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Dornith Doherty Since 2008 Dornith Doherty has worked in an ongoing collaboration with renowned biologists the most comprehensive international seed banks in the world: the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service’s National Center for...

​curated by Praba Pilar, Danielle Siembieda, and Isabella La Rocca The illusion that pieces of earth’s surface could be owned by individual members of one species. Derek Rassmusen, Qallunology: A Pedagogy for the Oppressor. 2001[1]  You have such a strange...

WEAD MAGAZINE ISSUE No. 13  The Politics of Empathy WEAD invites submissions from artists, critics, art historians, feminist thinkers, and relevant writers to address a range of issues from multi-species empathy to climate-change apathy.   ​We seek essays...

WEAD greatly values the contributions of time and effort by our community. We always have need for willing and enthusiastic community members to help with events and special projects. If you would like to volunteer with WEAD, contact us with your interests and...

Editor's note: Mallery Quetawki is a member of the Pueblo of Zuni Tribe, New Mexico and Artist-In-Residence at University of New Mexico, College of Pharmacy, Community Environmental Health Program.   Several Native American communities are located within close...

Artifacts of Speculation Maryland, USA by Stephanie Garon     Editor's note: All photos are by the artist, unless noted.    I. Introductions In June 2021, I responded to a different sort of juried call. Smithereen Farm and Greenhorns, Inc. were...

Review: Minoosh Zomorodinia's Spirit Gleaning    Editor's note: All photos were taken by Minoosh Zomorodinia at The David Ireland House.    I. Introduction WEAD artist Minoosh Zomorodinia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice employs...

Editor's note: All photos are by the artist, unless noted.    I. Hidden and Mysterious As an artist, my paintings are lyrical and spiritual, layered and flowing. As an ecoartist, I search for visual narratives that reveal unity in diversity, hope and...

Detail, Fence:Wailing Wall, Carol Newborg, collages by AIC participants, rose branches, and fencing, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, 1993.   Editor's note: All photos are by the artist, unless noted.    Introduction I am deeply engaged in...

The Hokianga Community Drawing Project: te ao hurihuri (at the end of the beginning) North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand By Laura Donkers   Editor’s notes:  Author Laura Donkers, based in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, was an artist resident in Aotearoa New...

Shelley K. White is an artist, activist, sociologist, and public health professor who focuses on social and environmental injustices connected to economic globalization, structural racism, climate crisis, and US-led militarism. She uses painting, drawing, mixed media...

Mary Bayard White, Bay Area sculptor / arts educator, works in the collaboration of environmental and social justice, human interface with the natural world, community arts and place making. Projects include: project  with Akataka tribal youth  in Grand...

Bob Stern joined WEAD's Board as Treasurer in 2025. For more than 25 years, he has has run his own tax preparation business and has represented individuals in tax audits. He has served as a board member, board president, and / or treasurer of the Ecology Center...

Sharon Siskin is a interdisciplinary visual artist, a community-based artist, and art professor engaged with contemporary social justice and environmental issues, currently teaching at Berkeley City College, Laney College, and is Faculty Advisor in the MFAIA Program...

Callan Porter-Romero grew up in a Black, Japanese, and Mexican household in Oakland, CA. With a background in ecology, she observes how living beings, such as plants and humans, engage with one another. Her artwork intentionally centers people from her community,...

Through public and community based arts, Deanna Pindell's focus is on ecological justice. Indigenous rights, critter habitat, forest, and water quality issues are central; she explores the complexity of these concerns and proposes functional, remediative solutions...

Isabella La Rocca González is an artist, educator, and activist working primarily with photography. Her work is part of a long tradition in art and photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the hidden, unconscious, or disregarded. As a first generation...

Rhonda Janke combines her interest in art and science by making art from fabric that has been buried in soil, which contains pigment left by the bacteria and fungi.  The color intensity reflects the “health” of the soil.  Rhonda’s MS and PhD are in agronomy...