membership, 2025 schedule

It's been a rough last month with the Presidential election here in the United States. Some of our members have risen to the occasion with powerful healing words (above, Ashton Phillips). As we move into 2025, do take care and pace yourself, there's way more work to be done now.

If you haven't joined us yet, this would be a good year to settle into a new community of artists and scientists developing innovative ways of communicating through the visual artists to address the need for radical changes in how we live our daily lives. You can join this month through 2025 and have access to the following:

Upcoming in 2025

• Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group led by Aviva Rahmani, once a month on Wednesdays at 6pm EST via Zoom, reading Parable of the Sower, Tentacle, and The Water Knife, authors to join for Q&A. January through June
  
• There Is No Planet B exhibition including 19 Arizona members, at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts/Center Space Gallery. January 17- April 27
  
• Sustain(ability) & The Art Studio course led by Anna Chapman, including guest speakers Johanna Törnqvist and Lucia Monge. February through May, and again October through December - Deadline January 15
  
• Soils Turn Speaker Series, monthly Zoom events include Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Asad Raza, Lauren Bon + Metabolic Studio, Claire Pentecost, and Monique Verdin. January through May
• APEX Plastic, The New Coal exhibition featuring the work of six members, curated by Monique Verdin and Patricia Watts, at The Descendants Cultural District, Vacherie, Louisiana. March 15-April 15
  
• Missing Waters performative public art installation by Stacy Levy at the Railyard for Earth Day, with lecture at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico. April 26
  
• Adobe Seed Sculpture & Natural Pigments Workshops with Ruben Olguin and Jeanne Dobbs, Cerrillos, New Mexico. Mid August
• Pecos River Sound Art Residency in New Mexico, October 9-12
  
• Soils Turn book launch at the Soil Factory, Ithaca, New York.October 18
• Monthly Zoom Dialogues on Soil, Plastic, Water combined through May
• Annual Call for Artists online exhibition + printed book for artists/works addressing plastics in soil, water, air (including proposals). March 1 Launch

It will be a full year of exciting programs including three Zoom events each month, two in-person exhibitions in two states, two online courses, one in-person workshop, one in-person residency, and a comprehensive printed book with a directory of artists addressing plastics! This along with our daily features of our members work on social media, monthly features and interviews on our website/blog, and bimonthly exhibitions/events emails.

For our members monthly Zoom Dialogues in December, we will hold our Soil, Water and Plastics Dialogues mid-month. Also, look for an email going out before the end of the year with more information on the upcoming Soils Turn Speaker Series.

We need community now more than ever, Join us!

Patricia Watts, founder

Header Image: Ashton Phillips, post election message from the artist on social media 11/06/24

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Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group Led by Aviva Alexandra Rahmani

Wednesday, January 8

United States: 1pm HST, 3pm PST, 4pm MST, 5pm CST, 6pm EST

Europe: 21:00pm GMT  Australia: Thursday, January 9, 7:00am AWST

This is the inaugural meet up for the Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group to be led by Aviva Alexandra Rahmani. From January 8 through May 7, this group will meet once a month for one hour to discuss three books to be read during the five months—first with the well known speculative fiction novel Parable Of The Sower (1993) by Octavia E. Butler situated in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality, second a short post-apocalyptic novel Tentacle (2015) by Rita Indiana addressing climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art, and third a science fiction novel The Water Knife (2015) by Paolo Bacigalupi about a place in the near future where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States.

January 8, February 5, March 5,  April 9,  May 7, June 11

$15 per member, members only

Online Course for Members

February 8, 2025 - May 3, 2025

DEADLINE January 15, 2024

This is our sixth 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.

January 11 at 2pm EST the Fall 2024 cohort will present their projects via Zoom

Cost is $375 per member, new membership fee can be waved if needed. Approximately 12 participants minimum.

Email info@ecoartspace.org to participate

upcoming exhibition

THERE IS NO PLANET B ecofeminism and climate

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts/Center Space Gallery           

January 17 through April 27, 2025

Reception, January 24 at 6pm MT

This exhibition was a call for artists for our Arizona members and features the work of nineteen artists whose work expresses a concern for the future of planet Earth, identifying with an ecofeminist perspective that speaks to an equitable future for humans and the more-than-human world. Co-juried by Laura R Hales, curator of learning and innovation at Scottsdale Arts and Patricia Watts, founder of ecoartspace.

Ulrike Arnold, Camilla de Andrade Bianchi, Barbara Boissevain, Cherie Buck-Hutchinson, Heidi Dauphin, Janet 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

Abundance and Destruction Find Cultural Impact: Aurora Robson’s Collaborative Approach to Intersecting the Plastic Waste Stream, interview by Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein

featured artist

ashton phillips

Worm Hole uses sound, text, chromatic light, and pyres of partially-metabolized polystyrene plastic, preserved in egg tempera, beeswax, and mealworm-fertilized mud, to transform the gallery space into a speculative portal for plastic bodies. At a time when trans and nonbinary people are being targeted by statehouses, neo-fascist Tiktok celebrities, and schoolhouse bullies, Worm Hole imagines a cosmic pathway to an alternative reality where the plasticity of material bodies, including their capacity to morph shape, transmute substance, and heal, is celebrated and revered.  ashtonsphillips.com

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The New Geologic Epoch &     Basia Irland: Repositories          

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announcements

Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins is a new book including interviews with 15 artists working at the art-science-technology boundary co-edited by Antoinette LaFarge, Brill Publisher. October 2024. Ebook and printed. Above

They are breathing: living rocks and multispecies consensus is a live broadcast from Lake Richmond in Western Australia by Perdita Phillips, for Rocky Climates: Conversations With Rocks a practice-based research network focused on landscapes in uncertain times.

NYSCA FY 25 artist grant was awarded to Millicent Young for her work "Poetics of Place, Belonging," a multi-media installation integrating projection, sound and handmade sculptures, sponsored by Glasshouse Project.

Creative Time Summit 2024 featured Eliza Evans who spoke about her project All the Way to Hell (and Heaven), and Landman For the Planet, Brooklyn, New York. September 21, 2024. 

A 50-Mile Art Road Trip Celebrates the Culture in Agriculture, in Wisconsin, the Wormfarm/Art DTour brings artists and farmers together and each get a new perspective is a New York Times Art & Design featured on October 22, 2024. 

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees is a feature review in Lenscratch magazine by Linda Alterwitz. November 5, 2024.

Art & Climate Solutions Panel Discussion & Planning Zoom for Ecological City, organized by Felicia Young and included Wendy Brawer, New York City. November 6, 2024. recording

Regional Futures with Kim V. Goldsmith and Jane RIchens was a panel discussion on November 13, 2024. Recording 

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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, 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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