Category Archives: Art and Ecology

  1. Part I Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Tradition Resurrected

    Part I of Haida Gwai touches on the amazing culture of the Haida and its recent revival.

  2. Sopheap Pich revisited

    Sopheap Pich makes stunning sculptures from rattan that are imbued with his Cambodian culture both present and past.

  3. “Idle No More” and other Protests

    Protests of Keystone XL, coal trains, fracking, and the biggest oil presence in our lives explained at the Burke Museum in “Plastics Unwrapped”

  4. The Inheritors: An Exhibition by Jo Hockenhull

        We are embedded in the natural world inside and out, organs and bones;  we are in and of  the bird world, the animal world, the world of insects; some of those creatures are going to survive the human species, in the end because of our obliviousness to our place in the world.   […]

  5. Aborignial Paintings Preserve Ancestral Dreams and Maybe the Future as Well

    Aboriginal Paintings tell us about survival, history, mythology, dreaming, and morality by being part of the natural world

  6. Elizabeth Colborne at the Whatcom Museum

    Seattle art historian David Martin’s exhibition at the Whatcom  Museum is a perfect partner to the late summer days we are experiencing. We can empathize both with Colborne’s delight in the forests of the Northwest, her close up drawings, paintings, and prints, as well as her later work which suggests the devastation that those great […]