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As Alice Walker says, "For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a

destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to

the pile."

About the Author

Beverly Naidus is an interdisciplinary artist who

creates interactive installations, imagery and

artifacts for site-specific performances, artist’s

books, and both digital and mixed media works

on paper. She facilitated and designed the

permaculture-inspired, eco-art project, Eden

Reframed, on Vashon Island, WA. She is an

author, educator and facilitator of the Arts for

Change network, an online pedagogical project

focused on socially engaged art. Early

recognition in the NYC and Los Angeles art

worlds offered her many opportunities to exhibit

her interactive installations and other work in

diverse venues, including mainstream museums

and city streets. Inspired by lived experience,

topics in her art focus on environmental and

social issues. She is the author of Arts for

Change: Teaching Outside the Frame and

numerous essays. Her teaching career includes

work as a teaching artist at NYC museums,

Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social

Ecology. She facilitates a unique, interdisciplinary, socially engaged, studio arts curriculum, for the UW

Tacoma campus and leads workshops and discussion groups in her Seattle studio. She is a cofounder of the

collective ARTifACTs currently designing the project “We Almost Didn’t Make It,” a multidisciplinary, nomadic

project that will engaged audiences in a dialog with their descendants. Her website is

http://www.beverlynaidus.net and her eco-art project’s blog is www.edenreframed.blogspot.com