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As we head into this critical mid-term election, let's be sure to stay focused on the ecological issues that are our future—knowing that no matter the election results, we will continue to fight for our rights to clean water and air, to eliminate systemic racism and colonialism, and to reduce our extractive footprint on the planet.

Staring today you can join ecoartspace through December 31, 2023! That's fourteen months for the regular yearly membership fee. You will also receive our member newsletter including calls for artists and member announcements. If you are financially impacted and would like to join, please email to make arrangements.

As a member you can attend all of our Zoom events for free and invite a guest for free as well. This month we will present an important Zoom event addressing models for engagement with Indigenous artists and rural communities titled The Spirit of the Land. We are also offering the Sustain(ability) and the Art Studio course for our members, starting January 2023. see below

We hope you will join us for 2023!

Patricia Watts, founder

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SPIRIT OF THE LAND

Thursday, November 17

United States: 10:00am PDT, 11:00am MDT, 12:00pm CDT, 1:00pm EDT

Europe: 18:00 GMT/WET

Kim Garrison Means

Honoring Avi Kwa Ame, with Tribal and Rural Communities 

A third-generation resident of the East Mojave desert in Southern Nevada, Kim Garrison Means, who recently became an ecoartspace member, has spent the last two years as a key land advocate, using her art and curatorial skills to collaborate with tribal and rural communities on creative initiatives. Earlier this year, Garrison Means, along with artists Checko Salgado and Mikayla Whitmore, curated Spirit of the Land: Artists Honor Avi Kwa Ame, organized by the Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. This traveling exhibition features work by over 50 tribal, regional and national artists, writers, musicians and dancers, and highlights the history, culture, and natural wonders of this region, along with issues of concern about land use, stewardship, and protection for future generations.

Members and one guest are free. General Public can attend for $10. Capacity is 100 participants. All participants MUST REGISTER.

Online Course for Member Artists

January 22 - March 12, 2023

DEADLINE to register January 15

This course is designed exclusively for ecoartspace members and will prepare artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Artists will reckon with their relationship to place, materiality and voice in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Together participants will discuss the implications of a bioregional perspective alongside the function of art to inform what a grounded and meaningful art practice can entail today.

Course content includes: sustainability as a stand alone concept, the historical background and function of art, review of artists and concepts including practical strategies and resources, exposure to a range of natural art processes and mediums,circular systems, interbeing, establishing sustainable development needs and goals, developing alliances and an action plan.

All classes will be held on Sundays. The first four sessions will be held in January and February from 2-4pm EST, the fifth session in March with artists presentations, and the final session in May with roundtable discussions. Participants will create a project during the course.

Cost is $325 per member, scholarship available

Email info@ecoartspace.org to participate or for more information

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featured ecoartspace artist

tomoko amaki abe

"My inspirations are often drawn from evolving and decaying facets of nature and their spiritual imprints. I have been inspired by unnoticeable elements, such as wind, soil and water, as well as man- made artifacts such as industrial wastes and debris. I use such seemingly trivial objects in my installations to bring them back to life." tomokoabe.com

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ACREAGE functions as a companion to Stephanie Garon's art, translating the visuals and experience of her work into language. In fact, as a part of her process, a number of poems in the collection were written during the creation of the pieces they share their names with. Many of the poems are also experimental, playing with the space and grammar to evoke and compliment what one would encounter at Garon's installations.

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announcements

Ark is a Dark Mountain Project publication including work by Basia Irland, Meridel Rubenstein and Rainey Straus, Issue 22, October 2022. Above

Wild Visions: Wilderness As Image and Idea is a new book on landscape, landscape photography and environmental thought, including work by Erika Osborne and Sant Khalsa, Yale Press, November 2022.

A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado is a digital public humanities project edited by Sarah Kanouse was reviewed by Charlotte Hecht, P.h.D. candidate at Yale University. ASAP Journal, online. October 20, 2022.

Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a new podcast series co-launched by Evgenia Emets of Eternal Forest to generate transdisciplinary conversations about our relationship with plants. 

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.

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic is a new book by Lisa E. Bloom, which considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understanding of them. Duke Press. Available November 2022.

Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape and Ron Jue: 12 Hz are two traveling exhibitions of photography that illuminate concern for the natural world, organized by the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment, and available free-of-charge to museums and public venues throughout the U.S., 2023-2024.

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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