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Kim Stringfellow

(She/Her)
Joshua Tree
As seen in: KOCE-TV (Costa Mesa, CA), Southwest Contemporary
Covers:  Mojave Desert, Joshua Tree, Salton Sea, Morongo Basin, environment, people, places, visual arts, climate change, jackrabbit homesteading
Artist, photographer, writer, explorer kimstringfellow.com, mojaveproject.org jackrabbithomestead.com thereitistakeit.org greetingsfromsaltonsea.com

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Kim Stringfellow’s Biography

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Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer, and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, California. She is a Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Claremont Graduate University awarded her an honorary doctoral degree in 2018.

For the past twenty years, Stringfellow’s creative practice has focused on the human-driven transformation of some of the America…

Kim Stringfellow’s Journalist Portfolio

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Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon's Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque

Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon's Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque

Danny Lyon-photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer-is celebrated in …

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An expedition through Kim Stringfellow's Mojave

An expedition through Kim Stringfellow's Mojave

Journalist Meg Bernhard's (New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker) in-depth feature on Th…

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Report on the Waterworks of the Arid Mojave Desert Region of the United States 2022

Report on the Waterworks of the Arid Mojave Desert Region of the United States 2022

How overuse, megadrought and climate change are threatening the dwindling water supply of the Colorado River.…

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Downwind Upshot-Knothole

Downwind Upshot-Knothole

Between 1951 and 1996, the AEC detonated 1,021 nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site releasing billions of cu…

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Jackrabbits, Ghost Grids and LandBanking+

Jackrabbits, Ghost Grids and LandBanking+

Jackrabbit Homesteading and California City's elaborate ghost grid provide two examples of Southern Californi…

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Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi

Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi

The Salt Song is a vast interconnected ritual song map describing the sacred geography of the Nuwuvi people (…

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Articles

Lithium and the New Green Extractionism

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By Kim Stringfellow
| mojaveproject.org
This is the first in a series of field dispatches focused on the convergence of climate change, mining, renewable energy, and their profound effect on the Desert West. Lithium is the lightest metal on the periodic table and the third lightest chemical element after helium and hydrogen, but unlike them, lithium is solid under standard conditions. This silvery-white metal is highly volatile—it will burst into flames when it encounters water.
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Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon’s Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque

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By Steve Jansen, Kim Stringfellow
| Southwest Contemporary
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career. “Is what I see the same as what I feel? What I feel, is that the same [as what] I am? Is that what this was all about?
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How Overuse, Megadrought and Climate Change Is Affecting West Coast and Mexico's Water Supply

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By Kim Stringfellow, Oliva Wolf, Allison Noelle Conner
| kcet.org
The Mojave Project is an experimental transmedia documentary and curatorial project led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert. The Mojave Project reconsiders and establishes multiple ways in which to interpret this unique and complex landscape, through association and connection of seemingly unrelated sites, themes, and subjects thus creating a speculative and immersive experience for our audience.
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Interview

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

A long time ago.

Who do you wish followed you?

Sam Shepard. But I doubt if he would've bothered with social media or computers to begin with.

Why did you become a journalist?

By accident in 2012 when KCET Artbound producer Juan Devis asked me to do High Desert area reportage.

Awards

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Honorary Doctorate from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

2018

Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship

2016 - Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography

2015 - Fellowship

Theo Westenberger Award for Artistic Excellence

2012

The award honors the achievements of contemporary women who work in photography, film, and new media, transforming how we see the American West. To coincide with her receiving this award, Jackrabbit Homestead was exhibited at the Autry National Center’s Irene Helen Jones Parks Gallery of Art from September 13, 2014 – August 23, 2015