WEAD Editorial Team, 2025-2026

Artist Statement / Bio

MASTHEAD for WEAD MAGAZINE #15: PLACE SETTING

Creator: Susan Leibovitz Steinman

Executive editor and editor-in-chief: Susan Leibovitz Steinman
Production and editorial director: Kasha Frese
Production assistant: Mikala Aragón Sterling
Copyeditors: Emily Anne Kappenman and Lanny DeVuono
Contributors: Alexandra Alter, Salma Arastu, Laura Donkers, Stephanie Garon, Rhonda Janke, Bee (Beverly) Naidus, Carol Newborg, Deanna Pindell, Mallery Quetawki, Sharon Siskin, Ruth Wallen

ABOUT WEAD MAGAZINE
About WEAD Magazine
WEAD Magazine was created by Women EcoArtists Dialog (WEAD) founder Susan Leibovitz Steinman in 2009. The online magazine is content-driven and publishes on an intermittent annual schedule. It features essays and artwork from international social justice and ecoartists, curators, and historians. Edited to be accessible to readers from all walks of life, it is an archive of the field, a resource for academics, and an inspiration to artists and scientists. Each issue includes a featured artist and six articles by ecoartists or social justice artists who share the philosophical underpinnings, methodology, evolutions, and outcomes of their practices. Issues also include reviews of art shows, artists in conversation, and featured artist portfolios.

Susan Leibovitz Steinman is editor-in-cheif. Donna Brookman, Praba Pilar, and Connie Tell have guest edited. The magazine has featured the groundbreaking artists: Helène Aylon, Claudia Bernardi, Betsy Damon, Agnes Denes, Reiko Goto, Mildred Howard, Suzanne Lacy, Amy Lipton, Mali Wu, Larissa Marangoni, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Reva Stone.

Past contributors are Mary Jo Aagerstoun, Krystle Ahmadyar, Stefani Allegretti, Jane Ingram Allen, Navjot Altaf, Jacki Apple, Rina Banerjee, Liza Behrendt, Claudia Bernardi, Suzaan Boettger, Wendy Brawer, Jackie Brookner, Teresa Camozzi, Beth Carruthers, Elina Chauvet, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Erica Cirino, Tim Collins, Betsy Damon, Jane Chin Davidson, Anne Douglas, Edie Dillon, Chris Drury, Joann Easton, Lauren Elder, Evgenia Emets, Ria Vanden Eynde, Verona Fonte, Chris Fremantle, Suzon Fuks, Sheila Ghidini, Leslie Goldberg, Isabella La Rocca González, Reiko Goto, Jean Grant, Michele Guieu, Lynne Hull, Basia Irland, Joyce Janvier, Jourdan Imani Keith, Atefeh Khas, David Kupfer, Robin Lasser, Eve Andree Laramee, Loraine Leeson, James Lerager, Chiyomi Taneike Longo, Stacy Levy, Laura Lynch, Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Mahmoud Maktabi, JL Malbrook, Mali Wu, Larissa Marangoni, Angela Marsh, Dominique Mazeaud, Anke Mellin, Barbara Morris, Zea Morvitz, Andrew Munn, Beverly Naidus, Carol Newborg, Nazanin Noroozi, Caro Novella, Mary A. O'Brien, Lissette Olivares, Daniela Peña Corvillon, Praba Pilar, Cecile Pineda, Kamala Platt, Aviva Rahmani, Tabita Rezaire, Denny Riley, Boryana Rossa, Randy Rosenberg, Ann T. Rosenthal, Robin Rosenthal, A.E. Ryan, Shelley Sacks, Hiroko Shimizu, Margaret Shiu, Danielle Siembieda, Sharon Siskin, Maya & Rachel Siskin-Lavine, Jennifer Smith, Sharon Spain, Elizabeth Stanek, Megan Steinman, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Lorna Stevens, Paz Tornero, Josefa Vaughan, Cecilia Vicuña, Amber Vilas, Ruth Wallen, Shu-Ju Wang, Patricia Watts, Linda Weintraub, Christine and Margaret Wertheim, Mary Bayard White, Veronica Wiman, Insa Winkler, Robyn Woolston, Nanette Yannuzzi Macias, Yi-Chun Lo, ZAC collective, Shai Zakai, and Minoosh Zomorodinia.

About Women EcoArtists Dialog
Founded in 1996 by Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Jo Hansen, and Estelle Akamine, Women EcoArtists Dialog (WEAD) focuses on women’s unique perspectives and collaborates internationally to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art. Our purpose is to provide information on the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals, and the public, and to further the fields of, and the understanding of, environmental and social justice art. WEAD’s online member directory includes more than 600 artists working with themes of ecology and social justice. WEAD produces an annual member exhibition, the annual WEAD Magazine, a monthly Art+ speaker series, quarterly workshops, and two artist-in-residence programs. WEAD also publishes a monthly newsletter featuring leaders in the field, member and community exhibitions, and calls for art. WEAD’s current board includes Co-Chairs Mary Bayard White and Deanna Pindell, Treasurer Bob Stern, Secretary Rhonda Janke, and Directors Christina Bertea, Leah Dalton, Deb Durant, Lauren Elder, Avery Huetter, Sharon Siskin, and Board Ambassador Callan Porter-Romero. For more information, visit weadartists.org.

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