About the Author

Krista Elrick is a photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After earning her M.F.A. in photography from Arizona State University in 1990, she has had extensive arts-management experience with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Western States Arts Federation, and she has completed several public art commissions with the Phoenix Arts Commission and the Seattle Arts Commission. She was also a featured artist in the exhibition/catalog, Grasslands/Separating Species, curated and edited by Mary Anne Redding (Radius Books, in conjunction with the exhibition at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, 2009), and is a co-editor, with Mary Anne Redding, of Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009).

About the Contributors

Mary Anne Redding is Curator and Creative Director of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University. Previously she was Curator of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts and Chair of the Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art & Design and Curator of Photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. For the past twenty-five years, she has written and published numerous essays on photography and contemporary art and actively curated exhibitions at museums around the United States. Gregory Nobles is Professor of History Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His previous books include John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Whose American Revolution Was It? Historians Interpret the Founding, Alfred F. Young (New York University Press, 2011), and American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (Hill and Wang, 1998).