Each year ecoartspace presents a call for artists for an annual exhibition, juried by a guest curator. In 2020, when the platform was launched, founder Patricia Watts had already been invited to curate an exhibition in Santa Fe, Performative Ecologies. Despite the lock down, the exhibition was presented in person through the summer. That year we also invited Eleanor Heartney to select works that reflect an ecoconsciousness, presented online plus a printed book. And, in 2021, we invited Brazilian curator Lilian Fraiji to select works by our members internationally for Embodied Forest, also online plus a 264-page book. In 2022, we invited Sue Spaid to curate a large group exhibition of members in the New York region at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, our first in-person exhibition as a membership platform. and, in 2023, we collaborated with Stand 4 in Bay Ridge, New York to present Bay Ridge Through An Ecological Lens curated by Jennifer McGregor including works by over twenty ecoartspace members. Our annual online exhibition and printed book for 2023 was titled The New Geologic Epoch, juried by Mary Mattingly. In September and November of 2023, we will also held two pop-up exhibitions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including: Some Kind of Nature juried by Dominique Mazeaud; and As Above, So Below, a photography exhibition juried by Toby Jurovics, Director of the Barry Lopez Center for Art & Environment. And, in November 2023 we worked with Laziza Rakhimova to organize a large group show titled Re-Connections at the UN ground floor gallery in New York City. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 we presented works by our members for billboards, primarily in New York, but also in Western Massachusetts and Slovenia.
In 2024, we held a pop-up exhibition in Austin Texas titled Transmissions including twenty-seven artists from Texas, along with 61 members who's works were presented online, all focused on the total solar eclipse on April 8. This was our annual exhibition that included two Zines that were desiogned to download and print for free. Works were reviewed by Krista Leigh Steinke and Erika Blumenfeld. In May, thirty of our members who participate in the Soil Dialogues presented soil/textiles in Florence, Italy for a three-day pop-up exhibition at Il Conventino during the international 100th IUSS Soil Congress. In August, Where There Is No Name For Art was organized by Patricia Watts at Audubon Santa Fe and included six members who made outdoor works with natural materials that will return to the earth. And, in October/November Watts worked with climate hub founder Leonardo Martinez Diaz, of The Crow's Nest in Baltimore, Maryland, to organize a broadsides exhibition titled The Ecology of Freedom. Twenty-four artists images were made into takeaways, which the public was invited to wheat paste in the public sphere in the run up to the 2024 Presidential election.
Soils Turn, annual online + printed book Upcoming 2025 (juried by Alexandra Toland and Patricia Watts)
Plastic, The New Coal, APEX/The Descendants Project, Louisiana March-April 2025 (curated by Monique Verdin with Patricia Watts)
There Is No Planet B, ecofeminism and climate, Scottsdale, Arizona January-April 2025 (juried by Laura Hales and Patricia Watts)
The Ecology of Freedom, The Crow's Nest, Baltimore, Oct/Nov 2024 (juried by Leonardo Martinez and Patricia Watts)
Where There is No Name For Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2024 (curated by Patricia Watts)
Dialoghi del Suolo, Florence, Italy May 2024 (Soil Dialogues)
Transmissions, Austin, Texas, annual online + printed book 2024 (reviewers Erika Blumenfeld and Krista Leigh Steinke)
Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature, New York City, November 2023 - January 2024 (organized by Laziza Rakhimova)
As Above, So Below, Santa Fe, New Mexico , November 2023 (juried by Toby Jurovics)
The New Geologic Epoch, annual online + printed book 2023 (juried by Mary Mattingly)
Some Kind of Nature, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2023 (juried by Dominique Mazeaud)
Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, Bay Ridge, New York, April-May 2023 (curated by Jennifer McGregor)
Earthkeepers Handbook: Heal the Man, Heal the Land, annual online + printed book 2022 (reviewers Kim Abeles & WhiteFeather Hunter)
I AM WATER 2022, billboard exhibition in NYC, August-September 2022 (crowd sourced by members)
Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, Williamsburg, New York, May 2022 (curated by Sue Spaid)
Embodied Forest, annual online + printed book Fall 2021 (juried by Lilian Fraiji)
I AM WATER 2021, billboard exhibition in NYC, June-July 2021 (curated by Tanja Andrejasic Wechsler and Patricia Watts)
ecoconsciousness, annual online + printed book Fall 2020 (juried by Eleanor Heartney and included billboards)
Performative Ecologies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Summer 2020, Santa Fe (curated by Patricia Watts for 826 Currents)