Online courses, Swale

This month we are encouraging our members to upcycle and repurpose materials in their art making and invite you to participate in the upcoming Salvage Art Summit! If you are concerned about the true cost of buying new materials for your art practice, this could kickstart a new direction for you. see below 

And if the Salvage Summit gets you going and you're looking for more inspiration, we have five spots left for our ninth online Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course, with a new focus on solidarity in eco-art activism. Over 130 of our members have participated in these courses and have developed new research and projects, as well as collaborations. It's important to stay in community around new developments in your practice, especially during these stressful times. see below 

For September, we have three exhibitions and two residencies scheduled at Swale House on Governors Island in New York City, including a soil shroud Gathering Stitches session in the Soil Shroud Room. see below 

Fall is around the corner....with more destructive flooding to come. Please be cautious in valley's and ancient waterways. 

Patricia Watts, founder/curator

Header Image: A drone view of the aftermath of flash flooding along the Trishuli river amidst fresh water surge warning in the Trishuli Bazaar area of Nuwakot district, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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Online Course for Members

October 24, 2026 - January 2, 2027

Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio: Environmental Justice

DEADLINE October 1, 2026

This course will help artists integrate a solidarity-oriented approach to their creative practice, as we address the significance of intersectional thinking within repressive structures. We will cover topics such as environmental justice, decolonial praxis, and food sovereignty, (among others) to understand the impacts of globalization on people and the environment. As we study these topics alongside the function of art in cultural production, participants will be invited to attune to their surroundings through collaboration, advocacy, contribution, or invocation in their own eco-art practice. No prior understanding is required. 

This online course is taught by Anna Chapman with guest artists Juan William Chávez, and Beverly Naidus.

Email info@ecoartspace.org for more information

September 24th to the 27th, 2026

A 4-day FREE virtual event for artists, activists and artivists to transform waste into art, champion sustainability, and fuel their creative resilience.

Led by Natalya Khorover

Recent interview with Natalya on our blog here

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ecoartspace

@SwaleHouse

Governors Island, NYC

Nolan Park, 6b

September Exhibitions/Residencies

• Through September 20: Kosmologym (Walker Tufts with collaborator Greg Stewart) exhibition (above)
• Through September 20: Priscilla Stadler and Emily Garfield Institute for Creative Research exhibition and residency
  
• September 21–September 27:  Marina Heron Tsaplina Soil: Field Of Awareness exhibition

Soil Shroud Room Programs

Saturday, September 19, 2:30-5pm

Gathering Stitches with Priscilla Stadler and Emily Garfield, come celebrate and help connect textile pieces buried and collected from earth’s diverse ecosystems

upcoming book

Wicked Monstrous  

Pre-order special edition book, coming soon!

print on demand and online coming november 2026

Print-on-demand & online: 130 artists l Special Edition:70 artists (in bold)

Aindreas Scholz, Alanna Baird, Alejandro Duran, Alicia Escott, Amanda Thackray, Andrea Polli, Ann Savageau, Anna Mein, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Annette Nykiel, Ashton Phillips, Barbara Cooper, Barbara Lubliner, Bee (Beverly) Naidus, Belén Millán, Benjamin Von Wong, Beth Bando, Beth Shepherd, Bethany Taylor, Bev J Elgar, Blue McRight, Bryan Northup, Calder Kamin, Carol Sogard, Carolien Adriaansche, Caroline MacMoran, Charity Ridpath, Charlotte Bastian, Christine Mackey, Christy Rupp, Cindy Pease Roe, Clare Thomas, Colette Copeland, Constance Mallinson, Constance Old, Cynthia Minet, David Ellingsen, Dawn Stetzel, Deanna Pindell, Devan Horton, Diedra Krieger, Duke Riley, E Tyler Burton,  Elisabeth Condon, Elise Marks Vazelakis, Elizabeth McAlpin, Ellen Driscoll, Emma Akmakdjian, Eurhi Jones, Faith Bebbington, Felipe Andrés Piedra, Francesca Busca, Griffith Aaron Baker, Heather Law, Heidi Dauphin, Hollis Hammonds, Ian Trask, Janine Brown, Jemma Woolmore, Jennifer Kotter, Johanna Törnqvist, John Melvin, Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang, Kalliopi Monoyios, Karen Hackenberg, Kat Kazlauskas, Katharine A. Owens, Kate Dodd, Katharine Harvey, Kathleen King, Kathryn Frund, Katy Rodden Walker, Kelsey Merreck Wagner, Kelly Marie O'Brien, Kim Bernard, Laura Nova, Laurie Riccadonna, Leah Dalton, Leah Mata Fragua (above), Leticia Bajuyo, Liina Klauss, Luba Zygarewicz, Lynn Cazabon, Margaret Smithers-Crump, Marguerite Perret, Martha Lewis, Megan Wong, Minal Mistry, Moffat Takadiwa, Monique Martin, Natalya Khorover, Nicole Cooper, Nicole Dextras, Nicole Hixon, Niki Lederer, Ogwado Joachim, Pam Longobardi, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Pauline Galiana, Pierre Leichner, Portia Munson, Posey (Pamela) Moulton, Rebecca McGee Tuck, Reenie Charriere, Riva Weinstein, Robert Lach, Ruth Peche, Ruth Tabancay, Sandra Suubi, Sara Mast, Sarah Knobel, Sarah Umles, Sari Nordman, Sayaka Ganz, Scott Bluedorn, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Shani Nottingham, Steve McPherson, STUDIOKCA, Swapna Namboodiri, Taina Litwak, Tara de la Garza, Toby Zallman, Tom Jones, TOMO, Tracy Penn, Twyla Exner, Virginia Katz, Wiebke Schroeder, Yevgenia Davidoff, Zelda Zinn 

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MARZ Soil Remediation, Transforming a Contaminated Industrial Site into a Living Riverbed, Metabolic Studio, Un-development 2, August 12, 2026

featured artist

Walker Tufts

Dirtball is a love letter to Earth. Dirtball is a reimagined basketball court that uses experimental concrete, a garden and a birdhouse to tie individual humans and their actions to the soil making process. As people play on the experimental concrete their movements wear away the surface and release minerals that enrich the surrounding soil and help plants draw carbon from the atmosphere. The garden highlights diverse local plants that both enrich the soil and feed pollinators. walkertufts.com

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Soils Turn PREORDERS 

We are now taking orders for the second 100 in the Second edition (300). Once we hit 50, we will go to print, probably by November/December, and deliver January/February. 

Soils Turn is viewable online via ISSUU here.

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announcements

NewLeaves Network is a recent report on artists and woodland creation written by Dr. Chris Fremantle, lecturer and researcher at the Gray's School of Art, available through Culture for Climate, Scotland. above

Local Ecologies: Artistic Investigations of Eastern Massachusetts is a multimedia book including work by Sarah Kanouse and Jane Marsching. Amherst College Press, September 2026 

Microcosms: Sacred Plants of the Americas is an article by Jill Pflugheber and Steven White, in the 2026 Summer issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture #70 titled Realism. Pages 76-89.

Spiraling: Photographs of the Great Salt Lake is a traveling exhibition of colorful aerial photography by David Maisel, available through the Barry Lopez Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Panafold includes a feature article on Lauren Bon + Metabolic Studio and their Bending the River Project in Los Angeles. Issue 6, Summer 2026. 

PO Box 5211, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502