NANCY LANGSTON
37980 S. Entry Rd, Chassell MI 49916 USA
+1-608-852-6031
[email protected]
http://www.nancylangston.net
BRIEF BIO
Nancy Langston is a linocut printmaker and environmental writer based on the shores of Lake Superior. She is currently completing a book on global reindeer conservation illustrated with 35 of her original, limited edition linocuts (Reindeer on the Run, Yale University Press, manuscript due 2025). Author of five previous books on Lake Superior, toxics, climate change, and old growth forests, she is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of Stavanger’s Greenhouse Center for the Environmental Humanities (visual arts), the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
EDUCATION
University of Washington, Environmental Studies, Landscape Change focus, PhD, 1994
University of Oxford, English, M.Phil, 1986
Dartmouth College, English, B.A 1984
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2025 Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University
2013-2024 Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University
1995-2013 Environmental Humanities Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies . University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 CRANE Residency, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona (forthcoming, October).
2024 The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard June 2024
2023 The Fish Factory, Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland.
2022 Green Transitions Fellow (Visual Arts), U. of Stavanger, Norway.
1993 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
1992 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
EXHIBITIONS (GROUP AND SOLO)
2025 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala, 3 linocut prints, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock MI
2024 Art that Matters to the Planet:Clarity, three paintings, juried exhibition, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, New York,
2024 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala, 3 linocut prints, CCCAC, Hancock MI.
2024 Winter is Coming Exhibition, monoprint, juried show online.
2023 Shaft! 2 prints, CCCAC, Hancock MI.
2023 Tipping Points: Lake Superior Paintings in a Time of Climate Change show, The Well Read Raccoon, Houghton MI
2023 That Face! Portraits Both Human & Animal. 1 painting in juried show, McCord Gallery, Palos Park, IL
2023 New Horizons: Landscapes 2023, 6th Annual Exhibition, Three Square Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado [juried by Lynn Thorpe].
2023 Animal Portraiture, Wild Heart Gallery [juried by Sara Soward; virtual].
2023 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala,” 3 paintings, CCCAC, Hancock MI
2023 Climate Change, 1 piece in juried exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, CA
COLLECTIONS (COMMISSIONED WORK)
2025 35 linocut prints commissioned for Reindeer on the Run (Yale University Press)
2025 1 linocut reduction print commissioned for Chiricahua Conservancy (forthcoming)
2025 1 linocut reduction print commissioned for private collection, Hancock MI
2022 Two paintings commissioned for Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, Stavanger, Norway
2022 3 portraits commissioned for private collections, Michigan
2021 6 portraits commissioned for private collections, MI, WI, NY, RI, TX, OH
GALLERIES
Gallery on 5th, Calumet MI
Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock MI
BOARDS and COUNCILS
Keweenaw Land Trust, President of Board of Directors
American Society for Environmental Historians, past president and council member
Michigan Humanities Council, judge 2020
37980 S. Entry Rd, Chassell MI 49916 USA
+1-608-852-6031
[email protected]
http://www.nancylangston.net
BRIEF BIO
Nancy Langston is a linocut printmaker and environmental writer based on the shores of Lake Superior. She is currently completing a book on global reindeer conservation illustrated with 35 of her original, limited edition linocuts (Reindeer on the Run, Yale University Press, manuscript due 2025). Author of five previous books on Lake Superior, toxics, climate change, and old growth forests, she is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of Stavanger’s Greenhouse Center for the Environmental Humanities (visual arts), the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
EDUCATION
University of Washington, Environmental Studies, Landscape Change focus, PhD, 1994
University of Oxford, English, M.Phil, 1986
Dartmouth College, English, B.A 1984
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2025 Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University
2013-2024 Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University
1995-2013 Environmental Humanities Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies . University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 CRANE Residency, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona (forthcoming, October).
2024 The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard June 2024
2023 The Fish Factory, Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland.
2022 Green Transitions Fellow (Visual Arts), U. of Stavanger, Norway.
1993 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
1992 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
EXHIBITIONS (GROUP AND SOLO)
2025 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala, 3 linocut prints, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock MI
2024 Art that Matters to the Planet:Clarity, three paintings, juried exhibition, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, New York,
2024 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala, 3 linocut prints, CCCAC, Hancock MI.
2024 Winter is Coming Exhibition, monoprint, juried show online.
2023 Shaft! 2 prints, CCCAC, Hancock MI.
2023 Tipping Points: Lake Superior Paintings in a Time of Climate Change show, The Well Read Raccoon, Houghton MI
2023 That Face! Portraits Both Human & Animal. 1 painting in juried show, McCord Gallery, Palos Park, IL
2023 New Horizons: Landscapes 2023, 6th Annual Exhibition, Three Square Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado [juried by Lynn Thorpe].
2023 Animal Portraiture, Wild Heart Gallery [juried by Sara Soward; virtual].
2023 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala,” 3 paintings, CCCAC, Hancock MI
2023 Climate Change, 1 piece in juried exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, CA
COLLECTIONS (COMMISSIONED WORK)
2025 35 linocut prints commissioned for Reindeer on the Run (Yale University Press)
2025 1 linocut reduction print commissioned for Chiricahua Conservancy (forthcoming)
2025 1 linocut reduction print commissioned for private collection, Hancock MI
2022 Two paintings commissioned for Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, Stavanger, Norway
2022 3 portraits commissioned for private collections, Michigan
2021 6 portraits commissioned for private collections, MI, WI, NY, RI, TX, OH
GALLERIES
Gallery on 5th, Calumet MI
Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock MI
BOARDS and COUNCILS
Keweenaw Land Trust, President of Board of Directors
American Society for Environmental Historians, past president and council member
Michigan Humanities Council, judge 2020
