A decade of Iranian environmental art was showcased in Transylvania, Romania, in July 2015. Called The Living Spaces, the exhibition curator Mahmoud Maktabi, selected 30+ artists: Nooshin Naficy, Ahmad Nadalian, Tara Goodarzy, Shahrnaz Zarkesh, Atefeh Khas,...
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 (BHS or Berkeley High) in Berkeley, California, attended a welcome assembly. This is the only assembly that every student is required to attend,...
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...
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 WEAD MAGAZINE 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...
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...
I. BUILDING COLLECTIVE THINKING—CREATING THE SATSANG IN 2012, WE FOUNDED 3rd Space Lab as an artist collective of seven women from Bangalore and the San Francisco Bay Area, with the common goal of establishing a new global commons. As Sister Cities, Bangalore and the...
I. FORMING COMMUNITIES OF ART & SCIENCE FOR TRIAGE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA Environmental War Resistors AS REPORTS OF ONE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER after another pile up in the world, it can feel as though the earth is under military siege, a paradoxical state in...
I. EAST LONDON—A HISTORY OF STRUGGLE THE FLOW OF THE RIVER THAMES has been the lifeblood of London over many centuries. Since the first Bronze Age settlers, it has provided sustenance, transport, trade, work and pleasure for a population that now exceeds eight...
NOTE ABOUT THE TEXTS The following texts on the Refuge in Refuse project by the BRIDJE Club reflect the authors' diverse points of view, creating shared and eclectic experiences while working on this project. The project in whole is a transmedia telling of...
Open only to WEAD listing artists and members, each portfolio is curated by the WEAD MAGAZINE Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to the issue's theme. ARTISTS Jane Ingram Allen Jackie Brookner Kira Corser Char Evans Beth...
INTRODUCTION AS AN ARTIST/EDUCATOR WORKING with the new common core standard recently implemented in the U.S., I think it only makes sense to integrate the arts into the learning of each aspect of school curriculum.1 Science is my subject of choice, with a...
INTRODUCTION RECORDED HISTORY IS TYPICALLY charted through the deeds of great individuals. Complex narratives of conquests, revolutions, discoveries, and accomplishments are encapsulated in the biographies of such prominent personages as Attila the Hun, Alexander the...
INTRODUCTION by Lauren Elder LARISSA MARANGONI IS A remarkable exception among contemporary artists. She is a visionary based in the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador—not currently one of the art world's 'hot spots.' She thrives there, producing eloquent, deeply...