2021
“Water is Life (Oliver’s Song)” | Otero County
Lyla June and Oliver Enjady present their song and poem “Water is Life (Oliver’s Song),” a testament to water’s central importance in Mescalero Apache culture.
Environmental Cartography: Confronting Memorials, Monuments, and the Past
Elizabeth Kaney and Kerri Arsenault reimagine Rumford’s tourist map to confront its hidden histories of resource extraction, pollution, and industrial development.
Present Ghosts: River Valley
In this graphic series, artist Nina Elder reinterprets archival photographs of the River Valley to look past its industrial development.
Two Rumfords
Media artists Steve Norton & N.B.Aldrich capture the relationship of the River Valley’s infrastructure and environment.
The River Valley’s Other Working Landscape
In a series of watercolors, artist Tom Leytham documents the industrial ruins of this working-class community.
Mill Supply: Making Paper and Maintaining the Technological Sublime
Aaron Cayer revisits the architectural history of the paper mill and the ways in which the mill building has long dominated and organized the River Valley.
River Valley Cancer Yearbook
Kerri Arsenault collects the health stories of River Valley residents to make visible the mill’s toxic legacies.
Striking Bodies: Aligning Public Spaces
Aaron Cayer describes the River Valley’s long history of worker protests and strikes.