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...
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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...
Transitions and Transformations
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Chin Davidson reviews the group show Transitions and Transformations: The Constant Flux of our Personal Structures, featuring Geraldine Ondrizek and Reed College associates, at Palazzo Bembo in the 2022 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, April 23-...
Eco Art and Black Americans’ Relationships to the Land
INTRODUCTION I AM CONSIDERING THESE texts as research for a book I am writing and to help advance my anti-white-supremacy self-education. In my research so far, I have found few Black (1) artists who engage with environmental and climate disruption issues in...
Climate Change Dressed In A Fire Gown
INTRODUCTION IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, in the last five-plus years, the annual fire season has expanded from August to October, to May to December. Mandatory and suggested evacuations are part of our existence. Fear grows daily during the fire season. Though rain...
EMOTIONAL NUMBNESS: THE IMPACT OF WAR ON ECOSYSTEMS
THIS EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON THE IMPACT OF WAR on environments and on inhabitants of war zones. Recent escalating tensions between Iran and the United States are creating an increase in anxiety about potential war between the countries. Thus, the goal of the exhibition...
CO2ONIALISM in the Extractocene
I HAD ORIGINALLY PLANNED to write commentary highlighting innovative women-identified eco artists who work with technology, from a fascinating international field of practices generating new thoughts, ideas and areas of growth within the environmental movement....
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MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES ONE OF WEAD's ORIGINAL ECOART superwomen 'Seeds' (aka pioneers), Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been honored with a long-overdue retrospective of her intellectually ambitious, humanly outstanding artwork at the Queens Museum in NY. Curated by QM...
Feminism And Animal Agriculture
I. ESSENTIAL CONNECTIONS IN MY DARKEST HOURS, my most debilitating fear has been that we are alone in an indifferent universe, that beauty, empathy, love are nothing but human strutting and fretting, just sound and fury in a tale told by an idiot, signifying...
Art, Humor and Feminism
FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS my work has argued for the protection of farmed animals, not only bad treatment on farms, but also the ultimate bad treatment—slaughter itself, Yet, my concerns extend to all animals including humans. The same fist of domination and oppression...
Arts Integration in Elementary Schools
INTRODUCTION AS AN ARTIST/EDUCATOR1 WORKING with the new common core standard recently implemented in the U.S., I think it only makes sense to integrate the arts into the learning of each aspect of school curriculum. Science is my subject of choice, with a specific...
Madreagua Colombia Project
Lynne Hull's community-participatory project in Nueva Venecia, Santa Marta, and Laguna Grande Parque Nacional, Colombia. Sponsored by Museo Bolivariano and Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, territorial Caribe. I conducted the project with the assistance of...
Waterwheel, Women & Collaboration
I. WATER: A LINK ACROSS CULTURES AS AN INTRINSICALLY EXPERIMENTAL artist I am deeply committed to making & developing art that examines, reflects upon, and helps us survive today's disjointed worlds. Artistically, I have been fascinated by water for many years,...
By Invitation Only
'Dear Ms. Pineda, Thank you for writing your fearsome, enlightening book DEVIL'S TANGO. We here in the states and the people of Japan and the whole world are fortunate that you responded to your dying friend's request.' TURNING 80 Turning 80 this fall represents...
A Photo Essay: Nuclear History, Nuclear Destiny
In the 1950s, Major Hank Henry was one of the top fighter-bomber pilots in the United States Air Force, and a member of the 4925th Test Group (Atomic). At the group´s 1986 reunion, he mounted one of "his" nuclear weapons, the casing for a 500-kiloton atomic bomb, on...
Shifting Terrain
On April 5th 2012 Parsons The New School for Design in NYC sponsored a day-long feminist conference titled 'Art Practice, Activism, and Pedagogy: Some Feminist Views.' It was organized by painter and writer, Mira Schor, Associate Teaching Professor in the MFA Fine...
Performative Public Art Ecology
INTRODUCTION WHEN ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THROUGH artistic practice, contemporary artists often find themselves in the role of educator, leader and performer. Leading by example, they go out in the world and create works that remediate or revision sites...
Ohio: Turkish Ecoart Exhibit
SISH-KEBAP, Eden Ünlüata, Installation 2010 EDITOR'S NOTE In 2010 artists Nanette Yannuzzi and Arzu Ozkal brought ecoart by thirteen contemporary Turkish activist artists to America. The collaborative exhibit-- RELIEF VALVE/SUBAP, was installed in a unique...
Taiwan: Going Green Exhibit
AUTHOR'S NOTE From the exhibition catalogue, Going Green, sponsored by the Taipei Cultural Center, New York City, and funded by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan. The exhibition opened in New York on July 9, 2010, at Queens Botanical Garden (Taipei Economic and...
S. Korea: Geumgang Nature Art Biennale
I. HISTORY Geumgang Nature Art Biennale WAS FIRST HELD IN 2004 and again in 2006 and 2008. This year, 2010, it is titled Nature and Peace. Yatoo was founded almost 30 years ago in Gongju, in the Chungnam Province, 150 km south-west of Seoul. Yatoo...