REBIRTH

As we head into Spring, when the warmth returns, we can greet the new year as a rebirth. On that note, I'm excited to announce the inaugural in-person ecoartspace member exhibition titled Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats. Including over fifty artists from the greater New York City region, the show is curated by Sue Spaid and will be held at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center during the month of May 2022. Look for an email with more details coming soon.

Another upcoming exhibition curated by Laziza Rakhimova, titled Re-Connections: In Kinship with Nature, will include eleven ecoartspace artists. An online version will launch on Earth Day, April 22 and later this year will be on display at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in October (Presented by UNDP GEF Uzbekistan and UNEP). Also look for an email with more details coming soon.

For our monthly Zoom events we will hold the annual Earth Day for Trees focused on fungi this year, as well as our members-only Plastic Dialogues. see below

If you haven't purchased the Embodied Forest book yet, we continue to take pre-orders for a second printing. The book will be a special edition with foil stamped text on the front/back folding cover and spine; also 100% recycled. see below

Please help spread the word for the I AM WATER Billboards Call for Artists, deadline May 15, 2022. Members and non-members alike are invited to submit work. see below

Everyday is Earth Day. Let's continue the great work!

Patricia Watts, founder

Header Image: Claire McConaughy, Fragile Rainbow, 2021, oil on canvas, diptych 40 x 60 inches each totaling 40 x 120 inches.

I AM WATER billboards

Call for Artists l Deadline May 15, 2022

This is the second edition of the I AM WATER Billboards in collaboration with Our Humanity Matters and will focus on water as a source of Life that mediates our planet's ecosystems for humans and nonhumans. Members and non-members are invited to submit work. By clicking Apply below you can select from one to ten images for $10 each. Please follow directions to submit images via a confirmation email after payment.

Image: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)

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PLASTIC Dialogues

Wednesday, April 6

United States: 12pm PT, 1pm MT, 2pm CT, 3pm ET

EUROPE: 19:00 GMT  Australia: 6am AEDT, Thursday

MEMBERS ONLY plus one guest per member. All participants MUST REGISTER.

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Earth Day For Trees: Fungi

Thursday, April 21

United States: 10am PT, 11am MT, 12pm CT, 1pm ET

Europe:18:00 GMT Australia: 5am AEDT, Friday, April 22

Sarah Hearn, Megan Teutschel, Helena Elston, Priscilla Stadler

This month we present a special Earth Day selection of Embodied Forest artists focused on fungi. Did you know that fungi are genetically closer to humans than plants? Fungi are the largest life form on Earth? Some mushrooms glow in the dark and they can also make colorful natural dyes. There are over 2,000 edible mushrooms! Join us as we navigate the strange and captivating world of fungi through the art of five artists working in drawing, fiber, scratch board, and a special sound performance (see below).

 Tree Talk is moderated by Sant Khalsa, ecofeminist artist and activist, whose work has focused on critical environmental and societal issues including forests and watersheds for four decades.
 
Co-sponsored by Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts

Gif Images: ©Sarah Hearn, Mycelium Network 20, 2021; ©Megan Teutschel, Mushroom Lungs; ©Helena Elston, Mycelial Frock, July 2021; ©Priscilla Stadler, Rooted 14, 2020.


Closing Performance for Earth Day for Trees at 12:30pm MT

A living Mycelium & Human Holobiont electronic musical entanglement by Nanotopia & The Mycelium Network  with Tosca Teran

LIVE from the Coalesce Centre for Biological Art, University at Buffalo, New York.

Members and one guest are free. General Public can attend for $10. All participants MUST REGISTER.

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featured ecoartspace artist

colin lyons

Lyons grew up in the birthplace of the North American oil industry, Petrolia, Ontario; an experience that has fueled his interests in industrial ruins and sacrificial landscapes. Fusing printmaking, installation, and chemical experiments, his work employs the chemistry of printmaking to reflect on issues around geo-engineering, extraction, alchemy, historical preservation, and brownfield rehabilitation. Lyons lives in Binghamton, NY, where he's assistant professor at Binghamton University (SUNY). www.colinlyons.ca

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member exhibitions

Where Once the Waters is a project to collect sea level data for an exhibition by David Cass at Latteria Moderna in Venice, Italy. April 18-May 24, 2022. Above

Patterns of Consumption is a solo exhibition of sculpture and fiber art by Kalliopi Monoyios that explores the complexity of our relationship with plastic. Littleton Museum, Littleton, CO. April 1 through June 25, 2022.

Mapping the Sublime is a group exhibition including Luciana Abait, Kim Abeles, Lawrence Gipe, and Constance Mallinson at The Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, California. April 2 - June 11, 2022.

Climate Conversations: All We Can Save is a group exhibition of eight women in response to the best-selling anthology, "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis," including Kate Dodd, Susan Hoffman Fishman and Leslie Sobel at the Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA. Opening reception on Friday, April 8 from 6-9pm. Through June 30, 2022.

Fellow Travelers is a solo exhibition of tar paintings by James Griffith at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California. April 16 - May 28, 2022.

Timekeepers featured two new bodies of work including ink drawings and ceramics by Leah Raintree at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. Through April 22, 2022. 

What’s Next for Earth: Shifting Cultural Stories is an online exhibition including Christina Conklin, Rosalind Lowry, Meredith Nemirov, and Eileen Wold, based on the Think Resilience Course, The Millennium Alliance for Humanity & the Biosphere, an initiative of Stanford University, curated by Michele Guieu. Through May 22, 2022.

In Deep Water is a public art installation about water and the climate crisis by Jane Ingram Allen in the lobby at Discovery Hall, School of Earth and Environment, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ,  Through May 31, 2022. 

Radical Propagations/Propagaciones Radicales curated by artist and researcher Maru Garcia, including the work of Rebecca Youssef and others, on view in the Propeller Gallery at 18th Street Arts Center's Airport Campus. Through July 30, 2022.

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member announcements

The Mojave Project 2022 Webinar Series curated by Kim Stringfellow includes The Legacy of the Nevada Test Site, Big Desert Solar & Wind-But at What Cost?, Indigenous Perspectives of the Mojave Desert, and African American Homesteading in Lanfair Valley. Supported by California Humanities. 4/7, 5/19, 6/23, 7/14, 2022. 7pm PT. Above

Art & Climate Workshops for Earth Celebrations' Ecological City organized by Felicia Young at the Sixth Street Community Center, New York City. Through May 11. 

Conversations with Saint Lucy is a dialogue about magic, ecology, and the future with Jane D. Marsching and Edward Morris, Wednesday, April 4, 2022. 7pm ET. 

Glacier Elegies (Terra Nova Press) is a new book on the work of Jaanika Peerna, launch celebration at Scandinavia House, New York City, April 5, 2022 at 7pm ET. Online

Water Talks book launch with Betsy Damon at La MaMa Galleria in New York City. April 6 at 7pm ET.

Crystal Clear: Western Waters is a new book of photographs by Sant Khalsa, to be published by Minor Matters Books, Pre-Order now. 

How Should Art Reckon With Climate Change? by Zoë Lescaze is a New York Times magazine review of artists addressing environmental issues including Mary Mattingly. March 25, 2022. 

40th Annual Environmental Excellence Awards Gala presented by Arizona Forward awarded Joan Baron for the category of Art in Public Places for her collaborative work titled Good Trouble Bucket performed with Gloria Martinez-Granados, Gala at the Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix. March 19, 2022. 

Grist 50 celebrates 50 "Fixers" for 2022, who are shaping the future of our planet including Xavier Cortada, From Fix, Grist's Solutions Lab.

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