Special Collections and Zines
Tell the bees by Call Number: N7433.4.N53 T45 2016
Lavender and evil things by Call Number: N7433.4.N53 L38 2016
It is bitter to leave your home by Call Number: N7433.4.H367 I8 2017
Bitter chocolate by Call Number: HD9200.A2 C44 2016
Better living through Bitter Melon by Call Number: N7433.4.S88 B48 2010
Pigeon : a radical animal reader by Call Number: Z286.Z54 P55
Eat the planet. Issue #1 by Call Number: Z286.Z54 E28 2018
Eat the planet. Issue #2 by Call Number: Z286.Z54 E28 2018a
Gardening
Edible Estates by Call Number: SB475.9.E35 E35 2008
Growing the Northeast Garden by Call Number: SB453.2.N82 K49 2015
100 Favorite Garden Wildflowers by Call Number: SB439 .D748 1999
The Urban Bounty by Call Number: Tisch: S494.5.U72 H67 2013
SMFA Garden
Read about the SMFA Garden on Michaela Morse's website
Gardening and Pollinators:
- Planting Guides | Pollinator.org
- Gardening for Pollinators
- Xerces Society Pollinator Conservation in Yards and Gardens
- Attracting Pollinators Eastern US
- Garden for Wildlife
- Humane Gardener
- Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East
- Fritz Haeg: Edible Estates
- How to Build a Bee Condo
- Dye Garden Plant List from The New England Unit of The Herb Society of America
- Tufts Pollinator Initiative
- Butterfly Leaflet (USDA)
Container Gardening:
- Pocket Humane Gardens
- Native Pollinators for Containers (Native Plant Trust video)
- Container Gardening with Native Plants (wildflower.org)
- Patio and Container Gardens
- Container Gardening with Native Plants (Habitat Acquisition Trust)
- Container Gardening (Celebrate Urban Birds/Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Biodegradable Toilet Paper Roll Seedling Pots
Native Plants and Wildflowers:
- Native Plant Trust
- Prairie Moon Nursery Learning Center
- Native Seed Network | NPIN
- Native Plants - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Xerces Society Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Lists
- Xerces Society Project Milkweed
- Growing Milkweed for Monarch Conservation (1 hour video)
Make Plantable Seed Paper
Art and Ecology
Carolina Caycedo: from the Bottom of the River by
Themes of social and environmental justice in the multimedia artworks of renowned Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo Carolina Caycedo's (born 1978) immense geographic photographs, lively artist's books, colorful hanging sculptures and other works are not merely art objects, but gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. She confronts topics such as the privatization of rivers and other bodies of water, territorial rights of Indigenous groups, the use of violence by police and the environmental, economic and social impacts of dams on local communities. This book showcases Caycedo's process with lavish illustrations of her work, including stills from her video Apariciones / Apparitions (2018), selections from her book Serpent River Book (2017) and images of her celebrated Cosmotarrayas series.
Call Number: SMFA: N6537.C3933 A4 2020
Coding Care by
Exploring the potential of coding technology as a critical tool in caring for our environment This volume gathers contributions from renowned authors and artists exploring how we can use coding technology to better understand nature and shape a more sustainable coexistence with our environment, especially in regions that are not yet fully technologized.
Call Number: SMFA: N8217.E28 C66 2022
Dear Earth by
'Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis' is published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Hayward Gallery, London, 2023.Inspired by artist Otobong Nkanga's suggestion that "caring is a form of resistance", this pioneering book will highlight the ways in which artists are helping to reframe and deepen our psychological and spiritual responses to the climate crisis.Essays by Rachel Thomas, Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes, and Rebecca Solnit explore work by the 14 featured international artists; the history of climate-concerned art; and the role art has to play in climate activism today. After a series of short essays on each of the featured artists, a 'tapestry' of texts - old and new - weaves together the voices of the artists in the exhibition with other practitioners from the worlds of literature and ecology.The book's unique take on the climate crisis is the connection between activism, care and hope, explored through the work of leading contemporary artists. As well as the text 'tapestry', mentioned above, we have been given licence to publish a new text by Greta Thunberg, based on her recent keynote speech delivered at the Southbank Centre in 2022.Book features and details:'Dear Earth' is entirely printed on recycled paper, using vegetable inks. The production of this title will be carbon offset and the book itself will not be shrink-wrapped for environmental reasons.
Call Number: SMFA: N6498.E26 D43 2023
Emerging Ecologies by
The exhibition and the accompanying publication will be the first comprehensive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture at any major institution globally. During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion, and ecological limits, attitudes toward the environment became social, political, and ideological. Published to accompany the first expansive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture, Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism studies the role architects and designers have played in defining our understanding of "nature" and the "environment," specifically during the rise of environmental discourse. The richly illustrated publication presents architectural contributions-from Ian McHarg's ecosystem management approach to the radical architectures of the New Alchemists and Charles and Ray Eames's oceanographic work with the Kennedy administration-to explore the role designers played in both promoting ecological concerns and in outlining the very terms of this nascent field. Through an introductory essay by curator Carson Chan and brief texts on each of the featured projects, Emerging Ecologies documents the proximity between ecology, design, and statecraft.
Call Number: SMFA: NA2542.35 E44 2023
Fragile Earth by
Contemporary artists probe the impact of human intervention on the environment Just as artists of the 19th and 20th centuries participated in forging an American natural history as explorers, cataloguers, collectors, and early environmentalists, contemporary artists continue to incorporate and comment on the natural world in their art. Motivated by the inexorable rise of urban-industrial development and the subsequent deterioration of our planet, artists confront the vulnerability of our environment and the effects of global climate change to illustrate the continued relevance of ecology and nature conservation to contemporary artistic practice. In Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art, leading artists Jennifer Angus, Mark Dion, Courtney Mattison, and James Prosek make natural elements their medium conceptually and literally, from prints created with eel bodies, to ceramic sculpture mimicking coral bleaching, cabinets filled with colorful plastic collected from oceans and rivers, and walls covered with shockingly beautiful, preserved insects. Bringing an artistic perspective to natural science, these essays and written conversations showcase the persuasive role artists can play in advocating for the preservation of our earth.
Call Number: SMFA: N8217.E28 F73 2019
Garden Futures: Designing with Nature by
Gardens have always been places of leisure, pleasure, and production - they reflect identities, dreams, and visions. Deeply rooted in their culture, gardens have immense symbolic potential. The recent revival of horticulture has focused less on the garden as a romantic refuge than as a place where we imagine the future and develop solutions. Urban farms, vertical gardens, and other innovative projects in art, architecture, and urban planning demonstrate that the present return to the garden is no timid retreat, but a pioneering quest for a world in which social and ecological justice count for something. Garden Futures examines what gardens and their design reveal about our relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the genesis of the modern garden, the book takes a close look at the present, goes in search of origins in the past, and builds bridges into the future. Stunning photographs illustrate ground-breaking gardens by such designers as Derek Jarman and Piet Oudolf while critical articles by well-known authors question conventional garden ideals. Authors and gardeners including Gilles Clement and Jamaica Kincaid present the garden as a place of learning where abstract concepts like ecology, climate change, and food insecurity are translated into things you can smell, touch, and taste. Daisy Ginsberg, Salmon Creek Farm, and EcoLogic Studio create experimental and speculative projects generating new attitudes and approaches.
Call Number: SMFA: SB470.5 .G37 2023
Humane Ecologies by
A presentation of eight contemporary artists whose work considers environmental questions in terms of their social and political implications Humane Ecology: Eight Positions features a group of contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of environmental questions: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Carolina Caycedo, Allison Janae Hamilton, Juan Antonio Olivares, Christine Howard Sandoval, Pallavi Sen, and Kandis Williams. These artists--through their work in sculpture, video, sound installation, and plantings--think in the relational terms implied by ecology, the study of how organisms relate to one another and their environment. They explore themes such as the extraction and exploitation of both places and people, kinships with the more-than-human world, and ancient traditions of relation to the land that take on new urgency and form. Against posthumanist tendencies to "decenter" the human, these artists center different humans, ones routinely excluded from dominant discourses of environmentalism. The publication presents entries on each artist in addition to scholarly essays on the exhibition concept, genealogies of land art, and settler colonial histories of the Berkshires. Distributed for the Clark Art Institute Exhibition Schedule Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (July 15-October 29, 2023)
Call Number: SMFA: N8217.E28 .H953 2023
Let's Become Fungal! by
There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors. Let's Become Fungal! takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares a range of innovative and Indigenous practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency-all in line with the behavior of the mycelium. Every chapter is phrased as a question. They do not lead to answers, but to twelve teachings addressing for instance collaboration, decoloniality, non-linearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death, and being non-binary. Simultaneously it ventures deeper into the world of fungi. The teachings from the fungus may inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policy-makers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, change-makers, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community-leaders, farmers, and many others, to become more fungal in their ways of working and being.
Call Number: SMFA: GF21 .O88 2023
Plastic Capitalism by
An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste-as seen in works by international contemporary artists-to the study of our ecological condition.Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms- plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking. Often, when art is analyzed in relation to the political, scientific, or ecological climate, it is considered merely illustrative. Boetzkes argues that art is constitutive of an ecological consciousness, not simply an extension of it. The visual culture of waste is central to the study of the ecological condition. Boetzkes examines a series of works by an international roster of celebrated artists, including Thomas Hirschhorn, Francis Al_x00FF_s, Song Dong, Tara Donovan, Agn s Varda, Gabriel Orozco, and Mel Chin, among others, mapping waste art from its modernist origins to the development of a new waste imaginary generated by contemporary artists. Boetzkes argues that these artists do not offer a predictable or facile critique of consumer culture. Bearing this in mind, she explores the ambivalent relationship between waste (both aestheticized and reviled) and a global economic regime that curbs energy expenditure while promoting profitable forms of resource consumption.
Call Number: N8237.8.R44 B64 2019
Plasticity of the Planet: on Environmental Challenge for Art and Its Institutions by
Art's response to climate change: theoretical essays and comments from artists, curators and art scholars This publication--informed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou's conception of destructive plasticity--gathers theoretical essays and comments by artists, curators, art scholars and Malabou herself, reflecting on how contemporary art and its institutions may respond to the environmental crisis.
Call Number: SMFA: N8217.E28 P6 2019
Re/sisters by
Reflecting on a range of themes, from extractive industriesto the politics of care, this timely exhibition catalog looks atenvironmental and gender justice as indivisible parts of a globalstruggle. A culturally diverse selection of works by Laura Aguilar,melanie bonajo, Xaviera Simmons, Minerva Cuevas, BarbaraKruger, Nadia Huggins, Ana Mendieta, Sim Chi Yin, Pamela Singh,Francesca Woodman and others are presented alongside worksof an activist nature to demonstrate how women are regularlyat the forefront of advocating and caring for the planet.Amplifying these visions are illuminating essays by experts inthe field, including Professor Kathryn Yusoff, Professor AstridaNeimanis, Professor Catriona Sandilands and Professor ElizabethDeLoughrey, that consider a diverse range of pertinent topicssuch as hydrofeminism, the body as earth, queer ecologies,and environmental racism. Together these texts and importantartworks reveal how the oppression of women, feminizedbodies and indigenous, Black and trans communities and thedegradation of the planet are inextricably linked--and theways in which understanding our environment can resist andovercome the logic of capitalist economies.
Call Number: SMFA: N8217.E28 A56 2024
Resource Hungry: Our Cultured Landscape and Its Ecological Impact by
Andrea Bowers, Anneliek Sijbrandij, Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Jessica Morgan, Joan Jonas, Lucy Raven, Philippe Rahm, Roberto Feo & Rosario Hurtado, Stefan Kaegi, Stuart Bannocks
Call Number: SMFA: N8217.E28 V47 2020
Spirit in the Land by
Spirit in the Land, which accompanies the art exhibition of the same name, examines today's urgent ecological concerns from a fresh perspective. Through their artwork and writing, the artists show how cultural identity and traditions are deeply rooted in our relationship with the land, illustrate the restorative need to return to nature, and exemplify how biodiversity and cultural diversity are essential to our survival. The exhibition and catalogue center the voices of underrepresented artists, approaching ecological awareness and environmental, social, and racial justice from the perspectives of the marginalized communities most negatively affected by today's crises. Acting as environmental stewards, the artists reveal nature to be a repository of cultural memory, a place of sanctuary, a contested site of resistance, and a source of spiritual nourishment. As land and water provide a sense of place and community, the exhibition aims to reconnect people to the natural world, illustrating our interdependence with all life on Earth. Spirit in the Land speaks to the urgency of today and projects a hopeful path for our future, where nature is cared for by humans, so that in turn nature may heal humanity. Artists: Terry Adkins, Firelei Báez, Radcliffe Bailey, Rina Banerjee, Christi Belcourt, María Berrío, Mel Chin, Andrea Chung, Sonya Clark, Maia Cruz Palileo, Annalee Davis, Tamika Galanis, Allison Janae Hamilton, Barkley L. Hendricks, Alexa Kleinbard, Hung Liu, Hew Locke, Meryl McMaster, Wangechi Mutu, Dario Robleto, Jim Roche, Kathleen Ryan, Sheldon Scott, Renée Stout, Monique Verdin, Stacy Lynn Waddell, Charmaine Watkiss, Marie Watt, Carrie Mae Weems, Peter Williams The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February 16 to July 9, 2023. Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Call Number: SMFA: N6498.E26 S65 2023
Sustainable Studio Practice
The Art and Science of Natural Dyes by Call Number: TP919 .B68 2018
Botanical Inks by Call Number: TT854.3 .B44 2018
Earthen Pigments by Call Number: ND1510 .W43 2012
Make Ink by Call Number: TP946 .L64 2018
The Natural Colors Cookbook by Call Number: TT854.3 .P38 2018
Natural Palettes by Call Number: eBook
Papermaking with Garden Plants and Common Weeds by Call Number: TS1124.5 .H534 2006
Papermaking with Plants by Call Number: TS1124.5 .H54 1998
Guide was originally made for:
HSS in the Library! Zines & Artists’ books + SMFA Garden, offered by Séphora Bergiste, Lauren Kimball-Brown, Darin Murphy, Carrie Salazar, and Michaela Morse on March 1, 2021