Selected material about Basia's work. Please see the Bibliography page for additional articles and other content.

THE WRITTEN IMAGE: ICE RECEDING/BOOKS RESEEDING

March/April 2020. Poets & Writers. Emma Komlos-Hrobsky.

Link to article (Poets & Writers website with text and photo)

WHEN WATER SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

January 27, 2020. Artists & Climate Change. Susan Hoffman Fishman.

Link to article (Artists & Climate Change website with text and photos)

IN THE MIDST OF WORLDWIDE WATER SCARCITY, AN ARTIST REMINDS US, “WE ARE WATER”

March 19, 2018. Truthout. Dahr Jamail.

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Link to article (Truthout website with text and photos)

¡COLORES!: Basia Irland

June 13, 2014. ¡COLORES! (TV show). New Mexico PBS.

Link to full program (New Mexico PBS website; segment about Basia runs from 1:38 to 9:25)

BASIA IRLAND'S GATHERING OF WATERS: An Invitation to Know Your River

September 2013. Sculpture. Mark B. Feldman.

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BOOKS OF ICE: Sculptures by Basia Irland

March/April 2013. Orion Magazine. Kathleen Dean Moore.

PDF version of article (0.6MB)

Link to online version of article (Orion Magazine website with text and video)

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H2O, AS TOLD TO BASIA IRLAND

January 18-24, 2008. Santa Fe New Mexican. Miriam Sagan.

PDF version of article (1.1MB)

WATER LIBRARY

2005. Quantum: Research, Scholarship & Creative Works. Valery Roybal.

PDF version of article (2.1MB)

BASIA IRLAND

Summer 1988. Artspace. Harmony Hammond.

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