Posts by Sandra Dal Poggetto

Minding Nature: Fall 2018, Volume 11, Number 3 Sandra Dal Poggetto and I spoke over the phone for this interview, me on the urban Chicago end and Sandra from the wilds of Montana on the other. She is a landscape artist with a different understanding of landscape paintings—her landscapes cross-temporal and spatial scales, creating an…

Montana Museum of Art and Culture Excerpts from the conversation (time: 9.19)

Center for Humans and Nature In the bottom of a high plains coulee, it’s wild. No plow reaches this place. Sound is quieted yet strangely amplified. Depending on the coulee’s depth, I am a bit frightened. But often there are deer beds in the soft grasses, perhaps sharp-tailed grouse, and I am hunting them. I…

Basalt Literary Journal Northern California’s coastal hills and valleys where I grew up are smaller in scale and gentler than the Rocky Mountains where I now live. As a girl, there was much to explore, imagine and discover in the chaparral and mixed oak forests that surrounded my home. The native peoples who had understood…

Northern Lights The smell of sage was strong as I drew the warm entrails out of the bird and onto the ground. Food for scavengers, I thought. “To hunt the all American bird one should have the all American gun,” he said to provoke me as I rose to my feet. I looked with affection…

Gray’s Sporting Journal For millennia, painting and hunting have been among the most fundamental expressions of human culture, yet today their relevance is seriously being questioned in this time of radical technological change. In our modern world, one might ask why I, or anyone, would choose to be a painter of landscape— and a hunter.…