Basia Irland

Albuquerque

Fulbright Scholar, Basia Irland, is an author, poet, sculptor, installation artist, and activist who creates international water projects, featured in two books, “Water Library” (University of New Mexico Press, 2007) and “Reading the River: The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland” (Museum De Domijnen, 2017). Irland is Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, where she founded the Art and Ecology Program. She writes a blog for National Geographic about global rivers written in the first person from the perspective of the water. She works with scholars from diverse disciplines building rainwater harvesting systems; connecting communities and fostering dialogue along the entire length of rivers; filming water documentaries; sculpting hand-carved ice books embedded with native riparian seeds for river restoration projects; and creating waterborne disease projects around the world. Irland lectures and exhibits extensively. In 2016, she had a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum De Domijnen, The Netherlands. basiairland.com