VACS Lecture with Nina Elder

Name: VACS Lecture with Nina Elder
Start: 2026-02-12T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-02-12T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 5225 N Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Colorado 80918

Schedule

Thu Feb 12 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

5225 N Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Colorado 80918 | Colorado Springs, CO

The first VACS of 2026 is with exhibiting artist and researcher, Nina Elder! Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. Because Nina is devoted to rural communities and often overlooked places, she regularly works outside of urban cultural centers and the commercial art world. Nina lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, develops publicly engaged programs, and consults with organizations that seek to grow through interdisciplinary programming.

Nina’s artwork is widely exhibited and has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, and on PBS. Her research has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation award for Arts & Activism, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She has recently held positions as an Art + Environment Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art, a Polar Lab Research Fellow at the Anchorage Museum, and a Researcher in Residence in the Art and Ecology Program at the University of New Mexico. She migrates between rural Colorado and site-specific projects.