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• Wicked Monstrous Dialogues: Part ll

  • When
    Thursday, February 12, 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  WICKED MONSTROUS DIALOGUES: Part ll

  Thursday, February 12 Timebuddy
  

  United States: 9am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST

  Europe: 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET, Australia: Friday, February 13, 6:00am AEDT

  
  

  Scott Bluedorn

  Shani Nottingham
  

  Alejandro Duran

  This winter/spring we will explore through a series of dialogues, works that our members are making today that engage plastics as a material for reuse, research, and aesthetic inquiry. Artists invited are included in the upcoming ecoartspace book titled Wicked Monstrous, that will launch fall 2026.

  This month we will hear from Scott Bluedorn, who will discuss his ongoing project Microplastic Archive, illustrating found plastic objects while classifying specimens and recording their prevalence, Shani Nottingham, who will present her plastics project of sculptural installations made from repurposed bread tags saved and sent to her from across the world. And Alejandro Duran, who will share his work made from plastic waste collected along global coastlines, carried by ocean currents .  

  Each presenter will have approximately 15 minutes to discuss their work, then Q&A with audience participation following. 

  
  

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  Scott Bluedorn is an artist, illustrator and designer working in various media including painting, drawing, printmaking, installation and found object assemblage. His work reckons with the effects of the Anthropocene era defined by climate disruption and the alteration of environments by human agency, while incorporating elements of science, anthropology, myth, mysticism and the supernatural. Scott lives and works on eastern Long Island, and his work is in the collection of the Parrish Art Museum of Watermill, NY, LongHouse Reserve, Edward Albee Foundation, and numerous private collections. www.scottbluedorn.com

  
  

  Shani Nottingham is multi-disciplinary artist working in illustration, collage, photography, sculpture and installation: she is also a curator and educator. In recent years she has worked with post consumer waste and packaging, the things left behind and discarded. For The Breadtag Project, Nottingham transforms small plastic objects from their initial purpose to create things that are ‘other,' making objects that confront and surprise, defying their intended destiny as landfill, and questioning their usual intrinsic lack of value. Her practice also reflects the transitional and problematic relationship we have with environment/consumerism and plastics, and the tension that results when such problematic specimens can become subjectively beautiful. Working, methodically, laboriously by hand, investigating the materiality and potentiality of these artefacts of the Anthropocene, she invites dialogue around environment, waste, green-washing, desirability, sustainability & consumerism. All bread tags used for her project have been saved and sent to her from across the world as a global response to a global problem. Nottingham is based in regional Central West, Wiradjuri Land, NSW Australia. www.shani-nottingham.com

  
  

  Alejandro Durán is a Mexican-American artist whose work explores ecology, consumption, and global systems through long-term, place-based practice. His project Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape spans more than fifteen years and uses plastic debris collected along the Caribbean coast of Mexico to create site-specific installations, photographs, and participatory environments. Rooted in Sian Ka’an, a federally protected reserve and UNESCO World Heritage site, Durán’s work examines how global systems of production and consumption have manifested in this specific landscape. His practice blends art, documentary, and community engagement, grounded in care and sustained attention. Durán’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, schools, and public institutions, including the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. He continues to develop Washed Up as both an evolving artistic practice and a platform for public dialogue around environmental responsibility. https://alejandroduran.com

  
  

  This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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• SANCTUARY by Lillian Ball: screening and Q&A

  • When
    Thursday, February 19, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  SANCTUARY by Lillian Ball

  Documentary Screening with Q&A

  Thursday, February 19 Timebuddy

  United States: 9am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST

  Europe: 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET, Australia: Friday, February 20, 6:00am AEDT

  Sanctuary was shot exclusively in Lumbini and Kathmandu, Nepal over the course of three years. It includes interviews with Venerable Metteyya, George Archibald of the International Crane Foundation, and other important figures related to the Crane Sanctuary. It is a documentary about a time and place in our contemporary world that harkens back 2600 years. The Lumbini Crane Sanctuary exists within the 3 square mile Sacred Garden area where Siddhartha Gautama was born. Sarus cranes, the tallest flying birds in the world, have lived in the fields around Lumbini since the time Buddha was young. Though crane numbers are dwindling, they still nest in the area today along with many other wildlife species.

  Sanctuary is 53 minutes, which we will watch together before Q&A. 

  sanctuarylumbini.org
  

  
  

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  Lillian Ball is an ecological artist/activist working on water issues with a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, ethnographic film, and sculpture. She has exhibited and lectured internationally, including at the Anchorage Museum, Seville Biennial, and Reina Sofia Museum in Spain. Numerous art awards include: two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a John-Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. She was named 2012 Environmentalist of the Year by the North Fork Environmental Council, and awarded a citation by the New York State Assembly for WATERWASH ABC. Since 2006, when Ball was appointed to the Southold, NY Land Preservation Committee, she has worked with this maritime municipality on conservation, land use, and stewardship of their public preserves.

  The ongoing WATERWASH® public project series combines stormwater remediation, wetland habitat restoration, and educational outreach. The original prototype transformed a water access park and was funded by the Long Island Sound Futures Fund as a concept that can be adapted to coastal situations worldwide. WATERWASH Bronx River, the second completed work, is an innovative collaborative green infrastructure solution to runoff pollution in the Bronx River. Job skills apprentices from Rocking the Boat, a non-profit teaching local youth to build wooden boats and do environmental work on the river, planted 9000 native plants. WATERWASH Bronx River cleans commercial parking lot runoff before it enters the river, opens private property to public use, and was funded by the NY State Attorney General’s Office with fines from polluters.

  Ball is currently based in Kauai, Hawaii (USA).  www.lillianball.com

  
  

  We will screen the documentary together online (53 mins), with Q&A to follow. This event is free for members and $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER. 

  
  

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