How Art Can Help Defend the Natural World
In all the languages of fire and storm, the earth calls us to defend ongoing life. Can art itself be a kind of activism? Kathleen Dean Moore, an essayist, and Bob Continue reading
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This Artist Uses Trees and Maps to Imagine a Colorado with No Drought
MEREDITH NEMIROV HAS SPENT THE last 30 years walking in the forests of southwest Colorado. While mainly an observational painter, Meredith’s experience of spending time drawing and painting among aspen trees Continue reading
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange
Sometimes it’s disappointing to meet an artist you truly admire but meeting my fellow panelist Shaun Tan at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2017 only fed my admiration. No one evokes Continue reading
Beautiful Impermanence: An Interview with Sculptor Patrick Dougherty
Unlike most sculptors, Patrick Dougherty makes things that are meant not to last. And yet, a tremendous amount of work, hard physical work, careful planning, and artful imagination goes into every Continue reading
The Art of Soil: How One Scientist Uses Dirt to Make Art
As scientists around the world comb through the soil in search of the origins of the Anthropocene, our anniversary issue takes inspiration from people like Karen Vaughan, who finds truth in Continue reading