Introducing Beyond the Clock's 2025 Resident Artist: Eliza Blue!

For each Beyond the Clock season, we invite a Resident Artist to capture high-level themes in a creative format; this year we are elated to be welcoming Eliza Blue as Beyond the Clock's 2025 Resident Artist! As a Resident Artist, Eliza Blue will be writing and producing music based on conversations had at each Beyond the Clock Learning Exchange event this year. 

Eliza Blue is a writer, folk musician, and rancher living on the short grass prairie of western Dakota. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR’s ‘All Songs Considered.’ 19 different print publications carry her weekly column about life on the prairie, and she has written and produced seasonal audio ‘postcards’ from her ranch for South Dakota Public Broadcasting and Prairie Public Radio.

Her first book, Accidental Rancher, was chosen as the Siouxland One Book 2023. Her second book, Little Pasture on the Prairie, was released by the South Dakota Historical Society Press in June 2024. Eliza hosted and produced a Midwest Emmy-nominated show celebrating rural art and culture for PBS called ‘Wish You Were Here with Eliza Blue’ for three seasons, and she is the founder and director of the Kithship Collective, an organization devoted to innovative, ecosystem-specific storytelling.

Please join us in welcoming Eliza to the Beyond the Clock family, we're looking forward to all that 2025 brings about!