Author Spotlight: Mark Vitaris and The Borderlands Project

An intimate afternoon with Canadian author Mark Vitaris. Mark will be showing a short film and discussing his critically acclaimed book Borderlands.
“The book is a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas. It is a portrayal of a land where you can feel the wind blow the dust of ages, a place of melancholic beauty, an oasis of solitudes. As a larger project component, it draws upon an awareness of the histories enacted on the land, leading me on a course of artistic and personal exploration toward the intersection of pasts and the present.”