by Art for Culture Change | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog |
Lucienne Rickard spent the past 2 years drawing detailed sketches of lost species and then erasing them. On Sunday, January 24, 2021 she finished drawing and then erased the last one in the series: a swift parrot. In all she created and erased 38 works of art, and...
by Art for Culture Change | Jan 22, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized |
Activists Will Falk and Max Wilbert are defending Thacker Pass from a massive new lithium mine slated to destroy the wild and beautiful lands in northern Nevada’s Great Basin. They are camped there to protect the land and all the beings who call that land home,...
by Art for Culture Change | Jan 22, 2021 | Blog |
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is an ongoing project for artists to explore the extractive industry in all its forms. https://www.extractionart.org/home The book, Extraction: The Megazine is a catalogue and exhibition guide to the many artworks produced for...
by Art for Culture Change | Dec 27, 2020 | Blog |
Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues No one warned me that the smokestacks, skyscraper guts, and starless nights could turn my gaze so steely. Carp leapt from green water to smack the flanks of coal barges hauling the corpses of ancient ones who never asked to be cremated....
by Art for Culture Change | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog |
There is virtually no old growth forest left in British Columbia. While all climate change plans emphasize that ending deforestation of old growth forests is a priority, the destruction of these forests, these trees, these ecosystems continues apace. Centuries-old...
by Art for Culture Change | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog |
Trump’s border wall is an abomination and a death trap for wildlife. Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto has captured the diverse wildlife threatened by Donald Trump’s barrier, winning a number of awards, including the Fritz Pölking prize, with his project...
by Art for Culture Change | May 12, 2020 | Blog |
Watching the reaction of the left, and especially the environmental left, to Michael Moore’s new film Planet of the Humans has been fascinating. In case you haven’t seen it yet, the film illustrates some of the problems with renewable energy—wind,...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog |
Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. That’s 18250 days we’ve been, supposedly, trying to “save the planet”. In that time global population has tripled, CO2 emissions have more than doubled, CO2 ppm have increased from 320ppm to 416ppm,...
by Art for Culture Change | Mar 1, 2020 | Blog |
The latest devastating headline this week in my local paper is “Feds reject removal of 4 Lower Snake River dams”. From The Seattle Times: “Federal agencies found that taking out the dams would “provide a long-term benefit to species that spawn or...
by Art for Culture Change | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog |
With the 2020 election looming, I am seeing more people turning their attention to the candidates and promoting one candidate over another. I understand this urge; with voting being just about the only legal method left to us to change the system even just a tiny bit,...
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