Ecology of Freedom, Visual Activism

We are only five weeks away from learning who the next President of the United States will be. Of course, we want a leader who will make it their priority to protect the earth's waters, lands, forests and air. The wake-up calls—extreme weather, wars, lifestyles—are getting louder and more obvious.

Last month we focused on how artists can operate as visual activists in our Research Posters event on Zoom (79 registered, 47 attended). Watch Recording  This month, we present ecological broadsides selected for The Ecology of Freedom, to be featured at The Crow's Nest in Baltimore, Maryland. Inspired by Murray Bookchin's 1982 treatise, which explored how hierarchy affects human health and the environment, twenty-four artists and a collective will present their images and text addressing plastics, wildfires and forests, greenhouse gases, water quality, extraction, plant democracy, kinship and more. The broadsides are now available to download for free from our website, for anyone to take'm to the streets! see below

For our monthly Zoom Dialogues, next week we will broadcast live from BioBAT in Brooklyn for a tour of the exhibition Water Stories. see below  And we will continue with the members only Soil Dialogues, Water Dialogues and Plastics Dialogues.

Our members have been incredibly busy the last month, with exhibitions and events internationally. There are currently over 110 listings that went out today, a new record. Keep up the incredible work!

Patricia Watts, founder

Header Image: Holly Fay, PAD (plant awareness disparity), digital image, 19 x 13 inches

eclipse fundraiser gallery

Tomorrow in the Southern Hemisphere there will be "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse (October 2, 2024). Please share our fundraiser gallery with your astronomical circles. ecoartspace is actively seeking to raise $10,000 to support our member pop-up exhibitions and print publications for 2024 and beyond. Thank you! click images above

zoom dialogues

BioBAT l Water Stories

Wednesday, October 9

United States: 8am HDT, 11am PDT, 12pm MDT, 1pm CDT, 2pm EDT

Water Stories is an immersive exhibition that addresses the poetic essence and ecological significance of water, highlighting stories of local waterfronts, coastlines and water bodies in New York City. The artworks place visitors in a conversation with global narratives, historical legacies, and imagined futures. Curated by Elena Soterakis, the large-scale installation includes works by members Keren Anavy and Christopher Lin. Please join us as we explore Water Stories live from BioBAT in Brooklyn, New York.

Elena Soterakis, Keren Anvay, Christopher Lin

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

broadsides exhibition

The Ecology of Freedom

October 12 through November 5, 2024

The Crow's Nest, Baltimore, 116 W Mulberry Avenue

Opening reception, October 13, 2-4pm RSVP

Mark Armbruster, Lynn Benson, Christina Bertea, Mazerick Betko, Pamela Casper, Nicole Dextras, Environmental Performance Agency (EPA), Holly Fay, Carol Flueckiger, Helen Glazer, Lawrence Gipe, Karen Hackenberg, Katie Kehoe, Deborah Kennedy, Pierre Leichner, Taina Litwak, Minal Mistry, Constance Old, Hugh Pocock, Jill Price, Jatun Risba, Jann Rosen-Queralt, Ruth Wallen, Bart Woodstrup

Twenty-four visually and conceptually captivating images, with some original works, that will be presented along with printed broadsides for takeaways. Downloads for self-printing are now available for free.

site-works exhibition

Where There is No Name for Art, Ogha Po'oge (White Shell, Water Place)

Submergence Collective, Leah Mata Fragua, Bill Gilbert, Ian Kualiʻi, Ruben Olguin, Carol Padberg
Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Where There is No Name for Art, Ogha Po’oge (White Shell, Water Place), includes six artists and a collaborative working with natural materials, making ephemeral site-works that will gradually return to the land. Honoring the history of the site at Santa Fe’s Audubon Center, homelands of the Tewa people and Apache, this “non-art” is centered on the more-than-human world, thoughtfully engaging in the land.

Image: Ian Kualiʻi (Kanaka Maoli Hawaiian and Mescalero Apache ancestry), untitled installation made with organic materials incorporating aspects of Native Hawaiian traditional water pattern symbolism and Mo’o Serpent Deities; similar to Avanyu, the ancient Tewa Pueblo Serpent, guardian of water.

featured ecoartspace artist

kathryn maguire

To the Mountain is Maguire’s recent solo exhibition, exploring the mapping of Mountains in Ireland, developed to facilitate taxation and know the ‘Underground Potential’ of geological and material value. The mapping was done by triangulation by creating a series of primary triangles. Sightings were taken between stations using theodolites. Maguire asks, "Do Mountains commune with us?" www.kathrynmaguire.net

blog interview with Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein

store

The New Geologic Epoch + Repositories

SPECIAL OFFER THROUGH OCTOBER

Starting today you can pre-order The New Geologic Epoch for the retail price of $75.00 and receive a free copy of Basia Irland: Repositories, Portable Sculptures for Waterway Journeys ($38 Value)!

You will receive Repositories within 7-10 days and The New Geologic Epoch by the end of the year!           

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announcements

2024 Grist 50: Climate Leaders to Watch in Arts & Media includes Eliza Evans and her All the Way to Hell project that turned a letter from a fracking company into the "largest land-art project ever." September 2024. Above

Rooted in Time: Art, Ecology and the Eternal Forest is a podcast interview with Evgenia Emets, for Symbiotopics 2024. September 24, 2024.

Painting Iberian Oaks is an article presenting eleven works on paper and in sketchbooks, watercolors and ink drawings by Meredith Nemirov, in Orion magazine. Online, September 23, 2024. 

Where Toxins Still Linger in LA Soil is an art review of the exhibition Sinks: Places We Call Home including Maru Garcia, included in Getty's PST/ART Art & Science Collide. LAIST online. September 20, 2024.

PBS News Hour spotlight on the work of Xavier Cortada addresing the threat of rising sea levels. September 16, 2024.

The Greatest Emergency is a feature on Diane Burko and her Amazon paintings inspired by her Lab Verde residency in Brazil last year, to be featured in La mayor emergencia at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain in October 2024, for Art Spiel. August 26, 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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