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Catherine Harris

  • Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Art & Ecology
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    Education

    • MFA, Stanford University
    • MLA, University of California, Berkeley

    Research

    • Post-human Studies
    • Trans-species Studies
    • Virtual Reality in Landscape Architecture

    Assistant Professor Harris' Visual Portfolio

    Catherine Page Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of New Mexico in the School of Architecture & Planning. BA, Harvard University, 1988, MLA, UC Berkeley, 1997, and MFA, Stanford University, 2005. Harris’ community design experience includes “The Sharing Shelves” a multi-year collaboration with the International District Healthy Communities Committee, Michaele Pride, and students, to create an artifact for community conversations. Harris co-taught the DPAC design studio for two years and has collaborated with communities through art and design for fifteen. Founder of the Indigenous Design Studio in Landscape Architecture at UNM with the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute. Recent projects include Poured Earth Collective with architect Charlie O’Geen, developing projects involved in creating structure from site, the sharing shelves, a creative placemaking project in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the Red Water Pond Road Community Peace Center, an NEA ArtWorks funded project to create a space to memorialize the impacts of legacy mining on indigenous land, and sharing a drink, observing humans and non-humans share water. Trans-species Repast–sharing meals with animals – an exploration of hierarchy, resources and landscape– was shown in 2016 at the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, and UNM Art Museum, in 2015 at the Land Shape Festival in Hanstholm, DK, and Marble House Project, Dorset, VT and the Wignall Museum, CA, in 2014. Current research includes listening to indigenous landscape, developing 3D imaging of botanical resilience, and proposing urban posthuman places. Pedagogical foci include indigeneity, designing for climate change, social equity, and resilience.


    LA 503: Resilient design and systems in landscape architecture, currently focusing on resilient communities in the arid southwest.

    LA 563: Contemporary Theory in Landscape Architecture,

    ARTS 141: Intro to Art & Ecology


    The Many Challenges of Dining with Animals, Matthew Irwin, 10/8/2015

    Exhibition’s meals between animals and humans challenges assumption that we stand atop hierarchy of life, Jackie Jadrnak, Albuquerque Journal North, 10/2/2015

    "Art & Ecology, Exploring the origin of Food through art, Edible Santa Fe, 2015

    Landscape Research Record No. 2, Morphogenesis in the Landscape 2014

    "Media-N," trans-species habitat essay 2013

    "Between Ecological Art & Design, Infrastructural Intervention," Arid Journal 2013

    "Dipodomys merriami: Desert Rat," Arid Journal 2012

    "Trans-species Habitat" ISEA Machine Wilderness Catalog essay 2012

    Walking and the Artist Residency or the 21st Century Flaneur, CELA 2009

    "Five Stories, a life in art," thesis for Master of Fine Arts 2005

    "Chris Grubbs, Illustrator," in Landscape Architecture Magazine 2001

    "Dirt on Broadway", thesis for Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture 1997

    Sylvan Delta, published by left hand books, NY 1993


    Navajo, NM, Red Lake Chapter, Navajo Nation, 2015

    Town ScenariosRed Water Pond Road Community, Navajo Nation, 2017

    Resilient Community Green School Board, 2014

    Cien Aguas International School, Albuquerque, NM Coors and Montano: Community Performance Space, Taylor Ranch Neighborhood Association, 2015

    Interim Uses Alvarado and Eastern, Cien Aguas International School, 2014

    Proforma and Development plan, Cien Aguas International School, 2014

    Coors and Montano: Bosque Interwoven Community, Taylor Ranch Neighborhood Association, 2012


    Funded Residency, Marble House Project, Dorset, Vermont 2015

    CFA Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2015

    Barrett Honors Thesis External Reviewer, Arizona State University,Herberger Inst. Tempe, AZ, 2015

    Wallenberg Studio Reviewer, University of Michigan, School of Architecture, Ann Arbor, MI, 2013

    Frontier Fellow Epicenter, Green River, UT 2013

    Research Development Grant, with Michaele Pride (PI) and others UNM School of Architecture and Planning, Albuquerque, NM, 2012

    CFA Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2011

    PLAND residency with Topo- graphia Collective, PLAND, Tres Piedres, NM, 2010-2011

    Arts and Humanities at the LTER, Andrews Experimental Forest, FR 130, Oregon, 2010

    Arts and Humanities at the LTER, Workgroup, Estes Park, CO, 2010
    Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2010

    Foodshed Field School, Bruce Milne (PI) and others, USDA,Albuquerque, NM, 2010-2012

    CFA Seed Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico $4,000 Albuquerque, NM, 2010

    CFA Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2009

    Murphy Cadogan Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2004

    Funded Residency, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT 2003

    Full Fellowship Recipient, Vermont Studio Center,Johnson,VT 2003

    Shows and exhibitions

    Trans-species Repast, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2016

    Trans-species Repast, Landmark, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2015

    Trans-species Repast, LandShape, LandShape Symposium, North Jutland, DK 2015

    Algaeic Infrastructure, Transport, Albuquerque Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2015

    Trans-species Repast, Home ECOnomics, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamunga, CA 2014

    Algaeic Infrastructure, High Desert Test Site, Montessa Park, Albuquerque, NM, 2013

    Reflection, The Artists’ View, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM 2013
    At the Same Table, The Artists’ View, Highland University Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NM 2013

    Waterline, Storefront Lab, Deep Craft, San Francisco, CA 2012
    Circumnavigation, Transformative Surfaces, UNM Art Museum Albuquerque, NM 2012

    Eden Again, ISEA Machine Wilderness, Downtown Action Team Space, Albuquerque, NM 2012

    Maquette, Seed Table, Matters Show,The Bakery Collective, Los Angeles, CA 2011

    Dipodemys merramai, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, NM 2011