NOTE: 2020 schedule will be posted in December 2019
“PINE MOUNTAIN ART WALKS: Four Seasons, Five Senses And Time”
A Wild Places Creative project by artist Zoé Strecker
Route, instructions, art materials, guidance and on-site artist talk.
Pine Mountain Walk #1:
Bad Branch State Nature Preserve, Saturday, TBA from 11am – 3 pm
Easy hike to a waterfall
[Registration available December 2019] Click here to sign up for the walk.
Click HERE for a map to the site.
Pine Mountain Walk #2:
Blanton Forest State Nature Preserve, TBA, 11am – 3 pm
Moderate hike to an overlook called Knobby Rock
[Registration available December 2019] Click here to sign up for the walk.
Click HERE for a map to the site and HERE for the Kentucky State Nature Preserve information link.
Logistics
Walks take place on established trails.
Wear hiking boots or good walking shoes. Pack light rain gear.
Please bring your own water bottles and backpack or bag for other supplies.
Weather
If there is a threat of severe weather, trip will be postponed; you’ll get email notification.
Cost
FREE for participants. Any donation is welcome and $25 is recommended. Payment can be made in person on the day of the walk with cash, check or by credit card (through Square Register) via the link on the sign up page above. Family or group donations of any amount are welcome.
Food
Optional $12 box lunch. Sign up above. Payment can be made in person on the day of the walk with cash, check or by credit card (through Square Register) via the link on the sign up page above.
You may choose to bring your own lunch and/or snacks.
Lodging
Click HERE for a list of places to stay with links
Overview:
Walking is a way of transforming the abstraction of a map into an embodied experience of place that is subjective and physical. For this project, the artist has created specific walking protocols that participants will follow during half-day walks through old growth forests on Pine Mountain in southeastern Kentucky in Bad Branch and Blanton Forest State Nature Preserves.
This creative mapping project adopts a scientific “transect” mindset without strictly employing its methods. While a botanist or an urban planner might move in a straight line to analyze a territory, participants in this art walk will engage in activities that have more in common with meditative observation practices and, perhaps, scavenger hunts.
Documentation of individual physical, intellectual and sensual experiences will be drawn into a collective artifact that will be keyed to a more conventional map that will, in turn, create an evolving document of the territory along Pine Mountain.