Guadalupe Mountains National Park launched an artist-in-residence program in 2013. It's one of more than 50 residencies at national parks and monuments. For artists, the residency is an extended encounter with a compelling, if forbidding, West Texas place. The artists give back, supporting the park's mission by donating works and leading visitor programs.

Walt Davis was the park's spring 2019 artist-in-residence. Davis is a painter, but also a scientist, the former exhibits curator at the Dallas Museum of Natural History. His life and career illustrate both the fruitful exchange, and the tension, between the two disciplines.

“I can't do my science without thinking art,” Davis sai... Hosted by for KRTS