 For the next three months, the Nevada Museum of Art is celebrating 50 years of land art - around the world, and right here at home.
"Land art is basically a movement that started about 50 years ago," said Dana Kilroy with the Nevada Museum of Art. "And it's a type of art where artists take things they find in the natural environment, like rocks and boulders and logs and earth, and they move it and reshape it and turn the natural landscape into works of art."
Nevada is home to more than a dozen of these land art creations. One of the newest is Seven Magic Mountains, a series of colorful boulders stacked in the desert near Las Vegas.
"I've been in Nevada for a long time and come to recognize the desert is such an amazing landscape and that may be why some of these artists have chosen to create here," Kilroy said.
There are several exhibits that focus on how land art has shaped landscapes around the world.
"It's just another canvas for artists, and it makes us look at our surroundings in a different way and appreciate different elements of what we live among," Kilroy said.
It's part of the museum's three-month tribute to the movement's past, present and future.
"Most people think of art as a painting done on a canvas, or a sculpture," Kilroy said. "And this really demonstrates that with vision, people can turn what we consider the most everyday things into art."
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