Nature Preserves Artist-in-Residence

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. Hazard is exploring ecologically focused art forms, including environmental art, land art, environmental stewardship, working with natural materials, and sustainable practices. He will create artwork and hold a series of events through 2024-2025.

Raleigh's parks system includes four nature preserves: Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park, Durant Nature Preserve, and Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve. The resident works with Nature Preserve staff 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.

Upcoming Community Workshops

Scott Hazard New Sculpture — Rendering by Katherine Gottsegen, courtesy of Scott Hazard Studio

Piedmont Grassland and Environmental Art Event

Saturday, November 9

Learn about the Triangle’s historic grasslands and help install a mini Piedmont Prairie at Durant Nature Preserve. The grasslands will surround public artist Scott Hazard’s new sculpture, which creates habitat for chimney swifts. Free and open to the public.

Registration is required.

Exhibitions

"plants, and birds, and rocks (and things)"

Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve Farmhouse
October 26 through December 1, 2024

"plants, and birds, and rocks (and things)" was curated by Scott Hazard, the Artist in Residence for Nature Preserves. The exhibition, first shown at Block Gallery, features work by NC artists Claire Alexandre, Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson, Chieko Murasugi, Julia Einstein, Janet Link, Marcus Dunn, Patrizia Ferreira, Pete Sack and Scott Hazard, and new works inspired by the Preserves by poets Lauren Hunter and Chris Tonelli.

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

Nature Parks, Preserves, and Programs

Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve

Raleigh Arts Galleries and Exhibitions