Let's Talk About The Weather

By: Ashley Mazanec & John Biethan
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  • Let's Talk About The Weather explores creative approaches to global problems through eco-art, music, writing, and other media and discuss the connections between humans and their environment through the eyes of artists. Produced by Heard Not Seen Media, Inc.
    All Rights Reserved 2017 - 2023 Ashley Mazanec
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  • Ep. 36 Flashback Friday with Regan Rosburg: Breaching Grief, Melancholia and Mania with Biophilia

    Ep. 36 Flashback Friday with Regan Rosburg: Breaching Grief, Melancholia and Mania with Biophilia
    Jul 31 2020

    Regan Rosburg is an artist and naturalist. Recently, her work has been an investigation into society's collective grief, melancholia and mania which manifests as consumption and distraction. She has conducted biology-based research trips to the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, The Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Smokey Mountains of Northeast Tennessee.

    Rosburg works in a variety of materials. Her resin work contains precious artifacts: plant and animal relics, bones, insects, lace and painted imagery. These objects are suspended in incredibly laborious, three dimensional resin "paintings." The use of resin poignantly addresses her growing concern over plastic pollution in the environment, while presenting the beauty of plant and animal species.

    Regan curated Axis Mundi - an exhibition of 21 artists from all over the USA and Canada that responded to the topics of Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia. 

    Links mentioned
    • Ecopsychology 
    • The three terms expressed on Axis Mundi: Artists on Ecopsychology
      • Freud's “Mourning, Melancholia, and Mania” PDF
      • Renee Lurtzman on Environmental Melancholia 
      • E. O. Wilson and Biophilia / Forest Bathing in Japan  
    • The 2017 Biennial of Americas in Denver, CO
    • Chris Jordan's film "Albatross"
    • The 21 artists and their work can be found at AXIS MUNDI Artists on EcoPsychology: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia
    • Regan's "The Relentless Memorial"
    • Axis Mundi Brings The Work of Twenty-one Artists from the USA and Canada
    • Jennifer Jenal showing of Albatros
    • Summer 2018 showings at the William Havu Gallery in Denver
    Guest Contact information
    • ReganRosburg.com 
    • Regan Rosburg on InstaGram #reganrosburg
    • Regan Rosburg on Tumblr
    • Regan Rosburg on Vimeo

    Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Ep. 35 Zack Rago: Diving In with Chasing Coral Co-Star

    Ep. 35 Zack Rago: Diving In with Chasing Coral Co-Star
    Apr 12 2019

    Produced by www.EcoArtsFoundation.org visit www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org to comment.

    ZACKERY RAGO is the Youth Outreach Manager for Exposure Labs' Chasing Coral Impact Campaign and is thrilled to engage youth around the globe through science, art, and passion.

    Zack’s passion for coral reefs began in the Hawaiian Islands where he spent his childhood summers under the waves of the Pacific. His infatuation with coral led to a position in the marine aquarium industry for 4 years before bringing his passion to Teens4Oceans and View Into The Blue. He received a degree in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a talented reef aquarist and long-time scuba diver, he is dedicated to communicating the story of coral through science and art.

    Links Mentioned
    • https://www.chasingcoral.com/
    • http://www.exposurelabs.com/
    • https://teens4oceans.org/
    • https://www.viewintotheblue.com/
    Contact Zack
    • Zack Rago
    • Zack on Twitter @coral_buff
    • Zack on Instagram @coral_buff
    • Zack and Resources on www.ChasingCoral.com
    Contact us and let’s talk (about the weather)
    • Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org
    • Britta Nancarrow on Instagram
    • Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project
    • EcoArtsFoundation.org
    • Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page
    • Email the show

    Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
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    29 mins
  • Ep. 34 Beverly Naidus: Superwoman Remediating Superfund Sites

    Ep. 34 Beverly Naidus: Superwoman Remediating Superfund Sites
    Mar 22 2019
    Beverly Naidus is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. While developing an innovative studio arts curriculum, she has been creating interactive installations, digital projects, artist books and narrative and conceptual drawings for over three decades. Much of her work is audience-participatory, inviting people to tell their own stories in response to the theme being explored. Inspired by the lived experience, topics in her art focus on environmental and social issues, including how we are individually and collectively affected by racism, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression. Her unique courses at UWT emerge from her own projects and include Art in a Time of War, Cultural Identity and Art, Body Image and Art, Eco-art, Labor, Globalization and Art and the Artist as Visionary and Dreamer. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, numerous essays on socially engaged art and pedagogy and some recent pieces of speculative fiction. She has taught at several NYC museums, Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe. She facilitated and designed the permaculture-inspired, eco-art project, Eden Reframed, on Vashon Island, WA, funded by the Royalty Research Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in mainstream museums, university galleries, alternative spaces, and city streets. It has been reviewed and discussed by many significant writers, including Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul Von Blum and Lisa Bloom. As part of her new collective, ARTifACTs, she is collaborating on an interactive, multidisciplinary project about the future. “We Almost Didn’t Make It,” imagines the artifacts (and stories that emerge from them) found by our descendants that give them insights into the risks taken by activists (their ancestors) that allowed the descendants to exist. It’s an audience participatory and multi-media work that gives participants the opportunity to imagine the artifacts that their descendants might find. Topics & Links Covered in this Episode Joanna Macy - Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear AgeBeverly Naidus- Eden ReframedBeverly Naidus - Soil Remediation Pesticides originally developed as bio warfare during World War IIBeverly Naidus on Panic and Despair about Climate Change - We Almost Didn’t Make ItUW Tacoma YouTube - We Almost Didn't Make It - Beverly NaidusPete Seeger “Lots of teaspoons can fill a pail” (The teaspoon brigade)Children & Nature Network - Nature Deficit DisorderNo More "Nature-Deficit Disorder" - The "No Child Left Inside" movementBeverly Naidus Book: One Size Does Not Fit AllBeverly Naidus Book: Art in a Time of WarBook: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the FrameNon violent communicationBeverly Naidus - Labor Globalization and Arts classBeverly Naidus - So you want to be an eco-artist? Lessons in Grief and GratitudeBeverly Naidus - Portable Altars for Grief and GratitudeBeverly sits on the Puyallup Nation Land Contact Beverly Naidus BeverlyNaidus.netOn Facebook: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the FrameDownload: Naidus-Art CV 2018Eco-art Project’s Blog: Eden Reframed: Eco-art Meets Permaculture Design on Vashon IslandBeverly Naidus: Academia, University of Washington Tacoma, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Faculty MemberBeverly Naidus: Wikipedia Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
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    37 mins

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