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Ecofeminist Artists

Ecofeminist artists emerged as a distinct genre in the seventies in response to ecofeminist philosophy, articulated by writers such as Carolyn Merchant, Val Plumwood, Donna Haraway, Starhawk, Greta Gaard, Karen Warren and Rebecca Solnit. Those writers emphasized the significance of relationships of cultural dominance and ethics (Merchant, Plumwood, Haraway) expressed as sexism (Haraway), spirituality (Starhawk), speciesism (Warren, Gaard), capitalist values that privilege objectification and the importance of vegetarianism in these contexts (Gaard).

The relevance of these Ecofeminist thinkers and artists was discussed in Feminist Art Programs at the College and University level, including at the Institute for Social Ecology at Goddard College, Vermont. The work that emerged helped inspire many early male and female practitioners in the ecological art movement including dveloping a more horizontal relationship to environmental functions in their own practices. The Feminist art writer Lucy Lippard, writing for the Weather Report Show she curated, which included many ecological artists and some ecofeminist artists from the list below (2007 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art), commented on how many ecological artists are women.

Authors who have written about ecofeminist artists most prominently, include Gloria Feman Orenstein.

The Women's Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD) is a compendium of women self-identified as Feminist environmental and social justice and environmental artists, initiated by Jo Hanson, Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Estelle Akamine in 1995, to credit women artists who might not otherwise be recognized in the mainstream canon. In addition to artists, some curators were influenced by this thinking, such as Amy Lipton, co-curator of ecoartspace with Tricia Watts. Lipton initated two relevant shows in her Soho gallery, "Shapeshifters" (1992) which included 22 women artists to commemorate the women who were tried and killed for witchcraft in Salem. and The Abortion Project, a pro choice art exhibition

List of Prominent Ecofeminist Artists
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 * Helene Aylon
 * Lillian Ball
 * Betty Beaumont
 * Jackie Brookner
 * Joyce Cutler Shaw
 * Betsy Damon
 * Agnes Denes
 * Mary Beth Edelson
 * Erica Fielder
 * Donna Henes
 * Basia Irland
 * Patricia Johanson
 * Jo Hanson
 * Ruth Hardinger
 * Lynne Hull
 * Natalie Jeremijenko
 * Sant Khalsa
 * Eve Andree Laramee
 * Robin Lasser
 * Stacey Levy
 * Lenore Malen
 * Dominique Mazeaud
 * Ana Mendieta
 * Kathryn Miller
 * Aimee Morgana
 * Eve Mosher
 * Beverly Naidus
 * Aviva Rahmani
 * Ann Rosenthal
 * Rachel Rosenthal
 * Christie Rupp
 * Fern Shaffer
 * Shelley Sacks
 * Alyce Santoro
 * Bonnie Ora Sherk
 * Susan Leibovitz Steinman
 * Mierle Laderman Ukeles
 * Ruth Wallen
 * Linda Weintraub
 * Shai Zakai