Santa Fe Art Institute

Beverly Naidus

Beverly Naidus’s art practice straddles the socially engaged margins of various art worlds, collaborations with other artists and activist groups, and community-based creative endeavors. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have impacted her life and those around her. Aside from attempting to heal personal and collective trauma through her work, she challenges those who interact with her projects to reimagine a post-collapse world that moves beyond dystopia. She has received recognition and funding for her interactive public installations, photo/text pieces, artist’s books, and published essays. Her blog on Substack called Gravity Humming. https://beverlyenaidus.substack.com/ is where she is drafting her upcoming book on creative emergent strategies as well as essays that will become a fractured memoir. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, alternative spaces, and as public interventions. She has taught art for social change and healing in many contexts and won tenure twice within academia. Her book, Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, has been very influential and is still in print. She facilitates the FB group, Arts for Change with over 6100 members. She is also a member of Ecoartspace, the Ecoart Network, and the London Writers Salon. She co-founded a weekly meditation group with her late partner, Dr. Bob Spivey, in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh, and is part of a women’s coven that does ritual and ceremony for healing the collective.