Abstract
“[Placeholder: Swallowtail],” emerge from a collaboration between Sac State Photo and California State Parks, Sacramento District. Thirty-five senior students in the Photography BFA program spent months researching and photographing the landscape of the State Indian Museum and Sutter’s Fort. Students visited the site repeatedly, learning from Native American contemporary artists, culture bearers and tribal ecological knowledge holders as well as State Parks staff. The focus of the ongoing investigations is how to recognize —and, in many cases, attempt to repair — our relationships to the land we live on.