nanoforest

Omen warning—minatory forest dwellers coming soon to a group show near you:

PLACEHOLDER: Roots, Rupture + Regeneration
Columbia City Gallery, Jan 28-Mar 6
Artists’ Reception, January 31, 5-7pm
Through the work of Indigenous artists of the Pacific Northwest, this exhibition grounds placekeeping and placemaking—tracing how memory, survival, and belonging persist across land, objects, and urban space.
https://columbiacitygallery.com/event/placeholder-roots-rupture-regeneration/

15th Annual International Juried Exhibition
110 Seattle, Pioneer Square, Feb 5-28
https://gallery110.com/exhibitions/15th-annual-international-juried-exhibition



Rooted in Relations: Authenticity & the Power of Indigenous Sovereignty
Mesa Community College Art Gallery, Feb 4 - April 2
A group exhibition that celebrates the interconnection, strength, and sovereignty that flow from Indigenous relationships—with land, language, culture, and community.
https://www.mesacc.edu/arts/event/2026-02/rooted-relations-authenticity-and-power-indigenous-sovereignty

Photographer: Melanie Masson
Sister/model: Kim Kalliber

Disornament Now!

Free the Trees! 2024 Documentary: Seattle, WA, USA. Local Seattleite takes a stand against forced peppermint merriment and the big holly dollars behind seasonal tree suffering.…

Reforesting the Central District you say?

Attention Artists! 🎨 Join the Garfield Super Block Coalition in bringing creativity to life at the Garfield Super Block. We're looking for an artist to craft 3 unique designs inspired by trees, stumps, roots, and other biome, to be transformed into imaginative seating for the community. Your forest vision, our space!

🗓️ Applications close on September 12, 2023. Let's carve out something special.

Apply now: https://brnw.ch/21wBN9A

“Imagine a city latticed with lightly cultivated wild spaces, microforests & roadside meadows. (For that matter, imagine the manicured neatness of suburbia blooming with wildlife gardens in place of ecologically impoverished, pesticide-soaked lawns.) That would be a different kind of city, where the human & the natural coil together & where the conventional cityscape is visually enriched by exuberant wildlife.”

Opinion | Let the Post-Pandemic City Grow Wild Cities contain too many perfected, simplified forms of nature, ones that look pretty but are biologically impoverished.

‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US

“Insect, bird & wildlife populations are plummeting as a result of human activity, pollution & habitat destruction, prompting scientists to predict mounting mass extinctions in the coming years.

As diplomats from nearly 200 nations meet in Montreal…to hammer out an agreement to stop hundreds of species from disappearing, homeowners in the U.S. are increasingly planting native plants that provide sustenance to local & migratory butterflies, birds & bees.”

They Fought the Lawn. And the Lawn Lost. After their homeowner association ordered them to replace their wildlife-friendly plants with turf grass, a Maryland couple sued. They ended up changing state law.

Apply to plant a free tree from the city!

Trees For Neighborhoods - Trees | seattle.gov Trees For Neighborhoods

“Crowther, Hintler & a group of colleagues published their answer in the journal Nature. Using a blend of satellite images, artificial intelligence & extrapolation, they estimated that Earth held roughly three trillion trees, about half its total when people first began practicing agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. Furthermore, they concluded something like 15 billion trees were still being cleared each year, for a net loss of about 10 billion trees annually.”

Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World? To fight climate change, companies and nonprofits have been promoting worldwide planting campaigns. Getting to a trillion is easier said than done.

nanoforest creatures will appear on beacon hill april 30:

New issue of new Seattle arts mag out now featuring creatures inside & out: https://publicdisplay.art/

Fun fact: Cover collage images shot entirely on an iphone.

For our European friends….

Win A Tiny Forest! Win a tiny forest for your local community? Discover how you can win now.

nanoforest hosts artist Lisa Myers Bulmash this Saturday for Walk the Block!

Take a community art walk in the Central District, plus other fun things to do this week What's there to do this weekend and the upcoming week? Enjoy a pop-up art walk in Seattle's Central District. Or check out Seattle Latino Film Festival, Trails to Taps Relay, an online class about witches or other in-person and virtual...