Art as Resistance, Public facing Actions

Last month Greenpeace was ordered to pay $667m to Energy Transfer pipeline company for alleged damages derived from the Indigenous-led Standing Rock protests in 2016 against the Dakota Access pipeline. An unfair trial, which Greenpeace plans to appeal, is an attack on Indigenous sovereignty and the entire climate movement, challenging our right to protest and free speech. click image above to learn more

This month ecoartspace will collaborate with the Railyard Park Project in Santa Fe to present an interactive public art work in celebration of Earth Day titled Missing Waters, by east coast artist Stacy Levy. This is the second time ecoartspace is working with Levy; the first time for our annual exhibition Fragile Rainbow (2022), with her water installation Tide Flowers, created on the East River in Hudson River Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. see below

For our Soils Turn speakers series, we will hear from the fourth in a series of five speakers focused this month on the economic value of soil. And, for our members only Plastic Dialogues, we have invited a hydrologist to share about the contaminant transport of pfas' in water. We also encourage you to listen in on the final program (via Zoom) for Plastic, The New Coal on view at The Descendants Project in Louisiana. see below

Our 2025 annual call for artists, Wicked, Monstrous, which is focused on plastics, has begun receiving submissions, with lots of interest being communicated through social media. We invite you to consider making new work (including proposals) addressing this often invisible, wicked, and monstrous problem. see below

Have plans for summer? Interested to come to New Mexico? We still have three spots available for the Adobe Seed Sculpture and Natural Pigments Workshop in August, and will be meeting again online soon. email for more info

It's time to think BIG! Artists Need To Create On the Same Scale That Society Has The Capacity to Destroy (Metabolic Studio); individually and collectively.

All hands on deck....

Patricia Watts, founder/curator

eas call for artists

CALL FOR ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, DESIGNERS, & WRITERS

Wicked, Monstrous

For the 2025 ecoartspace annual call for artists, an online + print on demand book, we are seeking existing artworks, proposals for site-specific and speculative artworks, and writings addressing THE most impactful ecological issue of our time, plastics. Plastic production is a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry and, in almost 100 years, has become a wicked, monstrous problem. We invite artists, scientists, designers and writers to contribute to this creative "field guide" so that curators and scientists have entree to our members for participation in exhibitions and art/sci collaborations. 

DEADLINE June 1, 2025

zoom dialogues

Soil to Sky to Sea : Plastics, Pollution, Realities and other Possibilities From the Gulf South to the Globe

Panel Discussion, Thursday, April 10 RSVP

United States: 1pm HST, 4pm PDT, 5pm MDT, 6pm CDT, 7pm EDT

Australia: Friday, April 11, 10am AEDT

In conjunction with Plastic, The New Coal an apexart International exhibition

Plastic, the New Coal will host a virtual conversation with artists, curators, lawyer Pam Spees from the Center for Constitutional Rights and others to discuss the realities of the plastics industry, the consequential sideeffects, the environmental consequences, and work to reimagine creative possibilities, from the Gulf south to the globe.

Soils Turn Speaker Series

Claire Pentecost

Thursday, April 17

United States: 9am HST, 12pm PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT

Europe: 20:00 GMT, 21:00 CEST  Australia: Friday, April 18, 6am AEDT

For the fourth of five online events for the Soils Turn Speaker Series, presenting the work of artists focused on addressing soils as art, artist and writer Claire Pentecost will relate some of her pleasures studying underground biology, including soil-erg commissioned by the dOCUMENTA(13) which proposed a new economy based on the value of healthy soil. This conversation will be moderated by co-editor of the upcoming ecoartspace printed book, Soils Turn, Dr. Alexandra Toland, Professor of Arts & Research at Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.

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

earth day event

The Railyard Art Project & ecoartspace presents Stacy Levy's Missing Waters, a large-scale water map painting event in the Santa Fe Railyard

Public Participation on Rail Trail between Railyard Park & SITE Santa Fe, south of Paseo de Peralta

Friday, April 25,10am-4pm MDT

Opening/Meet the Artist at Railyard Park Community Room

Friday, April 25, 5pm-6:30pm MDT

Artist Talk/Panel Discussion at SITE Santa Fe, Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium

Stacy Levy, Basia Irland, Dominique Mazeaud & Bobbe Besold, Paula Castillo

Sunday, April 27, 1pm-2:30pm MDT

exhibitions

PLASTIC, THE NEW COAL 

is an apexart International Exhibition

Through April 15 (Thur, Fri, Sat 11-4pm)

at The Descendants Project, Education and Cultural District, 167 Alexis Court, Wallace, Louisiana

Located along the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish

Co-curated by Monique Verdin and Patricia Watts, founder of ecoartspace*

Hannah Chalew*, Shana M griffin, Heather Bird Harris*, Pamela Longobardi*, Juan Carlos Quintana*, Renee Royale, Luba Zygarewicz*

Including a proposal for an outdoor Labyrinth by The Descendants Project, in partnership with Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and Design Jones

There Is No Planet B  Through April 27

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts/Center Space Gallery in Arizona    

Ulrike Arnold, Camilla de Andrade Bianchi, Barbara Boissevain, Cherie Buck-Hutchinson, Heidi Dauphin, Jan Talmadge Davids, Jimmy Fike, Moira Geoffrion, Nancy Gifford, Rachel Ivanyi, Adriene Jenik, Saskia Jordá, Mary Meyer, Alan Petersen, Martina Shenal, Diane Silver, Shawn Skabelund, Beth Ames Swartz, Jen Urso

blog post

Our Environmental Future, Rooted in the Past: Renaissance of the Earth Artist in Residence at Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 2025-2026; interview with Liz Fox, Program Coordinator, and Marjorie Rubright, Director conducted by Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein

featured artist

lorrain mailer

I will Huff & I will Puff  is a gleaming tiny house on three legs, an elevated cube smothered with compact discs that cascade down from the pitched roof. If you duck down and go under the base, to look within, you will find a lifecycle of forty years of the compact disc. Once prolific, this man-made material has outlived its use and consigned to landfill where it will take trillions of years to disintegrate. A water resistant and durable material that can be reappropiated within the building industry, replacing slate and brick tiles while reflecting heat out of buildings. The work has an aesthetic quality with its multi-coloured chrome surfaces reflecting the constantly changing landscape, swirling sky, and yourself.  www.lorrainmailer.com

store

The New Geologic Epoch &   Basia Irland: Repositories 

The second printing of The New Geologic Epoch has been delivered. We have nine remaining books ready to ship.  

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announcements

Sea Change: The Art of Karen Hackenberg is a recorded studio visit produced by the Tacoma Art Museum, Washington. March 19, 2025. Above

Bearing Witness is a review of Diane Burko's exhibition of the same title at Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC, Whitehot Magazine online. March 1, 2025. 

Musician finds the hidden songs in sticks and stones and penguin bones is an online article reviewing the work of eco composer and performer Cheryl E. Leonard, Palo Alto Weekly, March 13, 2025.

Communicating a World-In-Crisis is a recently published book with a chapter (13) by Ruth Wallen titled Visionary EcoArt: Stories for Regenerative Ecologies. Peter Lang Group, Bristol, UK. March 2025. P. 233-253. (electronic download for free)

For the Love of Trees: A Conversation with Nancy Floyd, Roger Hull Lecture Hall, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon. March 11, 2025. Audio recording 

Time is of the Essence is a review of Katie Kehoe's photo-based wildlife shelters series, as part of the "Eyes on the South" featuring photographers in the Southern U.S., in Oxford American online. March 18, 2025.

Members' books available through our website click image

ecoartspace has served as a platform for artists addressing environmental issues since 1999. In 2020, we transitioned to a membership model. Members include artists, scientists, professionals, students, advocates and institutions sharing resources and supporting each other's work. This is an inclusive, non-competitive collaborative environment where we imagine and make real a healthy, equitable, resilient future.

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