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Inter-Connection/ Sustenance & Healing

Inter-Connection/ Sustenance & Healing

Installation view, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveJuly 11–October 14, 2018 Photo by Impart PhotographyCourtesy of BAMPFA My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new...

Community and Kin Builders

Community and Kin Builders

Coral Forest, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring. Photo courtesy Lehigh University Arts Galleries, by Stephanie Veto. Introduction to The Crochet Coral Reef A project by Christine...

Collective Memory and Displacement

Collective Memory and Displacement

From the series This Bitter Earth, #1422 x 30 Pigmented linen pulp and abaca oncotton base sheet My practice is rooted in a search for universal evocations of loss and longing, often described as melancholia, the Portuguese saudade, or the Turkish huzun. I work with...

Cross-Cultural Kinship

Cross-Cultural Kinship

Flourish me different in wind and drift and breezes set sale always in motion and mindful adaptation, in not yet settled in fertile selection , in open folds and ceaseless creases,  in remote reaches this was wrinkled and snagged touched stopped with what nature...

Spiritual Connectivity

Spiritual Connectivity

Evolution #1, Mixed medium on panels (diptych), 38"x72", 2004 ‘In the depth of Karamatsu woodThere is a passage for me to walkMisty rain is falling on the pathThe mountain breeze circulates through it” Kitahara Hokushu’s poem, “Karamatsu Woods” (from which this stanza...

Kinship: Guest Editors

Kinship: Guest Editors

A paradigm shift is occurring and we are witnessing the continuing growth of art-making characterized by expanded connections and consciousness. Stereotypes of the artist genius (usually white male) enacting statements of ego, are being supplanted by art that is...

Artist Portfolios

Open to WEAD listing artists and members, these portfolios showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art.  ARTISTS Mary ApikosChristina BerteaKatherine BolandEmily Van EngelGrace GrothausDeborah KennedyIsabella La...

Featured Artist

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

The Stickiness of Touch

The Stickiness of Touch

Artist's note: All images were created from photographs taken on or near the Shanahan Trail in Boulder, CO in April of 2022.  The photomontages offer a variety of glimpses and perspectives. They are a labor of love, an effort to convey the visceral sense and...

A Poetics of Empathy

A Poetics of Empathy

      INTRODUCTION   HELEN MAYER HARRISON AND NEWTON HARRISON are pioneers in the creative development of art and ecology. It was Helen who read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a critical influence in their decision in the early 1970s to do no work...

It’s Really Just a Love Story

It’s Really Just a Love Story

INTRODUCTION RADICAL CARE HAS BEEN defined as 'a set of vital but underappreciated strategies for enduring precarious worlds' (Hobart & Kneese, 2020, p. 2). Art can manifest as an important interface through which we allow ourselves to feel, grieve, and process...

IMAGO INSECTA

IMAGO INSECTA

ZAC is a collective of six ecofeminist artists: Elena Redaelli (Italy); Karin van der Molen (Netherlands); Lucia Loren (Spain), Karen Macher (Perù), Imke Rust (Namibia/Germany) and Sally Kidall (Australia).    INTRODUCTION HIGH UP IN THE mountain range of...

Liza Lim: Composer

Liza Lim: Composer

INTRODUCTION THE MUSIC OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER LIZA LIM is a product of an empathy-driven ecological praxis that cycles through research, creation, and reflection. It emerges from her engagement with contemporary questions of ecological science and theory, the...

Castor and Sapient

Castor and Sapient

ARTIST'S NOTE: Essay is adapted from my artist's book Castor and Sapient, 2020, for Science Stories online exhibition, University of Puget Sound. Collaborating scientist Peter Wimberger. I. PROLOGUE: A LOUSE IN MY LADY'S BEAVER CLOAK SOME 83,000 TO 170,000 YEARS ago,...

WEAD ARTISTS PORTFOLIO

Open only to WEAD listing artists and members, each Portfolio is curated by the Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art.  ARTISTS Tanja Geis Eliza Thomas Lorna Stevens Tessa Teixeira...

In Her Own Words

  EDITOR'S NOTE: This essay is a collage of collected writings by the artist for her website and blog.  I. BEGINNINGS MY PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS are prayers. My passion is the Earth, and my identity belongs to Spirit. The word heartist reflects the...

Recommended Reading

A. Geffen, C. Fremantle, A. Rahmani, and A. Rosenthal (Eds), 2002. Ecoart in action: Activities, case studies, and provocations for classrooms and communities. New Village Press How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social...