Andrée Singer Thompson, circa 2023. Photo: Susan Leibovitz Steinman Editor's note: Art pieces are by Thompson unless noted. Photos are courtesy of the artist, unless noted. I. Introduction Andrée’s EcoArt Matters class was a revelation for...
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Recommended Reading
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 Novelist Jamaica Kincaid presents plants A-Z, from apples to Zea mays, tracing the entwined histories of botany, colonization, slavery,...
Place Setting
FIRST, A PERSONAL CALL TO COLLECTIVE ACTION Historically, WEAD has worked to support the broadest umbrella of earth and social justice feminist artists. It's integral to our philosophy that good can emerge from different soils. While ecologically this approach remains...
Soil Remembers
Editor’s note: Photos and art are by the author of each section, unless otherwise indicated. The Soil Remembers, Coastal Beaches (detail), Rhonda Janke and Deanna Pindell, mixed media, 42” x 24” x 24”, Fort Worden State Park, Washington, USA, 2011-2013. Photo: D....
Becoming Ecoart Elders
In a world where the ongoing collapse is evident daily, you can find two artists who’ve been awake to ecocide for most of their lives and whose work tries to help audiences and participants come to terms with their grief, as well as their deep connections to...
An Appreciation: Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer, plant ecologist, educator, writer, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Syracuse, New York. Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Article republished with permission, The New York Times, November 29, 2024 NYT...
Sanctuaries, Prisons, and Healing
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 community...
Mycelium as Muse
Forgiveness (Brown-Yellow), two paintings digitally laid over each other, 2025. Editor's note: All art and photos are by the author. I. Hidden and Mysterious As an artist, my paintings are lyrical and spiritual, layered and flowing. As an...
Artifacts of Speculation
Editor's note: Photos and art pieces are by the artist unless otherwise indicated. Gold Rush (detail), rock core samples extracted from Maine/Passamaquoddy-land, metal beams, 120" x 120" x 120", Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC, 2022. Photo: Vivian Marie...
Hokianga Drawing Project
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...
WEAD Artists Portfolio
ARTISTS Kimberly Callas Amy Feger Beth Fein Maru García Tanja Geis Alisa Gorshenina Laura Green Stacy Levy Patricia Miranda Abby Spangel Perry Joanne Ross Priscilla Stadler Mikala Aragón Sterling Cindee Travis Klement Jen Urso ...
Zuni Knowing
Extraction & Remediation, acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20” diptych, 2020. The above diptych represents the decades of mining on indigenous lands, from the start of extraction to the current remedial efforts, to the cleanup of contaminated sacred sites. The petroglyphs...
Spirit Gleaning Review
Bahar Celebration, 2025. Editor's note: All art, interventions, and photos by Minoosh Zomorodinia at The David Ireland House in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. I. Introduction WEAD artist and former board director Minoosh...
Inter-Connection/ Sustenance & Healing
Installation view, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveJuly 11–October 14, 2018, Photo by Impart PhotographyCourtesy of BAMPFA My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new...
Community and Kin Builders
Coral Forest, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring. Photo courtesy Lehigh University Arts Galleries, by Stephanie Veto. Introduction to The Crochet Coral Reef A...
Collective Memory and Displacement
This Bitter Earth, #1422" x 30", pigmented linen pulp and abaca oncotton base sheet My practice is rooted in a search for universal evocations of loss and longing, often described as melancholia, the Portuguese saudade, or the Turkish huzun. I work with imperfect...
Cross-Cultural Kinship
Flourish me different in wind and drift and breezes set sale always in motion and mindful adaptation, in not yet settled in fertile selection, in open folds and ceaseless creases, in remote reaches this was wrinkled and snagged touched stopped with what nature...
Spiritual Connectivity
Evolution #1, Mixed medium on panels (diptych), 38" x 72", 2004 In the depth of Karamatsu woodThere is a passage for me to walkMisty rain is falling on the pathThe mountain breeze circulates through it Kitahara Hokushu’s poem, “Karamatsu Woods” (from which this stanza...
Kinship: Guest Editors
A paradigm shift is occurring, and we are witnessing the continuing growth of art-making characterized by expanded connections and consciousness. Stereotypes of the artist genius (usually white male) enacting statements of ego are being supplanted by art that is...
Kinship: Art of Connection
A paradigm shift is occurring, and we are witnessing the continuing growth of art-making characterized by expanded connections and consciousness. Stereotypes of the artist genius (usually white male) enacting statements of ego are being supplanted by art that is...