This was my second experience at Art Basel Miami Beach and it was almost overwhelming. I have a blurred recollection of wind, rain and traffic, traffic, traffic. I did, however, get to see some wonderful art; also a lot of sensationalist and gimmicky art. And I was pleased to see that women were well represented this year. Although I didn’t have time to visit all the satellite shows, other than Art Basel at the Miami

It begins with a drone and tambora underlaid with Middle Eastern and jazz rhythms that lure you through a mysterious white curtain. In the darkened space beyond, Rose Marie Prins, South African born artist, envelops the viewer in her vision of exile and the wounds of war.  In the center Prins’ assemblage sculpture rises on concrete blocks from a white circle of sand and stones, a shrine of rusted and twisted, jagged forms that evoke

  Since the 1980s, I have periodically created installations related to the environment. Shortly after arriving in Florida, in the early 2000s, I discovered Juniper Springs en route from Ocala to Florida’s East Coast. On several occasions since then I have swum in its icy waters, camped in its thickets and been visited by raccoons in search of food. Over the past several months I have been saddened by reports that the springs of Florida, over 900

Autumn colors on Hampshire College campus During the week of October 19 to 23, 2015, I worked with over sixty Hampshire College students from the Innovations for Change: Problem-Solving for the Future and the Teaching Art to Children courses to create a collaborative collage. It measured four by eight feet, and adorned a wall of the Hampshire College Farm barn over the weekend of October 24 and 25–the culmination of the college’s Family and Friends week.

I am looking forward to working with students at Hampshire College in Massachusetts in October. As a visiting artist, I will work with students to draw and paint local plants and animals as part of the Sustainability course which is co-taught by professors in the sciences, and an artist. The focal point of our final product, a large collaborative painting, destined, I hope, for a new campus building, will be a tree on campus known