Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Vladem Contemporary and this book demonstrates the

and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art

set among their ancestral homeland in northern New Mexico

He creates stunning sterling silver Tufa Cast jewelry and ornate inlaid stone work

and music with images taken from magazines

His training began at the Art Students League with Kenyon Cox and Birge Harrison

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Vladem Contemporary and this book demonstrates theHailed as deeply felt (New York Times), a revelation (Pacific Standard), and the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distantand that rising seas are transforming the