fundraiser gallery and online book launch

Some Kind of Nature is a wrap in Santa Fe, though the exhibition will now live through 2023 as a 360 fundraiser gallery! Checkout the Matterport version of the show (click image above) and help spread the word that the artists will receive 80% of all sales, and the remainder will go toward our annual online show. You will receive a separate email soon that can be forwarded to friends and family to suggest for holiday gifts.

17 members began the Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio online course this weekend, which will run through December. This month we will discuss impacts of the fashion industry on our environment in the online event EcoFashion, DeFashion, Sustainable Fashion. see below

The online launch of The New Geologic Epoch is coming soon, in October. As Above, So Below the second pop-up in Santa Fe, will open November 1. see below

Next month we begin our 2024 membership renewal campaign, look for it!

Patricia Watts, founder

Please consider making a fully tax deductible donation through the New Mexico Foundation, to support exhibition production and printing of our publications.

events

EcoFashion, DeFashion, Sustainable Fashion

Thursday, October 19

United States: 12pm PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT

Europe: 20:00 BST

For this Zoom event we will hear from five members who have or are making work that includes upcycling, repurposing, plant-based materials, and handmaking of textiles and products (and potential products) as an art form including Johanna Törnqvist, Heather L. Johnson, Nicole Dextras, Alyce Santoro and Barbara Cooper. We will discuss the potential for artists to play a role in the movements of ecofashion, defashion or sustainable fashion. What are the real environmental costs of fast fashion? Join us to find out more.

This event is free for members + one guest.  Non-members are $5. All participants MUST REGISTER.

exhibitions

The New Geologic Epoch

Launching online in October

The New Geologic Epoch, juried by Mary Mattingly, presents works that focus on the shifting baselines, which over time have become the new normal.

Artists include: Luciana Abait, Mary Babcock, SE Bachinger, Katrina Bello, Barbara Boissevain, Lauren Bon + Metabolic Studio, Kellie Bornhoft, Regina Bos, Emily Budd, E Tyler Burton, Renata Buziak, Arminee Chahbazian, Julianne Clark, Kyra Clegg, Valerie Constantino, Betsy Damon, Lauren Davies, Dennis DeHart, Eliza Evans, Stephanie Garon, PlantBot Genetics, DesChene+Schmuki, Bill Gilbert, Lawrence Gipe, Helen Glazer, Kim V. Goldsmith, Rachel Guardiola, Tom Hansell, Robert Haskell, Alexander Heilner, Harriet Hellman, Jessica Houston, Nikki Lindt, Sarah Kanouse, Sant Khalsa, Samantha Lang, Cheryl Leonard, Bonnie Levinthal, Christopher Lin, Jason Lindsey, Malin Lobell, Art of Biomass, Rosalind Lowry, Sara Mast, Nitin Mukul, Mia Mulvey, Annette Nykiel, Carol Padberg, Marguerite Perret, Alan Petersen, Perdita Phillips, Susana Soares Pinto, Jill Price, Walmeri Ribeiro, Linda-Marlena Ross, Meridel Rubenstein, John Sabraw, Zoe Sadokiersk, Ashley Saldana, Aindreas Scholz, Sue Spaid, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Kala Stein, Lawrence Stevens, Rainey Straus, Scott Sutton, Monika Tobel, Roberta Trentin, Peggy Weil, Ryland West, Erin Wiersma, Anne Yoncha, Laura Ahola-Young

 📷 Fire and Water, 2023, collage, 13 x 19 inches ©Betsy Damon  click for more information

As Above, So Below

November 1 - 18, 2023

The exhibition takes the phrase As Above, So Below, as its point of departure, a paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet. This phrase was often used by occultists such as Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and included interpretations that suggested correspondences between the macrocosm and microcosm. These different planes of existence included illusions, some half-real, of minerals, plants, animals and humans.

Artists include: SE Bachinger, Kaya & Blank, Christine Cassano, Paula Castillo, Esha Chiocchio, Hayden Lilly Daiber, Jimmy Fike, Stephen Galloway, Bia Gayotto, Alexander Heilner, Katie Kehoe, Andrea Pinheiro, Linda-Marlena Ross, Meridel Rubenstein, Amy Scofield, Martina Shenal, Adam Thorman, Terri Warpinski

 📷 ©Alexander Heilner, Las Vegas, 2016, ink jet print  click for more information

blog post

Land Rights and Human Agency Hold Together like a Finished Puzzle, Eliza Evan’s work fighting fossil fuel industry infringement on land and creating the largest land art work in existence, interview by Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein

featured ecoartspace artist

erica fitzgerald

A basket acts as a record of a time, a thought, or a feeling, carefully woven together in a monotonous ritual to create an object meant to hold or store it. My practice activates nets, tapestries, and vessels as metaphors for the complicated nature of coping with loss, grief, stress, and hardship. Various aspects of labor-making present in basketry and weaving traditions show our human bond to generational necessity and trauma coping. Each woven stitch is a small entry to hold thoughts and record feelings. Simply filing the experiences to place them elsewhere, out of sight, but most importantly, out of mind.  www.elfitzgerald.com

store

aquifer bag by heather johnson

The “Aquifer Bag” takes its inspiration from the Igneous Aquifer in West Texas that sits beneath the towns of Marfa and Alpine, which are experiencing dramatic booms in tourism and development. As the case with so many water tables around the U.S., the aquifer’s levels have been dropping radically due to over pumping. The embroidered topographic lines on the bag’s shell are based on a map that measures the aquifer’s depth; it is unknown how much water it still contains. Buy it now!

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announcements

Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) recently announced the recipients of the Environmental Art Grants (EAG) program, which provides one-time grants of up to $20,000 to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists from U.S. and territories. Awardee's include: Meridel Rubenstein's Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project and Sarah Kavage’s Weaving the River Project. Reviewers included Mary Mattingly and Minoosh Zomorodinia. Above

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America includes the research of Emily Budd seeking out queer ecotopia in Nevada ghost towns, Discovery Plus, Season 2, Episode 1. August 29, 2023. 

Soils and Spirit: To Remember amid Dismemberment is a conversation with eco-artist Marin 'Heron' Tsaplina about Soils and Spirit, Orion magazine. September 2023

WLRN: Xavier Cortada Tackles Big Issues With Art, an radio interview with Miami-Dade County's first artist in residence.

Picturing Displacement is an art27: ReSounding interview with Luciana Abait on Spotify. September 29, 2023.

Sound: Nikki Lindt's Underground Sounds is a feature for City Lore, New York City. September 27, 2023.

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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