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A curated portfolio of 10 WEAD members whose work illuminates eco/social systems. From far corners of the world, they reach out with thoughtful strategies for moving toward brighter times. Together we can accomplish a lot. ARTIST No. 1FERESHTA ALAMSHAH Plastic is a...

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Shelley K. White is an artist, activist, sociologist, and public health professor who focuses on social and environmental injustices connected to economic globalization, structural racism, climate crisis, and US-led militarism. She uses painting, drawing, mixed media...

Mary Bayard White, Bay Area sculptor / arts educator, works in the collaboration of environmental and social justice, human interface with the natural world, community arts and place making. Projects include: project  with Akataka tribal youth  in Grand...

Bob Stern joined WEAD's Board as Treasurer in 2025. For more than 25 years, he has has run his own tax preparation business and has represented individuals in tax audits. He has served as a board member, board president, and / or treasurer of the Ecology Center...

Sharon Siskin is a interdisciplinary visual artist, a community-based artist, and art professor engaged with contemporary social justice and environmental issues, currently teaching at Berkeley City College, Laney College, and is Faculty Advisor in the MFAIA Program...

Callan Porter-Romero grew up in a Black, Japanese, and Mexican household in Oakland, CA. With a background in ecology, she observes how living beings, such as plants and humans, engage with one another. Her artwork intentionally centers people from her community,...

Through public and community based arts, Deanna Pindell's focus is on ecological justice. Indigenous rights, critter habitat, forest, and water quality issues are central; she explores the complexity of these concerns and proposes functional, remediative solutions...

Isabella La Rocca González is an artist, educator, and activist working primarily with photography. Her work is part of a long tradition in art and photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the hidden, unconscious, or disregarded. As a first generation...

Rhonda Janke combines her interest in art and science by making art from fabric that has been buried in soil, which contains pigment left by the bacteria and fungi.  The color intensity reflects the “health” of the soil.  Rhonda’s MS and PhD are in agronomy...

Susan Leibovitz Steinman, activist social sculptor and ecofeminist, produces large-scale “greenscapes' ' involving diverse stakeholder participation. Exhibited globally, her art models ecological strategies: organic gardens, slow food, community revitalization, native...

Avery was born and raised in Oakland and has also been shaped by Berkeley and New Orleans. She holds a degree in sociology and continues to learn by taking community college classes and hosting reading groups. She also facilitates an engaged Buddhist group and holds...

Deb Durant is a lifelong artist and interdisciplinary designer whose practice spans the creation of both intimate objects and spatial environments, with a particular focus on the social and ceremonial dimensions of design. Her work moves fluidly between ceremonial...

Lauren Elder is an environmental artist and designer who practices “artful functionality” in her community-built projects. Since 2000 Elder has co-created nine urban gardens in the S.F. Bay Area with students and community members. She has also developed two projects...

Leah Dalton ( she/her/They/Them) is an M.F.A candidate at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, with undergraduate studies at Savannah College of Art and Design where they received a B.F.A in Fashion Design and Art. Professional current roles include curating...

Christina Bertea enjoys using “found” and repurposed materials to create art that enhances awareness of our relationship to water and the urgency of sequestering carbon in the soil. A union trained plumbing contractor, she has worked with Greywater Action for over 14...

CURATORIAL STATEMENT “The achievement of health is premised on the ability to control what enters and exits the body’sborders.” - Elvia Wilk “Whether one is speaking of relating well with humans or nonhumans, in the variety of ways in which we relate ( sexually,...