Great Basin National Park announces 2026 Artists in Residence

BAKER, NV - Great Basin National Park is pleased to announce the selections for the park's four 2026 Artists in Residence. Four artists were selected out of more than 80 applicants by a multidisciplinary jury of park representatives, local artists, previous artists-in-residence, and members of the Great Basin National Park Foundation.

Trine Bumiller has been selected as the Artist-in-Residence for winter. Trine is a painter who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her art is rooted in landscape and memory, environment and climate.

Dani Kwan has been selected as a summer artist. "I am honored for the opportunity to get to know Great Basin National Park-and to create work that encourages visitors to think differently about the rocks, the birds, the plants, and the world around us," she said.

Susanna Hermann will also be a summertime artist in the park. Susanna is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in southern Utah. Her work explores imagination and experience of space. She often paints outdoors and uses natural materials in her film development process.

Sophie van Doorn has been selected for the fall residency. Sofie van Doorn is a Dutch/American contemporary dancer and choreographer, with a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Zurich University of the Arts. She has worked as a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher internationally in the US, Netherlands, Switzerland, and South Africa. Choreographically, she creates a bridge between dance and ecology which gives audiences a new perspective on the world around them.

The Artist-in-Residence program, supported by the Great Basin National Park Foundation, brings artists of many mediums to the park to develop artistic pieces with the themes of the Great Basin. Many highly qualified artists applied for the 2026 AIR Program. The artists, working in many mediums, displayed professionalism, creativity, and a mix of traditional and modern art styles. The jury's selections were based on artistic integrity, creativity, ability to reside in an isolated high desert environment, and how an artist would relate and interpret the park through their work.

Does this program fire your imagination? Hear from Great Basin's Artists-in-Residence during the Great Basin Virtual Speaker Series: The Park/Art Connection on February 24 at 6:00PM PST. Visit http://www.greatbasinfoundation.org/news/GBNPartists for more information.