Category Archives: ecology
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At the Tate Modern Part II Maria Bartuszová and Magdalena Abacanowicz
I just read an editorial by Eddie Chambers in the Art Journal, that women artists are still being slighted in the art world and by art historians. Price wise their art has much less value and they are not given the same attention in museums because, Chambers declares that curators say they are “in hock” […]
This entry was posted on May 21, 2023 and is filed under Contemporary Sculpture by Women, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Firelei Báez, To breathe full and free
Pamela Allara, Ph.D., my colleague in art history and all things, contributed this post about a stunning exhibition in Boston. Firelei Báez’s installation, “To Breathe Full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction…” at the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Watershed gallery was one of the most exciting exhibitions that the ICA has mounted […]
This entry was posted on September 18, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Imna Arroyo: Immersed in Yemaya and Iroko Water and Life
Imna Arroyo’s work, taken as a whole, creates a puzzle of intersecting chronologies, which appear to form the subjective representation of an aesthetic philosophy that reaches toward celestial planes. Humberto Figueroa Iroko, Tree of Life, p. 56 Imna Arroyo bridges art and spirituality in a deeply personal and effective art. She […]
This entry was posted on September 8, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Breathe! at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and several provocative new shows at the Henry Art Gallery
Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery
This entry was posted on April 14, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Port Townsend marks its history with Indigenous groups
Port Townsend reveals its Indigenous History
This entry was posted on April 6, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, ecology, Indigenous History, Uncategorized. -
Iran US Collaboration: Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems
“Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems” This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition here […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Art in War, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline at the Burke ( not yet open) and the River of Life
Not yet open at the Burke is Ray Troll’s Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline exhibition. More about the show in a minute, but meanwhile, I want to give a big hooray to the Paleo Nerd podcast that Ray and his friend David Strassman, a ventriloquest, host. Here is Ray’s own website also. The podcast is […]
This entry was posted on December 22, 2020 and is filed under Art and Ecology, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Climate Calamities and Mt Rainier (Tahoma)
I wanted to announce the launching of my new website Climate Calamities. I am inspired by two different impulses: my father Rutherford Platt’s career as a naturalist and explorer, particularly in the Arctic. His writings such as This Green World, Our Flowering World, and the River of Life, are filled with the wonder […]
This entry was posted on August 26, 2020 and is filed under ecology. -
Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “letter to a laundress”
Carletta Carrington Wilson addresses her “letter to a laundress” to her great great grandmother, but her profound photo/poem installation currently on view at the Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma (only until September 29) honors the work of all those who, in her words, “took in wash.” She found photographs of anonymous […]
This entry was posted on September 7, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, American Art, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Civil War, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Artists and Contemporary Environmental Issues Part II
The despoliation of Indigenous reservations through fossil fuel extraction, pipe lines, uranium mining, and many other disastrous environmental policies, is a subject of the work of several prominent Indigenous artists. Currently on view is the work of John Feodorov in the exhibition “In Red Ink,” curated by RYAN! Feddersen at the Museum of Northwest Art, […]
This entry was posted on August 25, 2018 and is filed under ecology, indians, Indigenous activism, Indigenous Art, Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Artists and Contemporary Environmental Issues Part I
Breaking News Indigenous protests win Victory over Pipeline August 30 2018 We cried every day as we followed the tragedy of the Orca mother Tahlequah holding her dead baby for 17 days. The pod she belongs to has not had a successful birth in several years, this baby died immediately after it was born. […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2018 and is filed under ecology, First Nations Art, Uncategorized. -
Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise
We had the thrill of touring the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship on Sunday. I am holding the “Wave of Resistance #stop the pipelines Orca solidarity bracelet they gave us. It has just come back from Antarctica where it took scientists to study the way to create a marine protected area in the midst […]
This entry was posted on June 27, 2018 and is filed under ecology, economic imperialism vs democracy, Uncategorized. -
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest Anacortes
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest a coming together of more than a thousand people, on land and sea, to insist on working together to end the plundering the earth.
This entry was posted on May 18, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Backbone Campaign, Contemporary Art, ecology, global justice, indians, Indigenous activism, Uncategorized. -
Led by Indigenous voices, all ages protest Arctic Drilling
From Indigenous poets to Raging Grannies, from children and youth to college students, to people of every age, everyone is participating in the protest of Shell’s Polar Pioneer oil drilling platform with creative non violent civil disobedience at its best
This entry was posted on June 11, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, ecology, First Nations Art, Indigenous Art, Seattle Art, Uncategorized. -
The Common SENSE: Ann Hamilton at the Henry Art Gallery
Ann Hamilton’s “The Common SENSE” at the Henry Art Gallery embraces our relationship to the planet in a surprisingly disturbing sequence of installations.
This entry was posted on November 4, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, ecology, John Berger, Uncategorized. -
Part II Haida Gwaii: Thanks, But No Tanks
Thanks No Tanks an art exhibition in Haida Gwaii, BC, protests plans for oil tankers of tar sands to pass through Hecate Straits. The Haida are protesting with body, mind and spirit. The coastal ecology is the same as Puget Sound, where the tankers are also proposed to pass by.
This entry was posted on August 28, 2013 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, ecology, economic imperialism vs democracy, First Nations Art, Gulf Oil Spill. -
Buster Simpson// Surveyor
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
This entry was posted on August 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, ecology, Uncategorized. -
“New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+the World” A Symposium in Seattle
New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+ the World raises important questions about feminism today and presented some crucial artists.
This entry was posted on December 21, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Aborignial Paintings Preserve Ancestral Dreams and Maybe the Future as Well
Aboriginal Paintings tell us about survival, history, mythology, dreaming, and morality by being part of the natural world
This entry was posted on August 16, 2012 and is filed under a green future?, Art and Ecology, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Metamorphosis : Marita Dingus’s Trash
Marita Dingus At a presentation in Edmonds, about one half hour north of Seattle, Marita Dingus revealed some of the secrets of her approach to materials in her extraordinary art made entirely of recycled materials. Recycled we already knew, but there is a lot more to it than just reclaiming materials. She explained in a […]
This entry was posted on April 22, 2008 and is filed under ecology, Marita Dingus recycled materials.
