About

Founded by Dr. Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke and Kathryn Ian Gentzke, New Wilderness Society (NWS) collectively explores the darkness of the ecological crisis through music, scholarship, text, and film. Taking the duality embedded in the term as our guiding light - wilderness is connected to both wasteland and freedom in American mythology - we are interested in mobilizing media and scholarship as means to imagine and create new forms of wilderness.

NWS aims to foster collaborations between artists, musicians, scholars, writers, poets, and activists that seed a new imaginal ecology of existential and environmental experience.