What is Monument Creek? What does it mean? Who is it for, and how was it made?
Artist and writer Erin Elder has been making place-based work for 20 years and now turns attention to her hometown’s primary waterway. By learning to relate to this particular creek in real time and space, her new creative research project is actively revealing unexpected layers of cultural history, hydrologic infrastructure, water science, public utility, as well as personal memories, fears, and dreams. In this illustrated talk, Erin will trace the lines of her creative practice, inviting listeners to journey along Monument Creek from source to confluence and everywhere in between.
Erin Elder is an artist, writer, and curator guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places. She is currently an Innovator in Residence with Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College.
