Nancy Langston is a linocut printmaker living on Lake Superior in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Her original linocut relief prints, informed by her decades of experience as an ecological historian, depict the profound transformations occurring in the Lake Superior basin and the Arctic. Langston is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental History at Michigan Tech, where she researched the histories and conservation of northern wildlife. Her recent awarded artist residencies include Green Transitions (Stavanger, Norway), The Fish Factory (Iceland), The Arctic Circle Residency (Svalbard, Norway), the CRANE Residency, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, and The Fish Factory in Cornwall UK.

In my linocut prints, reindeer step through thawing rivers and rising light; owls hunt in the winter night; forests hide secrets beneath the snow. Drawing on years of fieldwork in northern landscapes, my prints capture the contradictions of a world in flux while suggesting the possibility of renewal. Carving the block becomes a way of tracing the pulse of these places. My work reflects the deep interdependence of people, animals, and land in the North—a region transformed by climate change yet rich with resilience and hope. Through the language of print, I seek to honor that enduring vitality.