Commentary

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...