ecoartscotland is very pleased to be partnering with Glasgow Sculpture Studios and the Collins and Goto Studio to present the lecture Some Kind of Nature by international curator and founder of ecoartspace Patricia Watts.
Monday 23 April, 4pm, Glasgow Sculpture Studios (Board Room, 2nd Floor)
FREE (download pdf of poster: 2018TWattsECOARTSCOTLAND-GSS)
This talk will focus on the development and history of the curatorial platform ecoartspace, highlighting specific exhibitions and programs, and projects presented to the public over the last twenty years. Founded by Patricia Watts in 1997, the nonprofit platform has operated without a permanent space supporting hundreds of artists addressing environmental issues in the USA. Watts will also discuss different approaches artists have taken through the years, and where she believes artists today can focus their energies with the greatest results.
Watts has curated over thirty art and ecology exhibitions, given over fifty lectures, and written numerous essays. She is considered a pioneer of the art and ecology movement. Select exhibitions include FiberSHED (2015), Shifting Baselines (2013), MAKE:CRAFT (2010), and Hybrid Fields (2006). Watts has also curated a permanent outdoor public artwork, Cloud House (2015–16), at Farmers Park in Springfield, Missouri; and a temporary public artwork, Windsock Currents (2005), on Crissy Field in the Presidio, San Francisco, for UN World Environment Day.
Currently, she is developing an ongoing series of ACTION GUIDES of replicable art projects and is conducting video interviews with pioneering ecological artists for the ecoartspace video archive.
http://patriciawatts.blogspot.com
http://www.ecoartspace.org
http://ecoartspaceactionguides.blogspot.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/ecoartspace
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