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WOMEN ECO ARTISTS DIALOG

LXCL:WEAD is a pioneering network of feminist eco­artists, educators, curators, and writers working toward the goal of a just &amp; healthy world. We focus on women’s unique perspective in ecological and social justice art. WEAD maintains an invaluable website that serves as a virtual gallery of eco­artists work, connects artists and curators with exhibition and speaking opportunities, and educates and enlightens through its groundbreaking WEAD Magazine and monthly newsletter.

Join professor and artist,&nbsp;Shelley White, her university students &amp; colleagues as they celebrate methods of resilience and resistance as seen at COP, the UN&#39;s annual climate conference, which gathers diplomats, negotiators, activists, &amp; artists.&nbsp; They&#39;ll be centering an array of activist resistance movements they witnessed at COP, as they&#39;ve followed its course over the past several years. Shelley and the rest of the panel will share observations and reflections, having attended recent COP meetings as delegates from Boston College. In particular, they will celebrate the arts-based and other activist strategies they observed that demanded greater climate and environmental protections in the face of mounting threats. Artist&#39;s Bio Shelley White is an associate professor of the Practice and Director of Experiential Learning in Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College in Massachusetts. As an interdisciplinary scholar and global health practitioner, she focuses on health equity and human rights, the politics of health and health policy, and socio-structural determinants of health, including the influences of corporations, trade, militarism, borders, and social inequities, on health. Her art practice uses painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and installation to grapple with identity, complicity, and the complexities of existing within &mdash; and resisting &mdash; a world that renders people and planet disposable. View Shelley&#39;s WEAD profile here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://weadartists.org/artist/skwhite/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">weadartists.org/artist/skwhite/&nbsp;</a> Learn about Boston College&#39;s COP30 delegates here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/schiller-institute/programs-initiatives/bc-cop/cop30.html" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">bc.edu/bc-web/centers/schiller-institute/programs-initiatives/bc-cop/cop30.html</a> Read about Shelley&#39;s work at Boston College here:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/faculty-research/faculty-directory/shelley-k--white.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/faculty-research/faculty-directory/shelley-k--white.html</a> Photos by permission of the artist.

UN Climate Change Conference: Celebrating Art, Activism, & Resistance with Shelley White (A WEAD Art+ Activism event)

Artist Peggy Weil will speak on Zoom about her current MoMA exhibition, Core Memory, and her series Expanded Landscapes, works that visualize the layers of the Earth that exist &ldquo;beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.&rdquo; An innovator in digital portraiture, Weil&rsquo;s practice ranges from large-scale public installations to videos and interactive art. Since 2011, the artist has focused on what she calls &ldquo;Extended Landscapes.&rdquo; Weil&rsquo;s current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Core Memory, &nbsp;brings together two of the artist&rsquo;s &ldquo;underscapes&rdquo;: 88 Cores, a video descent through the Greenland ice sheet, and 18 Cores, which unearths images of rock cores from beneath California&rsquo;s Salton Sea.&nbsp; Artist&#39;s Bio Peggy Weil is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Los Angeles. Her work explores physical, digital, cultural, and socio-political landscapes through work spanning video installation, large-scale public art, and pioneering digital interactive media. Her long-form video installation 88 Cores has shown across the US, from The Climate Museum in NYC (2018) to currently at MoMA&#39;s Core Memory&nbsp;(2026). Her public installations include UnderLA for CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial 2016 and HeadsUP! 2012 in Times Square.&nbsp; Since 2011, her ongoing Extended Landscapes series has produced landscape portraits focused on the unseen processes of climate change. In 2007, collaborating with Nonny de la Pe&ntilde;a, she co-created foundational immersive journalism and VR projects centered on human rights, including Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guant&aacute;namo Prison exhibited internationally. In 1998, Weil created MrMind, an early netart chatbot that asked visitors, &quot;Can you convince me that you are human?&quot; Sixteen years of global conversations from MrMind became the libretto for The Blurring Test: Songs of MrMind, performed in New York in 2020 and 2023.&nbsp; A Harvard and MIT graduate, she was a member of the Architecture Machine Group (precursor to the MIT Media Lab), grounding her practice in early human-computer interaction and AI discourse. She is co-author of&nbsp;Inventing Eliza: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI (MIT Press, June 2026), and has taught at CCA, UCLA, and USC.&nbsp; See Peggy&#39;s work online at:&nbsp; <a fr-original-style="" href="//pweilstudio.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">pweilstudio.com</a><a fr-original-style="" href="//underLAwater.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">underLAwater.com</a>Learn about her MoMA show, Core Memory, here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5890" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5890</a> Photos by permission of the artist.

WOMEN ECO ARTISTS DIALOG

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Past events

UN Climate Change Conference: Celebrating Art, Activism, & Resistance with Shelley White (A WEAD Art+ Activism event)

Extended Landscapes: Beneath Our Feet, Above Our Heads, & Back in Time with Peggy Weil (A WEAD Art+ Science event)

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