CURRENT EXHIBITION
BODIES AND BORDERS: ECOLOGIES OF CONSENT
WEAD's Annual Member Exhibition
Online and at The 109 Gallery
October 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026
“The achievement of health is premised on the ability to control what enters and exits the body’s
borders.”
- Elvia Wilk
“Whether one is speaking of relating well with humans or nonhumans, in the variety of ways in which we relate ( sexually, intimately-but-not-sexually, as food, fuel or material 'resources'), we are talking about sustaining one another.”
- Kim TallBear
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent investigates the intersection of bodies, ecology, and agency through the lens of permeability and protection, and explores how consent is navigated within biological, political, and ecological systems.
This dual exhibition appears online at WEAD’s KMX Gallery and in person at Leah Dalton’s The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, Georgia. Juried by Beverly Naidus and Leah Dalton, the exhibit features 58 works from 44 artists, including 15 videos.
Exhibition-Related Events
Performative Reading + Dialog:
Featuring Ruth Wallen
In-person at The 109 Gallery and
Online via Zoom
Thursday, November 13, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
Ruth will share intimate conversations with a girdled tree, whose bark has been circumferentially removed as part of an effort to prevent forest fires. Through these exchanges she will reflect on how to touch and be touched by a tree in the forest, the power of fire, the legacy of settler colonialism, and the ongoing ecological degradation of our times.
Artist's Biography
Ruth Wallen, www.ruthwallen.net, is a multi-media artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. For over a decade she has been bearing witness with trees dying because of urbanization, globalization, in the form of introduced species, and climate change in all its guises, including drought, bark beetles and fire.
FULL EVENT SERIES FOR EXHIBITION
Virtual, except where noted, with optional in-person participation from The 109 Gallery
Poetry Reading + Films + Dialogue Series (Thursdays)
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October 18 · 6 PM EST – Launch event
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October 30 · 7 PM EST – Petra Kuppers
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November 6 · Film 7pm EST (in person only) Artist Talk 8:30 PM EST – Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens (artist talk follows in-gallery screening)
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December 11 · 7 PM EST – Shelley White & Deanna Pindell
Artist & Curatorial Dialog Series (Saturdays)
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November 15 · 6 PM EST – Leah Craig
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November 22 · 6 PM EST – Michele Brody and Mary White
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December 6 · 6 PM EST – Anne Yoncha
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December 13 · 6 PM EST – Deborah Kennedy
RECENT EXHIBITION
WEAD Pop-Up Exhibit at
the State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference
Oakland, California
October 28 to 29, 2025
Including works by Kim Anno, Dianne Ayres, Christina Bertea, Barbara Boissevain, Lauren Elder, Tanja Geis, Amy Hibbs, Cynthia Hooper, Beverly Naidus, Mary O’Brien and Dan McCormick, and Mary White.
Click on each image to view the exhibition title and description.
