About Westbrook Artists' Site Books
Kevin Lair is an interdisciplinary educator, artist, and designer. He holds degrees in Fine Arts and Psychology from Drake University and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University. His academic appointments include Iowa State University, Syracuse University and Indiana University. He founded the Westbrook Artists' Site in 1995 as a venue for interdisciplinary art, design and architecture. In 2013, Lair relaunched WAS with co-director, Elizabeth Walden. They deepened its mission, focusing on the history and condition of the land itself, to provide an experiential laboratory for exploration of the post-industrial rural condition. Projects have been designed to foster interdisciplinary investigation and creative activity by re-imagining art practice as a co-operative venture within communities-understood in the broadest sense to include humans, non-human animals and natural processes. They presented recent work from WAS at the World Congress of Environmental History in Guimaraes, Portugal in summer of 2014. He organized the Field Day - Demonstration and Prairie Burn in fall of 2014 at WAS. The event was presented at the Tallgrass, Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium (TPOS) Midwest Fire Conference.
