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Welcomed 52 new members, including: Mary Babcock Brooke Bereznak Katherine Binns Janet Bogardus Anne Bolduc Lauren Bon Caroline Borucki Kimberley Callas Pamela Casper Patsy Craig Catherine Daley Tanya Dawkins Deborah Deal-Blackwell Wendy DesChene Lany DeVuono...

Received a 2024-26 grant from the California Arts Council Launched the exhibition: EcoArt: Envisioning Strategies and Solutions, including artist/curator discussion, in collaboration with  Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, Curator WEAD Board Member Deanna...

  Produced and published online WEAD MAGAZINE, ISSUE # 13, The Art of Empathy  Hosted two online presentations by selected authors to celebrate No. 13. Began the upgrade of the Artists Directory website, under direction of Outreach Committee Chair Tanja...

Dear EcoArt Friends, Over the past four decades, I've developed a deep love for Joshua Tree National Park, where I've spent countless hours hiking, photographing, camping and enjoying the star studded night sky, and now live in its vicinity. The Park's stunning...

Elemental: an arts and ecology reader - is now published! For more details and to order online: http://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/elemental-an-arts-and-ecology-reader-gaia-project/ The book features nine marvellous essays, including some written by...

Dear Susan and WEAD, It is very bitter sweet, indeed! I am grateful that we were able to host the Women Eco Artists Dialog here in Lancaster and at MOAH:CEDAR. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to have met with so many of your board members and artists....

The Lumbini Crane Sanctuary, located at the Sacred Garden, birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, has been an International Crane Foundation refuge for the endangered Sarus Crane for over two decades. When I visited the site in January, alarming development threats were...

December 16, 2015 To EcoArt South Florida's many friends: As of January 1st, 2015, EcoArt South Florida will become part of South Florida's history. We are extremely grateful and happy that EASF's archives, including the facebook page, our e-newsletter and alerts, the...

From a series of workshops at InterGEN- Womyn Citizen Artists' Expression Exhibition. Beth Grossman's TABLE TALK at the OAKLAND IMPACT HUB, September 22, 2014 Table Talk* is an ongoing dialogue project using the Golden Rule as a keystone question. Nearly every world...

In November 2014, the Global Fund for Women will launch the Ignite: Women Fueling Science and Technology multimedia project. Ignite will explore the roles of technology and science in the evolution of women's rights and gender equality. Global Fund for Women...

In 1987, the Association for Public Art commissioned Fingerspan, a weathering steel pedestrian bridge located on a nature trail along the Wissahickon Creek. Pinto is currently working with the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation on Land Buoy, a beacon and...

Each week a Florida Artisan is featured along with other chosen artists from across the USA. Recently, The University of Central Florida TV Station requested permission to feature me and my Grate Works pieces. Brian Hirten, their videographer spent three hours with me...

Arts & Healing Network announces the first round of 2013 AHN Awards! Congratulations to environmental artists Basia Irland                       Jackie Brookner              ...

Monsanto has been poisoning our food and environment for nearly 20 years. Consumers are finally fighting back, by demanding labels on GMO foods. Now Monsanto is trying to take away our right to pass state GMO-labeling laws. We're putting every Congress member on...

  Spiral Wetland is an outdoor eco-art project supported by the Walton Art Center as part of the Artosphere Festival in Fayetteville Arkansas.  Spiral Wetland is made with native soft rush, Juncus effusus growing 
in a closed cell foam mat  anchored to the...

Dear WEAD Community, I write to you as the U.S. Coordinator of the International Uranium Film Festival that originates at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The General Director is Norbert Suchanek, and Executive Director is Marcia Gomes de Oliveira,...

Dear Friends, The Jewish Book Coucil invited me to blog.  I chose to write about machismo and "gunmen" (which is not in my memoir). Heléne Aylon is an Activist Artist whose work has been shown in MoMA, the Whitney and the Warhol museums. Her memoir, published by the...

Hello Friends, I have finally created a Blog documenting my artist residency at Stundars Museum, a historic museum village, in Finland last fall. During my stay in Finland I worked on two different bodies of work: a series of very large drawings, which were exhibited...

Here's a question for everyone on the list. Please name places that are offering courses in Arts for Social Change. I just discovered that Quest University in Squamish, BC is offering such a course (I'm visiting the school with my son who may apply there) and I wonder...

While I do discuss whether anti nuke art activism can be seen as EcoArt, the most important part of my essay for the WEAD special issue on Atomic Legacy Art is my identification of the art activism groups I think would help make a real impact on shutting down nukes in...

Janet has a 35 year relationship with Africa, especially with Mali. Since her 1995 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, she has spent several months every year in Mali engaged in a wide variety of cultural projects including collaborations with Malian artists. She...

'Content Aware Anxieties' http://vimeo.com/user1424457

MAKERS is a dynamic digital platform showcasing thousands of amazing stories from the Women Who Make America. MAKERS features groundbreaking women who have sparked change, been first in their fields and paved the way for those who followed. This initiative also...

Eco Arts Awards is proud to announce the finalists for its inaugural year and extends its congratulations to all. We have been humbly inspired by the outpouring of love, creativity and concern by each and every one of our entrants, and we thank you for your...

Please consider an investment in Colleen Flanigans' kickstarter to install BIO-ROCK Sculpture in Cancun, which will rebuild coral refuge. The "kickstart rewards" are great, too ... but the best reward will be knowing that we can save the corals. Kickstarter Video link...

If you haven't seen Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto's beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with...

Dear Family and Friends, I'm writing about an exciting project I am working on with curator, Karen Moss and students in the Graduate Public Practice Program at Otis College of Art and Design. Portable Park IV - past, present, future = A Living Library and Consuming...

The Environmental Protection Agency's new greenhouse gas tool lets you see large facilities that emit greenhouse gases in the United States. You can view emissions in your state or create a custom search. Explore the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas...

More Ecoartists Commissioned for the Company's Green Trophy Collection by Krista Van Tassel-- Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Wells Fargo Social Responsibility Group and Judith Blankman--WEAD Board & Wells Fargo Green Team member Following an inspiring 2010...

The Reclamation Project is a participatory eco-art project launched by Miami artist Xavier Cortada in 2006.  It explores our ability to coexist with the natural world. The Reclamation Project Foundation generates resources to help implement this participatory eco-art...

San Francisco Dump's Artist in Residence Program Announces 2012 Residency Recipients San Francisco, CA. Recology San Francisco is pleased to announce recipients of artist residencies for 2012. The six selected artists are Beau Buck, Tamara Albaitis, Amy Wilson...

Introduction By John Brockman Biologist Lynn Margulis died on November 22nd. She stood out from her colleagues in that she would have extended evolutionary studies nearly four billion years back in time. Her major work was  in cell evolution, in which the great event...

The Chairman of the NEA visited Fargo today to see what is going on with our project. Unfortunately the article misses the point that the community will be the prime driver of concepts and design, to be aided in that by local artists--nonetheless it does highlight...

http://youtu.be/ADP4eDaRhGk Click on the link above to see Becky White's video and hear her music in response to the Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline! For more info on Becky White visit her site or email her at: :: www.beckywhitemusic.org :: b@beckywhitemusic.org

As WEAD website director, I attended Bioneers this year to raise awareness about WEAD and it's mission to provide a space for feminist eco-artists to network and share their political, cultural and ecological art work. I am very proud to report that the interest in...

If you are a home owner in West Oakland, or know a home owner in West Oakland, who wants a tree planted in front of your house, please contact Arthur Boone at the email: Arboone3@gmail.com.

The new Leonardo Museum of Art and Science in Salt Lake City is opening October 8, 2011, this Saturday! 'Visualizing Sound' is an interactive sculpture commission I fabricated with artist/collaborator, Mic Allen. The piece consists of a large sculptural xylophone of...

If you are interested in Iranian EcoArt, check out Fereshteh Alamshah's blog: http://writeart.ir/blog/en

The Bomb Project is a comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation. It is intended specifically as a resource for artists, and encourages those working in all media, from net.art, film and video, eco-intervention and...

You can visit Keepers of the Waters at: http://www.keepersofthewaters.org/default.cfm

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape exhibition celebrates the institution's signature photography collection that examines human interaction and intervention with the environment. The thirty-year span of The Altered...

http://www.ecoamazons.com/about-the-book/   'We are the caregivers and the protectors of this world. Dorka Keehn so aptly captures this strength of the feminine spirit through the actions of twenty awe-inspiring women who are trailblazing a path for all of us -...

On the morning of Thursday, July 28th, Planet Drum Foundation's founder, Peter Berg, breathed his last. His life-partner, Judy, and daughter, Ocean, were with him. In many ways his death was too soon and unexpected.  Now he has joined the electric pulse of the planet;...

http://magazin.cultura21.de/piazza/english/between-art-and-science.html I would be grateful for any comments.

Friends I'm starting a new project. I'm trying to collect four-hundred pictures of women's backs, it doesn't matter the color of the blouse or the background. I'm collecting four-hundred because that's the number of missing or murdered women in Chihuahua just in the...

Painter, public artist, and feminist activist Joyce Kozloff (http://www.joycekozloff.net/) has collaborated with Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (http://iwa.rutgers.edu) to publish After Gerhard Richter - a poster based on the German artist Gerhard Richter's 1988...

Please have a look at the new Snow Drawing pieces I created this past winter in Colorado and upstate New York. http://sonjahinrichsen.wordpress.com/snow-drawings-hayden-co-january-2010/ http://sonjahinrichsen.wordpress.com/snow-drawings-chatham-ny-2011/ Also please...

See http://www.ecoartsofla.org/aboutecoartsofla.html Why does South Florida need EcoArt? EcoArt SoFla believes art must be integrated into sustainability strategies. In South Florida, like everywhere else on the globe, sustainability strategies have been driven by...

WEAD artist Linda Gass was awarded the prestigious Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. She is one of 12 Bay Area artists selected by a panel of three nationally known arts professionals (Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York;...

Check out the Intersection Newsletter for upcoming events such as Government Surveillance in a Digital World. Intersection Link Here

GRID + Flow: Philadelphia and Beyond - Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies through the Arts and Humanities http://www.temple.edu/institutes/gridflow/symposium.html An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by Temple University, April 7-8, 2011 Kiva Auditorium, Main...

Sandhi Schimmel Gold's Art Featured on PBS "My Generation" How a self-made artist pieced together a craft all her own Watch this 4 min video on how Sandhi Scimmel Gold makes one person's junk is another person's treasure:...

Gilbert F. White Memorial Flood Level Marker project The flood level marker project started a few days after my father Gilbert White passed away at age 94 in Boulder, Colorado.  The Boulder City Manager and Molly Tayer, Community Facilitator discussed creating a...

Gilbert F. White Memorial Flood Level Marker project The flood level marker project started a few days after my father Gilbert White passed away at age 94 in Boulder, Colorado.  The Boulder City Manager and Molly Tayer, Community Facilitator discussed creating a...

The Ghost Tree, Alamshah (artist), Iran, From Iran: A Growing EcoArt Movement article, Photo credit:  Raheleh Zomorodinia WEAD is a women's artist collective that's core thinking is community building. WEAD shares knowledge and support on the women's EcoArt movement...

The Ghost Tree, Alamshah (artist), Iran, From Iran: A Growing EcoArt Movement article, Photo credit:  Raheleh Zomorodinia WEAD is a women's artist collective that's core thinking is community building. WEAD shares knowledge and support on the women's EcoArt movement...

Please see the new website based on Persbook online competition every Summer, focused on the younger generation of Iranian artists. Designed by Mr.Edward Lucie- Smith's support : http://www.newiranianart.com/index.htm Reported by Neda Darzi in...

Hi Maggie, Hope everyone enjoys seeing your earth paintings, and takes time to visit your web site at www.maggieremington.com. I am proud to own one of your paintings, this of Chaco Canyon, one of my favorite places. Kathryn www.kathrynrburke.com