Karenna Gore

The artist's deceptively beautiful work--colorful tapestries and garden-inspired installations created out of faux flowers, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, jewelry, and other embellishments--comes to life at The New York Botanical Garden, where she employs the beauty and symbolism of living plants to unearth the complex entanglements of race, gender and colonialism. Accompanying a major site-specific exhibition of sculptural and horticultural installations by artist Ebony G. Patterson at The New York Botanical Garden, this volume provides deeper insights into Patterson’s multilayered practice. The artist’s work has long examined and experimented with the concept of the garden through a practice that uses beauty as an invitation to confront larger societal questions and concerns.

A future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth. On a spring afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, standing against the concrete and glass backdrop of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall, Karenna Gore addressed a graduating class of future architects, landscape architects, design engineers, and urban planners and designers. Gore, a professor of earth ethics whose work hovers around the intersection of values, faith, and ecology, could seem an unexpected fit as the messenger of parting wisdom to a group of designers. But she begins her speech by foregrounding the shared task of facing a climate crisis that continues to threaten life and systems on Earth in new and increasingly erratic ways, and encourages a future for design that lies in learning from the natural world. Calling on figures as varied as theologian Thomas Berry to landscape architect Kate Orff, Gore suggests this multidisciplinary Earth-centered approach could not only be benefical to design thinking but integral to it. "It is not Earth that needs fixing," she said. "It is us." Copublished by Harvard Design Press

Paperback with full-color interior artwork by Marc H. Ellis. Cl udio's every literary, liturgical, artistic expression is an exquisitely magical reflection of God's truly radical love. Cl udio always embodies this most selfless and yet lifegiving form of love in the most vibrant, imaginative, gentle, surprising and inspirational of ways. Here in his latest book, he blesses his readers abundantly with his theological brilliance, his compassionate heart for all in God's creation, his unending cry for justice for all . . . Dr. Jenny Te Paa Daniel Te Mareikura & Interim Director National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa, New Zealand "Every landscape is a multi-scape." Cl udio Carvalhaes has given us yet another gift in this collection of performance-lectures turned essays. With deep care, Carvalhaes weaves together literary and historical sources to better attune readers to inventories and aspirations of the multivalent present. Join in this conversation, this dance, this song. Robert O. Smith (Chickasaw Citizen) University of North Texas Professor Cl udio Carvalhaes is a household name both in Brazil and the US and one of this century's most consequential religious scholars. An artist-sentient-thinker, Carvalhaes thinks/speaks with his entire body, in a grounded manner.... Raimundo C sar Barreto, Jr. Associate Professor of World Christianity Princeton Theological Seminary