Six billboards up in Western Mass!

The additional six I AM WATER billboards in Western Massachusetts and Eastern New York have been installed (above). Several of the boards in Brooklyn and Manhattan are still up. The project will be featured in the Fall/Winter issue of ArtsLink, the Americans for the Arts quarterly publication, focusing on organizations working at the intersection of arts & climate change. 

For October, we have a special guest speaker for Tree Talk, a curator who will take us on a tour of her large group show titled Transforming Fire including four of our members. see below

The fundraiser pop-up event last night in Santa Fe at Miriam's Poetry Yard was an enchanting success. We've uploaded a short tour of the works and interviews with the artists on Instagram; more documentation to come. A big thank you to those who donated.

We will begin our membership/renewal campaign for 2023 on November 1st!

Patricia Watts, founder

Images Above: ©Jane Szabo, March 2, Coal Creek, March, 2019, digital pigment print, 20 x 30 inches; ©Renata Padovan, The Dam That Killed the Forest, 2022, photograph; ©E.J. McAdams, DROUGHT, 2022, digital, 22 x 11 feet; ©Lyn Horton, Water Journal 14, 2022, Digital photograph, 10 x 13 inches; ©Perri Howard, Lights Flight, 2022, mixed-media on panel, 30 x 48 inches; ;  ©Rebecca Riley, Flood Atlas, Page 10, 2019, ink,watercolor and acrylic on paper map, 8 x 11 inches

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Tree Talk: Artists Speak For Trees

Thursday, October 20, 2022

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

Europe: 19:00 CEST Australia: 3:00am AEST, Friday, May 27

Rina C. Faletti, Ph.D., Fire Transforms

After the better part of a year as a wildfire evacuee from her mountain home, Rina C. Faletti, founded Art Responds, an ongoing project of art exhibitions, public programs, and publications that engage communities in meaningful conversation about the roles art plays in community recovery from environmental crisis. She recently curated and opened the exhibition Fire Transforms, at the Palo Alto Art Center in Northern California, which includes works by four ecoartspace artists: Kim Abeles, Linda Gass, Erika Osborne (above), and Beth Ames Swartz. The exhibition includes a total of 17 established environmental artists who have produced a significant body of work responding to wildfire.

Tree Talk is moderated by Sant Khalsa, ecofeminist artist and activist, whose work has focused on critical environmental and societal issues including forests and watersheds for four decades.
 
Co-sponsored by Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts

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

featured ecoartspace artist

Navjeet Kaur

Kaur is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is based in preserving the stories of those that came before her through somatic remembrance of ancestral practices such as weaving, movement, breathwork, and ritual traditions based in reimagined mythologies. She explores concepts of harmony and chaos existing within the body, spirit, and earth through maternal connections, identity, home, and belonging. Being from a Punjabi-Sikh family and identifying as that herself, she feels that it is important to address topics of intergenerational trauma and resilience through remembering in her work. Kaur who lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. navjeetkaurart.com

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UPDATE 10/1/22: We need eight more pre-orders to meet our goal of fifty to go to print this month. Embodied Forest is an incredible book with 268-pages, including the work of ninety of our members. There are guest essays by Ruth Wallen, Kim Abeles, Sant Khalsa, Tim Collins and Rekio Goto, Aviva Rahmani, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, and Susan Leibovitz Steinman. Additional texts by the exhibition curator and organizers Lilian Fraiji, Sant Khalsa, and Patricia Watts. This second edition will have sewn signatures and foil stamp cover, 100% recycle paper. It's a must have.

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announcements

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 October 2022. Taking preorders (special discount offer). Above

How Artists in the Southwest are Drawing Attention to Wildfires features four ecoartspace artists: Bryan Griffith, Saskia Jorda, Shawn Skabelund and Beth Ames Swartz, Hyperallergic, online, September 20, 2022.

Underground Sound a current project in Brooklyn's Prospect Park by sound artist Nikki Lindt was featured on CBS News, September 11, 2022. Recording

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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