INTRODUCTION Founder of the Green Map System, Wendy Brawer is living proof that one person has the power to create positive change. In 2009 Utne Reader selected her as one of '50 Visionaries Changing the World.' Following text is from Utne Reader,...
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes I. THE BEGINNING THIS ESSAY CHRONICLES OUR artistic collaboration, offering a personal account of the advantages and complexities of shared...
INTRODUCTION Founded by Josefa Vaughan, ArtSeed is a non profit organization in San Francisco that connects the most resourceful and gifted with the youngest and most vulnerable citizens of the Bay Area and beyond through projects that explore links between classical...
RIIIIIP. Out comes a page from an old issue of Runner's World, leaving nothing behind but a jagged line along the magazine's inner fold. I smile: the pure blue sky hanging above the runner is just the shade I need for the feathers on the white-throated magpie-jay...
This Issue's call was simple enough: tell us about your artwork, the how and why of it. With this template we received an amazingly diverse group of submissions, proving there is more than one road to Mecca. This diversity is what makes work and life...
Editor's note: At my urging, Betsy Damon kindly sent us a quick but urgent 'stream of thought' essay on where we are now, and where might we go. Here's her opinion. WE LIVE IN CHALLENGING TIMES. Overwhelmed by political and ecological crises, it's...
MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES ONE OF WEAD's ORIGINAL ECOART superwomen 'Seeds' (aka pioneers), Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been honored with a long-overdue retrospective of her intellectually ambitious, humanly outstanding artwork at the Queens Museum in NY. Curated by QM...
WEAD ARTISTS PORTFOLIO 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 the issue's theme. ARTISTS MARLENE CREATES TAKAKO MATOBA ISABELLA LA ROCCA LINDA...
A decade of Iranian environmental art was showcased in Transylvania, Romania, in July 2015. Called The Living Spaces, the exhibition curator Mahmoud Maktabi1, selected 30+ artists: Nooshin Naficy, Ahmad Nadalian, Tara Goodarzy, Shahrnaz Zarkesh, Atefeh Khas, Minoosh...
I. THE GENESIS IN 1993 BAY AREA ARTIST Kerry Vander Meer was looking for artists working on issues of cosmetic surgery. Her spark ignited the interest of a group of like-minded women artists to come together to explore feminist content in beauty and body image....
I. WOMEN SPEAKING OUT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 2014-2015 school year, all students at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California attended a welcome assembly. This is the only assembly that every student is required to attend, and because the student...
Pájara writes 'I painted the background (the ocean). I was VERY honored that this banner was used at the entrance of the large general assembly tent in historic Congo Square, New Orleans. We gathered for the Southern Movement Assembly which coincided with K10,...
WHEN I WAS BORN, IN 1963, my father worked for IBM selling mainframe computers throughout Latin America. As IBM moved our family through Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico, I learned about punch cards, data entry, electrical connectivity, transistors, and...
Photo from Not New: Reclaiming the Radical In Feminism By Suzanne Lacy & Megan Steinman December 31, 2015. Issue Number 8—FEMINISM NOW was a trickier, more complex undertaking than we thought. Since WEAD claims divergent views, we asked how...
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 the issue's theme. ARTISTS Meghan Moe Beitiks Claudia Borgna Jenny Brown Verona Fonte Anna Olsson Faviana...
I. HISTORY OF PROPERTY THIS IS A LOVE STORY that began 33 years ago, when my husband and I purchased ten tree-covered acres in northeast Pennsylvania. It was a small section of a large forest, with a stream, springs, and beautiful slate rock formations, a hidden...
I. ESSENTIAL CONNECTIONS IN MY DARKEST HOURS, my most debilitating fear has been that we are alone in an indifferent universe, that beauty, empathy, love are nothing but human strutting and fretting, just sound and fury in a tale told by an idiot,...
Editor's Introduction WEAD is proud to honor SUZANNE LACY as 2016 Feature Artist. For 40+ years she has produced ground-breaking community-based social justice, feminist artwork. More than a performance artist, she orchestrates large crowds of participants in...
FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS my work has argued for the protection of farmed animals, not only bad treatment on farms, but also the ultimate bad treatment—slaughter itself, Yet, my concerns extend to all animals including humans. The same fist of domination and oppression...
Mending the Broken Land with Water' is a sub title of this project. It means water is essential to life, and it has the ability to cross borders, connecting and gathering people who are concerned about the land we live on, as well as issues of urban development and...