SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming:
“ Visionary Ecoart: Stories for Generative Ecologies,” in Simon Cottle ed., Communicating a World-in-Crisis, Peter Lang, 2024.
“Walking with Joshua Trees,” in Sant Khalsa and Juniper Harrower eds. Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, Inlandia Books, 2024.
“Listen to the Trees,” (partial reprint) CSPA Quarterly Archive, 2023.
“The Stickiness of Touch,” (revised, edited version) The Literature of Restoration, 2023.
“Walking with Trees: Stories in Honor of Helen and Newton Harrison,” FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Criticism, Issue #23, Winter 2023.
“The Stickiness of Touch: Caring for Boulder’s Front Range Forests,” WEAD Magazine, Issue #13 The Art of Empathy, Fall 2022.
“A Call to Embrace Ecological Grief,” in Geffen, Rosenthal, Fremantle and Rahmani, eds., Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies and Provocations for the Classroom and Communities, New Village Press, 2022.
“Listen to the Trees,” Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts Quarterly Issue 30 Winter 2020
“Walking with Oaks: Coronavirus is but One of Many Pandemics We are Facing,” Tikkun, June 2, 2020
“Walking with Trees” Dark Matter/Women Witnessing Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility Issue #9, 2019.
“Book Review: Communicating the Environment Beyond Photography,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(4) 2019.
“Cascading Memorials: Public Places to Mourn,” Dark Matter/Women Witnessing Issue #2, 2015.
“Ecological Art: A Call for Visionary Intervention in a Time of Crisis,” LEONARDO, Vol 45, No. 3 pp. 234-242, 2012.
"The Sea As Sculptress--From Analogue to Digital," Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 2009.
"Enacting Relationships: Ecofeminism and the Local,” in Blaze, Karen Frostig and Kathy Halamka, eds,. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
"Of Story and Place: Communicating Ecological Principles Through Art," LEONARDO, Vol 36, No, 3, 2003.
"Barrier or Bridge: Photojournalism of the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," The Communication Review, Vol. 6, Number (2), 2003.
"The Legacy of Seventies Feminist Artistic Practices on Contemporary Activist Art," n.paradoxa on-line, March 2001.
"Wenn Frosche erkranken und sterben...Was wird aus den Prinzen," Echt Sharf, July, 2000.
"Response to 'The Science of Art,'" Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 6, 1999.
"Essay/Review of Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History," Women's Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 28, 1999.
"Making Art, Making Citizens: Las Comadres and the Post-National Aesthetic," with Marguerite Waller and Aida Mancillas, in With Other Eyes: Gender, Race and Visual Culture, Lisa Bloom ed., Minnesota University Press, 1999.
"Memory Politics," TIKKUN, 9:6, 1994.
"Essay/Review of The Contest of Meaning," Exposure, 29:1, 1993
"Reading the Shadows--the Photography of Roy DeCarava," Exposure, 27:4. 1990.
"The Sea as Sculptress," High Performance. 22:83,88, 1983.
Ruth Wallen and John A. Ludwig. "Energy Dynamics of vegetative and reproductive growth in Spanish Bayonet (Yucca baccata Torr.)" Southwestern Naturalist, 1978.
SELECTED RECENT PODCASTS and TALKS
“Walking with Sequoias: Bearing Witness to Devastation and Restoration” Zen Peacemakers, March 5, 2024
“Walking with Sequoias” talk for Shambhala Earth Salon April 9, 2023
WEAD Magazine Series #2 “The Art of Empathy: A Conversation with Dominique Mazeaud, Ruth Wallen and Jane Chin Anderson,” December 2022
“Walking with Death: Daring to Love in the Time of Great Fires” Lenz Fellow talk for Naropa University, May 2022
“Walking with Oaks,” Zen Peacemakers, May 2022
“Banishing Death in the Age of Materialism,” Whistlin Past the Graveyard Podcast
“Confronting Development and Climate Change,” for Let’s Talk About the Weather 2018