Spring/Summer 2026 Exhibitions, Writing and Activities
My Stained Hands: The Stickiness of Touch, 14”x20” from Master Glitch Exhibition
Group Exhibitions
The Giving Tree
Art Produce, San Diego, August 29- September 29
Opening: August 26, Closing Panel: September 29, more information coming soon
Glitches speak truth. The public decides whether to listen. Sponsored by Feminist Image Group
Techne Art Center, 609 Ord Way Oceanside, CA., August 7-September 30
Opening: August 15, 5:00- 8:00 PM
Light up the Border Demonstration, April 1990. As demonstrators gathered along Dairy Mart Road, Las Comadres hired a plane to fly a banner, passed out Border Handbooks, and tried to engage the press and demonstrators in dialogue. Composite photo.
San Diego Central Library, Judith Harris Art Gallery, May 12- July 27
Featuring Las Comadres, Art Made Between Opposite Sides (AMBOS), and Friends of International Friendship Park.
Closing panel featuring Las Comadres, July 27 5:30-7:30 PM
Censored: Disappearing words along with the Ice, Recycled materials, 15”x7”x9”
La Jolla, Riford Library, July 11-Sept. 30
Artists interpretations of the realities of censorship.
Publications
“Becoming Ecoart Elders: Beverly (Bee) Naidus and Ruth Wallen in Conversation,” in WEAD Magazine No. 15 Place Setting
Talks/Activities
“Walking with the Oaks in Watersheds,”
From the Mountain to the Sea: Enlivening Water Relations across Borders, sponsored by Nature, Space, and Politics, UCSD
Kendall-Frost Reserve, June 6
“Mindfulness in Action: Leading Through Environmental Challenges,”
AWWEE, Association of Women in Water, Energy and the Environments, Zoom, May 21
“Saving the Hillside Natural Area,”
Hillside Fest, El Cerrito, California, May 3
In the early 60s Madera Elementary student Ruth (Debbie) Wallen unsuccessfully petitioned the City to preserve parts of what later would become the Hillside Natural Area. Let’s walk the area to see how the Hillside has changed in sixty years.
“Centinelas Cayendo: Caminando con Robles,” (Falling Sentinels: Walking with Oaks)
Conversatorio: Arte, Ecología, Reconexión con la Naturaleza, (Conversation: Art, Ecology and Reconnection) with Ruth Wallen, Rosanna Ginocchio, Daniela Cienfuegos and Manuel Tironi
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Villarrica, Chile April 27
“Invitada Especial/Guest Artist Ruth Wallen”
Seminario de grado Ciclo de artistas Invitatados (Undergraduate Seminar: Guest Artists Cycle)
Instituto de Arte, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile April 16
“Saving or Selling Out the Redwoods: Lessons from the Loss of these Charismatic Trees”
Binacom Spring Colloquium/Coloquio Primavera
UABC Tijuana, Tijuana Mexico, March 21