Robert J. Long

Robert J. Long is an associate teaching professor of visual communication at Northern Arizona University. He earned his MFA in studio art at the University of Arizona in 2013. His visual art, made under the pen name NearsightGraphite, has been published through Frontiers in Microbiology, Manifest Press, the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, and Edible Baja Arizona magazine, among others. His award-winning work has been shown in juried gallery exhibitions in the United States and abroad since 2008. His art installations include Undersea Discovery (2023–present) and Wild World of Bugs (2021–present) in the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium at the University of Arizona. In 2013, Long became Arizona’s first finalist in the internationally juried Adobe Design Achievement Awards.

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A More-than-Natural History

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