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winter's coming, renewal
Tis' the season to join our membership platform through 2024! We have lots of great programs coming this next year including our online series of Geologic Dialogues with artists included in our 2023 online exhibition + printed book The New Geologic Epoch. We will also hold a monthly Sound Dialogue through May, as well as our annual monthly Soil, Plastic, and Water Dialogue, where all members are invited to share their work via Zoom.
Our annual call for artists for our online exhibition + printed book is coming soon, and we are planning a natural pigments retreat in New Mexico for the late summer/early fall. This last year we had two pop-up exhibitions in Santa Fe, and will probably hold one again next year in November for photographers.
Over the last two years we have offered the Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course for our members three times. Now, due to consistent interest and participation, we will offer the course twice a year, starting again in February 2024. We are currently taking reservations. see below
The list of benefits is continually growing. To learn more, please click the Join Us button below. We would love to have your participation in 2024! Have a Healthy Holiday Season....
Patricia Watts, founder
Header image: 2023 Fifth National Climate Assessment (click to download) also, see announcements
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Geologic Dialogues
Monday, December 11
United States: 12pm PST, 1pm MST, 2pm CST, 3pm EST
Europe: 20:00 GMT Australia: Tuesday, December 12, 7am AEDT
For our second, in a series of monthly dialogues organized around our recently launched online exhibition + upcoming printed book The New Geologic Epoch, we bring together artists who have been making geologic work since the late 1970s, including Steven Seigel, William Gilbert, Lenore Malen, Eve Andree Laramee, and Stacy Levy.
This event is free for members + one guest. Non-members are $5. All participants MUST REGISTER. |
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The New Geologic Epoch
Online exhibition and upcoming 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.
©Cheryl Leonard, Last Flight of the Adélies, 2014, Adélie penguin vertebrae, dried bullwhip kelp, and driftwood, 11 x 7 x 7.5 inches; Ablation Zone, 2022, audio, 5:13 mins/secs: click image for more info
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Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature
Through January 15, 2024
United Nations Headquarters - 405 East 45th Street, NY, NY 10017 Hours: M-F, 9am to 5pm EST (bring ID), corner of 45th and 1st
Re-Connections
explores themes of environmental activism through artistic expression
and features artworks from twenty-six artists addressing a range of
concerns the world is facing due to climate change. The exhibition is
meant to inspire visitors to take action and help to reverse the trend. The exhibition, also online for the last year with additional artists, was organized by Laziza Rakhimova, in collaboration with ecoartspace, and was supported by UNDP Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Program and UNEP. M E M B E R S I N C L U D E : Kim Abeles, Catherine Chalmers, Tany Harnett, Betsy Kenyon, Christopher Lin, David Maisel, Lenore Malen, Mary Mattingly, Bebonkwe / Jude Norris, Laziza Rakhimova, Aurora Robson, Alexis Rockman, Tattfoo Tan, Marion Wilsonclick image to learn more
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member learning opportunites
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Winter 2024
Deadline January 20
Classes will be held on Saturdays from 2-4pm EST, February 17, 24; March 2, 30; and May 4, 2024. Cost $325, with two scholarships available. Approximately 12 participants.
This is our fourth 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.
Email info@ecoartspace.org if you are interested in more info or to sign up
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Confluence Q & A
Sunday, December 10 United States: 3pm PST, 4pm MST, 5pm CST, 6pm EST
Europe: 11pm GMT Australia: Monday, December 11, 10am AEDT
Interested in a low res MFA program? Join Carol Padberg and Mary Mattingly for a question and answer session discussing the UNM Confluence program via Zoom. This full-time interdisciplinary graduate program through University of New Mexico allows students to work from home anywhere in the world and to participate in field-based residencies twice a year, learning through an immersive, progressive pedagogy. Alumni leave the program with an international network of peers, a revitalized art practice that is informed by regenerative practices, and dynamic relationships with like-minded artists. PLEASE WATCH RECORDING PRIOR HERE
Deadline to Apply is January 15, 2024
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featured ecoartspace artist
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maria-elena pombo
Vestigios de La Fultonera was inspired by Andrzej & Magdalena Antczak’s research of pre-Hispanic archeological sites in northern Venezuela to understand their prior inhabitants through their mollusk consumption. Pombo made ten visits to collect bivalve shells gathered by workers at The Fulton and Fulton Fish Company to illustrate human activity at The South Street Seaport through their mollusk consumption. The installation takes its name from Rafael Requena’s 1932 book Vestigios de La Atlántida. It has 3 parts: Venus Fultonoide, a sculpture reimagining pre-Hispanic Venus figurines made as an offering to spirits of eaten bivalves, made from 1 day’s harvest of scallop shells. Conchas Fultonoides, 1 sample of each of the bivalve shells collected. Polvo Fultonoide, pulverized 1-day’s harvest of oyster shells. www.fragmentario.co |
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aquifer bag by heather johnson
The “Aquifer Bag” takes its inspiration from the Igneous Aquifer in West Texas that sits beneath the towns of Marfa and Alpine, which are experiencing dramatic booms in tourism and development. As the case with so many water tables around the U.S., the aquifer’s levels have been dropping radically due to over pumping. The embroidered topographic lines on the bag’s shell are based on a map that measures the aquifer’s depth; it is unknown how much water it still contains. Buy it now!
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Art × Climate is the first art gallery to be featured in the National Climate Assessment, of which nine of our members were selected to represent the 10 NCA regions, including Meredith Nemirov, Xavier Cortada, Tammy West, Casey Lance Brown, Diane Burko, Linda Gass, Taina Litwak, Jason Lindsay and Tali Weinberg. Above
Repetition & Endurance: A Conversation with Mary Mattingly was recently published in Volume 42, Number 6, Sculpture magazine, November/December 2023.
Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a new book on solarity with cover art by Krista Leigh Steinke, published by Punctum Books. Released November 22, 2023. Free to download
The Work of Art in the Age of Planetary Destruction is a new book including works by Mary Mattingly, Aviva Rahmani, Jenny Kendler, Stacy Levy and Lucia Monge, recently published by CUSSH with funding by Wellcome, London. Viewable on ISSUU ANTARKTIKOS: Light and Shadow #2 is the second annual journal and print magazine including work by collaborators Diana Scarborough and Nigel Meredith, Jessica Houston, and Kirsten Carlson, combining artistic and scientific exploration within the thought-provoking context of Antarctica. 2023-2024
Eight Fires is an ensemble exploration of the eight ceremonial fires of the year, including cover and section titles by Candace Jensen and features work by Rainey Straus, in the Dark Mountain, Autumn 2023, Issue 24.
The Artist Working to Reclaim the LA River's Water is a feature article on the adaptive reuse project by Lauren Bon, diverting water from the river to the LA State Historic Park, in Hyperallergic. September 12, 2023.
Contemporary Practices in Bio-Art: When A Tree Becomes an Artwork is new book that connects the related fields of art and science, bio art, art and technology, and eco art, to “dendro-art” and shares the work of many practitioners including Amy Youngs and Ken Rinaldo. Published by Cambridge Scholars, August 2023.
Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America is a report including Xavier Cortada's climate art project The Underwater HOA: Elevation Drive (9 feet), presented by the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), Washington, D.C. October 24, 2023.
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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. |
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