Where There is No Name for Art

In August, we will welcome thirteen members from across the US, CAN & ESP to New Mexico for the Natural Mineral and Botanical Pigments Workshop. And, we will launch an outdoor site works exhibition Where There is No Name for Art, at the Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe during Indian Week. see below

Due to the exciting news that the US VP will run for President, we have decided to extend the deadline for the Ecology of Freedom broadsides call for artists to August 15. If you haven't yet, we invite you to contribute an image that advocates for equitable access to clean air and water,  rights of nature, Indigenous knowledge, protection of soils and communities against extreme heat and flooding, and a plastic free future. see below

Next month we will resume our members monthly Zoom Dialogues including the Soil Dialogues, Water Dialogues and Plastics Dialogues. We will also hold our biannual Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course starting in October through December. Deadline August 15. see below

A big welcome to almost thirty new members in July! We are currently 700 active artists and scientists in this global online art and ecology community. Keep up the great work and let us know what you need and want from ecoartspace.

Patricia Watts, founder

Header Image: Carol Padberg, Compass Rose, August 2024, proposed site work at Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico

eclipse fundraiser gallery

Please share our fundraiser gallery with patrons of artists addressing environmental issues. ecoartspace is actively seeking to raise $10,000 to support our member pop-up exhibitions and print publications for 2024 and beyond. Thank you! click image above

call for broadsides

DEADLINE EXTENDED AUGUST 15

Coming October 11, 2024, ecoartspace will present in collaboration with The Crow's Nest in Baltimore, Maryland, an ecological broadside campaign titled The Ecology of Freedom. Founded by public servant, author, and climate action advocate Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, the Crow's Nest serves as a hub for artists to collaborate with scientists, activists, community leaders, and each other. Between 20 and 30 visually captivating images and texts will be selected for exhibition (original works), along with printed broadsides.

Interview with Martinez-Diaz by Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein on our BLOG

site-works exhibition

Where There is No Name for Art, Ogha Po'oge (White Shell, Water Place)

Submergence Collective, Leah Mata Fragua, Bill Gilbert, Ian Kualiʻi, Ruben Olguin, Carol Padberg

Opening Reception, 17 August
Saturday from Noon till 4pm MDT
with musical performance by Laura Ortman
Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Where There is No Name for Art, Ogha Po’oge (White Shell, Water Place), includes six artists and a collaborative working with natural materials, making ephemeral site-works that will gradually return to the land. Honoring the history of the site at Santa Fe’s Audubon Center and the homelands of the Tewa people and Apache, this “non-art” is centered on the more-than-human world, thoughtfully engaging in the land.

online course

Fall 2024

Deadline August 15

Classes will be held on Saturdays from 2-4pm EST

October 19, 26; November 2, 30; and January 4, 2024

This is our fifth course designed exclusively for ecoartspace members that will prepare artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Participants will learn how to wildcraft art materials, a practice that requires one to deepen their relationship with land, creativity, and self. Artists will also be invited to think critically about their relationship to place, materiality and voice in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Through lectures, discussions, creation, and sharing, implications of a bioregional perspectives alongside the function of art to inform will be considered, and what a grounded and meaningful art practice can entail today.

Taught by Anna Chapman with guest member/speakers: Anne Yoncha, and Leah Mata Fragua (Northern Chumash)

Cost $375. Two scholarships are still available. Approximately 12 participants maximum.

email info@ecoartspace for more information and to sign up

featured ecoartspace artist

miranda whall

Soil Voices: a 24 hour live–stream performance

"I lay in a pre- prepared self – dug 2ft ditch on the plateau managed by Pwllpeiran Upland Research Centre, known as the Ffridd (the upland fringe) at 600m approx. On the hour, every hour, over 24 hours, I attempted to vocalise the live and continuous numerical data stream from a newly installed sensor network. I received the data from the 12 agri -sensors through headphones via a specially built ‘talkie box’ connected to a computer processor. The data stream emitted from the soil sensors embedded in the ground around where I lay each communicated the soil moisture and soil temperature readings every fifteen minutes. Due to the firewire port in the ‘talkie box’ breaking I was no longer able to receive the data stream, so unfortunately the performance was cut short at 04.20am, rendering the performance 13 hours instead of 24. Local and global audiences were invited to drop in an out of the 24 hour live- stream, in the hope that by being virtually up close and in the mountain with the soil and me for a few seconds or hours might generate a greater awareness and new perspectives – not only of the nuanced and fluctuating soil conditions, but of human and non-human entanglement, human and non – human interconnectedness, from an ecofeminist perspective."

www.mirandawhall.space

store

The New Geologic Epoch

Online exhibition and printed book

The New Geologic Epoch, juried by Mary Mattingly presents works by over seventy of our members from Scotland, Ireland, England, Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Australia, Canada and the US, whose work focuses on the shifting baselines in the landscape, which over time have become the new normal.

             We continue to take pre-orders for a second printing

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announcements

Queering Nature is the Summer 2024 issue of Antennae magazine, including and on the cover are Ashton Phillips' Refuge for Plastic Bodies installation. Free download Above

Thinking with the Harrisons: Re-imagining the Arts in the Global Environment Crisis is a new book by Chris Fremantle, Leuven University Press, Belgium. PreOrder Now 

Seedbroadcast Journal #21 edited by Chrissie Orr, including texts by Alyce Santoro, Carol Padberg, Frances Whitehead, Andrea Reynosa, Ana MacArthur, Ruth Wallen, Nancy Sutor, and Beverly Naidus. July 2024.

Ode to a Beech Tree is a substack report by Xavier Cortada discussing Beech Leaf disease during his Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest residency, New Hamphire. July 28, 2024.

Meet the Leaf Connection Creator is an interview with Mary Meyer on the Garden Blog, by the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. July 25, 2024. 

Interview with Reiko Goto discussing HAKOTO: portach / bog: A sense of otherness in the creative process. July 21, 2024.

SOIL+AiR creative future landscapes residency project by Kim V. Goldsmith, released online for World Listening Day, from Eastern Australia. July 18, 2024.

WATER STORIES: On Convivial Aquatic Encounters Through Food, BioBAT Art Space, episode 03 podcast, June 8, 2024.

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, and advocates sharing resources and supporting each other's work. This is an inclusive, non-competitive collaborative environment where we can imagine and make real a healthy, equitable, resilient future.

PO Box 5211, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502