Nate Osgood

BFA, Ceramics; University of Colorado, Boulder

Raised on a diet of blueberries, giant zucchini, smoked salmon, and the midnight sun, Nate grew up on a mountain in Alaska. As a teenager, he participated in a summer conservation course building a section of the then-new Continental Divide Trail near Monarch pass, Colorado. This experience of service to a vision larger than himself, living as a member of a community, and his instructor’s traveling tales positively influenced the course of his life.

After studying ceramics at the University of Colorado, Nate listened to the call of the road. He spent the next several years midwifing baby sheep on Navajo land, riding taxis hip to hip with goat herds in Morocco, and happily being invited home by new friends in Nepal, India, Thailand, and Laos. The clearest voice that he heard while bouncing around the world came from a desert river in Moab, Utah. He gratefully became a full-time desert rat, and his heart lives in the desert southwest to this day.

He was blessed to have had the profound experience of working for eight years as a wilderness therapy guide. He has experienced firsthand the power of the wilderness to empower his
students to heal themselves. During his guiding career, he has led students on the Big Island of Hawaii, San Juan River of Utah, Camino de Santiago in Spain, and a gap semester in Nepal, India, and Thailand. He has completed yoga teacher training in Baja’ California, Mexico and Costa Rica. As a high school art teacher in Cortez, Colorado, his students teach him daily to look at the world with new eyes.

Nate loves to move his body in wild places. During his summer vacations, he has thru-hiked sections of the Arizona, Continental Divide, and Pacific Crest trails. He feels alive in the present moment, practicing yoga, dancing, singing, or cooking with friends.