Louisa Conrad is currently making cheese and tending to a herd of goats.
She was born in New York City during an April snowstorm and received a BA in anthropology from Middlebury College and an MFA from CalArts in Photography and Media. She left Los Angeles to drive to the Canadian Arctic and pay witness to the drunken trees, the frozen tundra, and the peculiar and particular conditions surrounding the impending construction of the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline and the leasing of the Beaufort Sea. She spent part of 2007 as the resident artist at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology mapping the collapse of the Chinook Salmon as a microcosm of the larger shifts taking place in the California Current. She has taught at Middlebury College and a consortium of after school art programs and elementary schools in Los Angeles, Vermont, and Iceland.
Last spring she and poet Lucas Farrell planted their first garden and kept 6 silkie hens.
contact her at louisaconrad at gmail dot com
she blogs at icelandicbutterflies.tumblr.com
