The Artist-in-Residence Program aims to share the beauty and spirit of Grand Canyon National Park with other visitors. The park themes attempt to capture the elements that make the park meaningful:

Grand Canyon, a homeland and sacred place to many native cultures, offers visitors a chance to reflect on the powerful spiritual ties between people and place.

Water is the lifeblood of Grand Canyon — a force of erosion, a sustainer of scarce riparian habitat, a spiritual element for native peoples, a provider of recreation, and a key factor in exploration, development, and politics of the West.

Grand Canyon is one of the world’s greatest examples of arid land erosion which presents a dramatic sequence of rock layers that serve as windows into time.

Grand Canyon has played a pivotal role in precedent-setting conservation issues. As a World Heritage Site, it reminds us of our need to conserve both the local and global environments.

A remarkable range of biotic communities exists within this relatively undisturbed ecosystem that allows natural processes to continue and provides a sanctuary for present and future life.