Learning to Live In Drought Surrounded by Water is a body of work I made during my Jerome Early Career Printmaking Residency at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, September 2024-June 2025. The work dwells in climate and parental anxieties. I am new to the Midwest and its landscape is foreign to me. I commute to Northfield from Saint Paul, and spend that time in the car wrapping my head around this strange land that is both full of fresh water and drought prone. I cannot help but connect this irony to my feelings about parenthood. Bounty and scarcity, joy and fear, inevitable and unpredictable change. This is the seed that created this body of work. It was created in part with publicly available governmental geospatial data. Specifically, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Minnesota Wetlands dataset and The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office Lidar Elevation dataset. This data was paid for by the public and therefore it is free for scientists, artists, and anyone else to use, at least for the time being.

Fellow ‘24-’25 Jerome Residents Nancy Ariza and Emma Ulen-klees