There is no featured artist in WEAD Magazine Issue #14. The artists here are connected through the theme of Kinship and are represented equally. Cecilia VicuñaMargaret and Christine WertheimNazanin NorooziRina BanerjeeChiyomi Taneike Longo
Featured Artist
Emphatic Relationships
My artistic subject matter is the life of nature. By contemplating nature, I seek to renew my own identity. -Reiko Goto Collins PROLOGUE LISTENING TO MORE than human others has an aesthetic quality that appeals to our ethical sensibilities...
Touch Sanitation
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a pioneering feminist ecoartist. First a successful painter, she switched to environmental performance art in the 1970's after the birth of her first child. She intuited that upon becoming a mother she...
Mildred Howard Local Hero
EXPLORING PUBLIC ART PRACTICES, 2016 Vimeo. Kenneth Rainin Foundation CALIFORNIA ARTIST MILDRED HOWARD draws on African American family, community, and cultural history to develop multi-layered installations based on the power of memory to reveal and to heal. She...
Reva Stone Interview
ON AN ICY DECEMBER day in Winnipeg, Canada I was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours with Reva Stone talking about life and her art practice. Winnipeg is a funny place. It is a small-ish city with a strong arts community that has produced many...
JACKIE BROOKER: Why Matter Matters?
Editors Introduction: Ground breaking ecoartist Jackie Brookner died in May 2015, at age 69. On a creative roll, she only regretted leaving so many unrealized ideas. But she had already created so much to be proud of. In 1967 she earned her BA from...
NOT NEW: Reclaiming the Radical in Feminism
Editor's Introduction WEAD is proud to honor SUZANNE LACY as 2016 Feature Artist. For 40+ years she has produced ground-breaking community-based social justice, feminist artwork. More than a performance artist, she orchestrates large crowds of participants in...
A Visionary In Rural Ecuador
INTRODUCTION by Lauren Elder LARISSA MARANGONI IS A remarkable exception among contemporary artists. She is a visionary based in the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador—not currently one of the art world's 'hot spots.' She thrives there, producing eloquent, deeply...
25 Years On Water
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION This issue proudly honors BETSY DAMON, a first-generation feminist performance artist and influential environmental art role model. From China to Pittsburg, she has made significant contributions to the art and understanding of remediating water...
The Earth Ambulance
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION WEAD IS PLEASED TO HONOR Heléne Aylon as Issue #5 Feature Artist. A dedicated peace eco-activist, staunch feminist and inspirational ritual performance artist, Helene has worked more than 40 years on conceptual artworks to 'Rescue' body, earth,...
Bringing Ecoart to Taiwan
Editor's Note WEAD honors Wu Mali as Featured Artist for Issue #4. For twenty plus years, she has worked throughout Taiwan to disseminate awareness of community based feminist and environmental art. A quintessential multi-tasker, Mali wears multiple art coats: a...
Art and Spirit Across The Landscape
THIS ESSAY IS TAKEN FROM A KEYNOTE given at a WEAD conference in 2001 following 9/11 and updated now, a decade later. I. AFFIRMING AND RENEWING VALUES WITHIN OUR WORK AS ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS it seems even more critical to affirm...
Art For The Third Millennium, Creating A New World
I STARTED OUT AS A POET BUT gave up poetry for the visual expression when I lost my language. I realized that art had to change in a world drastically changing, when humanity was facing major decisions in order to survive on the planet while...