Ecologies in Practice Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada

"Ecologies in Practice offers an adventurous foray into the current state of environmentally engaged arts in Canada. Its wide-ranging explorations of media and artistic practices will appeal to practitioners working in studio, in situ, and gallery settings, as well as those who research and teach in environmental humanities. The contributors add new layers to a rich existing lineage of arts-based environmental inquiry in Canada and engage with questions fundamental to understanding ourselves as stubbornly creative, cultural, and ecological beings. We need the contributions of artists of all stripes to help us imagine anew in the uneasy times to come, and this volume helps guide the way." - Jenny Kerber, Wilfrid Laurier University, author of Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally

Elysia French is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University. French is trained as an art historian and studies contemporary art and the environment, with an interest in the visual culture of oil, climate change, and multispecies relationships.

Amanda White (she/her) is a white settler artist/scholar currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Art at Western University. Her current work and research is focused on plants, food, and environmental justice.