Artist in Residence: Nature Preserves

Artist In Residence Program

An installation by Scott Hazard called Hidden Rock #1, outside of Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park — *Hidden Rock #1* is a site-specific sculpture installation by Scott Hazard located at the Visitor’s Center in Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park.

Artist Scott Hazard is the City of Raleigh Artist in Residence for Nature Preserves. He will create artwork and hold a series of events throughout the Spring and Summer of 2024.

The City of Raleigh's parks system includes four nature preserves: Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park, Durant Nature Preserve, and Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve. Parks staff and directors would like to incorporate art elements that enhance the natural beauty of the parks and promote the mission of preserving wild flora and fauna. Learn more about the Nature Parks, Preserves, and Programs

Hazard will explore ecologically focused art forms and possibilities including, but are not limited to, environmental art, land art, environmental stewardship, working with natural materials, and sustainable practices.

Upcoming Events

Exploring a Nature Preserve: Natural Pigments and Mono-prints

April 6, 2024

Workshop at A.L. Wilkerson Nature Preserve with artist Natalia Torres del Valle. Join the waitlist here.

Landscape Literacy - Poetry Workshops

April 13 & 20, 2024, 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM.

City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources is proud to present a two-day poetry workshop series at Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve with North Carolina-based poets Chris Tonelli and Lauren Hunter. With a focus on the notion of ‘landscape literacy’, and gaining new understandings of the nature found at the Preserve, Lauren and Chris will lead participants in walking and observation sessions, discussions, and writing exercises, with an optional poetry/short-form writing reading on the second day of the workshop. Preserve Naturalist Staff and Nature Preserve Artist in Residence Scott Hazard will be present to assist with the walking and observation sessions and provide interpretive insights about the intent of the Preserve and the nature found within it.

Participants are encouraged, but not required, to sign up for both workshops using these links:

Landscape Literacy - Poetry Workshop I - Saturday, April 13, 1:30 PM to 4 PM
Landscape Literacy - Poetry Workshop II - Saturday, April 20, 1:30 to 4 PM

Block Gallery Exhibition: plants, and birds, and rocks (and things)

On view: April 15, 2024 - August 23, 2024
Artist Reception: April 24, 2024, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Group Exhibition at Block Gallery curated by Stacy Rexrode and Scott Hazard. Artists include Claire Alexandre, Julia Einstein, Janet Fine, Annie Blazejack + Geddes Levenson, and Scott Hazard.

About the Artist

Scott Hazard is a visual artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He earned degrees in landscape architecture and visual art from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and the University of Florida. His mixed-media works explore how we collectively engage, understand, exploit, and celebrate the land we inhabit. Delving into recent and distant histories of human interaction with our environment, as well as geology, hydrology, and plant ecology, the landscape becomes something that can be read. Hazard builds mixed-media works and sculptures using numerous layers of flat materials ranging from paper and photographs to wood and steel that are carefully torn or cut, spaced apart and aligned to define sculptural voids, portals, and micro-landscapes. Whether the work is a small wall mounted sculpture or an object in the landscape, his focus is to elicit a distinct and lyrical sense of place by listening and conducting research and then highlighting natural and cultural narratives found at a given site.

Learn more about Scott Hazard