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JOAN E. GREER

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Joan E. Greer, PhD Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (Professor, University of Alberta), teaches the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Her research engages with issues of artistic identity, landscape art, the history of environmentalism, and theories of nature and ecological envisioning, both historically (most particularly in the long nineteenth century) and in contemporary art and design, with a special interest in The Netherlands and Belgium. Her ongoing major research project is entitled “Visualizations of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Print Culture: Religion, Science, Art”. For this work, as well as her Research Creation projects, she has developed theories of Ecological Envisioning and of Compostual Thinking. These pursuits overlap with investigations of historical and contemporary representations of pollination and insect ecologies. 

Keywords: Multispecies Studies; Pluriverse; Sustainability; Activist Art and Design


Greer is a member of three national and international collaborative research-creation projects; a founding member of the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts/ALES Environmental Studies (ES) Programme; an ongoing member of the U of A Science and Technology in Society (STS), and Religious Studies (RS) interdisciplinary programmes; and a member of the leadership team in the U of A Faculty of Arts Mediating Science and Technology Signature Area. 

Recent Research 

Publications: 

“An Insect’s-Eye View: Theo van Hoytema and the Art of Pollination”, special issue, “The Animal and the Human in Netherlandish Art”, in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ)/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 71 2021 (in press); “Visualizations of ‘Nature’: Entomology and Ecological Envisioning in the Art of Willem Roelofs and Vincent van Gogh”, Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart, eds., Eco-critical approaches to 19th century art, Routledge (2019); “'To everything there is a season': the rhythms of the year in Vincent van Gogh’s socio-religious world view”, Van Gogh and the Seasons, ed. Sjraar van Heugten, (exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017) republished by Princeton University Press, 2018; Printmaking in the Anthropocene …, Edmonton, 2018 (https://www.justpowers.ca/app/uploads/Printmaking-in-the-Anthropocene-LOWRES.pdf).

Research Creation:
“Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Futures”, Intermedia Installation by Joan Greer, Sourayan Mookerjea, Tegan Moore; Designer: Sergio Serrano, in  Prototypes for Possible Worlds exhibition, Speculative Energy Futures Project, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta Dec 10, 2019-Jan 11, 2020; “Inverse Insulations in a Seed Time Poem Cycle” (Video), a COVID Pivot iteration of “Seed Time, Dyscorpia Exhibition, COVID Pivot online version, curated by Marilène Oliver, summer 2020.




EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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