Drawing activity at Hauora Hokianga (Hokianga Health) women's health event, Hokianga Community Campus, Rawene. Editor’s notes: Author Laura Donkers, based in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, was an artist resident in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020-2024. Aotearoa New...
A curated portfolio of 10 WEAD members whose work illuminates eco/social systems. From far corners of the world, they reach out with thoughtful strategies for moving toward brighter times. Together we can accomplish a lot. ARTIST No. 1FERESHTA ALAMSHAH Plastic is a...
WEAD is a grassroots, member-activated community that is mostly volunteer run. We are currently looking for volunteer members who have experience with: Proofreading Mailchimp (or other email marketing platforms) Reel creation Wordpress or Divi Interested? Please...
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 is a founding WEAD Board Member. She joined the board in 1996, became co-director in 2021, and is currently board chair. She is a Bay Area sculptor/arts educator, working at the intersection of environmental and social justice, human interface with...
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 founding WEAD Board member and is currently on the AIR committee. She is an interdisciplinary visual artist, a community-based artist, and an art professor engaged with contemporary social justice and environmental issues. Sharon currently teaches...
Callan Porter-Romero joined the WEAD Board in 2024 and transitioned to a WEAD Board Ambassador in 2025 when she began the MA Art & Ecology Program at Goldsmiths, University of London. Callan grew up in a Black, Japanese, and Mexican household in Oakland,...
Deanna Pindell joined the WEAD Board in 2024. She is chair of the exhibitions committee and serves on the leadership team. Through public and community based arts, Deanna's focus is on ecological justice. Indigenous rights, critter habitat, forest, and water quality...
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 joined the WEAD Board in 2024 and serves as the board secretary. She earned a Master's of Science and a PhD in agronomy from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She also has a Master's in interdisciplinary art from Goddard...
Susan Leibovitz Steinman cofounded WEAD in 1995. She is the executive editor and creator of WEAD Magazine, an online journal of critical activist art essays. Susan is an activist, social sculptor, and ecofeminist. She produces large-scale “greenscapes" involving...
Avery was born and raised in Oakland and has also been shaped by Berkeley and New Orleans. She holds a degree in sociology from University of New Orleans, and continues to learn by taking community college classes and hosting reading groups. She also facilitates an...
Deb Durant joined the WEAD Board in 2025 and currently leads the Art+ Speaker Series. She is a lifelong artist and interdisciplinary designer whose practice spans the creation of both intimate objects and spatial environments, with a particular focus on the social and...
Lauren Elder joined the WEAD Board in 2012 and currently serves on the exhibitions committee. She is an environmental artist and designer who practices “artful functionality” in her community-built projects. Since 2000, she has co-created nine urban gardens in the San...
Leah Dalton ( she/her/they/them) joined WEAD's board in 2023 and is a member of the exhibitions committee. Leah is an M.F.A candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with undergraduate studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where they...
Christina Bertea joined the WEAD Board in 2013 and is currently a member of the website committee and exhibitions committee. She enjoys using found and repurposed materials to create art that enhances awareness of our relationship to water and the urgency of...
CURATORIAL STATEMENT “The achievement of health is premised on the ability to control what enters and exits the body’sborders.” - Elvia Wilk “Whether one is speaking of relating well with humans or nonhumans, in the variety of ways in which we relate ( sexually,...
Sanitary? by Linda Gass, 2009, silk painting and machine quilting, 30”h x 30”w x ¼"d". Photo credit: Don Tuttle. CALL for ENTRIES: Art & Science State of the San Francisco Estuary, a Biennial Conference October 28 - 29, 2025 Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland, CA...
(plus other ways to get involved!) WEAD Magazine No. 15 will be published Fall 2025! This edition of the magazine will not be issue-specific, so it is open to all aspects of women’s unique perspective in ecological and social justice art. Send in a proposal to write...