Archive for the "Environmental Art" Category

Bird Woman: Whole Terrain interviews Julie Zickefoose

Update: Julie’s essay, “Where the Rose Gentian Grows,” appears in Whole Terrain’s new volume, ‘Boundaries.’ Whole Terrain is available for purchase online at Writing Nature Marketplace. Our original interview with Julie is reposted below. By Hanna Wheeler Julie Zickefoose is one of the lucky few who are gutsy enough to make a living— and a difference— [...]

Introducing Writing Nature Marketplace

Check out the new Writing Nature site, which is being developed in affiliation with over 150 writers, painters, photographers, musicians and other artists in the Writing Nature community.  Their work explores and promotes sense of place and environmental themes.  Individuals in the Writing Nature community have created long-running annual and semi-annual retreats at Camp Glen [...]

Whole Terrain seeks submissions exploring Net Works theme

 As environmental practitioners, we cast nets to sample nature, to gather knowledge, to provoke action. Ornithologists use mist nets to capture birds for banding, advocates and organizers use social networks to foment governmental and public action, and vast amounts of data are gathered from different disciplines to construct climate change models. What do we hope [...]

Dancing with the river: a profile of painter and environmental activist Ruth Blackwell Rogers

By Hanna Wheeler Dancing with the Shavers Fork Headwaters by Ruth Blackwell Rogers Ruth Blackwell Rogers describes her painting and environmental activism as “all one thing.” “My paintings have always been trying to make visible in some way… that everything’s connected. The spirits of the trees, the highland bogs, the beavers, the river are all [...]

A city’s local food revolution: Whole Terrain interviews Brad Masi

By Hanna Wheeler When you think of Cleveland, what comes to mind? The industrial city whose polluted river caught on fire? The undesirable city recently rejected by local hero, LeBron James? The dumpy, depressing city featured in American Splendor by dark comic, Harvey Pekar? The cursed city where not one of the football, baseball, or [...]