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Zen and the art of felting a sunflower

Zen and the art of felting a sunflower

When Jenny Torino and her husband moved from Rhode Island to Warwick, NY in 2017, they left behind a thriving art community....

eARTh
03 Mar 2025 | 10:15
<i>Reasons to Breathe</i> (2024)
Reasons to Breathe (2024)

Amoebas and seedpods are her muse

Raised in the bucolic Berkshires of rural Massachusetts, mixed-media artist Ali Herrmann developed an early interest in the...

eARTh
25 Nov 2024 | 04:24
Daniel Giordano in his studio in Newburgh, NY in 2023
Daniel Giordano in his studio in Newburgh, NY in 2023 ( Taliesin Thomas)

‘Big fun’ in reimagining roadkill

The first time I encountered Daniel Giordano’s art, I was immediately captivated by the wild alchemy of his artistic practice...

eARTh
19 Aug 2024 | 02:03
The raw power of overkill

The raw power of overkill

There is a poignant scene in The Graduate (1967) when Dustin Hoffman’s character is standing by the pool talking with Mr....

eARTh
21 May 2024 | 11:23
Muller-McCoola sewing currents onto her first <i>Water piece </i>in 2019.
Muller-McCoola sewing currents onto her first Water piece in 2019.

The artistic powers of water

Our relationship with water is paramount to our survival. Although water is fundamentally transparent, tasteless, odorless...

eARTh
02 Apr 2024 | 12:49
Artist Michelle Glass leading a collaborative project that’s one part art project and one part science experiment
Artist Michelle Glass leading a collaborative project that’s one part art project and one part science experiment ( Fabian Euresti)

Testing water, building power

“Everyone has a color story,” says Michelle Glass, a public art and social practice artist who works alongside BIPOC and...

eARTh
14 Nov 2023 | 11:56
<i>Grey Study with Alison </i>(2022) features a woman at the shore in a skirt made of fennel.
Grey Study with Alison (2022) features a woman at the shore in a skirt made of fennel.

The artist-goddess in all her glory

The infinite imagination of Mother Nature is a sphere to which all of humanity is granted privileged access, but some are...

eARTh
23 Aug 2023 | 12:13
Verdant meditations

Verdant meditations

During her early years as a textile designer living and working in New York City, Wendy Hollender liked to frequent the New...

eARTh
02 Jun 2023 | 11:54
Eliasson turned a Swiss museum’s interior into an actual natual landscape for his installation, <i>Life </i>(2021), by flooding the interior and filling it with water plants.
Eliasson turned a Swiss museum’s interior into an actual natual landscape for his installation, Life (2021), by flooding the interior and filling it with water plants. ( Mark Niedermann)

‘Being with’ art that raises our collective consciousness

I have been crushing on Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) since my undergraduate days at art school. Eliasson...

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09 Mar 2023 | 01:29
Leu picks up trash alongside her troop of nomadic gnomes.
Leu picks up trash alongside her troop of nomadic gnomes. ( Photo provided)

Merrymaking in the face of catastrophe

Maxine Leu had a front-row seat to the effects of climate change growing up in Taiwan. She describes her native country,...

eARTh
29 Nov 2022 | 04:15
On baking bread

On baking bread

There are three things I could never understand: string theory, the rules of baseball, and why it is so hard to bake a decent...

eARTh
12 Apr 2021 | 02:52
Retired nurse Linda Mitchell, left, with partner Debra Hollinrake at The Tree of Health Center
Retired nurse Linda Mitchell, left, with partner Debra Hollinrake at The Tree of Health Center ( Tara Whitsitt)

Healing addiction naturally

“The term ‘functional family’ is elusive,” said Debra Hollinrake, a partner at The Tree of Health Center in Newton, NJ. How...

eARTh
13 Apr 2020 | 11:14
Chandler Alysia Mazzella holds 20 pounds of local beeswax in her studio in Newburgh, NY.
Chandler Alysia Mazzella holds 20 pounds of local beeswax in her studio in Newburgh, NY. ( Tara Whitsitt)

Rite of light

“I don’t believe you have to depend on things outside of yourself in order to create,” said Alysia Mazzella, as we sat in...

eARTh
23 Jan 2020 | 12:07
Can sculpture after self-portrait by Hieronymus Bosch
Can sculpture after self-portrait by Hieronymus Bosch ( Melissa Shaw-Smith)

Tinkering with the canon

Allan Rubin is never alone in his studio barn, perched on a hill with ”eight-mile-views” in Sullivan County. He is surrounded...

eARTh
08 Aug 2019 | 02:06
Holding the first scrap metal sculpture he made from discarded race car scraps
Holding the first scrap metal sculpture he made from discarded race car scraps

Junkyard arts and crafts

Tim Fields’ garage is crammed with buckets, filled to the brim with old machine parts. His scrap collection overflows into...

eARTh
07 Aug 2019 | 06:11
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