WEAD and The 109 Gallery invite work that addresses the ethics of bodily autonomy, the fluidity of borders, and challenges rigid classifications of self and other.
Submission deadline June 30.
For more information visit www.weadartists.org/call-for-art
natural watercolour paint processes (turquoise shimmer) at a boreal shield shoreline
Sudbury soil, mica, French turquoise, lake water, gum arabic, honey, glycerin
#naturalpaint
love your newsletter that highlights important climate and community issues local to Sudbury, as well as the many creative and climate justice happenings throughout Canada. Grateful for all the advocacy work of @liveablesud.bsky.social from protecting greenspaces to funding little free libraries.
Bernie standing next to AOC holding a rally attendee’s baby with people taking pictures, laughing and smiling.
Timeline cleanse 🌞
check out this amazing album, project blue, including the song transcend (these times) by Emilio Portal + Tamara Ruth Parker:
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@emilioportal.bsky.social
new video for deadly attraction featuring Lisa Marie Naponse is out now!
youtu.be/XjnLbIvzWPo?...
sign @charlieangus104.bsky.social petition to revoke Elon's Canadian citizenship:
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...for anyone voting in Ontario...a must read....
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.
5 pigments from the boreal: charcoal, manganese clay, red soil, yellow orchre, green earth
pigments as land as mentors
"Erasing History" from the U.S. to Germany: "Wars Are Won by Teachers," Says Yale Prof. Jason Stanley
mica glitters mixed with sandy soil and reacts to a plant-based medium to create chance lines and shapes almost looking like a golden agate
soil and natural purple pigment
boreal brown soil mixed with purple pigment and plant-based medium
ground charcoal, copper mica, and natural purple pigment
recent pigment happenings in the studio
#ecoart
#ecopigment
#pigmentprocess
#soilpigment
#foundcharcoal
Pink book cover with blue title: The Air of the Now and Gone
Pink page with a table of contents written in hot pink and blue ink. Items include: "Thank you" by Ross Gay, "Walk through the garden's dormant splendor" by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith, "The Weight of Air" by Siobhan Angus and Elaina Foley, "Sacred Mirror, Blood of the Earth" by Kristi Leora Gansworth, and "Credits."
"The Air of the Now and Gone" digital catalogue is now out!
Featuring texts by: Kirsty Robertson (kirstymrobertson.bsky.social), Sarah E.K. Smith (smithsarah.bsky.social), Siobhan Angus (siobhanangus.bsky.social), Elaina Foley, & Kristi Leora Gansworth.
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"...a full-length album that features local (N'Swakamok / Sudbury / Atikameksheng Anishnaabek) underrepresented BIPOC, women and Francophone musicians and poets that revolve around the concept of magnetism."
Emilio Portal
emilioportal.bandcamp.com/album/magnet...
birch woven bird nest filled with snow
if a person posts on pixelfed (or bluesky) does anybody hear?
so beautiful...what are your fav tastes in France these days? Also...have you been making things with clay?
Open Call – Meta.Morf 2026
Deadline: January 31, 2025
The upcoming biennale asks: what is the artist’s role in preparing us for the unknown futures ahead?
teks.no/metamorf-call/
cosmic music from the boreal
super hip...music contemplations...
ecopoetry for critical mineral sacrifice zones...for anyone who has batteries or otherwise uses nickel...a mysterious extraterrestrial astroid delivered material...
super hip dance party after deep dives
ecopoetry for the critical mineral sacrifice zones
"Kamath & Packer explore how science has long projected human norms onto animal behavior and use feminist, queer and disability theories to challenge this oppressive practice."
"Feminism in the Wild" makes Ms. Magazine's most anticipated feminist books of 2025:
ecopigments on canvas made from found red ochre local clay, firepit charcoal, mica and natural blue. 3 pigments are from the urban spring-fed lake that the painting attempts to describe, surrounded by boreal hills, as the ice freezes. The painting is loose, almost like calligraphy.
some kind of solace
layered in pigments
touching fire remnants...
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natural colour
hues
of backyard dried blood
Earth's crust
a lake once touched
by an asteroid
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materials: 3 pigments were gathered near the urban spring-fed lake, held within the boreal, as the ice freezes.
