Basia creates exceptional art around international water issues – particularly rivers – collaborating with scholars from diverse disciplines, connecting with communities and fostering dialogue, filming and producing water documentaries, and facilitating waterborne disease projects around the world. She is a Fulbright Scholar and Professor Emerita, Department of Art, University of New Mexico, where she founded the Art & Ecology Program, as well as a Knowledge Network Expert for the United Nations’ Harmony with Nature platform.  Basia’s books include Water Library, Reading the River and The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland. A new monograph Basia Irland, Repositories; Portable Sculptures for Waterway Journeys by Patricia Watts was published this year. Explore more of her work, including a moving series of essays written for National Geographic that contemplate ‘What Rivers Know’ at basiairland.com.