About the Artists
"Mediator" by Stu Jenks
Born and raised in Brooklyn, James Graham studied theater at the High School of the Performing Arts, graduating in 1979. After ten years of professional success but artistic frustration in the restaurant business, he enrolled at the City Technical College of the City University of New York, and then went on to study photography at the University of Arizona, where he was awarded the Kodak scholarship. He was one of the founders the Toole Shed Studios Co–operative in Tucson, Arizona, as well as a founder of the city's Museum of Contemporary Art. James and his wife have lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2001. To see more of his work, please visit his web site.
Rowan Gabrielle divides her time between northern California and the British Isles. She grew up in a highly creative family, which gave her the opportunity to try a variety of creative expressions and led her to discover a particular interest in photography and film production. Her credits include work on two BBC films, as well as photography for projects concerned with ecology and sustainable living, including involvement with the annual State of the World Forum since 1994. Rowan is currently at work on a book and DVD inspired by her extensive travels and her research into faery and deva folklore from around the world. To seem more of her photographs, please visit her web site.
Born and raised in Virginia, Stu Jenks graduated with a BFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works out of the Toole Shed Studios Co–operative co–founded by James Graham. Stu's photographs and installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the U.S. since 1979. His work, he says, is as much about an exploration of his spiritual reality as it is about an appreciation of form, space, place and design. He is currently at work on The Circle Stories, a book collecting his photographs and journal writings — some of which can viewed and read on his web site.
English artists Jackie Abey and Jill Smallcombe began working together on cob art and architecture in 2000, and have since built and exhibited their work across the UK. They also lecture and teach classes and workshops on earth building techniques. In 2003, Jill was awarded a scholarship by The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust to research earth building in Mali, West Africa. In 2004, Jackie and Jill were awarded an arts grant to study earth–building methods in the American Southwest. Jackie trained at Taunton Art School and is a successful painter with work in several private collections. She has also worked as a stone carver and illustrates children's books. Jill has a degree in sculpture from Bath Academy of Art and is an interior designer, photographic stylist, teacher and sculptor. Both artists now live with their families in a small country town on the edge of Dartmoor. To see more of their work, please visit their web site.
About the Authors
John Seed is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. He has created numerous projects protecting rainforests in Australia, South America, Asia and the Pacific through providing benign and sustainable development projects for their indigenous inhabitants tied to the protection of their forests. He has also written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has conducted Council of All Beings and other re–Earthing workshops around the world for fifteen years. His published works include Thinking Like a Mountain (with Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess). For information on his upcoming North American lecture tour (beginning June 2005) click here.
Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology, as well as a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment. Her work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. Her many books include Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age, Dharma and Development, Rilke's Book of Hours (with Anita Barrows), Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown), and Widening Circles. Joanna serves as adjunct professor to three graduate schools in the San Francisco Bay Area; she also gives lectures and workshops around the world. For more information, please visit her web site.
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