Editor’s note: Photos and art are by the author of each section, unless otherwise indicated. I. Introduction Soil: Is it alive? How do we know? What started as a simple lab exercise for agricultural students, “bury a piece of cloth,” has now emerged as an art...
In a world where the ongoing collapse is evident daily, you can find two artists who’ve been awake to ecocide for most of their lives, and whose work tries to help audiences and participants come to terms with their grief, as well as their deep connections to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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
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...
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...
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...