I. DANGEROUS BOUNDARIES UNLIKE MANY IN OUR beleaguered time, I have the privilege of spending whole days outside - I don't take this opportunity for joy lightly, and thus have paid special attention to the smaller birds. One Sunday, at 7000 feet, in a fir forest...
I. INTRODUCTION MARY MOUNTCASTLE EUBANK is an artist living in Inverness, California a village in Marin County. She is a founding member of Gallery Route One and served as Director, then Co-Director of the organization's Project Space Program, before retiring in...
I. DISAPPEARING TROPICAL HARDWOODS LAUAN, LUAN, LAWAAN, Meranti, Seraya, Balau, Bangkirai, and Philippine mahogany. All are trade names for the plywood produced from massive tropical hardwood trees harvested legally or illegally from the rainforests of South and...
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a pioneering feminist ecoartist. First a successful painter, she switched to environmental performance art in the 1970's after the birth of her first child. She intuited that upon becoming a mother she...
INTRODUCTION I AM CONSIDERING THESE texts as research for a book I am writing and to help advance my anti-white-supremacy self-education. In my research so far, I have found few Black (1) artists who engage with environmental and climate disruption issues in...
INTRODUCTION IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, in the last five-plus years, the annual fire season has expanded from August to October, to May to December. Mandatory and suggested evacuations are part of our existence. Fear grows daily during the fire season. Though rain...
I. WHICH FEMINISM IN ART AND FEMINISM, Peggy Phelan defines feminism as the conviction that gender has been, and continues to be, a fundamental category for the organisation of culture, the pattern of that organisation favouring men over women (1). In a talk held at...
Open only to WEAD listing artists and members, each Portfolio is curated by the Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art. ARTISTS Jane Ingram Allen Salma Arastu Stephanie Garon Linda...
INTRODUCTION EDITOR'S NOTE Nearing the end of the Covid epidemic's second year, we were wondering when normalcy might return, then the epiphany hit: 'normal' isn't normal. Lives are lived in flux and adaptation. The personal challenge is to stay connected,...
INTRODUCTION POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART are inextricably linked in Taiwan, perhaps more so than in other countries, because of Taiwan's history and its unique position in the world today. Though a democratic and independently governed country, it is not recognized...
Rhodessa Jones is an actress, teacher, director, writer, and the founding director of the Medea Project, a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. Her published works include A...
I. A PERILOUS JOURNEY IT IS SAID THAT EL PASO, TEXAS, is the safest city in the United States. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just two miles away across the border, has the sad reputation of being the most violent city in Latin America. Between these antipodes, the...
I. DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY "WHEN ELECTRICITY PRICES PREVENT older people from heating their homes, and the River Thames is just down the road, why aren't we using it to power our city?" was a question posed by a member of The Geezers, a seniors' group at...
HEALED PORT, digital collage, Beverly Naidus, 2016. I. INTRODUCTION AS I GAZE OUT OF MY studio window, I look out upon the traditional territory of the Puyallup people http://www.puyallup-tribe.com/ourtribe/, one of many Coast Salish communities that sits...
I. INTRODUCTION: CHANGE HAPPENS AT THE SPEED OF TRUST IN 2018, ROBERT BENITEZ, PROGRAMS COORDINATOR at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), attended a Los Angeles Regional Census Table about the 2020 Census. Community-based and other non-profit...
Open only to WEAD member-artists, each portfolio is curated by the WEAD Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art. ARTISTS HEIDI BRUECKNER KITE (aka Suzanne Kite) PETRA KUPPERS...
WHAT TRIGGERED YOU? A new conspiracy by QAnon posted on the Epoch Times Instagram? Perhaps Trump's body-shaming of a reporter on Twitter? How did you react? Like. Share. Comment. Forward. The perfect storm of hyper-targeted marketing, deep learning, and...
EXPLORING PUBLIC ART PRACTICES, 2016 Vimeo. Kenneth Rainin Foundation CALIFORNIA ARTIST MILDRED HOWARD draws on African American family, community, and cultural history to develop multi-layered installations based on the power of memory to reveal and to heal. She...
THIS EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON THE IMPACT OF WAR on environments and on inhabitants of war zones. Recent escalating tensions between Iran and the United States are creating an increase in anxiety about potential war between the countries. Thus, the goal of the exhibition...
INTRODUCTION TEN LITTLE CHILDREN (ONE GOT SHOT AND THEN THERE WERE NINE), 1991, Mildred Howard. 2020 will be remembered as the strange year in which life messed with normality, big time. Originally, we expected to publish one or two months ago. That was overt hubris....