Talk About Art features environmentalist Stephanie Mills
From staff reports
Update: Due to a power outage on March 8, 2012, we had to reschedule the “Art Talk Series” with Stephanie Mills. She had been reschuled for March 22, 2012 at 7:30pm here at the Glen Arbor Art Association office in Glen Arbor.
Since her galvanic Mills College commencement address in 1969, Stephanie Mills has been speaking, editing, writing and organizing for ecology and social change. The author of scores of essays, articles and seven books, Mills brings her wit, humor and intelligence to the Glen Arbor Art Association for the next “Talk About Art” presentation on March 8 at 7:30 p.m.
In 1969, Mills, then a college valedictorian, leapt into the fledgling ecology movement by announcing that she would never bring a child into an already overpopulated world. In succeeding years she plunged into San Francisco’s environmental activism, working with David Brower, Stewart Brand, Paul Ehrlich and Joan MacIntyre, among others. This winning memoir is both a retrospective of the movement and a personal account of Mills’s own shift from environmentalism on an abstract and global scale to bioregionalism, which is practical and local in scope.
Mills has called Cedar home since 1984. She built a modest studio on her property, and for decades processed her thoughts into words on a manual typewriter. These thoughts spring from years of keen, sometimes bemused, always deeply thought-through observation of both the human and natural worlds. Mills will talk about her writing life, its inspirations and influences. Copies of her books will be available March 8 after her presentation at the Glen Arbor Art Association.
“Talk About Art” presents regional artists in conversation about their artmaking and thinking. The series continues through April and is open to the public without charge. The Art Association is located across from Cherry Republic on Studio Lane. For more information, please call (231) 334-6112.
