Laura Chipley

LAURA CHIPLEY is an Assistant Professor of Media and Communications at SUNY Old Westbury College and a 2015 recipient of an A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art.
The ATV’s motor struggles against the steep incline of the mining road. Junior Walk, the outreach coordinator for the West Virginia anti-mountaintop removal organization, Coal River Mountain Watch, steers us around a hairpin turn.
The Brushy Fork Slurry Impoundment, Video Still, 1920 x 1080, 2015. Courtesy the Appalachian Mountaintop Patrol.

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