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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Message from Founding Editor
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 WEAD Magazine Issue 14. Late spring 2023, I had a health emergency that put magazine production on hold....
Artist Portfolios
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...
Featured Artist
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 WEAD MAGAZINE ISSUE...
The Stickiness of Touch
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...
A Poetics of Empathy
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...
It’s Really Just a Love Story
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...
IMAGO INSECTA
ZAC is a collective of six ecofeminist artists: Elena Redaelli (Italy); Karin van der Molen (Netherlands); Lucia Loren (Spain), Karen Macher (Perù), Imke Rust (Namibia/Germany) and Sally Kidall (Australia). INTRODUCTION HIGH UP IN THE mountain range of...
Liza Lim: Composer
INTRODUCTION THE MUSIC OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER LIZA LIM is a product of an empathy-driven ecological praxis that cycles through research, creation, and reflection. It emerges from her engagement with contemporary questions of ecological science and theory, the...
Castor and Sapient
ARTIST'S NOTE: Essay is adapted from my artist's book Castor and Sapient, 2020, for Science Stories online exhibition, University of Puget Sound. Collaborating scientist Peter Wimberger. I. PROLOGUE: A LOUSE IN MY LADY'S BEAVER CLOAK SOME 83,000 TO 170,000 YEARS ago,...
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 the...
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-...
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...
Divining Chaos
From page 22 of Divining Chaos, the Autobiography of an Idea Chapter: 1 A Path The consequence of the pandemic for almost everyone was profound and chaotic dislocation from most space and time tethers. If arguments advanced by ecofeminists such as the historian...
Leslie Labowitz: Sprout Actions
INTRODUCTION Leslie Labowitz is a seminal Los Angeles feminist performance and visual artist who first became known in the 1970s for her anti-violence against women works in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy. By 1980, with the inception of her forty year art/life...
Eternal Forest
INTRODUCTION BORN IN THE USSR, Poltava, Evgenia Emets is a multimedia artist and poet. After earning an MFA from Saint Martin's College of Art, London, she formed an arts collective to explore the art and science of visual sound. She traveled through the UK and...
Notes From The Precipice
PROLOGUE IN A BBC INTERVIEW, author Lionel Shriver discussed the 'Five Minutes to Twelve Syndrome.' Shriver elaborated: 'It's a tendency to push things to the very limit. You want to get that last little bit of good life before making decisions to prepare yourself for...