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“Gardens That Free Us: Urban Gardening, Sustainability, and Healing” features artist and advocate, Jamie Bruno, healer, artist, and member of the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, Michaeline Picaro, and founder and managing director of Newark Science and Sustainability Inc., Tobias Fox. The global pandemic has acerbated long-existing inequities in terms of land use, food, and health, now only intensified by large-scale failures in supply chains leading to food scarcity. Community and urban gardens provide possibilities of local action and have been at the heart of an urban agriculture movement in Newark tied closely to pushing forward a larger picture of more equitable futures through whole systems approaches based on sustainability. Join us for a discussion on how urban and community gardens can free us and provide a new way to look at how we approach our Post-Covid future now.

A recording of the event is available here.

The Price Institute hosted an online discussion on April 23, 2020 “COVID-19 and the Indigenous Just Transition: The Renewable Society of the Seventh Generation”, with environmental economist, organizer and activist Winona LaDuke, Program Director of Honor the Earth, based at the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota; activist, writer and community advocate Carol Bebelle, co-founder of New Orleans’ Ashé Cultural Center; and Maria Lopez-Nunez, Director of Environmental Justice and Community Development at Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark. The event, moderated on Facebook Live by Jack Tchen, was held to commemorate Earth Day 2020.

Read about the event here or watch the recording here.

The New Jersey Student Learning Standards, which outline what is taught in New Jersey’s public schools, now include language that requires climate change education across seven areas: 21st Century Life and Careers, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Technology, Visual and Performing Arts, and World Languages.

Read more here.

For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-justice-and-clean-energy-in-new-jersey-tickets-95270393311

Newark’s lead water crisis: a conversation with women about race, equity, and environmental justice.

Monday, March 9, 2020, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Location: Campus Center Atrium, NJIT

Join this discussion about Newark’s lead water crisis. Participants will include women
activists and scientists who are on the front lines in the battle over New Jersey’s water. Light refreshments will be served, parking is available in the NJIT Summit Street Parking Deck, 154 Summit Ave.

NJ Department of Environmental Protection is hosting an environmental justice listening session with Commissioner Catherine McCabe and Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh to discuss environmental justice issues with the local community. For more information, please visit: https://www.njdepcalendar.com/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=644.

Climate Landscapes: Our Changing Shores
Nathan Kensinger & Virginia Hanusik

Thursday, February 6, 2020, 7-9 pm

Location: Paul Robeson Galleries, Workshop 2 Room 312

Express Newark, 54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ

EcoArt Salon welcomes our Spring 2020 with two artists who have been documenting the changing landscapes and architectures of our shores. Virginia Hanusik is an artist and writer. We are lucky to have her as our guest, as she plans a move to New Orleans. Her work in both the New York and New Orleans estuarial regions engage with the changing architectures due to climate change. Her work importantly ties narratives of our connected shores. Artist Nathan Kensinger is an artist, filmmaker, curator, and writer who has been reflecting on and presenting the stories of the toxic spaces and industrial landscapes of New York and Staten Island for more than a decade. His work can be found at NYCurbed and his film “Managed Retreat” is an important testament to our time and the first communities in New York that have been displaced due to sea-level rise. Join us for informal dinner and discussion with the artists.

About the artists:

Virginia Hanusik

Virginia Hanusik is an artist and writer whose work explores the relationship between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her projects on climate change and environmental justice have been exhibited internationally, featured in Domus, Places Journal, NPR, Fast Company, Oxford American, Newsweek, and The Atlantic, among others, and supported by the Graham Foundation and Mellon Foundation. She is currently working on a body of work about climate adaptation along the American coast. She received her BA from Bard College.

Nathan Kensinger

Nathan Kensinger was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores hidden urban landscapes, off-limits industrial structures, unnatural waterways, environmental disaster zones, coastal communities endangered by sea level rise, and other liminal spaces. His work encompasses photography, film, installation, curation and writing. Since 2003, Kensinger has created a series of photo essays, documentary films, video installations and public arts projects about New York City’s changing landscape. His photographs have been exhibited by the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and have been featured by the New York Times, New York Magazine, PBS Newshour and Nature Climate Change. His public art projects include “The Newtown Creek Armada” (2012) and “Gowanus Voyage” (2013), which used remote-control boats to film two Federal E.P.A. Superfund sites in Brooklyn, and “Listening to Dutch Kills” (2019) and “Gowanderlust” (2011), two multi-media artists walks in those same Superfund sites. His most recent documentary film is “Managed Retreat” (2018) – which looks at three neighborhoods in Staten Island that are being dismantled and returned to nature, in the face of sea level rise. Nathan is currently the curator of Chance Ecologies (2015-present), a public arts project which invites artists and community members to collaboratively engage with unplanned natural ecosystems in abandoned post-industrial spaces.

The Climate Museum has been awarded a generous grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its work in public engagement with the climate crisis. The grant, in the amount of $500,000 over a 2-year period, establishes Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships focused on climate and inequality within a humanities framework. The Fellows will work with the Climate Museum’s staff and partners to create interdisciplinary public programs, including exhibition content, highlighting climate and justice.

The Fellowships will start in August 2020 and run for two years. For further information:

• Post-Doctoral Fellowship Application   <bit.ly/ClimateMuseumPostDocFellow>

• Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Application     <bit.ly/ClimateMuseumPreDocFellow>

EcoArt in the Community: Urban Farms and Healing Plants
Artists Jamie Bruno and Michaeline Picaro

Location: Paul Robeson Galleries, Workshop 2 Room 312 Express Newark, 54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ

Wednesday, December 4, 20197-9pm

Join Newark-based artist Jamie Bruno and Ramapough Lunaape artist Michaeline Picaro on Wednesday, December 4th from 7-9pm at the Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark as they discuss their works-in-progress in new phases of their art careers. Bruno will discuss how she balances her advocacy and community organizing work with urban farming and composting along with her art making. Michaeline Picaro will discuss her work in terms of healing and plants. She brings her work as a nurse and as a traditional healer as new material from which she is now engaging her practice. Join us for dinner and discussion on topics ranging from urban farming to mycorrhizal networks to dirt pigments to Kirlian photography.

Artist Bios

Jamie Bruno

Jamie Bruno is an American interdisciplinary artist and local food systems advocate living in Newark, NJ. She has worked in urban agriculture for the last five years focusing compost policy and local food system development with nonprofits Planting Seeds of Hope and Urban Agriculture Cooperative. In 2014 and 2015 Jamie worked on garden-based nutrition and education initiatives with the national organization Foodcorps in partnership with The Greater Newark Conservancy. Jamie finished a Printer-in-Residence with Newark Print Shop in October of 2018, creating a new body of work about the environment by merging photography and drawing in a five-color bitmap screen-printing process. In 2017, Jamie helped to develop creative messaging for green infrastructure projects as a Resident Artist with Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership and coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, NJ under a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Jamie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Michaeline Picaro

As a proud member of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, I have learned from early native medicinal teachings from my father combined with spiritual teachings from being/sitting with nature at an early age. These teachings became a way of life, including the daily connection of listening, watching and practice of all that mother earth teaches. As a mother of three, my concern for my children and relatives, and the environment, combined with my teachings, research and nursing background, allowed me to continued me on this journey — a journey of using and reawakening the knowledge of natural medicine for healing and food foraging. The effects of industry and the depletion of farming fields have left us with less nutrients needed for healthy body and mind. These missing or depleted nutrients and minerals are a direct connection to many mental and physical health ailments we see today. Nursing and holistic/energy healing along with my art background has allowed me to experience different modes of thinking in terms of healing and education. Art is an expression of thought that prevokes my connection to nature using Native American traditions, foods, and medicines, along with our traditional stories, allows the pigments I use to show the intertwining tale of creation medicine and how toxins are a part of all of our current DNA.

The EcoArt Salon is a monthly gathering that is free and open to the public for those interested in EcoArt and the environment to share their projects, discuss issues, network, and collaborate together.

The ongoing salon gatherings bring together artists, writers, curators, scholars, and the public from the NJ/NY and larger interconnected global community interested in the topic of EcoArts and its potential during a time of environmental degradation and ecological crises.

The EcoArt Salon is hosted by Rutgers University-Newark Paul Robeson Galleries and co-sponsored by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and the Rutgers University-Newark’s Department of Arts, Culture and Media.

Rutgers Climate Institute’s Rutgers Climate Symposium 2019. The symposium will foster collaboration among natural and social science researchers and students interested in climate change from institutions in the NJ, NY, and Philadelphia region.

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/rsvpnov2019

Join the discussion with Winona LaDuke and Naomi Klein on the Indigenous Green New Deal and current organizing efforts. The UN IPCC report, based on the research of thousands of scientists around the planet, projects a shrinking 11-year window until cascading climate change catastrophes.

Winona LaDuke, an eco-economist, speaks and writes nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. She is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project and Honor the Earth. Through word and deeds, she works to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and ‘New York Times’ bestselling author. She is Senior Correspondent for ‘The Intercept’, a Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center and is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University – New Brunswick.

Opening remarks will be given by Chief Vincent Mann, Turtle Clan, Ramapough Lunaape Nation.

For more information, please contact priceinstitute@newark.rutgers.edu

TECHNOLOGIES OF ECOART
Artists BEATRICE GLOW & KEARY ROSEN
Location: Paul Robeson Galleries, Workshop 2 Room 312
Express Newark, 54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ

Thursday, November 7, 2019 | 7 pm – 9 pm

Join us for an intimate evening with artists Beatrice Glow and Keary Rosen in informal discussion over pizza and salad on their process and the issues they are exploring and their use of technologies such as AR, VR, and 3D printing.

Interdisciplinary artist Keary Rosen, who is based at Rutgers University-Newark’s Department of Art, Culture and Media and is the Founding Director of the Form Design Studio and Lab at Express Newark, will be discussing his work in terms of the trajectory of his practice from his innovative uses of 3-D printing techniques including through materials and processes to his engagment on issues of multi-species allyship.

Multisensory multimedia and installation artist Beatrice Glow will discuss works-in-progress as she rethinks her new work that uses the metaphor of smoke for our arrival at the Capitalocene, touching on extractive economies through the social history of plants. She will also share the interrelated works Mannahatta VR and Rhunhattan, which she has been developing in her slow practice in allyship with indigenous communities. She will discuss indigenous environmental stewardship and the limits and possibilities of allyship.

Artists bios

Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary artist leveraging installations, painting, olfactory art, video, participatory performance, and experiential technology collaborations to shift dominant narratives. In service of public history, she co-labors with scholars, scientists and community stakeholders to assemble surviving fragments and question colonialist histories from diasporic and indigenous perspectives. Currently a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, recent activities include solo exhibitions at Taipei Contemporary Art Center; Duke House, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile; and Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; group shows at Honolulu Biennial 2017; Park Avenue Armory, New York; and Galeri Nasional Indonesia; residencies with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Smack Mellon and ZERO1. As a Hemispheric Institute Council Member, she co-founded the Performing Asian/Americas: Converging Movements workgroup. She is the strategy manager for the New York – Newark Public History Project and a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Practice Program.

Keary Rosen is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, photography, video, performance and sculpture. His work has been exhibited widely in numerous venues both nationally and internationally including: The Philadelphia ICA, The RISD Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, The Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Art Basel Miami, The Basement Project Space in Ireland, The Nunnery Gallery in London, The New York Underground Film Festival, The Brooklyn Rooftop Film Festival, MMX Open Art Venue in Berlin, The 15 Minutes Gallery in Pittsburgh, Rush Gallery in New York City. He has executed performance works at sites in Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Keary received his BFA from The Maine College of Art and his MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. He is a faculty member in the Department of Arts Culture & Media and the founding director of the Form Design Studio and Lab at Express Newark.

Images:
Beatrice Glow, Mannahatta VR. Image courtesy of the artist.

Keary Rosen, Bacon and Eggs. Image courtesy of the artist.

The EcoArt Salon is a monthly gathering that is free and open to the public for those interested in EcoArt and the environment to share their projects, discuss issues, network, and collaborate together.

The ongoing salon gatherings bring together artists, writers, curators, scholars, and the public from the NJ/NY and larger interconnected global community interested in the topic of EcoArts and its potential during a time of environmental degradation and ecological crises.

The EcoArt Salon is hosted by Rutgers University-Newark Paul Robeson Galleries and co-sponsored by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and the Rutgers University-Newark’s Department of Arts, Culture and Media.

Concerns about drinking water quality have made headlines in New Jersey and across the US. This all-day conference will engage a broad range of participants including community members, environmental advocates, public health professionals, scientists, researchers, public policy thought leaders and decision makers. Learn about current drinking water quality issues and potential health impacts.  Discover what personal and public actions can be taken to ensure clean and safe drinking water for residents of New Jersey.

For more information, please contact Kerry Butch: kerrybu@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Register here

10/15 Why Trust Science?

Join NYU Center for the Humanities for an evening with Naomi Oreskes on her new book, Why Trust Science? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don’t?

In her new book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. For more information, please visit: https://mailchi.mp/nyuhumanities/upcoming-events-blood-libel-1574409?e=0bfe7a8793

The EcoArt Salon is a monthly gathering that is free and open to the public for those interested in EcoArt and the environment to share their projects, discuss issues, network, and collaborate together.

The ongoing salon gatherings bring together artists, writers, curators, scholars, and the public from the NJ/NY and larger interconnected global community interested in the topic of EcoArts and its potential during a time of environmental degradation and ecological crises.

The EcoArt Salon is hosted by Rutgers University-Newark Paul Robeson Galleries and co-sponsored by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and the Rutgers University-Newark’s Department of Arts, Culture and Media.

The first meeting is October 3, Thursday from 7-9pm at Paul Robeson Galleries Room 312 Workshop 2 at Express Newark at 54 Halsey Street. Jersey City-based artist Adriane Colburn and Brookyn-based artist Katherine Behar will be sharing their projects for discussion including topics from AI maritime messaging in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to E-waste to mapping pipelines and sewers and climate change data visualizations from the arctic. We will also take time during this meeting to share thoughts of where we want to see the salon headed. Please come with your ideas! Pizza will be served.

About the artists:

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist and critical theorist of new media whose works exploring gender and labor in contemporary digital culture have appeared throughout North America and Europe. She is known for projects that mix low and high technologies to create hybrid forms that are by turns humorous and sensuous. Pera Museum in Istanbul presented Katherine Behar: Data’s Entry | Veri Girişi, a comprehensive survey exhibition and catalog, in 2016. Additional solo exhibitions include Katherine Behar: Backups (2019), Katherine Behar: Anonymous Autonomous (2018), Katherine Behar: E-Waste (2014, catalog/traveling), and numerous others collaborating as “Disorientalism.” Behar is the editor of Object-Oriented Feminism, the coeditor of And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art (with Emmy Mikelson), and the author of Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity. Fellowships and residencies include University of Michigan, The MacDowell Colony, Nida Art Colony, Pioneer Works, Art Journal, Wassaic Project, Rubin Museum, Franklin Furnace, and others. Behar is based in Brooklyn and is Associate Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Adriane Colburn is an artist based in Jersey City and Vermont.  Her recent work, large scale installations that investigate the complex relationships between human infrastructure, earth systems, technology and the natural world, are part of public art collections and have been exhibited throughout the US and internationally at venues such as Smack Mellon, and Parsons/New School in New York, The Luggage Store Gallery, Gallery 16 and The Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Ballroom Marfa, Artsterium in the Republic of Georgia and at the Royal Academy of Art in London.  A penchant for research and direct experience has led her to participate in scientific expeditions in the Arctic, the Amazon and at sea. She has been an artist in residence at MASS MOCA, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Kala Institute and The Blue Mountain Center. Awards include the New Jersey state Council on the Arts, The Fleishhacker Foundation and Artadia. Adriane is currently on the faculty at Bard College.

Can’t make it in person? Call in!  For those who who need to Zoom into the gathering, here is the Zoom meeting details:
Thursday, October 3
7pm to 9pm, EcoArt Salon Zoom Access

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USDAC allies will host a debrief of the climate strike. What did we see, do, and learn at events on Sep. 20th? How might this inform what collective creative action is called for and might look like moving forward? This will be a casual, participatory call—with ample space to meet new friends and collaborators.

Hosted by U.S. Department of Arts and Culture

Host Contact Info: hello@usdac.us

NJIT’s environment week will start September 20th and go through September 27th. Join for a week of lectures, colloquiums, and a NJIT-Rutgers bioblitz!

Find a Climate Strike near you! 

The Youth Climate Strike Coalition is composed of the following organizations:

• Earth Uprisingis a global, youth led organization focusing on climate education, climate advocacy and mobilizing young people to take direct action for their future.

• Extinction Rebellion Youthis led by a community of young people within Extinction Rebellion, a network focused on persuading governments to act on the climate and ecological emergency.

• Fridays for Future USA is a people-led movement around the climate crisis. Founded in August 2018, Fridays for Future was inspired by teen activist Greta Thunberg, who sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis.

• Future Coalitionis a national network and community for youth-led organizations and youth leaders. The Future Coalition works collaboratively to share resources and ideas, all with a common goal of making the future a better, safer, and more just place for everyone.

• Sunrise Movement is a youth-led movement of young people committed to stopping the climate crisis. Sunrise Movement is currently leading actions around a Green New Deal and need for a Democratic debate dedicated to climate change.

• US Youth Climate Strikeis a youth-led movement that helped organize over 424 student strikes occurring in at least 45 states on March 15, 2019.

• Zero Houris an intersectional movement around climate change. In 2018, Zero Hour organized the first official Youth Climate March in 25 cities around the world and laid the groundwork for the climate strike movement. In July 2019, Zero Hour hosted the Youth Climate Summit, a weekend-long summit featuring 350 attendees from across the world participating in workshops and programs to enhance their advocacy in the fight for climate justice.

Join the Central Jersey Climate Coalition for a Central Jersey Climate Strike on September 20th at 2:30 PM on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Campus. On September 20th  millions of people around the world will walk out of our schools, workplaces, and homes to join youth climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels, corporate pollution, and environmental destruction.

The Newark Water Coalition was formed by Anthony Diaz and a group of concerned community members to advocate for the community of Newark. The coalition is working together to inform and educate the residents and other consumers about the dangers and ailments that are associated with the contaminates in the water by way of but not limited to drinking, bathing, brushing teeth. The coalition is calling on our government stakeholders, healthcare providers, faith and community-based organizations to make this public health crisis a priority, allocate the adequate funding to fix our infrastructure, test our people and provide clean water for all!

Learn more about the NJIT Biology Department’s Call to Action