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In celebration of NMWA’s 2025 #5WomenArtists campaign<\/a>, which explores environmental justice and sustainability in the arts, we’re highlighting NMWA collection artists whose work addresses these themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multidisciplinary artist Susan Goethel Campbell<\/a> (b. 1956) creates installations, videos, prints, drawings, and artists\u2019 books to highlight the indistinguishable characteristics of nature, culture, and the built environment. Campbell blurs the lines between these elements, documenting our changing planet and population and visualizing the intimate, ever-changing relationship between nature and human society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Susan Goethel Campbell, After the Deluge: The Post-Ark Report<\/em>, 2002; Photoetching with aquatint and chine colle, 14 x 11 x 1 in.; NMWA, Museum Purchase; \u00a9 Susan Goethel Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Share your favorite women artists working for climate justice on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook using the hashtag #5WomenArtists<\/strong> and tagging @WomenInTheArts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Foundational Influences<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Campbell has spent most of her adult life in Detroit, Michigan, and cites paintings<\/a> in the Detroit Institute of Arts as having stylistic influence on her own works. Frederic Edwin Church\u2019s Cotopaxi<\/a><\/em> (1862) is one she would \u201clook at and respond to over many years.\u201d Campbell has also mentioned James Abbott McNeill Whistler\u2019s Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket<\/a><\/em> (1875), which depicts an atmospheric event, as a major influence on her own explorations of landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The Art of Repurposing <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In her \u201cGrounds\u201d<\/a> series, Campbell explores the unexpected beauty between natural and manmade forms. Campbell grew sod inside consumer packaging until it took the shape of the containers. She then upended and freeze-dried the forms, which released them from the packaging and liberated the root mass. This series demonstrates an interconnectivity between organic matter and post-consumer debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Biblical Proportions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Part of NMWA\u2019s extensive artists\u2019 books collection, Campbell\u2019s After the Deluge: The Post-Ark Report<\/a><\/em> (2002) is loosely based on the biblical tale of Noah\u2019s ark. Campbell\u2019s retelling reveals the fates of various animal species in the 21st century. The poetic, and sometimes cheeky, narrative draws on text and clippings from the New York Times<\/em> and Detroit Free Press<\/em> and underscores the impact of human encroachment on animal habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campbell’s artist’s book Rim<\/em><\/a> (2000) addresses suburban sprawl, population density, and the loss of undeveloped land in Detroit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4. Reading the Sky<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2009, Campbell set up a camera on the 22nd floor of Detroit\u2019s Fisher Building to take one photo each minute for an entire year. She then compressed the files into a three-hour video. The resulting installation, Detroit Weather: 365 Days<\/a><\/em>, documents the ways in which weather and industry affect one another. Campbell said<\/a>, \u201cYou can\u2026see stacks from the Ford Rouge Plant and Zug Island pumping out emissions and intersecting with weather patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Forces of Nature<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Campbell is consistently inspired by the oscillating nature<\/a> of Detroit\u2019s landscape. \u201cTo watch the landscape change quite drastically by plant life has been largely influential throughout most of my time here. That cyclical process of something manmade being reclaimed by nature has been a really powerful influence on my work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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