UW Art Museum Hosts Red Desert Exhibition Sept. 19, 2007 -- An exhibition “Portrait of a Place -- Wyoming’s Red Desert, photographs by Martin Stupich,” will be on display at the University of Wyoming Art Museum through Dec. 22. Stupich, writer Annie Proulx, archeologist Dudley Gardher and geologist Charles Ferguson spent the past five years exploring the Red Desert, which comprises more than six million acres between Rawlins and Rock Springs. Their collected stories, images and observations will result in a publication on the Red Desert that will be as much a study of its natural landscape, its archaeology and human history as it is a study on public lands and use. “What emerges from Stupich’s images is the revelation about our human history and our connection to the land,” says Susan Moldenhauer, UW Art Museum director and chief curator. “It is a complicated and fragmented portrait that challenges the commonly held belief that this region along the I-80 corridor of southern Wyoming is a barren place of little value.” A symposium, “The Red Desert: Among Dead Volcanoes and Living Dunes, A Public Conversation on the Value of Place,” is Sept. 28-29, to coincide with the exhibition. Seating for the symposium is limited. Call (307) 766-3477 for reservations. For more information, including a schedule of events and roster of presenters, call (307) 766-6620 or go to the Web site www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum. The symposium is sponsored by Richard and Judith Agee, the Guthrie Family Foundation, the National Advisory Board of the UW Art Museum, the Argosy Family Foundation, the Helga and Otto Haub School, the William Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, the UW Program on Ecology, the Wyoming Council for the Humanities and the Wyoming Arts Council. The UW Art Museum is located in the Centennial Complex at 22nd and Willett Drive in Laramie. The museum is open Mondays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free. Photo Martin Stupich Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007