Professor Rebecca Krinke is an artist and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. She positions her hybrid practice, teaching, and research under the umbrella of Earthling School to synthesize her way of working and being in the world which is focused on deepening our relationships with the Earth, each other, and the non-human world. A key part of the Earthling School approach is “two-eyed seeing” which means to see from an Indigenous perspective and the lens of Western science at the same time.
Current Earthling School initiatives include teaching University studio-based courses of the same name, and two funded interdisciplinary research projects at Biological Field Stations. The “Two-Eyed Seeing & Third Spaces” Research Creative Collaborative works at the University of Minnesota’s Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve to expand place-based learning and making from multiple ways of seeing and knowing. The “Growing the Field Station Network” project will be spending time at both Cedar Creek Field Station and the Bernard Field Station at the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California to explore hybrid art-science methods and tools to offer a new way to see both field stations, separately and together.
Recent gallery exhibitions include Anomaly Field Station: Wisconsin and Anomaly Field Station: Philadelphia, both 2023. Both shows used a wall-sized photograph of the tamarack bog at Cedar Creek to create the sensation of an anomalous portal to a different time or space. Recent outdoor installations include: The Moon-Earth Field Station at Bernard Field Station (2024).
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