Dispatches from the Field, a new digital program designed to bring The Explorers Club community closer—wherever you are.
Each session kicks off with a 10-minute talk from a Featured Speaker, recorded and posted later to the public on explorers.org and our YouTube channel.
This will be followed by Campfire sessions—intimate, Members-Only breakout groups where you can connect, share ideas, and build relationships.
This edition features Bill Claps MR’16, to present “Art as Exploration:”
Visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker Bill Claps’ artistic practice involves exploring diverse geographies and ecosystems, in order to discover universal visual themes and connections across various cultures. His presentation will introduce us to several of his artistic projects. “Natural Abstractions,” an artistic series that draws inspiration from traditional Chinese and Japanese landscape painting and captures the ephemeral quality of light in nature, emphasizing the impermanence of the natural world and its constant transformation.
The Sacred Mountains Project is an ongoing art series that captures and communicates the power and spirit of holy mountains around the world. The Parco Archeologico di Luine Mapping Project, located in Val Camonica, Italy, is the site of the largest concentration of ancient rock petroglyphs in the world, with over 300,000 carvings dating back 12,000 years.
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Bill Claps
Bill Claps is a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker based in New York City and Val Camonica, Italy. He is known for work that illustrates the universal roots and common elements that are shared by all cultures, often referencing art history and language. His inspiration comes from sources as varied as Asian landscape painting, expressionism, digital code, and appropriated images from contemporary art.
Bill studied painting and art history at Harvard University, the Art Students League in New York and in Florence, Italy, and studied filmmaking at New York University. His works are held in private and public collections internationally and regularly exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide.
