Selected Works Teaching Writing Press
Nance Klehm builds regenerative participatory systems, consulting clients to guide them through ecological projects, strategic assessments, and workshops, organizing under the umbrella of Social Ecologies︎︎︎

Selected Teaching
2018
2016
2010–ongoing
2010
2009
2008
- Local Soil, graduate seminar class, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2016
- Nance Klehm: The Ground Rules. A Project of Social Ecologies, Qatar University
2010–ongoing
- The Soil Keepers, certificate-granting soil curriculum, multiple locations
2010
- Flow, Jutland Art Academy, Arhus, Denmark
2009
- The Land, advanced course, Department of Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, IL
2008
- Cultivation, advanced course, New Genres Graduate Studies, Department of Art, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Selected Lectures
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2019
2017
- Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
2024
- Fair-y Circles, Budapest, Hungary
- Yellowhouse, Jacksonville, FL
2023
- Savanna Institute, Champaign, IL
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
- Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
2022
- Wells College, Aurora, NY
2021
- The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
- SoilLab, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
- 2020
- Between you and Me, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2019
- Graham Foundation, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
2017
- WaterBody, with Rafa Esparza, Marfa, TX
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- ACRE Residency, Chicago, IL
- Art Farm, Marquette, NE
- Guapamacátaro Art & Ecology, Michoacán, Mexico
- Ox-Bow Residency, Saugatuck, MI
- Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Residency Host
- Chop Wood Carry Water, host and facilitator, Driftless Region, IL, 2021–ongoing

Selected Works Teaching Writing Press
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