WEAD ARTISTS PORTFOLIO

Open only to WEAD listing artists and members, each Portfolio is curated by the Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art.  ARTISTS Tanja Geis Eliza Thomas Lorna Stevens Tessa Teixeira...

In Her Own Words

  EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is a collage of collected writings by the artist for her website and blog.  I. BEGINNINGS MY PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS are prayers. My passion is the Earth, and my identity belongs to Spirit. The word heartist reflects...

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

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...
Emphatic Relationships

Emphatic Relationships

My artistic subject matter is the life of nature. By contemplating nature, I seek to renew my own identity. -Reiko Goto Collins     PROLOGUE   LISTENING TO MORE than human others has an aesthetic quality that appeals to our ethical sensibilities...

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...