Grand Witness Public Art Installation
Grand Witness paints a visual history of Grand Canyon through a collage of archival film footage that Artist in Residence sTo Len created from the park’s Museum Collection. The scenes of this loosely knit timeline recall a dream-like journey from the canyon’s formation millions of years ago to the earliest Indigenous communities living here to the creation of the National Park.
- April 14–27, 2025
Artist will be present Thursdays - Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition.
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Visitor Center Sphere Room
8 South Entrance Road
Grand Canyon Village, AZ
86023
As the current Grand Canyon Artist in Residence, sTo Len has been actively engaging with the archive as well as the employees of the park and the canyon itself through hikes, drawings, video, and audio recordings. Inspired by the scale of time tangibly present in the geologic record and its imperfections, Len’s work examines themes of collective memory and our relationship to place, giving personhood to the canyon and asking visitors to reflect on their own experience.
From Thursday to Sunday, sTo will be present to engage audiences in conversation and activate a video portrait series that uses a green screen to place them in various sites and moments in the park’s history, blurring the timeline while creating new memories for visitors to take home.
sTo Len’s Office Of In Visibility is a nomadic project that bears witness to a specific site and its communities through various mediums including video, sound, printmaking, drawing, performance, and archival activations. Recent projects have included a Trash Museum in Kyrgyzstan, a pirate radio show in New Mexico, and a series of plant-based printmaking at the Queens Botanical Garden in NY. Len is based in New York City where he was recently the Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation.
sTo Len, Grand Canyon Artist in Residence
sTo is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has centered on place-based collaborations with diverse landscapes and co-creations with communities and municipal agencies. Inspired by onsite historical research, community interviews, and park operations, sTo will develop a new iteration of his “Office of In Visibility,” an interactive and site-specific installation.