A5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - TELLURIDE EXHIBIT http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/5/20/rnrfria0wyhxwmv8d14a6z7tm1h5jc monthly 0.5 2015-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1432144112270-QHIA1GVD5TJHVGAUSDBZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog 3 of my artists' books in foreground http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/5/20/unbound-artists-books-from-the-athenaeum-music-arts-library-la-jolla-ca monthly 0.5 2015-05-20 http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/5/11/collage-workshop monthly 0.5 2015-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1432142366994-VH6OIR5N89DQCW0H0M0A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - COLLAGE WORKSHOP http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/5/3/the-language-of-gesture-the-work-of-joyce-cutler-shaw monthly 0.5 2015-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1432142188913-DUO8EJ63ZWO0D0EK14UG/Alphabet+of+Bones Blog - THE LANGUAGE OF GESTURE: THE WORK OF JOYCE CUTLER-SHAW The Alphabet of Bones http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/4/27/summer-2015-forest-art-workshops monthly 0.5 2015-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1430167433122-IXJGRYQ7WY4SHJCP8XH7/IMG_9234.JPG Blog - SUMMER 2015 FOREST ART WORKSHOPS 2015 ARTIST SUMMER STUDIO WORKSHOPS MARY ELLEN LONG'S STUDIO IN THE FOREST 209 El Diente Drive, Durango COLLAGE -May 16 basic techniques/understanding of adhesives/composition/a little history PAPER-MAKING - June 20 basic “kitchen” techniques/western & eastern style methods/emphasis on local fibers ENVIRONMENTAL ART - July 18 history of land art with a hands-on outdoor experience in 2 locations (lunch included) BOOK ARTS - Aug 15 review of styles/bindings & sculptural forms/individual projects all workshops - beginning to experienced small classes and consultation on individual projects all materials supplied 10-4 $65. INFORMATION & TO REGISTER wmelart@yahoo.com       http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/3/26/purple-cats-and-green-skies monthly 0.5 2015-03-27 http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/3/2/friday-night-in-durango monthly 0.5 2015-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1425337273383-SGEHIWHBD0D6DGZSPECZ/detritus+II.jpg Blog - FRIDAY NIGHT IN DURANGO Detritus Noturnal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1425591469359-9UV1PIXQDAKQGEGWOBD7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - FRIDAY NIGHT IN DURANGO Mixed media work by Catherine Nash http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/3/1/durango-arts-center-juried-show monthly 0.5 2015-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1425244726672-8FD9OKT46ASRQOTBEDWH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Durango Arts Center Juried Show To Learn About the Pine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1425244663840-EQBWFFPOVJI963F2J9OW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Durango Arts Center Juried Show Spine http://www.maryellenlongart.com/new-blog/2015/2/24/new-website monthly 0.5 2015-02-25 http://www.maryellenlongart.com/exhibition-1 daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426445029952-931EM22O2HTEOBMUZWTI/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - Roots: Albuquerque The traveling show Roots was premiered at The Land Gallery in Albuquerque, NM, 2010. The content was all about roots and the media covered works on and off paper, natural elements, and drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426445029952-931EM22O2HTEOBMUZWTI/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - Roots: Albuquerque The traveling show Roots was premiered at The Land Gallery in Albuquerque, NM, 2010. The content was all about roots and the media covered works on and off paper, natural elements, and drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426376913292-5SISG05NKZIEY1E1Z837/IMG_6135.JPG EXHIBITION - Roots: Durango "Roots" traveled to the Art Library, Durango Arts Center in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377050164-TZ4YIZE2EA2J4GCNNURY/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - Roots: Telluride "Roots" traveled to the Daniel Tucker Gallery, Ah Haa School, Telluride, CO in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377101786-2HR9N1BVQ5I95XMSDK2U/IMG_8290.JPG EXHIBITION - Roots: La Jolla "Roots" traveled to the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377166800-35W8LWTFNLSOLURDMGAO/IMG_8892.JPG EXHIBITION - Journey of an Artist A retrospective of 50 years of art-making was held at the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery in 2014. The exhibit included early prints, collage, drawing, artists' books, and box assemblage. The exhibit was accompanied by the catalog "Journey of an Artist". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377240218-VLHN5DVQ7VOKQORYZIOQ/IMG_8904.JPG EXHIBITION - Journey of an Artist Another view of the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377302285-X05GF2AGA65T0H5EUC7F/IMG_8941.JPG EXHIBITION - Journey of the Artist: Site A follow-up exhibit of environmental photography and mixed-media work: Open Shutter Gallery, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1453071868735-9ELMWPIDPFDHSTL58402/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - The White Season Group exhibit: Mica installation in foreground (silk screened nylon scrolls, mica strands, mica drops on floor) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604179931695-HSPC92JKPA5CH6SLWJ4V/Telluride.jpg EXHIBITION - Icons and Elements Stronghouse Gallery Gallery, Telluride, CO - 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604181355278-QUTYGQVTJ8CCV06L6MQ4/IthacaNY.jpeg EXHIBITION - Dreams and Impressions, The Journey of Two Artist Friends, 2018 The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY (with Genie Shenk, dec) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604273177822-TBN7CFM2YYFXSX86NP82/Collection.jpg EXHIBITION - Collection, 2018 The Art Library, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604955762942-5O5W2ST7FOM2YDY8PWYA/narrative.jpeg EXHIBITION - Narrative Threads, 2019 Group exhibition, (curated by Alicia Bailey of Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO) Durango Arts Center, CO http://www.maryellenlongart.com/environmental-site daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604615542099-EKUCJWSVU0B5VK0YAY0H/Scan+31.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Revision series, 1995 Santa Sabina Center, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604615542099-EKUCJWSVU0B5VK0YAY0H/Scan+31.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Revision series, 1995 Santa Sabina Center, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604614502087-EDUQLQOI473GRDV5YFTY/img272.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Ravine Revisions. 1993 Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604615414614-EAPD9AYO4BYJRE9I4JOG/Scan+15.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Paper Stone Path, 1994 Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393281218-QM6IOGH74VSLCHEZCTWH/img267.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Seed Circle, 1993 The Millennium Project, Kingston, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393365322-F6G76KZIQEI8O50AN7QD/anguilla.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Beach Serpent, 2006 Anguilla, West Indies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393404239-JNJ4NTDFYMBORFVZPW5W/IMG_0023.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Kelp Ball Anguilla, West Indies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393466020-TNTT6L8V4ZD6FL2XC0S6/Scan+18+2.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Palmetto Line, 1998 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604594535858-FZZO5CEP0MKA623ASSY0/Roots+at+The+Land%2CNM+jpg.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Roots at The Land, 1999 Mountainair, NM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604614779137-MC3K543AJI6WT4263KIJ/IMG_2196.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Land Line, 2008 Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatsfield, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604780747759-9DPL967NCVI3DH854ZZU/img272.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Ravine Revisions, Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX, 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682113137-HUEVMRXKRBS2BUODM7YD/detritus+I.+jpg.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus I, 1992 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604617873594-M4UB8TV3AJZ451VM1FRG/detritus+11%2C+jpg.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus II, 1997 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682410385-TUWT2YUC3SHVD474KKLZ/Det+V.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus V, 1998 Telluride, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682521836-ZQJQOKWR6LJ2DLEGWPBK/vi+clear.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus VI, 1998 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604618530435-D6HJCP4P04D1COS48GC3/NZDet.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus VII Waikuku, New Zealand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682663959-A4MG2K5APM7F2X3ZANCT/detritus+viiileucadia+2.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus VIII, 1999 Leucadia, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682791686-S2JATOFP46G4T5IHZEP1/IMG_3744.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus IX, 1999 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604619664282-6E3IBSP7HFJTWXKQPA43/xii+Tib99.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus XII, 1999 Tiburon, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604620105612-AIVMKEIR9SRRV2CU10W9/xvLJ01jpeg.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus XV, 2001 University of California at San Diego, Special Collections, location: The Geisel Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572392493141-Y95F1OOYGF5HUBE4KEY9/IMG_0855.JPG ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - maze east of Clearview, Colorado 1996-present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778252574-ECKZLAVUZTBZ4BX2YBBV/Scan+62.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Pine Cone Stream, Clearview, CO, 1990's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604780597235-WX1CFEZQRKRYNWXXSEBP/img222.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Aspen Forest, 1990's Handmade paper tree castings, Clearview, San Juan Mountains, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604952581491-3QQ45075OK2QTAIJWKCV/Snake+Clearvw.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Snake, 1990's Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778511877-0FJ5V1WLNHXHL2ZKWQW6/Concentrice+Circles.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Concentric Circles, 1990's Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778400977-OI0R48M11HI7FIZAGVEP/Scan+53.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Bone Curtain, Clearview, CO, 1990's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778716476-AUWLDYWXPOZPF0KPATX2/725073-R1-16-16.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Forest Circle(first phase), Clearview, CO, 1996-2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572392002097-G295ATNLNZOGK51WI7VL/Scan+24.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Forest Library (later phase) Clearview, Colorado 1996-2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604779066338-P7G8HNKJW4QML2GL1PPJ/725073-R1-15-15.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Book Rock Clearview, CO, 1990’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778968592-DVZYW6LVEY29T0MSP9X2/725073-R1-21-21.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Rock Ring Clearview, CO, 1990’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604617117677-K6QPM9TCWRUS7Z7YTFDJ/IMAGE012.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Wrapped Book at Clearview, 1990's Part of a series, books left at sites for a year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604790708175-TU4SC64EULHN7QNBX9T8/Waters+Past+Edgemont+Hglnds.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Water's Past Edgemont Highlands, Durango CO (Art along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604791075429-NCUE7RVL3NOT0P7M819N/LichenSprial+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Lichen Spiral Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866310972-FJUR5WTNJ3KXXMUS6N2F/AnimalShelter+EH.JPG ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Animal Shelter Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail ( 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866373825-90R94VUVWPJJHUJD6FFG/ClayCairns+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Clay Cairns Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO (Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866463962-L4SA9B5Z98OL23DSAWEP/Braided+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Braiding Edgemont Highland, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866829721-6NJWJ0PKX700YDC64371/Wrapped+Tree+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Wrapped Tree Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866973407-AFBT9VSXL1PWRPXXPTXS/RockVista+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Rock Vista Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604867373916-LE7LJUWF1YII50TPMHFG/Gatherings+Circ.+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Gatherings Circle Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail ( 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604867704062-QWOANTDDWDT9UOHD46CM/PineConeSpiral+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Pine Cone Circle Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO (Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868177604-TTX2XTZRBJJ6F6H1QD24/Harvest+El+Diente.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Harvest El Diente Edgemont, Durango, CO (Winter Pressing 2000’s - paper buried under winter snow annually) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868473093-3TCF2SQ3V1G2T9DN0CZN/Needle+Drop%2C+Summer.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Needle Drop, Summer El Diente, Edgemont, Durango,CO, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868611494-2RHEKM0G7CE411UECKW3/Burnt+%2CSummer.JPG ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Burnt, 2015- present BLM, adjacent to El Diente, Edgemont, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868752082-TV3C1XXBG8A47MTV0UEC/Burnt%2C+Winter.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Burnt, Winter, 2015 - present BLM, adjacent to El Diente, Edgemont, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1696006942557-SPHVT22ZWNJHJDABM2FO/Homage%2BFall.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Homage to Nature Writers Botanical Garden Durango Public Library, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1755370925909-7SB2RNZTA7VJHPDTTPMQ/el+Dienteforest+Library+24jpg.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Forest Library at El Diente http://www.maryellenlongart.com/links daily 0.75 2020-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424803726726-OICYMAQ61G9T4S2X70F4/PaperBurial.JPG LINKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1432065712339-M8RP04VR687LBL92L2CH/image-asset.jpeg LINKS http://www.maryellenlongart.com/contact daily 0.75 2015-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424909675094-LVUG9C4W67370EHD3OO4/IMG_5924.JPG CONTACT http://www.maryellenlongart.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423948439081-4TMSOXMO3LTC92P42Z36/IMG_4026.JPG ABOUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1432064554037-V38YW7YHXUQKCVQAU2UE/image-asset.jpeg ABOUT http://www.maryellenlongart.com/installation daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424902084016-DVTOCJYFIBAXALD4QHKL/AspenForest.jpg INSTALLATION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424821257041-GDZOIKWKP2QYWIG2TTMH/Excorism.JPG INSTALLATION - Excorism "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, 1992 (stonehenge paper, charcoal, pigment, natural elements) parts of this installation available, contact the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869774481-79HCUKL0IC1HKDIQ8743/AspenForest.jpg INSTALLATION - Aspen Forest The ghosts of dead aspen trees are referenced in cast paper (inner-bark fibers kozo and abaca) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869829666-54TRPHB51LW5A69Q2F99/Aspen.JPG INSTALLATION - Detritus "Novel Constructions", Long Beach Museum of Art, 2009 (room-size installation including seven books of nature-altered and handmade paper, dried leaves, cut logs, kozo-abaca fiber) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869920382-DUX2V2SJLHXRU7V8F17V/Detritus.JPG INSTALLATION - Detritus Walk Capital Rotunda, Santa Fe, New Mexico (cast paper of kozo-gampi fiber, forest floor detritus, book sculpture) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869780253-DR2TU8JSPS7EYTV8S42B/Clouds.jpg INSTALLATION - Cloud Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado (kozo-gampi fibers, taken from cloud photographs) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423869932111-1F4DIZ6I00GTS21VAXF2/EarthBedding.JPG INSTALLATION - Earth Pressing LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California, 1987 (nature-altered paper) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870040173-2X30E3X0Q1MTIDJWTAK2/Forest+Stories.jpg INSTALLATION - Forest Stories "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 1992 12 scrolls with scorched text. Floor baskets contain elements of the stories. (kozo/gampi fibers, scorch, natural elements) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870053615-SSCN2C8MHV6JXT5WNRP2/F.Walk+detail.JPG INSTALLATION - Forest Walk (detail) "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 1992 A floor installation of forest detritus, photo-copied aerial maps with stamped text of quotes from environmental writers. (leaves, dirt-rubbed and nature-altered papers, lake-bottom detritus, photographs, glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870049252-Y5WEQIDB7CAQ1YZ0VJJ9/Forest.jpg INSTALLATION - From the Forest "Artists' Books of Significant Scale", Cal Poly, Pomona, California A one room installation with three works, "From the Forest Library' and two "Winter Pressing" works. (nature-altered paper, vintage books. oak and aspen leaves) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870079994-B9VDWUYZHA89IBKQXV49/fr+Forest+Library.JPG INSTALLATION - From the Forest Library "Artists' Books of Significant Scale", Cal Poly, Pomona, California, "Journey of the Artist", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, Colorado An installation of pages that came from my Forest Library (books laid down on the forest floor for over a decade) (vintage book pages, matte medium) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870088559-H51NARB7CCE41B8RYUN8/ForestWalk.JPG INSTALLATION - Detritus "Hot Pursuits", a group exhibit at Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado (nature-altered and dirt-rubbed papers, leaves, photographs, Detritus book of aspen handmade paper) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870112280-53VMLT3XCWN5Y7NOR02D/Japan+Box.JPG INSTALLATION - Japan Box The Art Library, Durango Arts Center, CO, 2006 An exhibit of small artists' books and objects that contain a memory of traveling in Japan. Journal, photograph, and mixed media are used to capture moments and experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870117386-IA7183X8OQTGRJIJD414/Letters+Home.JPG INSTALLATION - Letters Home "Home", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, 2007 A vintage oak display case contains letter my father wrote home from France in WW I. Various photographs are also displayed. Excerpts from the letters and the lyrics from the song byJohn Stephens and Will.I.Am, "Coming Home" - are printed on the bottom of the case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870147579-HBVZ56GTFFCBITA3AOUD/Mapping.JPG INSTALLATION - Following the Passage: Mapping a Friendship A collaborative installation with poet Grace Cavalieri, poet and Kathryn Moller, Prof. of Theater, Artposium, Colorado Art Ranch, Durango Arts Center. (handmade paper (kozo/gampi fibers), photographs, poetry, dancers, musician) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870169526-VNF9TJJ49GPUARX31HPK/NatBundle.JPG INSTALLATION - Nature Bundles Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2006 Combinations of natural elements pinned to the wall with insect pins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870183974-ZGIL2CNT3BTAFIFC3INN/SSS.jpg INSTALLATION - Sands, Signs, Symbols "Colorado Artists", The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PN, 1990 Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 1991 "Artists' Book Show", Capital Rotunda, Santa Fe, NM, 1993 "On Returning", Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA. 1993 (4 handmade paper (kozo/gampi fibers) scrolls with cast paper baskets filled with sands from the America West. Scrolls have penciled text with sanded and scorched images.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870215204-QN31Y03CIIFCOVD3JCC7/WP.jpg INSTALLATION - Winter Pressing with bark books Durango Arts Center, Colorado (nature-altered paper with handmade paper (kozo/abaca fibers) books cast on bark, lichen inclusions, threads) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870240041-F02U5SCYV3CV9CQ52AMT/Where+did+TheyGo.jpg INSTALLATION - Where Did They Go? "Yard Sculpture Show": PS 26 School, Plummer School, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1999 (books, chain, book pages, photo-copied photographs (enclosed in acetate), photographs, box) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870206002-C9SFNBQQR0GZ7FTS3G34/Roots.JPG INSTALLATION - Talisman "Sweetheart of the Arts" exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Coloraro, 2012 The complete installation. Other installations of Talisman are smaller. (collage on nature-altered paper, pinned to the wall with insect pins) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423870206369-DC4AT6UNECAUJM2GXVUD/Tea.JPG INSTALLATION - Imagining India "Sweetheart of the Hearts", exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2012 (painted tea bages attached with insect pins to the wall) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424391151109-QH0S20WPP66EL2ZFSNVM/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION - Roots into Rivers "Journey of the Artist", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, 2014 (nature-altered paper, sand, ink) available https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424566048734-ZFMCVR0HU9NUXA2DWVKG/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION - Roots part of a traveling exhibit "Roots" 2010-14- The Land Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Durango Arts Center, CO;, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA; and the Ah Haa Gallery, Telluride, CO (twenty drawings (each 12" x 9") using charcoal and conte crayon)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424635313590-4Z1VWILBLLU35SWS7YWJ/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION - Rootings "Roots", traveling exhibit 2010-14 each piece 6" sq. nature-altered paper, tea bags, sumi dyed root, earth (contained in tea bag) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1428091980020-WFDNOMKWJ7NF6T6U5FCI/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION - Through the Forest Durango Arts Center 2014 Nature altered spirit papers, held by a stone, on a forest path are weathered by winter passing. These "artifacts" have been pinned to the wall with centered transfer lettering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1428096872121-9QDLBSOUIIQ1HRX315C0/IMG_9182.jpg INSTALLATION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1428096949714-514JXDWBHDJ4DF56S956/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION - Wasp Washi Scrolls Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO. 2014 Handmade Kozo paper with inclusions of wasp-made paper sewn with thread. (sold separately - contact artist)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1584999581705-U156DS5NIHDQHSBOKNW7/image-asset.jpeg INSTALLATION - Flora Handmade paper and flowers (24 books with pages 5 1/2” x 12”) Installed: 28” x 149” Durango Arts Center http://www.maryellenlongart.com/archive daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424902387132-GQDG4VQ70EQ27H243JKG/WP06.JPG ARCHIVE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883072464-BZ5QS2W14BYDWJN4R2TA/WP06.JPG ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2005-06 Varied showings: Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; "San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, La Jolla, CA; New Jersey City University, Jersey City; Shy Rabbit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO; Vivo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (nature-altered paper, wire, natural elements) Placed in varied collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882814079-9NOD32SZNEXF3BB645JA/bonnet.jpg ARCHIVE - Decades 10 small handmade books hanging from a vintage baby bonnet. Each book contains a journal of experience, etc. and represent a decade of the artist's life, (bonnet, threads, varied papers, ink) collection of the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712353687469-256GE0L7ZRJEHGBXZJX0/IMG_7180.jpeg ARCHIVE - 180 Days 180 Days "Travel Visions", The Art Library, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2001; "Members Show", Center for Book Arts, NYC. 2002; San Diego Book Arts in Santa Fe, NM and San Diego, CA During a 6 month visit to New Zealand, I made a page for each day with an image and notation of day and place. The pages were tied together in 6 day bundles. (New Zealand handmade flax paper, thread, box, green stone, prismacolor, ink) Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882838510-KMX1Q4L9QWLO6IDH4N5P/Gradations.JPG ARCHIVE - Gradations of Grey, 2008 A collection of drawings of mountains, collaged on nature-altered paper. (book covers of slate, stonehenge paper, ink, sumi ink, solvent-transfer text) Collection: Special Collections, UCSD, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882893162-OW6KQ9CE66WYFLL3EKQF/Lang.+Found.JPG ARCHIVE - Language Found. 2008 San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, UCSD, La Jolla, CA; "Wide Open". Business of Art, CO. Springs Found boards became a backdrop for small books containing drawings on nature-altered paper. The palm-book style holds the boards together. (nature-altered boards, paper, ink, twine) collection: Special Collections, UCSD, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882905479-IN492WOK7AJXOHNVWER0/Lang.Bound.JPG ARCHIVE - Language Bound, 2008 Vivo Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2011; The found boards became a base for flax and mulberry paper bundles. Collection: Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882935102-IQVXIKJJOXT98XMAR6A8/The+Wild...JPG ARCHIVE - The Walk The Wild The Way, 2012 The book is contained in a custom-made box of walnut and class. Collection: Athenaeum Music & Music Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882951666-MMPG1UDC0Q2CKVOR4UJ6/TheWild.JPG ARCHIVE - The Walk The Wild The Way (detail) Pages are alternated with marking inspired by bark larvae and text about the environment - a stab binding. (nature-altered paper, Japanese paper, scorch, digital print, thread) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883071236-ZI5MVCOHU4UCOVHHZACW/WinterP.JPG ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2007-08 "San Diego Book Arts Juried Exhibit; Land Gallery Book Show, Albuquerque, NM (nature-altered paper, natural elements, solvent-transferred text, coptic bound - contained in a wood box. Bark-paper book cover and box top) collection: Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883040733-TBL4554IOFK2QZMMHDR7/WP+12.JPG ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2011-12 "San Diego Book Arts", Cerritos Library, CA; Grafias Gallery, Nantucket, MA A palm-leaf binding holds pages with text about the process of burying paper under winter snow. (nature-altered and imported paper, linen thread, solvent-transfer text) Collection: Special Collections, UCSD. La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423883012986-GU3BGCKDAEYVWMHUJ7G9/Unlived+Life.JPG ARCHIVE - The Unlived Life of Mary Ellen "Juried Show", Durango Arts Center, CO Book speaking of my thoughts on not receiving a chemistry set when I was young. Contained in a vintage chemistry set. (digital photographs and writings. Secret Belgium binding.) Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882918983-3N7E4C2GNAE8UW6F3H7K/ShintaiScroll.JPG ARCHIVE - Shintai Scrolls, 1982 Using bark fragments and my handmade paper began my work in sculptural forms when I moved to a forest environment in Colorado. (handmade paper (kozo/gampi fiber) and bark, oak base) Collection: Baylor University, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1430336667675-D7SPJCG7ZMN2UQRDDXWN/IMG_9011.jpg ARCHIVE - To Learn About the Pine, 2014 The burnt bark fragment inspired this book. The pages were cast on aspen trees. Scorch was applied to the edges of the pages. The text was taken from the words of Basho, a famous Japanese poet. (burnt bark, handmade Kozo paper, twine, birch bark collage, ink) Exhibited: Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO Collection: Mandeville Library, Special Collections, Geisel Library, UC San Diego, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1453071995844-8CM3X9XBKAIW7NG76EEF/IMG_0599.JPG ARCHIVE - Barn, 2015 Photographs printed on vellum paper, slate cover from barn roof private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1445549474048-VKD09JZXIHF8ZTDT37FD/Stored+Secrets.jpg ARCHIVE - Secrets of the Burn, 2004 Scrolls of delicate paper are wrapped with fragments from a massive fire near my studio. These peelings from aspen trees were gathered after the fire. The scrolls became a containment of memory and story. Exhibited:Center from Book Arts, New York City; Durango Arts Center, CO (Best in Show)/ Paper-Book Intensive, Steamboat Springs, CO; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; San Diego Book Arts, UCSD collection: Penrose Library, Special Collections, University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263551557-SKOH8879BKKV5GCKK5LA/IMG_031.jpeg ARCHIVE - Journey in the San Juans, 1993 7”x7”x40” found rusty elements, threads, wood blocks, variable and seaweed papers, photographs, prism color Collection of Mark Long and Rebecca Todd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1467642467132-SRGZGR3FW8LU45ITGGBF/IMG_9785.JPG ARCHIVE - SPINE collection of Mark C. Long, Keene State College, Keene, NH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1519856578494-ZOHCHGOKVRXR0J973LTR/Beware.jpg ARCHIVE - Beware 4 1/2" x 3.3/4" x 1" (box 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" x 2") A porcupine was gnawing parts of my house and there was no choice but to exterminate it. It was buried nearby and after winter, the bones were found white and clean. My son sent me the poem "The Porcupine" by Gallway Kinnell. (altered book, quills, bone, box covered with Japanese paper, press-on letters, leather, sand, ink, pigment) Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882821523-9BF01XJNYAH0QH651KOI/Gateway.jpg ARCHIVE - Passage, 1983 Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983 (handmade paper of kozo/gampi/straw fibers), branches, oak base) private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882895282-3NU47GHKMDIMAFKTSCIY/SandoSign.jpeg ARCHIVE - Sando Sign, 1983 Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983 (handmade paper of kozo/gampi fibers, willow, oak base) Russell Engineering, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1423882943733-J7K4Z5S3MGEZNMDQIKCZ/Torii.jpg ARCHIVE - Torii, 1983 Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983 (handmade paper of kozo/gampi fibers, willow, oak base) private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1424122110288-4EN93NQM2EW7XIP6ATR8/Lichen.JPG ARCHIVE - Lichen "Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, CO; Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO; William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ; Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA (Informed by photographs of lichen on rock, nature'altered paper backed by canvas, with applied charcoal, dry pigment, and sands. 7'x13') Collection: Colorado Public Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604266044495-HGJF0SL6UNT9EAMZ19PP/Wasp%2BFeather%2BPaper.jpg ARCHIVE - Wasp, Feather, Paper Collage of antique, various and handmade papers private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263113877-K7QB3RX7O82K63SNHMQ8/TapaAfrikan.JPG ARCHIVE - Tapa Afrikan 2011 - Tapa cloth collage with calligraphic drawing private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263977362-WW6VG6VZ8VZTYN2RD8EO/PassingWisdomBirds.jpeg ARCHIVE - The Passing Wisdom of Birds, 1993 Collage on board, photograph (text: Spanish conquest Mexico and killing of birds) Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263357863-N2JQ04L6AH0PY7FMIEYN/Wasp+paper+mask.jpeg ARCHIVE - Mask Wasp paper glued on cast paper private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265050674-7F9IC3543HCXT1IB5M3B/WP87.jpg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 1987-88 Paper buried under winter snow. Being printed by the forest detritus Part of an annual ritual. 1983-present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264118020-005PPUJ14V9E0KZQM6LI/WP+09+bacon.jpg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2008-09 nature-altered, scorched, charcoaled, sanded, sumi-inked, with conte-crayon Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263761000-9TSTN8BXNG4QQ78JI1G6/MountainMissionary.jpeg ARCHIVE - Mountain: Missionary Ridge Imported papers, prismacolor, rock (text: Gary Synder) Shown at Center of Book Arts, NY, NY Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264018695-W16N0H68K17PXFE1F96H/WaspMaze+Baylor.jpeg ARCHIVE - Wasp Maze, 2014 Nest interior, imported and vellum papers, wasp paper Shown at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO Collection of Special Collections, Baylor University, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264618426-2L5KI2HO2BQ1HVKEUSJB/RootsIntoRiversWP13-14.jpg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2013-14 (Roots into Rivers) Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604263787143-VJ9NH8XJEO2KZGXU4WTA/Bird+Song+open.jpeg ARCHIVE - Bird Song. 1996 handmade paper, foil, ink, thread, driftwood (Text: bird sonograms) Collection: Caroline Corre, Center for Book Arts, Verderonne, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265133047-R7D5L4RUB7HZAF67GZWW/wP+14-15+AthenLJ.jpeg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2014-15 Walking the Trail, El Diente Collection: The Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264372754-5YHBSPEMY22K9W1F2TGP/Roots+into+Rivers.jpeg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2013-14 detail of inside pages nature altered, vellum and varied papers, prismacolor drawing private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264801997-IL7GO4OXEIT502MGSIR2/Wp+17-18+copy.jpeg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2017-18 (Recipes for Saving Planet Earth) nature altered paper, photographs, recipe box Collection: The Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264858115-1Y76ARTYFURKZC4SJLEU/Bainbridge.jpeg ARCHIVE - Tangle, 2014 altered photography, fishing bobbin, imported papers Bainbridge Museum of Art, WA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265534684-FLAZF0U0JLU61Q0QDBGF/Wonder+Women+cover.+DUjpg.jpg ARCHIVE - Wonder Women, 2018 doll arms, silk, varied papers Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604265571466-CUE0QQX1T0EAKE37EUUL/Wonder+Women.jpg ARCHIVE - Wonder Women (inside detail) ink- jet printed text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604264182768-FNBUVT15N38W8QVXS9KC/ThreadingsAthen.jpeg ARCHIVE - Threadings, 2019 collaged nature-altered, linen threads sewing through the pages collection: Special Collections of University of Denver, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604270949259-NWA1X8H89UT7R4EREM0Z/at+70.jpeg ARCHIVE - At Seventy 8 (2” sq.)books with text of the writings of May Sarton Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1623101765547-8AU0J8A07XTUI05EFCV2/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE - Stroke A wood box ( 9” x 11” x 4”) containing 10 folios telling the story of artist’s 2018 stroke event, memory scrolls, scorched wood ball. (shown with artists’ book “Veinings”). Collection of the Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1637168084588-TEY789GXRGS8BAP3CIAV/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing 2019-20 Collection: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701884372805-RG1FQUXR8MIHENAER1YX/IMG_7767.JPG ARCHIVE - The Collage Book A collage collection made through the years. Special Collections, University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701885254478-5BU5HZTZRYYD2D45P2VY/IMG_7788.JPG ARCHIVE - The Collage Book detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701885405674-53TJ5HPCHX5Y3OGD0LSD/IMG_9384.jpeg ARCHIVE - Imaging Japan An accordion book in the lacquered book with element. Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1696007719430-JSPBEQMBRN5MEAQR297Y/Excorism.jpg ARCHIVE - Untitled Mixed Media Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701885982994-KZSJDWDVFVHCQ548UH7L/Falling+Colors+smaller.jpg ARCHIVE - Falling Colors Mixed media collage, 30”x22” ,2023 Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701889335924-08X0WBLGPDIPA6CJ01J8/Earth+Press.jpg ARCHIVE - Earth Pressing installation Assemblage of earth pressed papers, with burnt worm markings approximately 30” square - Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701903290148-SBU9ASLTBIA7ZEPKS8W4/Inheritance.jpeg ARCHIVE - Inheritance Collage, 12’ x 9” 2023 (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1701903945437-L7KOK51C4T7AW9YGNLGY/IMG_8656.jpeg ARCHIVE - Forest Library Photographs Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1707778253683-23AS1RULJ01WP0QVBRGL/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE - Aspen Pencil drawing, 7’ x 40” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712350467915-U9NLYFXPL72FGC4572R0/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing Book 11” x 11” x 3” Coptic bound book (Documentation of Winter Pressings from 1995 - 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712356069704-NLVWJOR8Q1WDNA40YZKE/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE - Winter Pressing Book detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1712356405214-I9IKM6QON6R3BMKCPM2F/IMG_9431.jpeg ARCHIVE Detail - Winter Pressing Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721163250447-1B08T6CTACSYYKLZYHN2/Dominicalito.jpeg ARCHIVE - Dominicalita Mixed Media Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721163641492-NG9H12EF6270MO2QN5N0/Closure.jpeg ARCHIVE - Closure Penrose Library - University of Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1731522247670-WWN9982PSKIDXROYNV0V/image-asset.jpeg ARCHIVE - Cloud Paper Root Kozo-gampi handmade paper, University of Denver Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721427257149-ZYL66TOIVVNS6TRBCO7A/Phastasm.jpeg ARCHIVE - Phantasm 14” x 80” Mixed Media Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1721427689997-UOBFX3P5B6V31DAZGLE5/NZ+1999.jpeg ARCHIVE - New Zealand, 1999 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1732144855305-6ZUV15ZWWORUIU3HKFYH/Falling+Colors.jpeg ARCHIVE - Falling Colors 30” x 22” Drawing/Collage Private Collection http://www.maryellenlongart.com/exhibition daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426445029952-931EM22O2HTEOBMUZWTI/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - Roots: Albuquerque The traveling show Roots was premiered at The Land Gallery in Albuquerque, NM, 2010. The content was all about roots and the media covered works on and off paper, natural elements, and drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426376913292-5SISG05NKZIEY1E1Z837/IMG_6135.JPG EXHIBITION - Roots: Durango "Roots" traveled to the Art Library, Durango Arts Center in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377050164-TZ4YIZE2EA2J4GCNNURY/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - Roots: Telluride "Roots" traveled to the Daniel Tucker Gallery, Ah Haa School, Telluride, CO in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377101786-2HR9N1BVQ5I95XMSDK2U/IMG_8290.JPG EXHIBITION - Roots: La Jolla "Roots" traveled to the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377166800-35W8LWTFNLSOLURDMGAO/IMG_8892.JPG EXHIBITION - Journey of an Artist A retrospective of 50 years of art-making was held at the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery in 2014. The exhibit included early prints, collage, drawing, artists' books, and box assemblage. The exhibit was accompanied by the catalog "Journey of an Artist". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377240218-VLHN5DVQ7VOKQORYZIOQ/IMG_8904.JPG EXHIBITION - Journey of an Artist Another view of the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1426377302285-X05GF2AGA65T0H5EUC7F/IMG_8941.JPG EXHIBITION - Journey of the Artist: Site A follow-up exhibit of environmental photography and mixed-media work: Open Shutter Gallery, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1453071868735-9ELMWPIDPFDHSTL58402/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITION - The White Season Group exhibit: Mica installation in foreground (silk screened nylon scrolls, mica strands, mica drops on floor) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604179931695-HSPC92JKPA5CH6SLWJ4V/Telluride.jpg EXHIBITION - Icons and Elements Stronghouse Gallery Gallery, Telluride, CO - 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604181355278-QUTYGQVTJ8CCV06L6MQ4/IthacaNY.jpeg EXHIBITION - Dreams and Impressions, The Journey of Two Artist Friends, 2018 The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY (with Genie Shenk, dec) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604273177822-TBN7CFM2YYFXSX86NP82/Collection.jpg EXHIBITION - Collection, 2018 The Art Library, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604955762942-5O5W2ST7FOM2YDY8PWYA/narrative.jpeg EXHIBITION - Narrative Threads, 2019 Group exhibition, (curated by Alicia Bailey of Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO) Durango Arts Center, CO http://www.maryellenlongart.com/video daily 0.75 2019-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572380473839-K598OSXSR6FZF6PEKPFE/Screen+Shot+2019-10-29+at+2.20.26+PM.png Video http://www.maryellenlongart.com/environmental-site-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604615542099-EKUCJWSVU0B5VK0YAY0H/Scan+31.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Revision series, 1995 Santa Sabina Center, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604614502087-EDUQLQOI473GRDV5YFTY/img272.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Ravine Revisions. 1993 Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604615414614-EAPD9AYO4BYJRE9I4JOG/Scan+15.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Paper Stone Path, 1994 Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393281218-QM6IOGH74VSLCHEZCTWH/img267.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Seed Circle, 1993 The Millennium Project, Kingston, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393365322-F6G76KZIQEI8O50AN7QD/anguilla.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Beach Serpent, 2006 Anguilla, West Indies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393404239-JNJ4NTDFYMBORFVZPW5W/IMG_0023.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Kelp Ball Anguilla, West Indies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572393466020-TNTT6L8V4ZD6FL2XC0S6/Scan+18+2.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Palmetto Line, 1998 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604594535858-FZZO5CEP0MKA623ASSY0/Roots+at+The+Land%2CNM+jpg.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Roots at The Land, 1999 Mountainair, NM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604614779137-MC3K543AJI6WT4263KIJ/IMG_2196.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Land Line, 2008 Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatsfield, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604780747759-9DPL967NCVI3DH854ZZU/img272.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Ravine Revisions, Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX, 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682113137-HUEVMRXKRBS2BUODM7YD/detritus+I.+jpg.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus I, 1992 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604617873594-M4UB8TV3AJZ451VM1FRG/detritus+11%2C+jpg.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus II, 1997 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682410385-TUWT2YUC3SHVD474KKLZ/Det+V.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus V, 1998 Telluride, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682521836-ZQJQOKWR6LJ2DLEGWPBK/vi+clear.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus VI, 1998 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604618530435-D6HJCP4P04D1COS48GC3/NZDet.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus VII Waikuku, New Zealand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682663959-A4MG2K5APM7F2X3ZANCT/detritus+viiileucadia+2.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus VIII, 1999 Leucadia, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604682791686-S2JATOFP46G4T5IHZEP1/IMG_3744.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus IX, 1999 Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604619664282-6E3IBSP7HFJTWXKQPA43/xii+Tib99.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus XII, 1999 Tiburon, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604620105612-AIVMKEIR9SRRV2CU10W9/xvLJ01jpeg.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Detritus XV, 2001 University of California at San Diego, Special Collections, location: The Geisel Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572392493141-Y95F1OOYGF5HUBE4KEY9/IMG_0855.JPG ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - maze east of Clearview, Colorado 1996-present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778252574-ECKZLAVUZTBZ4BX2YBBV/Scan+62.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Pine Cone Stream, Clearview, CO, 1990's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604780597235-WX1CFEZQRKRYNWXXSEBP/img222.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Aspen Forest, 1990's Handmade paper tree castings, Clearview, San Juan Mountains, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604952581491-3QQ45075OK2QTAIJWKCV/Snake+Clearvw.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Snake, 1990's Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778511877-0FJ5V1WLNHXHL2ZKWQW6/Concentrice+Circles.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Concentric Circles, 1990's Clearview, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778400977-OI0R48M11HI7FIZAGVEP/Scan+53.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Bone Curtain, Clearview, CO, 1990's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778716476-AUWLDYWXPOZPF0KPATX2/725073-R1-16-16.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Forest Circle(first phase), Clearview, CO, 1996-2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1572392002097-G295ATNLNZOGK51WI7VL/Scan+24.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Forest Library (later phase) Clearview, Colorado 1996-2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604779066338-P7G8HNKJW4QML2GL1PPJ/725073-R1-15-15.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Book Rock Clearview, CO, 1990’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604778968592-DVZYW6LVEY29T0MSP9X2/725073-R1-21-21.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Rock Ring Clearview, CO, 1990’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604617117677-K6QPM9TCWRUS7Z7YTFDJ/IMAGE012.jpeg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Wrapped Book at Clearview, 1990's Part of a series, books left at sites for a year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604790708175-TU4SC64EULHN7QNBX9T8/Waters+Past+Edgemont+Hglnds.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Water's Past Edgemont Highlands, Durango CO (Art along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604791075429-NCUE7RVL3NOT0P7M819N/LichenSprial+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Lichen Spiral Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866310972-FJUR5WTNJ3KXXMUS6N2F/AnimalShelter+EH.JPG ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Animal Shelter Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail ( 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866373825-90R94VUVWPJJHUJD6FFG/ClayCairns+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Clay Cairns Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO (Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866463962-L4SA9B5Z98OL23DSAWEP/Braided+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Braiding Edgemont Highland, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866829721-6NJWJ0PKX700YDC64371/Wrapped+Tree+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Wrapped Tree Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604866973407-AFBT9VSXL1PWRPXXPTXS/RockVista+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Rock Vista Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604867373916-LE7LJUWF1YII50TPMHFG/Gatherings+Circ.+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Gatherings Circle Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO ( Art Along the Wild Trail ( 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604867704062-QWOANTDDWDT9UOHD46CM/PineConeSpiral+EH.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Pine Cone Circle Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO (Art Along the Wild Trail, 2004-13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868177604-TTX2XTZRBJJ6F6H1QD24/Harvest+El+Diente.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Harvest El Diente Edgemont, Durango, CO (Winter Pressing 2000’s - paper buried under winter snow annually) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868473093-3TCF2SQ3V1G2T9DN0CZN/Needle+Drop%2C+Summer.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Needle Drop, Summer El Diente, Edgemont, Durango,CO, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868611494-2RHEKM0G7CE411UECKW3/Burnt+%2CSummer.JPG ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Burnt, 2015- present BLM, adjacent to El Diente, Edgemont, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1604868752082-TV3C1XXBG8A47MTV0UEC/Burnt%2C+Winter.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Burnt, Winter, 2015 - present BLM, adjacent to El Diente, Edgemont, Durango, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1696006942557-SPHVT22ZWNJHJDABM2FO/Homage%2BFall.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Homage to Nature Writers Botanical Garden Durango Public Library, CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54de7b70e4b094c1603bed5a/1755370925909-7SB2RNZTA7VJHPDTTPMQ/el+Dienteforest+Library+24jpg.jpg ENVIRONMENTAL SITE - Forest Library at El Diente