WEAD focuses on women’s unique perspective
in ecological and social justice art.
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WEAD Magazine
Baden Baden Satellite Reef (detail), part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring. Photo courtesy Museum Frieder Burda, by Nickolay Kazakov. From WEAD Magazine #14 article Community and Kin Builders, by Christine and Margaret Wertheim.
Recent Exhibition
WEAD’s Annual Member Exhibition
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent
Online and at The 109 Gallery
October 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent investigates the intersection of bodies, ecology, and agency through the lens of permeability and protection, and explores how consent is navigated within biological, political, and ecological systems.
This dual exhibition appeared online at WEAD’s KMX Gallery and in person at Leah Dalton’s The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, Georgia. Juried by Beverly Naidus and Leah Dalton, the exhibit featured 58 works from 44 artists, including 15 videos.
Stay tuned for details about our upcoming 30th birthday party for WEAD.
UPCOMING EVENTS
EARTHBODY Workshop: Re-Stor(y)-ing the Eco-somatic, an in-person workshop
with Rulan Tangen
Sunday, March 29, 2 to 3:30 pm
Wildcat Studio
Berkeley, California
Offered on Ohlone lands. Experience simple embodied eco-somatic practices: restoring and re-story-ing body as as earth and earth as body. Rulan Tangen, founding artistic director/choreographer of Dancing Earth, will share her eco-somatic practices through movement and words that compel people of all ages, backgrounds, and capacities to find connection to their inner dreamscape and outer landscape in profound ways. We will come together to embody the relevance of Eco Somatic movement as source, instrument and response for ecological Movement sustainability.
WEAD at the 2026 Bioneers Conference
Thursday, March 26, to Saturday, March 28
Berkeley, California
WEAD is excited to be partnering with the Bioneers Conference again this year. Our volunteers will be exhibiting selected members’ work from the recent Bodies and Borders exhibition in Zellerbach Hall, the main hall of the conference, March 26 to 28.
WEAD members Nora Scully and Michelle Santoro will be leading a workshop for Bioneers attendees, Visible Mending, at Marsh Arts Center, Cabaret Room, March 28, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm. WEAD will provide samples and tutorials on stitching. Instruction will focus on learning skills, rather than a final product. Needles, thread, buttons and patches will be available for use during the instructions, or bring your knitting and join the mending community!
If you are a current member and plan to register for Bioneers, please reach out to info@weadartists.org to request WEAD’s discount code.