BASIA IRLAND
Water Artist
MONOGRAPH ON IRLAND'S ART:
View more of these projects in Water Library by Basia Irland, University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 234 pages. Available on Amazon or from UNM Press.
- Kathmandu's Sacred River: On The Bagmati
At Pashupatinath Temple - Book Of Drought: A Water Memory
- receding/reseeding
- Elephantwater
- Bilharzia Blues: An Integrated
Artistic/Biological Approach to
Schistosomiasis in Egypt, Ethiopia and Nepal
Her carved ice books embedded with local riparian seeds have been launched into rivers across Europe and the US to aid with river restoration.
Basia Irland, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, creates international water projects featured in her book, Water Library, University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Irland often works with scholars from diverse disciplines building rainwater harvesting systems; connecting communities along lengths of rivers; launching carved ice books embedded with seeds into rivers to aid with stream bank restoration; filming and producing video documentaries; and creating waterborne disease projects around the world, most recently in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, and Nepal.
Irland is the recipient of over forty grants including a Senior Fulbright Research Award for Southeast Asia, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship Grant, and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Grant. She lectures and exhibits extensively.
Essays about her work have been included in books published in Germany, England, Switzerland, and the U.S.
She has produced nine video documentaries about water.
CONTACT BASIA
3204 Burton Ave. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
basia@unm.edu