Knowledge Commons | Fine Arts | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/fine-arts/ Activity feed for the group, Fine Arts. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ff081a21e5bd9c7f7b9fce1f354b31e6 June Julian deposited Fixing Ecologies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - Video in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846381/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:23:48 -0400 In this video presentation, I describe three projects that show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief, urban air pollution, and spark us to take action. If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c1f72aae103f3ef9da015956e910c91 June Julian deposited Fixing Ecologies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846266/ Wed, 17 May 2023 02:24:26 -0400 If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art to visualize remedies for broken hearts and broken landscapes. I propose that my following three projects show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief,…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f5768b540d3b869e5dd11d5caadc9b1 June Julian deposited Acid Rain - A Pointed Lament in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846157/ Tue, 16 May 2023 02:23:40 -0400 As trees everywhere are threatened by human caused environmental impacts, we
lament their demise, and make our heated, pointed remarks about conservation and
change. During a self-directed Summer sabbatical to the
island of Samos Greece, where trees of any kind are struggling and rare, I painted a
series of trees with sharply pointed branches,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7a48a93386a7b1165407c4381bac093 June Julian deposited Arroyo as Metaphor: A Sense of Place in the High Desert in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1813699/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:00:19 -0400 The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

]]> 0 2513f24bcc24104f93c9e895790da82c June Julian deposited Arroyo as Metaphor: A Sense of Place in the High Desert in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1813691/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400 The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

]]> 0 3098d14731fb9980d53f91c81fed271b June Julian deposited I Lichen New York Paintings in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1795014/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:23:48 -0400 The I Lichen New York paintings by June Julian combine nature, architecture and popular culture. They
reflect the author's personal experience of place as effected by ecological pressures. Since lichens
only grow in unpolluted places, these works critique the degradation of air quality due
to urban over development.

]]> 0 88b2694c96d665cd9e51f31cb0b88985 June Julian deposited Skin in the Climate Game in the group Fine Arts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794391/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 02:23:38 -0400 A personal account of the author's experience with skin cancer and its relationship to climate change.
It includes 6 original acrylic paintings in her "Here Not There" series.
The paintings show solitary pale nude figures reclining in an expanse of scorching desert with a backdrop of fiery skies, distant mesas and mountains. The colors are hot,…[Read more]

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