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MISSING WATERS, NOW FOUND
The Missing Waters public artwork led by Stacy Levy in Santa Fe last week (above) was a huge success with almost one
hundred participants, including over sixty high school students in the arts. The work was an inspiring community action, an invitation to get comfortable with the "soggy," and to learn about historic acequias that flowed through the city for hundreds of years. The action/events even managed to summons long-awaited rain. You
can watch a recording of Levy's water talk at SITE Santa Fe last Sunday, and panel with local water artists, including Basia Irland, Dominique Mazeaud and Paula Castillo, under
announcements. see below
Reminder, this is the final month to rally for our 2025 annual call for artists, Wicked, Monstrous, focused on plastics. We invite you to consider making new work (including proposals) addressing this often invisible, wicked, and monstrous problem. Large-scale thinking and entrepreneurial ventures are encouraged. see below
For our Soils Turn speakers series this month, we will hear from the fifth and final speaker, Monique Verdin, who focuses on honoring soils to evoke the spirit of gathering/togetherness and ingenuity/thrivance. And, for our members-only Plastic Dialogues, Nicole Dextras will share her current project creating biomaterials from seaweed. Spring has sprung, and summer is around the corner. Hoping everyone is in action, doing what they love, and fighting for what they care most about.
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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.
DEADLINE June 1, 2025
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Soils Turn Speaker Series
Monique Verdin
Thursday, May 22
United States: 9am HST, 12pm PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT
Europe: 20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST Australia: Friday May 23, 5am AEST
For the fifth and final online event for the Soils Turn Speaker Series, presenting the work of artists focused on addressing soils as art, Indigenous artist, curator and writer Monique Verdin will present Nanih Bvlbancha, one of Prospect New Orleans Artist of Public Memory modern monument initiatives stewarded by an Intertribal collective of Artists, Educators, Researchers, Gardeners, Herbalists, Water Protectors, Land Defenders and Culture Keepers. nanihbvlbancha.net
Q&A will be moderated by co-editor of the upcoming printed book, Soils Turn, Patricia Watts, curator and founder of ecoartspace.
This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.
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An Aural Nest Tuned to Nature's Musings: Jody Redhage Ferber on her process and upcoming concert on May 17th at Montage Music Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico; interview conducted by Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein
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judith mondrak
Earth’s Voices
is an immersive sculptural installation that explores vital connections
to our environment and to each other. Three painted Guardians gaze into
a reflection pool, surrounded by leaves, tree branches, hydrangea,
sweet gum seedlings, and other organic materials. These anthropomorphic,
plant-like creatures represent three of four elements of the universe:
Fire (orange), Earth (green) and Air (blue). The fourth element, Water,
is represented by the pond-like configuration in the center. judithmodrak.com |
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The New Geologic Epoch & Basia Irland: Repositories
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Lola Ben-Alon and the Natural Materials Lab have been invited to present their installation EARTHEN RITUALS as part of the Intelli/Gens and Materials Bank space at the 19th International Architecture exhibition, Venice, Italy. May 10 through November 23, 2025. Above
Missing Waters keynote given by Stacy Levy and panel discussion with Basia Irland, Dominique Mazeaud, Paula Castillo and Patricia Watts at SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico. April 27, 2025. (Recording, starts at 13:00 mins)
Garden of Eden and Other Stories was a landscape and memory talk given by painter Trine Bumiller at Harvard University as part of their Art & Spirituality conference at Harvard Divinity School, Boston, Massachusetts. April 28, 2025. (Recording, starts at 11:50 for 15 minutes)
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.
Bending the River, Metabolic Studio is reintegrating a river into its natural floodplain. And it’s happening in Downtown LA. This is MOLD magazine. March 21, 2025.
Lauren Bon has been honored as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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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