Women Eco Artists Dialog
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| formation = {{Start date|1996}}
| founder = Jo Hanson, Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Estelle Akamine
| founding_location = San Francisco, California
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| purpose = Directory of female identified artists and researchers working with environmental and social justice issues
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Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) is 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization focused on environmental and social justice art by female identified artists and researchers.{{cite web | url=http://weadartists.org/about-us | title=About Us | publisher=Women Eco Artists Dialog| accessdate=2013-08-12}}
History
WEAD (originally called Women Environmental Artists Directory) was founded in 1996 by Jo Hanson, Estelle Akamine, and Susan Leibovitz Steinman as a printed reference directory for entities interested in finding artists working with environmental issues.{{cite web | url=http://greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=285 | title=JO HANSON: Pioneering Environmental Artist Dies in San Francisco | publisher=Green Museum | accessdate=2013-08-12 | last=Leibovitz Steinman | first=Susan}} Currently the directory takes form as a website with member-managed portfolios. The directory lists a wide variety of activist feminist artists, such as Agnes Denes; Mierle Ukeles; Betsy Damon; Jackie Brookner; Marina DeBris, a trashion artist; Betty Beaumont, often called a pioneer of environmental art; Lauren Elder, Judith Selby Lang; Robin Lasser; Jan Rindfleisch, Shai Zakai and Minoosh Zomorodinia.
WEAD has been listed among the best projects relating to environmental art,{{cite web | url=http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/md2z/greenarts/artprojects.html | title=Green Arts Web: Artists & Projects | publisher=Carnegie Mellon University | accessdate=2013-08-12}} and has sponsored a number of exhibits about activist eco art.{{cite web|title=Earthly Concerns, Activist EcoArt curated by WEAD|url=http://www.usfca.edu/uploadedFiles/Destinations/Library/thacher/archive/Earthly%20Concerns.pdf|publisher=University of San Francisco|accessdate=2013-08-12}}{{cite web|title=CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE SYMPOSIUM|url=http://www.losmedanos.edu/art/archive.aspx|publisher=Los Medanos College|accessdate=2013-08-12}}{{cite web|title=WEAD East I Women and the Environment|url=http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/artgallery/Pages/ewead.aspx|publisher=Kingsborough Community College|accessdate=2013-08-12}}
Co-founder Jo Hanson was instrumental in founding the San Francisco Recology Artist in Residence Program, located at the San Francisco dump.{{Cite web|last=Recology|title=The Art of Recology|url=https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/artist-in-residence-program/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=Recology|language=en-US}} The WEAD co-founders were featured in a discussion about women artists of the American West whose art was about current social concerns.{{cite web|last=Cohn|first=Terri|title=Nature, Culture and Public Space|url=http://www.cla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Cohn/index.html|publisher=Purdue University|accessdate=2013-08-12}}
Publications
WEAD publishes an annual environmental and social justice magazine which focuses on such topics as dirty water and the legacy of atomic energy. Guest editors have included: Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty, founder of Wholly H2O, and speaker at events such as Pacific Gas and Electric Company conference on water conservation{{cite web|title=2010 Water Conservation Showcase Speakers Save Water by Going Paperless!|url=http://www.pge.com/pec/water/presentations.shtml|publisher=Pacific Gas and Electric Company|accessdate=2013-08-12}} and Tuolumne County's conference on greywater;{{cite web|title=Greywater in California: Designing, Managing, Monitoring|url=http://portal.co.tuolumne.ca.us/psp/ps/TUP_HS_ENVIR_HEALTH/ENTP/c/TU_DEPT_MENU.TUOCM_HTML_COMP.GBL?action=U&CONTENT_PNM=EMPLOYEE&CATGID=2651|publisher=TUOLUMNE COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|accessdate=2013-08-12}} and Dr. Praba Pilar. Notable magazine contributors and featured artists include Mildred Howard and Linda Weintraub,{{cite web|last=Lambe|first=Claire|title=An Interview with Linda Weintraub – Curator of "Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012" at The Dorsky|url=http://www.rollmagazine.com/an-interview-with-linda-weintraub-%E2%80%93-curator-of-%E2%80%9Cdear-mother-nature-hudson-valley-artists-2012%E2%80%9D-at-the-dorsky/|publisher=Roll Magazine, Mark Gruber Gallery|accessdate=2013-08-12}} the author of well known books on art and activism such as To Life!.{{cite web|title=To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273627|publisher=University of California Press|accessdate=2013-08-12}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/artist-in-residence-program/ Recology Artist Residency]
- [https://weadartists.org Official Website]
Category:Arts organizations established in 1996
Category:501(c)(3) organizations
Category:Arts organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco