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c o l l a p s e / r e t r e a t
Extreme weather has been wreaking havoc all over the planet this spring in the Northern hemisphere including hail storms, tornadoes, flooding, early summer weather in Europe and now wildfires in Canada. The idyllic town of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, evacuated then consumed by the collapse of the Birch Glacier, was the largest mass movement of earth to ever happen. The message? No one is exempt from the impacts of a warming planet.
Today is the official deadline for our Wicked, Monstrous call for artists focused on plastics. We can offer a grace period through June 15, so please get your submissions in as soon as possible. Images and texts will be reviewed over the summer as we prepare to deliver everything to the designers this fall. see below
This month participants of the spring Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course will share their projects, and we will be accepting registrations for the fall 2025 course, which will begin in October. We are also launching a Pre-Order campaign for the Soils Turn book, going out this week in a separate email, and invite you to reserve a copy. The book will be printed in August/September, launching in October.
For the next three months, we will be on hiatus from the Zoom Dialogues, and will resume in September. A big welcome to almost thirty new members who joined in May!
Patricia Watts, founder/curator |
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CALL FOR ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, DESIGNERS, & WRITERS
Wicked, Monstrous For the 2025 ecoartspace annual call for artists, an online + print on demand book, we are seeking existing artworks, proposals for site-specific and speculative artworks, and writings addressing THE most impactful ecological issue of our time, plastics. Plastic production is a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry and, in almost 100 years, has become a wicked, monstrous problem. We invite artists, scientists, designers and writers to contribute to this creative "field guide" so that curators and scientists have entree to our members for participation in exhibitions and art/sci collaborations.
GRACE PERIOD through June 15, 2025
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Spring 2025 Presentations
Saturday, June 7
United States: 8am HDT, 11am PDT, Noon MDT, 1pm CDT, 2pm EDT
Europe: 19:00 BST Australia: Sunday, June 8, 4am AEST
Participants from the Spring 2025 Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course will give presentations of their projects for interested members. You can also sign up for the Fall 2025 session, which will be held on Zoom October through December.
This was the sixth course designed exclusively for ecoartspace members guiding artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Participants learned how to wildcraft art materials, a practice that requires one to deepen in their relationship with land, creativity, and self. Through lectures, discussions, self-guided creative research, and class presentations, participants were invited to think critically about how their practice engages place, materiality, and voice in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Join us to witness their journey way-finding a meaningful practice grounded in bioregional artistic research.
Special thanks to our guest artists Lucia Monge and Johanna Törnqvist for sharing their practices with the Spring 2025 participants.
This event is free for members + one guest. Non-members are free. All participants MUST REGISTER.
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megan wong
Tracing Afterlives is an experiment that uses warped plastics collected from the Great Barrier Reef by ocean clean-up organisation Eco Barge Clean Seas, presenting waste plastics as evidence that plastic persists even after disposal to highlight their indisposable nature. The experiment draws on the arguments of theorists Jane Bennett, Claire Colebrook and Anna Tsing to generate nonhuman stories about these plastics—of their afterlives and how they exist outside of humans—in order to de-centre humans as the centre of reality and open up considerations of a world larger than humans. This seeks to stimulate ethical concern about the wider effects of plastic consumption on the world. www.mgmwong.com |
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Food Planet Future: The Art of Turning Food and Climate Perils into Possibilities by Robert Dash has won a Nautilus Book Award/Silver for Photography and Arts. Above
Public Display Art Interview with the artist Dawn Stetzel for Seattle art magazine, Volume 4 Issue 1, May 2025. p.49
Artist Podcast with Marcie Begleiter, discussing artist residencies, working with nature, leaving big cities, and much more. Episode 375.
A River's Heartbeat: Understanding the Stories Told by Flowing Waters is an interview with Basia Irland discussing her recently published book What Rivers Know: Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways, in Planted Journal, April 24, 2025.
Jimmy Fike: Wild Edible Botanicals Of the North American Continent is a interview with the artist about his photographic archive on Garden Museum online. April 17, 2025.
Members' books available through our website click image
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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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