2025 Conference Workshop: Earth as Canvas: A Collaborative Eco Arts Experience

Saturday, March 29, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ

Earth as Canvas: A Collaborative Eco Arts Experience

with Jamie Moon

In this immersive workshop, participants will explore the ecological, spiritual, and historical significance of Earth as an art form. Thiscommunal experience invites participants to work collaboratively using soil, sand, and other natural materials to create a large-scale, unified piece of art. Through guided discussions, we will explore the deep connection between humanity and the Earth, highlighting how various cultures have historically and spiritually engaged with the land as both a sacred and artistic medium. Participants will embody the Earth, not just as a physical resource, but as a living, expressive form through which we can explore our relationships to nature, community, and creativity.

The workshop also fosters an appreciation for eco-art practices, encouraging participants to reflect on sustainability, interconnectedness, and the healing power of natural materials. This unique, collaborative process invites participants to not only reconnect with the Earth through their hands but also to engage in meaningful reflection on the role of nature in art, culture, and collective human experience.

Location TBA–Outside!

Jamie Moon, MFA, is a World Mythology professor at Pueblo Community College in Colorado and a doctoral student at Southwestern College. As an integrative educator, conceptual artist, and visual storyteller, she focuses on holistic education and healing, fostering creativity and connection through her work with organic media. Extensively working with diverse and often marginalized populations, she designs immersive, kinesthetic art installations, using her work to create safe spaces for advocacy, healing, and community building.

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Our thanks to Navajo artist Antoinette Thompson for sharing her artwork with us: โ€œThe Ancient Warriors Within.โ€ See more of her art and learn about Antoinette on her website.


2023 ASWM Conference Recordings

 "Waters of Life: Exploring Mythos, Divinity, Beings, and Ecology" ASWM Conference May 5-6, 2023 ~ Crowne Plaza, Syracuse New York This conference provided the opportunity to explore world myths of water Goddesses, water creatures and water itself in cultural, spiritual, historical, and ecological contexts. Special Sessions Speaker Panels: Friday May 5, 2023 Speaker Panels: Saturday …

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Share the Wisdom: Recordings Available to the Public

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The International ASWM Art Exhibition

Facebook Live Interviews with our Speakers & Presenters


6/26/2025 “Flourishing Kin: Loving the World in Complex Times” with Dr. Yuria Celidwen (Scholar Salon #86)

5/29/2025 โ€œFinding Ourselves ‘In Our Right Mindsโ€ with Dale Allen (Scholar Salon #84)

2/22/2024 โ€œWhy Brigit was Born at Faughart, Co. Louthโ€ with Dr. Mary Condren (Scholar Salon #66)

3/21/2024 โ€œWomen Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Pressโ€ with Jocelyn Cohen and Julia Allen (Scholar Salon #68)

5/2/2024 โ€œMoving from Lateral Oppression to a Culture of Kindnessโ€ with Sherri Mitchell (Scholar Salon #70)

5/5/2023 โ€œReweaving the Web of Life: New Myths for Restoring the Waters and Ourselvesโ€ ~ with Hallie Iglehart (ASWM 2023 Conference Keynote)

5/6/2023 โ€œTeachings of Water Spiritโ€ with Marjorie Beaucage, Douglas Cardinal, Miigamโ€™agan, and Margaret Kress-White (ASWM 2023 Conference)

6/29/2023 โ€œWater Worlds: Mermaids, The Drowning World, and Climate Changeโ€ with Brenda Peterson (Scholar Salon #54)

7/27/2023 Tona Ina, the Yoruba โ€œsea lightโ€: Community Arcaeomythology in Costa Ricaโ€™s Southern Caribbeanโ€ with Maria Suarez Toro (Scholar Salon #56)

11/30/2023 โ€œShapeshifting Lands of Lฤhainฤ, Maui: Moโ€™o and Mokuโ€™ulaโ€  with Mahealani Ahia (Scholar Salon #58)

2/10/2021 โ€œLiving in a Sentient Worldโ€  with Judy Grahn (Scholar Salon #21)

3/16/2018 โ€œWomen and Earth Centered Mythologies: Traditional Knowledge and Sacred Kinship between Women, Plants and Animalsโ€ ~ Panel with Joan Cichon, Mara Lynn Keller, Susan Moulton, and Elizabeth Sikie (ASWM 2018 Conference)

3/16/2018 โ€œWomen, Waterbirds, and Place in European Folkloreโ€ Elizabeth Wayland Barber (ASWM 2018 Conference Keynote)

3/17/2018 โ€œWomen Are the Water Bearers of the Universeโ€ with Sherri Mitchell (ASWM 2018 Conference Keynote)

4/1/2016 โ€œHistory or Mystery:  Fact or Fiction?โ€ with Dr. Elinor Gadon about goddesses in art and history. Interviewer: Dr. Dianne Jennet (ASWM 2016 Conference Keynote )

4/1/2016 โ€œWabanaki Women: Ritual, Tradition, and Feminine Intuitionโ€ with Miigamโ€™agan, Sherri Mitchell, Patricia Saulis (ASWM Conference)

“River Sisters” to Perform at 2023 Conference

ASWM Conference May 5-6, Syracuse NY

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The River Sisters

River Sisters:ย  Finsevatn (Norway) & Seneca Falls (USA)

LOCUS / Thale Fastvold & Tanja Thorjussen: We will present a performative talk where we introduce our artistic research focusing on ecofeminism and hydrofeminism with our ongoing project โ€œRiver Sistersโ€ which we started in 2021 and will continue through the Ocean Decade 2020-2030. Our brief talk will be followed by a performance in our series โ€œRiver Sistersโ€ where we physically connect rivers and bodies of water through gathering and mixing water in a healing process. In this performance we will connect the River Finsevatn of Finse, Norway with the water of Seneca Falls, US.

Our artistic approach is to cross-pollinate ideas and knowledge in a healing way with performance rituals, art in public space, drawing and photography. Our focus is on hydrofeminism and the interconnectedness of all sentient beings of this planet, whether it be animals, waterways, ocean, human or forest communities.

Finse, Norway

ย To date, the River Sisters performance series has linked the rivers of Akerselva (Oslo 2020), Great Ouse (Kings Lynn UK 2021), Lille Lungegรฅrdsvann (Bergen 2022) and Finsevatn (Finse 2022).ย  Our conference will be their first river connection in the US.

Tanja Thorjussen and Thale Fastvold

Thale Blix Fastvoldย (b. 1978) is a Norwegian visual artist working primarily with photography, film and performance art. Thematically within the frameworks of eco feminism, inter-species-collaborations and the more-than-human intelligence, her work aims to utilise artistic research as a response to current ecological challenges. She believes collaborations, communication and speculative storytelling is essential to envision new and more sustainable futures. www.thalefastvold.com

Tanja Thorjussenย (b. 1970) is an artist living in Oslo (NO). Her artistic medium spans between drawing, sculpture, performance and art in public space. Through speculative research her artistic practice revolves around how ancient art can inform the present. Her current artistic focus is on the mystic and spiritual in nature and bodies of water, hydrofeminism, and the science embedded in indigenous knowledge and ancient mythology.)ย www.tanjathorjussen.com

LOCUSย is Thale and Tanja’s independent gallery space and small publishing house based on Oslo, established in 2006. As a nomadic and fluctuating entity LOCUS produce exhibitions and presents artists in various locations nationally and internationally.