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Water Rabbit
The Rabbit energy being generated culturally for this year is one of peace, calm, and restfulness, which is the hares nature. The Rabbit is also considered an alchemist, capable of mixing herbs and elixirs for curative healing. 2023 should be a good year for us to focus on our health and well being, to eat well, and to take our inner alchemist to the next level. In response to this proposition, we invite you to peruse the long awaited Earthkeepers Handbook: Heal the Man, Heal the Land, now available online. see below This month we will hold three intriguing Zoom events, one being a presentation on a board game Ekos: The Path to Resilience, another, an inspiring mushroom story From Artist to Entrepreneur, and our monthly Sound Dialogues exploring modernity for members and guest. see below
Wishing you a peaceful and productive year ahead!
Patricia Watts, founder NOTE: If you are a lapsed member and are receiving this non-members email, you are not getting the Calls for Artists and other member specific news in this email.
image: ©Codex Borgia (Borgia Group): Moon with Rabbit
f.55; ca 1325-1521, manuscript, Pre-Columbian, Aztec, Tenochtitlan
Phase, Mesoamerican. Collection Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
2022 In Review In
2022, over $100,000 in opportunities were generated through donations
and contributions
for billboards, publications and exhibitions, and from grants; all
together benefiting almost 30% of our membership, approximately 200 members.
Another 400 members were featured through our weekly SPOTLIGHT emails
and blog posts, monthly featured artists in our newsletters and on our
homepage, monthly artist interviews on our blog, and through our daily
posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. That's almost 600 members
total at 75% of our membership. And, those numbers do not include
members who attended our monthly Zoom events, and with guests.
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The highly anticipated Earthkeepers Handbook is now LIVE! Over 100 recipes and remedies by 100 members are included and represent the kind of creativity and knowledge sharing we need today to help make the world a better place. (click on image)
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have you subscribed yet? If you are interested to learn about our members exhibitions and events, please subscribe to our bi-monthly email with at least 60-80 listings every two weeks. This service is good through December 31, 2023, and costs $30 annually. You do not need to be a member to subscribe. Gallery and Institution level memberships will receive the subscription email automatically.
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Ekos: The Path to Resilience
Thursday, February 9
United States: 10am PDT, 11am MDT, 12pm CDT, 1pm EDT
Europe: 18:00 GMT/WET
Christopher Kennedy
Ekos: The Path to Resilience is a multiplayer board game that challenges a group of six community members to come together and envision a more equitable and sustainable City of Ekos in the face of climate change and other challenges. During the game of Ekos, players alternate between building social, ecological and technological systems (SETS) and responding to a range of events from flash flooding and extreme heat, to the expansion of mass transit or nature-based solutions. Working cooperatively as one of 6 players — a City Council Speaker, Community Organizer, City Planner, Ecologist, Designer, and Modeler — your goal is to build a network of resilient systems, use resources wisely, and collaborate with the other community members to improve the adaptive capacity of your systems against extreme events. Ekos was developed with the goal of creating a playful platform for individuals and communities to discuss and learn about issues of urban resilience, climate governance, and community-based codesign. Members and one guest are free. General Public can attend for $10. All participants MUST REGISTER. |
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From Artist to Entrepreneur
Thursday, February 16
United States: 10am PDT, 11am MDT, 12pm CDT, 1pm EDT
Europe: 18:00 GMT/WET
Philip Ross
In this Zoom we will hear from artist Philip Ross about his work with mycelium and how this path evolved from artist to eco-entrepreneur.
MycoWorks was co-founded by San Francisco artist Philip Ross, who has worked at the intersection of art, design and biotechnology for over three decades. Phil began cultivating mycelium as a material for art and design in the 1990s, inspired by the beauty and life cycles of mushrooms. A skilled chef and naturalist, his field work in mycology began in the woods of upstate New York, where he first learned to forage for wild mushrooms. His subsequent work as a hospice caregiver during the HIV crisis in San Francisco introduced him to the immune-supporting benefits of reishi mushrooms, which he began growing for medicinal use. He discovered a rich diversity in form, texture and color—expressions of reishi’s dynamic response to the everyday forces of light, air, gravity and temperature. Phil soon began working with reishi as a material for creating sculptures, bringing culinary precision and a naturalist’s keen eye to perfect his “biotechniques” for growing living works of art.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. All participants MUST REGISTER. |
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featured ecoartspace artist
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holly hanessian
The Hurricane Emergency Art Kit
is a limited edition Kit, that links plastic bottled water to increased
hurricanes and global warming. It has both functional parts (a water
filtration system), along with a book, lovely ceramic objects to calm
and give pleasure while waiting out the storm. It is intended to evoke
scarcity while serving as a soothing and functional moment during a
hurricane and is part of an ongoing social practice project for
Floridians. www.hollyhanessian.com |
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pre-order now
In her ongoing art practice to create a deep and meaningful engagement with living bodies of water, Basia Irland's Repositories emerged as a methodology for archiving documentation of research and physical engagements during her riparian journeys. For over twenty years, Irland has been working with scientists, students, activists and Tribal members along waterways across the US and Canada. Repositories documents the construction of her portable sculptures and the objects within which reveal rich stories of waterways through collections of water samples, watershed maps, artworks, plants, and seeds.
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Mary Mattingly: What Happens After is a new monograph published by the Anchorage Museum, through Hirmer Publishers, Germany. Launches February 2, 2023. Above
When It Comes to Climate, Are Cultural Organizations Breaking Ground or Losing Ground? is an article written by Xavier Cortada was published in the Americans for the Arts, Arts Link magazine, Fall/Winter 2023. My Electric Genealogy is a review of Sarah Knouse's "engrossing multimedia performance" at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles in September 2022, by George Melrod for Artillery magazine. January/February 2023. Print only.
River Culture: Life as a dance to the rhythm of the waters is a new book released last month by UNESCO presenting an analysis of the biological and cultural diversities of rivers worldwide, including a substantial chapter by Basia Irland titled Rivers, An Artist's Perspective. Free download online.
Climate Change and the Oil Industry's Obstructionist Policies is a project censored podcast featuring M Annenberg in conversation with Bill McKibben, James Hansen and Geoff Dembicki. January 2, 2023.
Arts Link quarterly magazine features Adriene Jenik, Green Map, ecoartspace, Fern Shaffer, Christopher Fremantle, Aviva Rahmani, Xavier Cortada, and more, published by Americans for the Arts, Washington D.C. Fall/Winter 2022/2023.
On Lenape Land is a painting by Susan Hoenig which was awarded an Indigenuity Prize 2022 by the Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas. December 2022.
Confluence is an exhibition of works by Algae Society Members including Gene Felice, Juniper Harrower and Jennifer Parker, presented at the Cameron Art Museum, North Carolina in Spring 2022. The exhibition is available to travel. |
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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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