Nancy Floyd: For the Love of Trees
December 7, 2024 – June 21, 2025
Study Gallery and Print Study Gallery
Nancy Floyd, "Field crew member Sydney Gastman measuring a Western Hemlock, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest," 2023
Nancy Floyd: For the Love of Trees features recent work by this award-winning Bend, Oregon photographer and author. Born in Monticello, Minnesota, in 1956, Floyd was raised in League City, Texas. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, her MA from Columbia College in Chicago, and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita. She taught photography at Georgia State University in Atlanta for many years before she retired and moved to central Oregon in 2018.
In 2022, Floyd was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to embark on a multi-year project exploring the unique bond that Oregonians have with the forest and trees, including those who study trees, those who protect trees, those who make a living off trees, and those who see trees as part of their daily life. In the process, she has interviewed key stakeholders in the timber and forestry business; followed workers into the forest as they cut or studied trees; visited mills and shadowed those who work there; and accompanied workers at tree farms as they planted and nurtured trees. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past two years.
Exhibition Related Events
To be announced.
Financial Support
This exhibition is supported with funds from the HFMA Exhibition Fund and
the Maribeth Collins Art Exhibition Fund; by advertising support from The Oregonian/Here is Oregon; and by general operating support grants from the City of Salem's Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.
