Indiana waterways: the art of conservation

This book combines painting and pros to present the current condition and historic past of Indiana waterways. Five Hoosier artists, along with three essayists, embody commitment to environmental conservation in Indiana. Working independently through a global pandemic, painters waded through rivers, streams, and little known tributaries to capture on canvas, evidence of progress and signs of the work that remains. Accompanying essays by two university professors and a journalist examines the decades – long efforts at restoration, history of the state’s conservation work and a first-person narrative that takes the reader meandering through the state on waterways, great and small.

This book is dedicated to the women and men of the Indiana Department of natural resources, whose job it is to study and manage the natural resources of our waterways.

Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit the conservation of our Indiana waterways.