Amanda Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates our relationship with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human-driven climate change. She exposes and reconsiders the layered histories of specific locations: from the geologic forces that shaped the land, to impacts of Western colonialism, to the current practices of development, destruction, and restoration by the local communities she interacts with every day. Bodies of water often act as anchors for Maciuba’s creative investigation. Watershed is an exhibition of prints, artist’s books, and installations that consider how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return.

Special thanks to the Lawrence Arts Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Tallgrass Artist Residency, Iowa Lakeside Lab Artist-in-Residence Program, In Cahoots Residency, the University at Buffalo Print Media Department & the Breverman Visiting Artist Program, the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculty & the Art Studio Department at Mount Holyoke College, and the innumerable local experts, park/preserve employees, authors, fellow co-resident artists, friends, and family that made eight years of research about the Missouri River watershed possible.

This exhibition and residency program are made possible through the generous support of the Elizabeth Rubendall Foundation.

Photo by Bill Ganzel, Ganzel Group Communications