Current Artist-in-Residence

2025 Artists-in-Residence

Mariah Reading: June 2025

Mariah Reading is an eco-artist and strong advocate for the existence, preservation, and accessibility of national parks. Reading was classically trained as a landscape painter at Bowdoin College but pivoted to eco-art when the parallel between painting landscapes and feeding landfills became overwhelmingly apparent. Reading developed a limited-waste practice that involves creating canvases from debris found during her travels through national parks and other protected landscape environments. The physical pieces of trash are painted only on one side and intentionally left untouched on the reverse, so the original piece of debris remains evident. Once completed, she photographs the painted object aligned with the physical landscape to simultaneously obscure and highlight the discarded object. Reading has dedicated herself to the field of eco-art through artist in residencies at Acadia, Denali, Zion, and Guadalupe Mountains, and many other conservation projects.

Emilio Sweet-Coll: July 2025

Emilio Sweet-Coll is an animator, musician, and fire practitioner based in Los Angeles, California. His animation work is focused on visualizing how he "sees" sound with movement and using it as an educational tool. During his residency, he will be developing a project visualizing the sounds of birds native to Glacier National Park, with the hope of offering a different way for people to engage with and learn about the land.

Be sure to check out the Park Calendar to find out about demonstrations, talks, exploratory walks, or performances by these artists.