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A Paradise Built in Hell: Creative Re-imagining in the Time of COVID

A Paradise Built in Hell: Creative Re-imagining in the Time of COVID

High School Park, March 18, 2020My last post was ten days ago, but it feels like another planet. The cancellation of one information session for my project became part of a global tidal wave of cancellations, lock-downs, shut-offs. Now we’re adapting to social...

A Billion Black Anthropocenes: Environmental Justice

A Billion Black Anthropocenes: Environmental Justice

Occupation of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery by Philly Thrive in January 2020. Photo by Chris Baker Evens.I am currently reading A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None by Kathryn Yussof. This book has helped me make some critical connections. The...

Environmental Art

Environmental Art

My goal for this project is to use art to convey a critical message: building resilience in a world marked by accelerating climate change and ecological destruction requires becoming an active participant in creating the world we want. Making art involves reflection,...

Gender and Environment

Gender and Environment

Print by Faviana Rodriguez (www.favianna.com)My creative work has frequently focused on gender, including intersections with race, class, culture, and sexuality. In recent years, I have focused more on environmental issues, but have wanted to create work that brings...

Confronting Ecological Grief: Joanna Macy & Active Hope

Confronting Ecological Grief: Joanna Macy & Active Hope

One of my core motivations for initiating this project was to engage other women in my community in an active exploration of how to translate ecological grief into hopeful action. Ecological grief has been defined as “the grief felt in relation to experienced or...

Embracing the Whole: Two Weeks in Wyoming

Embracing the Whole: Two Weeks in Wyoming

Shortly before I left for my two-week residency at Brush Creek Center for the Arts, I discovered the term ecological grief. I have for many years tried to categorize my deep feelings of sadness triggered by an increasing awareness of what we humans are doing to the...

Two Weeks in Iceland

Two Weeks in Iceland

Last month I had the incredible privilege to do a residency just outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, through Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SÍM). I went because the Icelandic landscape is made of extremes--black earth against brilliant green moss, volcanic mountains...

Painters I Have Admired

Painters I Have Admired

I belong to a critique group and yesterday we were talking about, amongst other things, painters who influence us. So I thought it would be fun to pull together a slideshow of painters that inspire me. It's eclectic, sure, but I think there are some common threads....

A Week in the Country

A Week in the Country

In late September, I did a weeklong residency at Spark Box Studio in Prince Edward County, Ontario. I was thrilled to have this opportunity. Residencies are designed to give artists the thing they need the most: unfettered time to work (see my post Who Does She Think...

Openings, closure…and more openings

The last month of my life has been marked by some pretty significant events--moments of closure paired with new openings and beginnings. First of all, The Multi-Families Project exhibit opened at The Flight Deck. I am so proud of this project and the installation...

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