Republished with permission, The New York Times, November 29, 2024 "The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse," Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, The Serviceberry, she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a...
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Sanctuaries, Prisons, and Healing
Detail, Fence:Wailing Wall, Carol Newborg, collages by AIC participants, rose branches, and fencing, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, 1993. Editor's note: All photos are by the artist, unless noted. Introduction I am deeply engaged in...
Mycelium as Muse
Editor's note: All art and photos are by the author. I. Hidden and Mysterious As an artist, my paintings are lyrical and spiritual, layered and flowing. As an ecoartist, I search for visual narratives that reveal unity in diversity, hope and connection,...
Artifacts of Speculation
Editor's note: Photos and art pieces are by the artist unless otherwise indicated. I. Introductions In June 2021, I responded to a different sort of juried call. Smithereen Farm and Greenhorns, Inc. were offering 20,000 mined rocks to be used for art.1,2 As an...
Hokianga Drawing Project
Editor’s notes: Author Laura Donkers, based in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, was an artist resident in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020-2024. Aotearoa New Zealand is used throughout the text. Aotearoa is the Māori-language name for New Zealand, meaning “land of the long...
WEAD Artists Portfolio
ARTISTS Kimberly Callas Amy Feger Beth Fein Maru Garcia Tanja Geis Alisa Gorshenina Laura Green Stacy Levy Patricia Miranda Abby Perry Joanne Ross Priscilla Stadler Mikala Sterling Cindee Travis Klement Jen Urso Shelley White...
Zuni Knowing
Editor's notes: Mallery Quetawki is a member of the Pueblo of Zuni Tribe, New Mexico, and Artist-In-Residence at the University of New Mexico, College of Pharmacy, Community Environmental Health Program. All art and photos are by the author, unless otherwise noted....
Spirit Gleaning Review
Editor's note: All art, interventions, and photos by Minoosh Zomorodinia at The David Ireland House in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. I. Introduction WEAD artist Minoosh Zomorodinia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice employs...
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
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...
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
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
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
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...
Kinship: Art of Connection
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...
Recommended Reading
Sarah Jane Cervenak, Black Gathering. Duke University Press, 2021. In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black...
Message from Founding Editor
The WEAD Board and I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Connie Tell and Donna Brookman for their dedication, intellect and tenacity so essential in creating Magazine Issue 14. Late spring 2023 I had a health emergency that put magazine production on hold....
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
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...