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Sanitary? by Linda Gass, 2009, silk painting and machine quilting, 30”h x 30”w x ¼"d". Photo credit: Don Tuttle. CALL for ENTRIES: Art & Science State of the San Francisco Estuary, a Biennial Conference October 28 - 29, 2025 Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland, CA...

(plus other ways to get involved!) WEAD Magazine No. 15 will be published Fall 2025! This edition of the magazine will not be issue-specific, so it is open to all aspects of women’s unique perspective in ecological and social justice art. Send in a proposal to write...

Lands and Symbiotic Futures  ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS III ​Monday, December 2, 2024   5-6:30pm PT on Zoom ​Participating artists in this third of three presentations include:Salma Arastu, Lauren Bon, Wendy DesChene, Betsy Jaeger, Cynthia Jensen, Maria...

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WEAD MAGAZINE ISSUE No. 13  The Politics of Empathy WEAD invites submissions from artists, critics, art historians, feminist thinkers, and relevant writers to address a range of issues from multi-species empathy to climate-change apathy.   ​We seek essays...

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WOMEN ECO ARTISTS DIALOGVillage Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, California LOVE, Jenny Balisle, Shotgun shells. THEME:  Everywhere we go, everywhere we look, we can see the traces humans leave—from magnificent art, architecture, and monuments to strip mines,...

Call for Participation - Deadline July 30th ​Women Eco Artists Dialog invites current members to submit artworks to an international group exhibition titled: Emotional Numbness: The impact of war on the human psyche and ecosystems.   The exhibition...

curated by Praba Pilar, Danielle Siembieda and Isabella La Rocca REMOTE SENSING (36), Suzanne Ankar, 2016. ARTISTS: Kite, Elizabeth Demaray,Lynn Mowson, Suzanne Anker, micha cárdenas, Dornith Doherty, Maria Paz Gutierrez Over millennia, human beings have co-evolved...

As some of you know, in 2005 I founded and still team teach with Sharon Siskin, a class at Oakland’s Laney College called EcoArt Matters. In this 6 hour class, we have noted guest speakers in the morning: scientists, activists, environmental artists, poets,...

WEAD MEMBER CALL FOR ARTWORK ​ Members of Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) are invited to submit work for a Juried Members’ Exhibition, Feat to Fire: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. The exhibition will be held at the Sanchez Art Center’s East...

TODAY'S NEWS    The US Interior Department announced significant changes Monday August 19, 2019 that would weaken how the Endangered Species Act is implemented, a move critics fear will allow for more oil and gas drilling and limit how much regulators...

This spring the WEAD Board is looking for two new Directors, to join website and membership committees. If interested please send a self-nominating email with subject line (WEAD Board) to info@weadartists.org with a letter stating why; three recommendations,...

Dornith Doherty Since 2008 Dornith Doherty has worked in an ongoing collaboration with renowned biologists the most comprehensive international seed banks in the world: the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service’s National Center for...

​curated by Praba Pilar, Danielle Siembieda, and Isabella La Rocca The illusion that pieces of earth’s surface could be owned by individual members of one species. Derek Rassmusen, Qallunology: A Pedagogy for the Oppressor. 2001[1]  You have such a strange...

WEAD MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION: Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without: Lessons from our Grandmothers.  The title is a depression era adage taught by wise grandmothers and families in need. Selected art should focus on eco and...

Holland Cotter of The New York Times has listed WEAD artist 'Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art' among the Best Art of 2016.    "MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES: MAINTENANCE ART 'After the revolution, who's going to pick up the garbage on Monday...