Hi All,

I can’t believe it is already September! This month flew by. I thoroughly enjoyed my much needed break, but I missed you all. I am glad to be back to my weekly radio show, my newsletter, and to all of you!

This past week, I was interviewed by Diane Hatz from Change Food, to talk about food, gardening and the National School Lunch Program. If you missed it, you can catch it here.

This has been an incredible summer for my garden, and a huge challenge for me, doing it mostly by myself, since Covid 19 prevented me from getting any interns early on in the season. Luckily, I’ve had some help from a few past interns who have come over to lend a hand. If you want to stop by to help, I’ll send you home with a large bag of vegetables!

Beverly Naidus Merges Art with Socially Conscious Activism!

Beverly Naidus’s art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, as well as collaborative, activist and community-based art projects located outside the art world. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have adversely affected her and those around her. Remediation of traumas, both collective and personal, and reconstructive visions, are key concepts that guide her work. Explicitly soliciting stories and images from the community in her provocative installations became part of her creative process early on, and more recently, collaborating with others to strategize and address the challenges guides her work. Her primary forms are audience-participatory installations, photo/text projects, artist’s books, and multi-media interventions; venues include city streets, alternative spaces, university galleries and major museums. 

Her work has been written about in many books and journals, received many grants, and developed an international audience. After productive chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Minnesota, and western Massachusetts, she has made a home in the Pacific Northwest since 2003. For the past 17 years, she shaped an innovative, studio arts curriculum in art for social change and healing for the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her latest project will be teaching independently and co-directing an arts program focused on climate and racial justice with the non-profit, SEEDS (Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School). 

I hope you can join us for an important discussion on art as a vehicle for activism and socially conscious storytelling.

My radio show, iEat Green with Bhavani on the Progressive Radio Network is live, every Thursday, from 10-11 am, EST.  To tune in to the live show, just navigate to PRN.fm and listen in!

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With Love and Gratitude,

Bhavani

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