Introduction

Lucy R. Lippard is a writer and activist, author of 20 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, most recently The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (The New Press, 1997, 1999). Her most recent curatorial venture was Weather Report: Art and Climate Change (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007). She lectures internationally and has received seven honorary doctorates. She lives in rural Galisteo, New Mexico and for 13 years has edited the monthly community newsletter: El Puente de Galisteo. In June 2010 her book Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin 1250-1782 will be published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.

Biography

Lucy R. Lippard is a writer and activist, author of 20 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, including one novel. She has done performances, comics, street theatre, and has curated some 50 exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. For thirty years she has worked with artists’ groups such as the Artworkers’ Coalition, Ad Hoc Women Artists, Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, The Alliance for Cultural Democracy (co-editor of “How to ‘92” in the Campaign for a Post-Columbian World), and WAC (Women’s Action Coalition). She was a co-founder of: Printed Matter, The Heresies Collective and journal, PADD (Political Art Documentation/Distribution) and its journal Upfront, and Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America. She continues to write and lecture frequently at museums and universities. At home, she has served as a member of the Santa Fe County Open Land and Trails Planning and Advisory Committee, is a member of the Galisteo Community Planning Committee, edits her community newsletter, El Puente de Galisteo, and is on the Santa Fe Railyard Park Design Committee with the Trust for Public Land.

Her books (1966 to the present) are: Pop Art, The Graphic Work of Philip Evergood, Dadas on Art (ed), Surrealists on Art (ed), Changing: Essays in Art Criticism, Tony Smith, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object…., From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art, Eva Hesse, I See/You Mean (novel), Cracking (artist’s book, with Charles Simonds), Ad Reinhardt, Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change, A Different War: Vietnam in Art, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans, The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art, and The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, Florence Pierce: In Touch with Light and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place.

She has also co-authored books on The School of Paris (with A. Barr and J. Thrall Soby), Kathe Kollwitz, Mary Kelly, Cecilia Vicuna, and Marilyn Bridges, among others; she wrote the foreword to Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art, and the 1999 edition of Dean MacCannell’s The Tourist, among others. She is frequently anthologized and writes prolifically for magazines and exhibition catalogues. (For partial bibliography, see From the Sniper’s Nest: Art that has lived with Lucy R. Lippard, 1995.) She has written regular columns on art and politics for the Village Voice, In These Times, and Z Magazine, and is a contributing editor of Art in America.

Lippard graduated from Smith College (BA 1958) and the New York University Institute of Fine Arts (MA in art history 1962), has received honorary doctorates in fine arts from the Art Institute of Chicago, Moore College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Maine College of Art, the Massachusetts College of Art, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design;as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism, the Claude Fuess Award for Public Service from Phillips Andover Academy, a curating award from the Penny McCall Foundation, a citation from New York City Mayor David Dinkins, the Frederick Douglass Award from the North Star Foundation, the Smith College Medal, the ArtTable Award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts, the Athena award (RISD) for excellence in art criticism, the Women’s  Caucus for Art (WCA) Lifetime Achievement Award, and (in April 2010) the Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence. In 2002 she shared with co-authors a Southwest Book Award for Nuevo Mexico Profundo. Lippard has been included in Who’s Who in America for over a decade. She is a Research Associate at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and received a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant for Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782, forthcoming  in June 2010 by the Museum of New Mexico Press.

Lippard has been a visiting professor at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, Williams College, The University of Queensland, Australia, and University of Colorado, Boulder. She serves or has served on the boards of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Printed Matter, Franklin Furnace, REPOhistory, Time and Space Limited, SoHo 20, Earth Works Institute, and the Center for American Places, among others.

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co-sponsored by  the Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,  http:/hhh.umn.edu

Dr. Vandana Shiva

a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is the Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, India. In 1993 she was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. A contributing editor to People-Centered Development Forum, she has also written several works include, “Staying Alive,” “The Violence of the Green Revolution,” “Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge,” “Monocultures of the Mind” and “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit,” as well as over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s, whose main participants were women. As an International leader she has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her book “Vedic Ecology” that draws upon India’s Vedic heritage. Shiva has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns. She has assisted grassroots organizations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria with campaigns against genetic engineering. In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her book, “Staying Alive” helped redefine perceptions of third world women. Shiva has also served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as non governmental organizations, including the International Forum on Globalization, the Women’s Environment & Development Organization and the Third World Network.

Gemma Bulos
Founder – A Single Drop (ASD), an organization to promote social action around water issues and environmental stewardship for peace
Founder – A Single Drop for Safe Water (ASDSW), offers water technology training, establishes office in the Philippines
Founder – The Million Voice Choir, joins the world in a song for water and peace

Awards
Queen Latifeh – Cover Girl CG Vibes, 2005
Best Emerging Social Entrepreneur of 2007 – awarded by Echoing Green
Ernst Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2009 in partnership with the Schwab
Foundation in the Philippines

Social Entrepreneurship
2005 – ASDSW offers first water technology trainings in the Philippines
2008 – ASD co-sponsors the Global Women’s Water Initiative with Crabgrass and Women’s Earth
Alliance partnered with Groots Kenya in Nairobi.
2009 – ASD co-sponsors Global Women’s Water Initiative in Ghana

Over 38,000 people have access to improved water in 8 countries as a result of her organizations’ activities.
She plans to bring her water initiatives to the United States to promote sustainable technologies, such as greywater use, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilets.

March 23, Tuesday 7 -8 pm, In-Flux, Regis Center for Art.

Sandy Spieler is an artist and activist. She has focused on Water for many years, most recently leading audiences into discovery of Water quantity, quality and ownership issues through the investigation of their own drinking Water. Beginning with a deep reverence for Water, she initiated the multi-year “Invigorate the Common Well” with In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, and is presently using art, research, and common sense as a way to inspire and instill a new era of Water stewardship for a vast and diverse public –cheerleading ALL of us at the Headwaters of the Mississippi to own our responsibility for the Water that presently becomes a dead zone at the Gulf of Mexico

She is one of the founders of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre and has served as Artistic Director since 1976. During her tenure, HOBT has become nationally recognized as one of the top professional puppet and mask theaters in the country. She is an accomplished sculptor, painter, graphic artist, director and designer, a performer of sound, word and figure, community image maker, and teacher. She is the director of the annual MayDay Parade and Pageant , and of many mainstage shows throughout HOBT’s history. She has also directed Ceremonial Events in South Korea, Los Angeles, and the Dominican Republic. Her permanent visual art commissions include work for the Maplewood library, Lake Street streetscape design, drinking fountain designs, a mural for the Minnesota State Fair, and a public Water Shrine. She has an MA Cultural Performance from Bristol University England, studied puppetry arts at Bread and Puppet Theatre in Glover, Vermont, and Balinese masked dance at NYU and is part of the International ECOARTS network.

She asks that Art wakens us to the “Wonder!?” of our everyday lives.

Sandy’s work has been recognized through numerous awards including the Bush Foundation’s Leadership and Artist Fellowships, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, Jerome Travel and Study Grant, and Intermedia Arts/McKnight Interdisciplinary Fellowship.