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Happy Holidays (Newsletter #10)

12/20/2018

 
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We hope this finds everyone well. We've had our first snow! Happy to announce that starting this month, Water Rising will be on sale at the Princeton University Art Museum Bookstore with proceeds directed to the Shark Research Institute (SRI)  --  you can order by phone 609-258-1713. Founded in 1991, the Shark Research Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization located in Princeton, NJ. They conduct and sponsor research on sharks and promote their conservation. ​​

Please consider buying a book to
help us donate to shark conservation
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Looking ahead we are working to bring Water Rising to the beautiful upper peninsula in Michigan. We will be partnering with various art foundations and environmental groups as we apply to the Michigan Humanities Council.

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 Give for the sharks!
Buy Now
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Our recently adopted kitten, Alfie, on the look-out for mice (and great gifts for the holidays).
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Thank you for your support
Garth & Leila 
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In memoriam for Coda     April 2005 — August 2018

Happy Holidays (Newsletter #10)

12/20/2018

 
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We hope this finds everyone well. We've had our first snow! Happy to announce that starting this month, Water Rising will be on sale at the Princeton University Art Museum Bookstore with proceeds directed to the Shark Research Institute (SRI)  --  you can order by phone 609-258-1713. Founded in 1991, the Shark Research Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization located in Princeton, NJ. They conduct and sponsor research on sharks and promote their conservation. ​

Please consider buying a book to
help us donate to shark conservation

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Looking ahead we are working to bring Water Rising to the beautiful upper peninsula in Michigan. We will be partnering with various art foundations and environmental groups as we apply to the Michigan Humanities Council.

Picture
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 Give for the sharks!
Buy Now
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Our recently adopted kitten, Alfie, on the look-out for mice (and great gifts for the holidays).
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Thank you for your support
Garth & Leila 
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In memoriam for Coda     April 2005 — August 2018

Happy Holidays (Newsletter #10)

12/20/2018

 
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We hope this finds everyone well. We've had our first snow! Happy to announce that starting this month, Water Rising will be on sale at the Princeton University Art Museum Bookstore with proceeds directed to the Shark Research Institute (SRI)  --  you can order by phone 609-258-1713. Founded in 1991, the Shark Research Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization located in Princeton, NJ. They conduct and sponsor research on sharks and promote their conservation. ​

Please consider buying a book to
help us donate to shark conservation
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Looking ahead we are working to bring Water Rising to the beautiful upper peninsula in Michigan. We will be partnering with various art foundations and environmental groups as we apply to the Michigan Humanities Council.


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 Give for the sharks!
Buy Now
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Our recently adopted kitten, Alfie, on the look-out for mice (and great gifts for the holidays).
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Thank you for your support
Garth & Leila 

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In memoriam for Coda     April 2005 — August 2018

Stay Tuned for Upcoming Events!

4/27/2018

 

Happy Spring! (Newsletter #9)

4/26/2018

 
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Since out last newsletter we've been busy with Water Rising events. The video installation was up at the New Bedford Art Museum from October through March as part of the group show SCAPES. In April we took Water Rising to the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and did a salon event in Oakland. Proceeds from book sales went to support the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment, an inspiring group in the Bay Area. While out West, we spent some time learning about Regenerative Agriculture. To learn more, check out the interesting work of David Witzel and others at RASA.

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We are looking for our next venue! If you would like Water Rising to come to your area and do an event -- either an artist talk, or to show the video installation, with proceeds from book sales going to a local environmental group, please let us know. We enjoy connecting with new art and environmental communities. Our mission is not over yet!

Please Help Get Water Rising into Libraries

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Please consider asking your local library to purchase a copy of Water Rising for your library. This is a great way to support Water Rising with proceeds going to environmental stewardship. We've made it easy. Everything a library needs to order a book for their collection is right HERE. 

Things in the works we look forward to sharing. Meanwhile, closer to home, we have exciting news. Beavers have come back to out local wetlands -- they've been sighted repairing the dam.

- Leila & Garth
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Water Rising Heads for San Francisco!

4/13/2018

 
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Water Rising visits California

3/30/2018

 
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Water Rising will be shown at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.

Free and open to the public!

Proceeds of books sales are being donated to the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment, which does great work with environment and youth in the Bay Area. 

Dates: April 19, 2018 @ 6:30pm
Location: Nave Alcove, Presentation Gallery
​111 Eighth Street, San Fransisco, CA 94107
https://www.cca.edu/about/virtual-tour/oakland

Holiday Greetings

12/7/2017

 
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Fall Greetings (Newsletter #8)

11/6/2017

 
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Can it really be November? We hope this finds everyone well. 

The Water Rising video installation, "Environment, Memory & Things" opened at the New Bedford Art Museum this Friday as part of a group show called "SCAPES." The exhibition runs through March 11th (if you can visit, check out the Whaling Museum)

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As the holiday season opens, we hope you will consider making Water Rising a gift to friends & family. Anyone who loves art and the natural world will love knowing that their gift helps support environmental causes. 


We want to make another large donation to environmental groups in 2018 and we need your help! Please consider asking your local library to order Water Rising for their collection. This is a great way to keep our mission alive of using book sales to create funds for environmental stewardship while putting a great new book on their shelves. 

To to this, google your local library's "purchase request form" or email your librarian with the link created for libraries. Be sure to let your librarian know that only by using this website link, will proceeds go to environmental causes (not Amazon).

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​We will be taking Water Rising to California College of the Arts April 18th - 20th, but we are looking for other venues in the coming spring. If you are interested in setting up a book event or video installation in your community, please reach out to us. Our mission is not over yet!
 
- Leila & Garth

Visit Our Newly Updated Website!
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Water Rising at New Bedford Art Museum

9/21/2017

 
New Bedford Art Museum:
Opening: 10/27,  6 - 8 pm

Address: 
608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA 02740
Installation on view from 10/25 - 3/11

Water Rising will be shown at the New Bedford Art Museum in the show titled Scapes: Placemaking in the 21st Century. The exhibit will feature 13 artists whose work engages art and place. http://newbedfordart.org/upcoming-exhibitions/

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"Paintings are to teach man to see the glory of human visual existence[1]," said Henry Hensche, who was a Cape Cod painter and student of Charles Hawthorne, the founder of Cape Cod School of Art’s. Hensche and Hawthorne dominated the 20th century landscape painting of the South Coast region to Provincetown. Their reach, combined with the famed Hudson River School, has made America infamous for golden skies, pink waters, and purple mountain majesties. Is this only what Hensche meant when he called on New England artists to draw the “glory of human visual existence”?
 
This collection is inspired by the avant garde mid-twentieth century term psychogeography, which is described as “the study of the relationship between the places that [people] move through in [their] everyday life and the effects that those places have on [their] minds[2]." These contemporary artists are reimagining landscape in the 21st century, with each work in SCAPES investigating the human experience with the environment to reveal rich, colorful, and highly emotional internal worlds that are both strange yet familiar.

SCAPES: Placemaking in the 21st Century is an exhibit of contemporary painters, photographers, digital media artists, and sculptors who are still seeking said glory. Artists today are flipping the Modernist focus on the sublime in nature to a postmodern exploration of internal landscapes. Housed in the individual and cultivated, by not only what is seen en plein air, but also experienced socially, culturally, and emotionally.
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[1] “The Cape School.” Cape School of Art, capeschoolofart.org/history/.

[2] Ryan, Rosanna. “How Our Surroundings Affect the Way We Think and Feel.” Radio National, 10 Sept. 2015,www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/how-our-surroundings-affect-the-way-we-think-and-feel/6758818.


Summer Greetings (Newsletter #7)

8/1/2017

 
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​We hope this finds everyone well. Since our last newsletter we’ve been busy doing events with Water Rising from the East Coast to the West Coast and abroad. Happy to share the news that through the sale of books and broad sheets we raised and donated over $5,000 to environmental groups like 1000 Friends of Oregon, CT Audubon, and Scenic Hudson!
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​The highlight was taking Water Rising to Iceland. In early June, we showed the video installation at Nordic House, an inspiring culture and arts center in Reykjavik. Leila stayed on to give artist talks on the challenges of collaboration across media and ways to involve art in environmental activism. She also did an interview about Water Rising with Jorunn Sigurdardotti for Icelandic Public Radio.
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Our other major trip this year was to Oregon with events in Portland, Eugene, Salem and more. The Oregon landscape has long been an inspiration for us. You can read an essay on Leila's travels in her Oregon Bio.

​As we look forward, these trips and the work we have been able to accomplish have inspired us to take Water Rising to more places around the world where artists and environmental stewards are working together. We are looking for venues in the coming fall and spring. If you are interested in setting up a book event or video installation in your community, please reach out to us. Our mission is not over yet!

- Leila & Garth

Water Rising Goes to Iceland!

6/7/2017

 
From June 1-5, the Environment, Memory, and Things was installed at the Nordic House in Rekjavik, Iceland. The event included artist talks on June 4th and 5th, and an Interview with Jorunn Sigurdardottir for Icelandic Public Radio. 

Interview with Icelandic Public Radio

6/5/2017

 
Leila talks about Water Rising and writing with Jorunn Sigurdardottir for Icelandic Public Radio. 

Featured in Terrain: A Journal for the Built and Natural Enviroments

4/4/2017

 
Water Rising was honored by a lovely excerpting and feature by the journal Terrain. The piece features three of the poems, three of the watercolors, and some information on the project, Garth Evans, and Leila Philip. Go and check it out here!
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Installation at Kerri Gallery

11/6/2016

 
Kerri Gallery:
November 6, 3-5 PM
Installation on view from 10/31 - 11/6


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The Water Rising Installation video will be on view October 31st until November 6th at the Kerri Gallery in Willmantic, Connecticut.There will be an Artist Talk and Reception from 3-5 PM on the 6th. The proceeds will go to The Joshua's Trust, NE Connecticut's largest land trust.  
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Wave Hill Performance

11/2/2016

 
​There will be a performance of Water Rising with composer Shirish Korde, cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws & others in NYC on November 2nd. 
Visit website for further details: https://www.wavehill.org/events/
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Water Rising, Joshua's Trust and the Kerri Gallery

10/26/2016

 
Michael Hveem, Executive Director of Joshua's Trust, poet/author Leila Philip, artist/sculptor Garth Evans and Jim Turner, Communications Director for Horizons & Kerri Gallery in Willimantic talk about a collaborative event with The Kerri Gallery and Joshua's Trust. Airdate: October 26, 2016.

Here is a direct link to the interview:
www.wili-am.com/wp_bows.htm
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Wayne Norman, Jim Turner and the crew being interviewed in the studio.
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Fall Newsletter (#6)

10/15/2016

 

Willamette University: October 14

10/14/2016

 
Location:
900 State Street, Salem, Oregon 97301
http://willamette.edu
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Opal Creek: Portland, October 13

10/13/2016

 
Proceeds from book sales will be directed to the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center. This is an organization with the goal of protecting the Opal Creek watershed for the future to enjoy.
Location: 
Eco Trust Building
Natural Capital Center, 721 NW 9th Ave Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209

http://www.ecotrust.org
http://www.opalcreek.org
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1000 Friends: Eugene, October 12, 5-7:30 PM

10/12/2016

 
Proceeds from book sales will be directed to 1000 Friends of Oregon, a land use organization working to enhance the quality of life for Oregonians. 
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Location:
First United Methodist Church
1376 Olive Street
Eugene, OR 97401

http://www.friends.org/news/events
https://www.friends.org/resources/landmark
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Bush Art Barn: Salem, October 11, 10-11:30 AM

10/11/2016

 
Proceeds from book sales will be directed towards Salem Audubon Society. This is a chapter of the National Audubon Society working to connect people to nature by focusing on wildlife habitats and the restoration of natural ecosystems. 

Location:
2110 State St., Ste 110
Salem, Oregon 97301
http://salemaudubon.org/
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Environmental Law Alliance: Eugene, October 10, 5:30-7

10/10/2016

 
Proceeds from book sales will be directed to ELAW. This organization works to create a cleaner, healthier planet. Composed of international attorneys, scientists and other professions, the team works across the globe to create a sustainable future. 

Location:
1412 Pearl St
Eugene, OR 97401

https://www.elaw.org
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Northwest Documentary: Portland

10/8/2016

 
Proceeds from book sales will be directed to the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. 
Location: 
6 NE Tillamook St.
Portland, OR 97212

http://nwdocumentary.org
http://oimb.uoregon.edu
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Installation at Spirol Gallery

9/22/2016

 
The new video installation "Environment, Memory & Things" premieres at the The Spirol Gallery Aug 29 - Oct 4th. Artist reception September 22 6 - 8:30.
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For Gallery hours, please call 860 932-4160 or see website: http://qvcc.edu/spirol-art-gallery/
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