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WATER WORLD/Wicked Monstrous Dialogues/MAINTENANCE ARTIST
Making headlines this past year was the massive amount of water being used to cool servers at data centers globally, and how communities are fighting to keep these large facilities from impacting local water supplies, especially in water-stressed regions. Additional impacts include the demands of agriculture and losses due to degrading infrastructure. Unfortunately, water quality, water accessibility, and flooding are changing the landscape of public health. For our 2026 Call for Artists, we will focus on artists addressing water issues and will publish the book Water World in 2027. look for the call launching March 1 This winter/spring we will explore, through a series of dialogues, works that our members are making today that engage plastics as a material for reuse, research, and aesthetic inquiry. Artists invited are included in the upcoming ecoartspace book titled Wicked Monstrous, which will launch fall 2026. see below Similar to last year, we are offering an Eco Fiction Book Club for 2026. There will be a "meet and greet" online this month to decide meeting times over the next year to discuss three books. see below The first edition of Soils Turn has been shipped, and we are currently taking preorders for the second printing. Our goal is to get at least 100 pre-orders this month and have them delivered in February/March. see below This month we will screen the recent documentary MAINTENANCE ARTIST about groundbreaking public artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, with Q&A including curators and the film's director. We also continue the 2026 Membership Campaign and look forward to welcoming you and your practice into this global community of ecological artists who are sharing resources and supporting each other's work. We need all hands on deck!
Happy New Year!
Patricia Watts, founder/curator
Image: Demonstration of alternative liquid immersion cooling system for a power module by Flex Power Modules |
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles: MAINTENANCE ARTIST Documentary Screening with Q&A
Thursday, January 15 Timebuddy United States: 9am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST
Europe: 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET, Australia: Friday, January 16, 6:00am AEDT Q&A with curators Patricia Phillips and Tom Finkelpearl, and director Toby Perl Freilich
After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage?MAINTENANCE ARTIST is the first feature documentary about groundbreaking public artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the New York City Sanitation Department’s artist-in-residence.Cost is $10
per person for screening the documentary (paid separately through screening website). Screening will be available one week prior to Q&A. Q&A is free for members and $5 for
non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER. SCREENING COMING SOON |
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WICKED MONSTROUS Dialogues: Part l Thursday, January 22 Timebuddy
United States: 9am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST
Europe: 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET, Australia: Friday, January 16, 6:00am AEDT Elise Vazelakis, Christine Mackey, Ruth Peche
This winter/spring we will explore through a series of dialogues, works that our members are making today that engage plastics as a material for reuse, research, and aesthetic inquiry. Artists invited are included in the upcoming ecoartspace book titled Wicked Monstrous, that will launch fall 2026.
This month we will hear from Elise Vazelakis, who will discuss her series Driving with My Eyes Closed using an ancient technique of twining with plastic yarn made from discarded Amazon packaging materials, Christine Mackey who will present work made in response to working on a seaweed farm in South Korea where plastics play a critical role in ocean farming. And, Ruth Peche, who will share images from her Solastalgia series that explores the tension between organic and synthetic, natural and artificial, handcraft and industrial.
Each presenter will have approximately 15 minutes to discuss their work, then Q&A with audience participation following. |
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Social Ecologies: Online Course for Members
February 28 - May 23, 2026 DEADLINE February 1, 2026 over 120 members have participated to date This
will be our eighth course designed exclusively for ecoartspace members
to 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. Additionally,
this iteration of Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio will emphasize helping guide artists towards the social sphere within their eco-art practice. Taught by Anna Chapman, with guest speakers Mary Mattingly and Metabolic Studio. Cost is $375 per member, membership fee can be waved if needed. Approximately 12 participants max. One scholarship left.
Email info@ecoartspace.org for more information and to participate |
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Resonance: Dialogues in Art and Ecology brings together 16 leading Australian artists to amplify the voices of more-than-human worlds. Through February 1, 2026. Presented by Southern Forest Arts the exhibition features ecoartspace members: Tarsh Bates, Renata Buziak, Kim V Goldsmith, Lee Harrop, Susan Hauri-Downing, Catherine Higham, WhiteFeather Hunter with Kate Goff, Forest Keegel, Heidi Kenyon x Friendly Conspiracy, Linda Knight, Annette Nykiel, Perdita Phillips, Jane Richens, Debbie Symons, Cassandra Tytler, and Clarice Yuen. Curated by Sharmila Wood.
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scott bluedorn "Macroplastic Inventory" is an ongoing project in which Bluedorn realistically renders found plastic objects from various locations around the world, in an effort to illustratively classify specimens and record their prevalence. In this manner, the artist becomes an archivist. Each watercolor painting also includes the location, date, and possible identification, along with a mock classification that assigns a "species" and "family" name. www.scottbluedorn.com |
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Taking PREORDERS for Soils Turn! First edition is S O L D O U T....
Artists include: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Aindreas Scholz, Alexandra Toland, Alicia Escott, Allie Horick, Alyce Santoro, Alyson Ogasian & Shona Kitchen, Amanda Stomecki, Amy Youngs, Andrea Bersaglieri, Andrea Krupp, Anne Yoncha, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Annette Nykiel, Antoinette LaFarge, Asad Raza, Ashanti Chaplin, Ashton Phillips, Austen Camille, Barbara Brown, Ben Kinsley, Bernice Ficek-Swenson, Beth Shepherd, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Betty Beier, Beverly Naidus, Bia Gayotto, Blair Butterfield, Brooke Singer, Camila de Andrade Bianchi, Carole Milon, Cassandra Tytler, Cat Hart, Catriona Leahy, Chrissie Orr, Christa Donner, Christina Bertea, Christine Mackey, Christopher Lin, Cindee Klement, Cindy Stockton-Moore, Claire Pentecost, Claudia O'Steen and Alyson Ogasian, Crista Cammaroto, CV Peterson, Dana Michele Hemes, Daniel Hengst, Daniel Robles Lizano, Daro Montag, Dawn Stetzel, Deanna Pindell, Delcy Morelos, Donna Cooper, Eileen Hutton, Ela Spalding, Emilie Houssart, Emily Joy, Erica Fitzgerald, Erin Wiersma, Esha Chiocchio, Evgenia Emets, Folke Köbberling, Frances Whitehead, Francesca Virginia Coppola, Future Farmers, Gabby Morris, Geraldine Ondrizek, Heather Bird Harris, Heidi Lowell, Helen Elizabeth, Hercules and Leo Case Collective, Jackie Amezquita, Jann Rosen-Queralt, Jen Urso, Jennifer Gunlock, Jill Price, Jo Pearl, Jodi Connelly, Johanna Meyer, John Melvin, John Newling, Juniper Harrower, Junuka Deshpande, Kate Foster, Katerie Gladdys, Kathleen King, Kathryn Maguire, Katie Taylor, Katrina Bello, Kelly Eckel, Kim Norton, Kim V. Goldsmith, Lauren Bon + Metabolic Studio, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Lilian Cooper, Linda Duvall, Linda-Marlena Ross, Lisa Moren, Liz McGowan, Liz Miller Kovacs, Lola Ben Alon, Lori Nozick, Louella Aquino, Luc Biscan-White, Madelaine Corbin, Marcus Maeder, Marina Heron-Tsaplina, Marion Belanger, Mark Brest van Kempen, Martha Lewis, Maru Garcia, Mary Mattingly, Mary Swander, Mary Waltham, masharu, Melinda Hurst Frye, Melinda Kiefer Santiago, Micheal Wang, Miranda Whall, Moira Bateman, Nanih Bvlvancha - Monique Verdin, Myka Baum, Myriel Milićević and Susanne Jaschko, Nancy Macko, Nancy Winship Milliken, Nikki Lindt, Nina Rastgar, Olivia Newroz, (p)Art of the Biomass - Holmstedt & Lobell, Pamela Casper, Pattie Beerens, Paula Castillo, Perdita Phillips, Peter Ward, Phil Lambert, Priscilla Stadler, Rachel Frank, Rebecca Schultz, Renata Buziak, Rhonda Janke, Riva Weinstein, Robert Dash, Robin Raznick, Ruben Olguin, Ruth Loveland, Ruth Wallen, Samantha Passaniti, Samuel Johnstone, Sarah Misselbrook, Saskia Jorda, Saša Spačal, Shawn Skabelund, Sheila Novak, Soil Health & Agroecological Living Lab, Sophy King, Stacy Levy, Stefania Boiano, Steffie de Gaetano, Stephanie Garon, Stephanie Rothenberg, Susan Felter, Susan Rostow, Susan Smith, Susan Suntree, Susana Soares Pinto, Tim Andreae, Tim Collins & Reiko Goto, The Soil Factory, The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A), Valerie Constantino, Vaughn Bell, Veronika Pfaffinger, Veslemøy Lilleengen, Vicki Mansoor, Violet Bond, Kosmologym - Walker Tufts
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Campbient 2026 has selected Lisa Ann Schonberg as their
guest artist for this year's sound residency in Washington State,
June 4-7, 2026. Applications open January 5, 2026. above Ben Kinsley's genus Chlorociboria installation for this year's Telluride Mushroom Festival, video documentation is now available on Vimeo. September 6, 2025. The Inn Between TX podcast #46 is an interview with Houston
bio-artists Henry G. Sanchez and Heather L. Johnson.
November 20, 2025.
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West is Lauren Bon's
keynote address at the Oberland Prize Forum IV: Soak it up. December
4, 2025. Los Angeles, California. Audio recording Uncivilised Art is the latest special issue published by Dark Mountain in the UK, Autumn Issue 28, including works by Nastassja Noell, Liz Miller-Kovacs, Carol Padberg, Kala Stein, Basia Irland, Quin de la Mer, and Clare Thomas.
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