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...
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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...
Art & Healing On Sacred Land
I. DANGEROUS BOUNDARIES UNLIKE MANY IN OUR beleaguered time, I have the privilege of spending whole days outside - I don't take this opportunity for joy lightly, and thus have paid special attention to the smaller birds. One Sunday, at 7000 feet, in a fir forest...
Mary Eubank
I. INTRODUCTION MARY MOUNTCASTLE EUBANK is an artist living in Inverness, California a village in Marin County. She is a founding member of Gallery Route One and served as Director, then Co-Director of the organization's Project Space Program, before retiring in...
Disappearing Hardwoods
I. DISAPPEARING TROPICAL HARDWOODS LAUAN, LUAN, LAWAAN, Meranti, Seraya, Balau, Bangkirai, and Philippine mahogany. All are trade names for the plywood produced from massive tropical hardwood trees harvested legally or illegally from the rainforests of South and...
Touch Sanitation
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a pioneering feminist ecoartist. First a successful painter, she switched to environmental performance art in the 1970's after the birth of her first child. She intuited that upon becoming a mother she...
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...
Feminist Activist Painting
I. WHICH FEMINISM IN ART AND FEMINISM, Peggy Phelan defines feminism as the conviction that gender has been, and continues to be, a fundamental category for the organisation of culture, the pattern of that organisation favouring men over women (1). In a talk held at...
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 Jane Ingram Allen Salma Arastu Stephanie Garon Linda...
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,...
Taiwan: Art Activists
INTRODUCTION POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART are inextricably linked in Taiwan, perhaps more so than in other countries because of Taiwan's history and its unique position in the world today. Though a democratic and independently governed country, it is not recognized...
Rhodessa Jones
Rhodessa Jones is an actress, teacher, director, writer, and the founding director of the Medea Project, a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. Her published works include A...