art

The artist at play

Montana's Chuck Ringer

Apr 7 • John Clayton

The fellowship I didn't know I needed

I claimed my nature didn't crave institutional approval. I was wrong.

Feb 11 • John Clayton

When “The Naked Gun” predicted America’s energy future

Political genius and “Isn't that right, Mr. Poopy Pants?”

Dec 31, 2025 • John Clayton

How to manipulate emotions in a national park

Yellowstone, art, and the ways we experience nature

Nov 19, 2025 • John Clayton

Big Yellow Uber

Let’s stop blaming "them" for the parking lot

Nov 5, 2025 • John Clayton

Picturing a dog story

A hardly-social art project comes to an Insta-close

Aug 26, 2025 • John Clayton

When the artist-as-storyteller becomes a state’s greatest hero

Why I was drawn to a story about Charlie Russell and automobiles

Aug 5, 2025 • John Clayton

If a tree is pretty in the forest and nobody is there to see it, is it art?

A tiny juniper's journey to big-idea places

Apr 1, 2025 • John Clayton

A mountaintop, a cairn, and a surprise ending

Jan 8, 2025 • John Clayton

Nature writing needs a Poptimist revolution

That music we’re listening to: is it art? That experience we just had: was it nature?

Feb 14, 2024 • John Clayton

A natural story at Spiral Jetty

Our hero journeys to Utah to see art interacting with nature, and story interacting with both

Jan 3, 2024 • John Clayton

The swoops and swirls of natural stories

The abstract painter Jackson Pollock was a thoroughly urban artist. So what do we mean when we talk of his nature?

Nov 15, 2023 • John Clayton

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