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...
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The Art of Empathy
DEDICATION: HELEN MAYER AND NEWTON HARRISON WEAD dedicates this Magazine Issue to the memory of two extraordinary, historically important, precedent setting ecological artists, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison. Helen died in 2018, and a short time...
Taking Action
INTRODUCTION EDITOR'S NOTE Nearing the end of the Covid epidemic's second year, we were wondering when normalcy might return, then the epiphany hit: 'normal' isn't normal. Lives are lived in flux and adaptation. The personal challenge is to stay connected,...
Women Art Politics
INTRODUCTION TEN LITTLE CHILDREN (ONE GOT SHOT AND THEN THERE WERE NINE), 1991, Mildred Howard. 2020 will be remembered as the strange year in which life messed with normality, big time. Originally we expected to publish one or two months ago. That was overt hubris....
HER< E >TECH
GUEST EDITOR INTRODUCTION By, Susan Leibovitz Steinman Magazine Founder/WEAD Co Founder This special issue of WEAD MAGAZINE brings together the work of female identified artists and scholars working with emerging technologies. It follows work showcased in WEAD's first...
Artists At Work
This Issue's call was simple enough: tell us about your artwork, the how and why of it. With this template we received an amazingly diverse group of submissions, proving there is more than one road to Mecca. This diversity is what makes work and life...
Feminism Now
Photo from Not New: Reclaiming the Radical In Feminism By Suzanne Lacy & Megan Steinman December 31, 2015. Issue Number 8—FEMINISM NOW was a trickier, more complex undertaking than we thought. Since WEAD claims divergent views, we asked how diverse is feminist...
Cultivating Community
ISSUE NO. 7 has the modest goal of spotlighting artists' strategies in initiating activist community-based art. It's a step toward illuminating the larger field, while avoiding the hubris of claiming more than is possible in this space. Community-based art has...
DIRTY WATER
Guest Editorial Consultant Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty Assistant Editor Krystle Ahmadyar FEATURED ARTIST This issue proudly honors BETSY DAMON, a first-generation feminist performance artist and influential environmental art role model. From China to Pittsburg, she has...
ATOMIC LEGACY ART
INTRODUCTION Artists have the ability to manifest images that give face and voice to consequences of both action and inaction that affect us all. Such is the continuing debate over use and abuse of atomic power/energy (safe and sustainable vs. dangerous and...
NO COMPLACENCY
I. PROLOGUE PART 1. OCTOBER 2011 THREE WOMEN won the Nobel Peace Prize: In Yemen Tawakkol Karman founded Women Journalists Without Chains. She led sit-ins and street protests demanding press freedom and human rights for marginalized groups. Her actions inspired the...
BORDER CROSSINGS
In this third issue, we're still crossing into unknown editorial territory. Producing an entirely new magazine is exciting and obsessive. We hope to stay flexible, though, and open to feedback (send ideas, essay and theme proposals), but we're dedicated to WEAD's...
GLOBAL IS PERSONAL
Welcome to WEAD Magazine's second issue. Evidenced by the number of essay proposals received, our audience is growing. We were delighted to be able to select and publish here an especially strong, diverse group of writers covering eco and social justice art in both...
Creating Connections
Welcome to our first issue. It took three years to think about, design, and create this website. With luck, the next issue will come easier and faster. BUILDING COMMUNITIES After 15 years of publishing the artists' Directory, we're pushing edges to publish exclusively...