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Sant Khalsa is an artist and activist whose projects develop from her impassioned inquiry into the nature of place and complex environmental and societal issues. Her artworks create a contemplative space where one can sense the subtle and profound connections between themselves and the natural world. The subject of trees has been a focus in Sant Khalsa's creative work for nearly five decades. Prana: Life with Trees is the first in depth survey of Khalsa's intimate connection with trees - her explorations, observations, perceptions and interpretations. Her unique perspective is expressed through a style that encompasses the documentary, subjective and conceptual. Her work evokes a meditative calm to what we often experience as a chaotic and conflicted world. Khalsa is concerned with both the micro and macro aspects of forests: what is seen and unseen; historical, scientific and spiritual; and personal and universal. She is mindful of our symbiotic relationship with trees and forests, grounded in the life-sustaining connection through the breath (exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen). Her beautiful, distinctive and sometime disquieting works express the cycle of life (birth, life, death, and rebirth), the destruction and memory of the forest, as well as the promise of new growth. The book includes her earliest landscapes (self-portraits and photographs of orange groves); images of trees from her three decades photographing in the Santa Ana Watershed and other locations in the American West; and mixed-media sculptures and installation works inspired by her research on air quality and life-changing experience planting more than a thousand trees in 1992 as part of the reforestation of Holcomb Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains. In her recent color photographs, we witness the fruits of her activism, a healthy, thriving and hopeful forest eco-system. Sant Khalsa's artworks are widely exhibited internationally, collected by prestigious museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art and Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and published in numerous art books and periodicals. Khalsa is a recipient of prestigious fellowships, awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Council for the Humanities and others. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino and resides in Joshua Tree.

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"Sant Khalsa (b. Sheila Roth, January 3, 1953, New York, New York) is an artist, educator and activist whose artworks develop from her inquiry into the nature of place and complex environmental and societal issues. Her photographs, mixed media and installation works have been widely shown internationally in more than 175 exhibitions and are acquired by museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art and UCR/California Museum of Photography. Khalsa is a recipient of fellowships, awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Council for the Humanities, Center for Photographic Art in Carmel and others. In March 2012, she was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Society for Photographic Education Insight Award for her significant contributions to the field of photography. Her artworks are published in books including Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment (Skira/Rizzoli, 2011), Seismic Shift: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944 - 1984 (University of California, Riverside 2011), Backyard Oasis (Prestel USA, 2012), Art in Action: Nature, Creativity and Our Collective Future (Earth Aware Editions, 2007), H2O 04: Celebrating Water (Fotofest, 2004) and The Altered Landscape (University of Nevada Press, 1999). Articles and critical reviews regarding her artworks can be found in Art in America, Artforum, Art Ltd., Afterimage, Artillery, American Photo, Exposure, European Photography, KCET Artbound, ArtScene, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Palm Springs Life Art+Culture, LA Weekly, PDN/Photo District News and among others. Khalsa is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, where she has taught since 1988, served as Art Department Chair (2003-2012) and was a founding faculty of the Water Resources Institute. She lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. View her artworks at http: //www.santkhalsa.com. Betty Ann Brown is an art historian, critic, and curator. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art in 1978, joined the CSUN faculty in 1986 and was honored with Professor Emeritus status in 2015. Brown has curated retrospective exhibitions for Hans Burkhardt, Roland Reiss, Linda Vallejo, June Wayne, and John White, as well as numerous themed exhibitions, including Time, Space & Matter: Five Installations Exploring Natural Phenomena (Lita Albuquerque, Suvan Geer, George Geyer, Mineko Grimmer, Tom McMillan, and Christine Nguyen) and Fantastic Feminist Figuration (Jodi Bonassi, Bibi Davidson, Enzia Farrell, Laura Larson, Dierdre Sullivan-Beeman, Tslil Tsemet, and Lauren YS.) Her exhibition of the work of Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar opened at MOAH in February 2018. Brown has written critical reviews Art Ltd., Arts, Artillery, Artscene, Artweek, and The Los Angeles Times, among others, and published several books, including Exposures, Women & Their Art; Expanding Circles: Women, Art & Community; Gradiva's Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism & Art History; Hero, Madman, Criminal, Victim: The Artist in Film & Fiction; and Afternoons with June: Stories of June Wayne's Art & Life. Brown was featured in four History Channel programs and produced a number of discussions about art history for eHow online. She organizes ""Contemporary Art Conversations,"" in an ongoing series of panel discussions between critics and artists that convenes in various Southern California venues. Colin Westerbeck is a curator, writer, and teacher of the history of photography. Before moving to Los Angeles, where he has taught at UCLA and USC, he was curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a regular contributor to publications such as the Los Angeles Times and West Magazine. Reva and David Logan Prize for New Writing on Photography. Art Critic's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[citation needed] Received a grant, along with Joel Meyerowitz, from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on the history of street photography. 2000: J. Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society for the writing of photographic criticism and history."

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