15 March 2019
Today, children in some 100 countries are walking out of school to push for global action on climate change. Over the last four months, hundreds of thousands of young people from many countries participated in demonstrations against climate change.
Make art about children leading the way. Or about climate change.
Read more details on the Global Youth Climate Strike here.
9 March 2019
“to mend, put back in order,” mid-14c., from Old French reparer “repair, mend” (12c.), from Latin reparare “restore, put back in order,” from re- “again” (see re-) + parare “make ready, prepare” (from PIE root *pere– (1) “to produce, procure”)
Make art about repair, about repairing something, or about something beyond repair.
Image by RyanMcGuire on Pixabay
25 February 2019
“blessed be she who is both furious and magnificent” ―Taylor Rhodes
Make art about a woman who is furious and magnificent.
13 February 2019
Withhold, conceal, hide, hold back, keep, keep back, keep secret, refuse, repress, sit on, suppress
Withholding information, a good thing or a bad thing?
Make art about something being withheld, or about choosing to withhold, or about the results of information being withheld.
20 March 2018
Make art about who’s watching.
21 March 2018
Make art about self-acceptance.
22 March 2018
Make art about what you’re hiding from.
23 March 2018
Make art about what you’re searching for.
24 March 2018
Make art about getting messages from the dead.
25 March 2018
Make art about when the mothership returns.
26 March 2018
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard.”-Toni Morrison
Make art about that magical machine you inhabit.
27 March 2018
Make art about the growth that can come from encountering opposition.
28 March 2018
Always a visitor, always away.
Make art inspired by my visitor this morning.
Amelia Williams is an artist/poet/activist from the Rockfish Valley area of Nelson County, Virginia, and author of Walking Wildwood Trail: Poems and Photographs.
Walking Wildwood Trail is more than just a beautiful books of poems. It is a brilliant artful act of protest against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Amelia is planting copyrighted art works with poems incorporated into them along the pending path of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and copyrighting the entire installation.
When the proposed pipeline path was changed, another alarmed landowner contacted Amelia, and she started a second series of art installations. The newest project in Bath County consists of three parts in a large triangle, each separated by a thirty minute walk from the next, made of materials that include rocks, bone, copper pipe and jewelry parts. They represent the pipeline itself, the blast zone for construction, and the threatened homes.
Williams decided to begin this creative journey when she read about Canadian artist Peter von Tiesenhausen, who waylaid a mining company when he registered his 800 acres as intellectual property in the form of land art.
Now Amelia is teaching others how to do this, both the art and the copyright process, in an ongoing fight against the construction of this dangerous pipeline through farmlands, old growth woodlands, national forest, and near homes and schools.
“Amelia’s artworks are designed with place in mind; the sixteen on the Wildwood Trail are in muted earth tones and made of biodegradable materials. They will not be permanent in the landscape. A GPS map and trail map allow people to track down each piece, often located off the ground in trees. Working with wool, recycled paper, wood, found materials and beeswax, both plain and colored, her work looks almost as if it has grown there.”
Read More About Amelia’s Art Activism Here
Buy Amelia’s Beautiful Book Here!
Proceeds donated to Wild Virginia for the battle against construction.
15 March 2018
Make art about what the light reveals.
16 March 2018
“Do the transformations of memory
become the changing lines of divination?
Is the continuum of a moment a red
poppy blooming by a fence?” – Arthur Sze
Make art about the transformation of memory.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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