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Looking forward to 2020

1/22/2020

 

We are excited to be bringing Water Rising to St. Lawrence University. The video installation will go up mid-August and run through mid-October

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Happy Winter Solstice

12/17/2019

 
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Happy Winter Solstice 

We hope this finds you all well. Here in New England we have snow on the beaver pond. 

In October, we had a fantastic week in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan working with the Cedar Tree Institute to bring the Water Rising video installation and workshops to the community. "Environment Memory & Things" was up in the Marquette Cultural Center from October 1 - 31. Proceeds from book sales went to the Superior Watershed Partnership. 

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Looking to 2020 

We are excited to be bringing Water Rising to St. Lawrence University. The video installation will go up mid-August and run through mid-October. 
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UN Report 

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A few surprising and positive points in the last UN Report. Several developing countries are taking the lead in sustainable development. Ethiopia planted 350 million tree seedlings in July 2019.

Please consider supporting our ongoing mission to generate funds for conversation about environmental stewardship by purchasing a copy of Water Rising. ​
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Best wishes for the New Year


2020


(Meanwhile, Alfie will be hiding out) 

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Thank you for your support
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Leila & Garth 

Marquette, Michigan

10/18/2019

 
We had a fantastic week in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan working with the Cedar Tree Institute to bring the Water Rising video installation and workshops to the community. "Environment Memory & Things" was up in the Marquette Cultural Center from October 1 - 31. Proceeds from book sales went to the Superior Watershed Partnership. 
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A nice review of Garth's show in Studio International by Sam Cornish, London

9/23/2019

 
A nice review​​ of Garth's exhibition.

"But, Hands Have Eyes"

9/18/2019

 
Garth's exhibition "But, Hands Have Eyes" opened on Friday the 13th to a wonderful crowd. Great to see friends who came from Wales, from England and from Ireland... and the United States. 

The Cardiff Tapes

9/10/2019

 
​Garth is in Cardiff, Wales installing an exhibition, which will feature six decades of his work. Opening is September 16th at Chapter Arts Centre. Lelia heads over this week to join rehearsals for “The Cardiff Tapes”, which runs September 19th through the 21st. 
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Fresh Coast Film Festival

9/1/2019

 
​Just received our official acceptance to the Fresh Coast Film Festival for "Environment, Memory & Things" Looking forward to screening the film at the festival in Marquette in October. 

Michigan Schedule

6/23/2019

 
Funded by a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council, we are pleased to be bringing the following events and programs to the Upper Peninsula. Our goal is to increase awareness of the environmental challenges now facing the great lakes due to climate change. All events save the daytime workshops at NMU are free and open to the public.
We seek to encourage stewardship through Creative Responses to Place – Throughout the month of October, creative work generated by the community in response to the exhibition, Water Rising, will be collected in an ongoing basis. This work, along with creative responses generated in the community workshops will be collected and curated by the Marquette area Gallery Director and arts administrator, Pasqua Warstler. A follow-up exhibition featuring this work is planned for 2020 and will travel to locations in the upper peninsula.
Note all proceeds from book sales and broadsheets will be donated to support the important environmental work of the Superior Watershed Partnership.
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Happy Summer Solstice

6/21/2019

 
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We have some exciting news to share. In May we received a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council to bring Water Rising to the upper peninsula of Michigan in partnership with the Cedar Tree Institute. For the month of October, an exhibition of watercolors from the book, along with poems and the video installation will be on view at the Marquette Arts & Culture Center. On October 15th, we travel to Marquette to give a week of talks and workshops for the UP community and for the Northern Michigan University School of Art and Design.

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Our film, “Environment, Memory & Things” has been accepted to the Fresh Coast Film Festival which runs Oct 17 – 21 in Marquette.

We are looking forward to visiting the gorgeous UP. We hope we can contribute to awareness about the environmental challenges now facing the Great Lakes.

This fall, all proceeds from book sales / broadsheets will be donated to support Superior Watershed Partnership & and Land Trust.
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Throughout the summer proceeds from book sales will continue to be donated to Shark Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey. If you haven't done so already, please consider asking your library to purchase a copy of Water Rising, or donate one. Every bit helps.
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Wishing you a great summer 

Thank you for your ongoing interest and support as we keep pressing forward with Water Rising’s mission to generate funds for and conversation about environmental stewardship. If you haven’t already seen the UN Report released in May, we encourage you to take a look. It outlines many concrete actions.

-  Leila & Garth
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​THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Michigan Humanities Grant

6/20/2019

 

Excited to share the news that Water Rising, in partnership with the Cedar Tree Institute, received a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council to bring Water Rising to the Upper Peninsula (MI).

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Water Rising at Groundwork Gallery

3/9/2019

 
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Water Rising will be on view as part of an upcoming show titled "Water Rising: Making Art in Storm and Calm," at Groundwork Gallery in the UK from March 9th to June 1st, 2019.  

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. ​

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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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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 Spring!

4/27/2018

 
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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 librarian 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 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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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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