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Kim Stringfellow

Kim Stringfellow is an artist and educator residing in Joshua Tree, California. Her work bridges cultural geography, environmental journalism, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. She is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and the 2012 recipient of the Theo Westenberger Award for Artistic Excellence. Stringfellow is an Associate Professor in School of Art + Design at San Diego State University. She is the author of two books, "Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005" and "Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008" both published by the Center for American Places.

 

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Holes in the Desert: A Mojave Crime Compendium
From makeshift meth labs to the Manson Family, view a history of criminal activities in the Mojave Desert.
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Mojave Project: Devils Hole Simulacra
A cultural history of conservationist efforts to save the Devils Hole pupfish along with the endemic species of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
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Mojave Project: Divining Devils Hole
The depth of Devils Hole, a fossil water portal into an ancient aquifer in Nye County, Nevada is still not known. The geothermal abyss is home to the endangered Devils Hole pupfish -- the rarest known pupfish in the world.
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Gopherus Agassizii: A Cultural History of Tortoises
The desert tortoise, the state reptile for both Nevada and California, truly embodies the physicality and timelessness of the Mojave Desert but is also most negatively affected by our own human presence herein.
Photo: Timothy O'Sullivan, Desert Sand Hills near Sink of Carson, Nevada, 1867. | Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.
The Mojave Project: John C. Van Dyke and the Desert Wasteland
Although collective attitudes towards arid landscapes have changed drastically over time, the concept of desert as wasteland continues to persist.
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Packrats and Possum Trot: Artists and Collectors of the Desert
A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggests that we are all purveyors and taxonomists of discarded refuse.
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Gem-O-Rama: Mojave Playa Interventions, Part II
The Mojave Project explores the eclectic desert communities of the Mojave Desert.
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The Mojave Project: Rockhounding 101
Rockhounding reached its height of popularity during the 1950s/60s. David Eyre, owner of Desert Discoveries in Boron, California is leading today's amateur geology resurgence.
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The Mojave Project: Reimagining the Amargosa
Susan Sorrells' creative vision helped reinvent Shoshone, California from a fading mining town into a thriving desert ecotourism destination.
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Llano del Rio: Experiments in Desert Utopic Living
A new found interest by artist groups has brought attention to bygone Mojave desert "utopias" Llano del Rio and Lanfair Valley.
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Land Speeding at El Mirage: Mojave Playa Interventions P.3
Since the 1920s, gearheads and hot rodders have flocked to the flat alkali playas of the western Mojave Desert, setting land speed records that continue to be pushed today.
The End of the World: Mojave Playa Interventions, Part I
Desert playas, considered to be the flattest naturally occurring geographic feature on Earth, offer unique physical facets that continue to inspire the human imagination.
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