Beverly Naidus is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. While developing an innovative studio arts curriculum, she has been creating interactive installations, digital projects, artist books and narrative and conceptual drawings for over three decades. Much of her work is audience-participatory, inviting people to tell their own stories in response to the theme being explored. Inspired by the lived experience, topics in her art focus on environmental and social issues, including how we are individually and collectively affected by racism, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression.
Her unique courses at UWT emerge from her own projects and include Art in a Time of War, Cultural Identity and Art, Body Image and Art, Eco-art, Labor, Globalization and Art and the Artist as Visionary and Dreamer. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, numerous essays on socially engaged art and pedagogy and some recent pieces of speculative fiction. She has taught at several NYC museums, Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe.
She facilitated and designed the permaculture-inspired, eco-art project, Eden Reframed, on Vashon Island, WA, funded by the Royalty Research Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in mainstream museums, university galleries, alternative spaces, and city streets. It has been reviewed and discussed by many significant writers, including Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul Von Blum and Lisa Bloom.
As part of her new collective, ARTifACTs, she is collaborating on an interactive, multidisciplinary project about the future. “We Almost Didn’t Make It,” imagines the artifacts (and stories that emerge from them) found by our descendants that give them insights into the risks taken by activists (their ancestors) that allowed the descendants to exist. It’s an audience participatory and multi-media work that gives participants the opportunity to imagine the artifacts that their descendants might find.
Joanna Macy - Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Beverly Naidus- Eden Reframed
Beverly Naidus - Soil Remediation
Pesticides originally developed as bio warfare during World War II
Beverly Naidus on Panic and Despair about Climate Change - We Almost Didn’t Make It
UW Tacoma YouTube - We Almost Didn't Make It - Beverly Naidus
Pete Seeger “Lots of teaspoons can fill a pail” (The teaspoon brigade)
Children & Nature Network - Nature Deficit Disorder
No More "Nature-Deficit Disorder" - The "No Child Left Inside" movement
Beverly Naidus Book: One Size Does Not Fit All
Beverly Naidus Book: Art in a Time of War
Book: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
Beverly Naidus - Labor Globalization and Arts class
Beverly Naidus - So you want to be an eco-artist? Lessons in Grief and Gratitude
Beverly Naidus - Portable Altars for Grief and Gratitude
Beverly sits on the Puyallup Nation Land
On Facebook: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
Download: Naidus-Art CV 2018
Eco-art Project’s Blog: Eden Reframed: Eco-art Meets Permaculture Design on Vashon Island
Beverly Naidus: Academia, University of Washington Tacoma, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Faculty Member
Beverly Naidus: Wikipedia