{"id":6260,"date":"2017-05-18T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2018-05-25T02:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:07:05","slug":"linda-weintraub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/linda-weintraub\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Weintraub"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6952\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6260-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/LindaWeintraub.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/LindaWeintraub.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/LindaWeintraub.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6268 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Linda-and-mushrooms-2016-e1495156562958-222x300.jpg?resize=222%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Linda-and-mushrooms-2016-e1495156562958.jpg?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Linda-and-mushrooms-2016-e1495156562958.jpg?w=282&amp;ssl=1 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/>In addition to being an artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindaweintraub.com\">Linda Weintraub<\/a> is a curator, educator, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. After a brief career as a dancer, she earned an MFA degree from Rutgers University in ceramic sculpture. Her current art practice engages the plants, animals, soils, insects, and microbes she cultivates on her homestead in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>Her recent writings explore the vanguard intersection between art and environmentalism, including the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cycle-Logical-Art-Recycling-Avant-Guardians-Textlets\/dp\/097774213X\"><u>Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology<\/u><\/a> and <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520273627\">TO LIFE! Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet<\/a>\u00a0(<\/u>University of California Press), and the forthcoming book, <a href=\"http:\/\/artsci.ucla.edu\/node\/1316\"><u>WHAT\u2019s NEXT? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art<\/u><\/a>. Weintraub established <a href=\"http:\/\/avant-guardians.com\/\">Artnow Publications<\/a> in order to apply environmental responsibility to the book\u2019s material production.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Making-Creative-Options-Contemporary-Art\/dp\/1891024590\"><u>In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Edge-Over-Contemporary-1970s-1990s\/dp\/0965198812\"><u>Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art\u2019s Meaning in Contemporary Society<\/u><\/a>. Weintraub received her MFA degree from Rutgers University. She served as the Director of the Bard College museum where she curated over sixty exhibitions; was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging arts at Oberlin College; is a visiting artist at the NOMAD9 MFA program at Hartford University\u2019; and maintains a homestead on an eleven acre property in upstate New York where she actively applies the principles of Permaculture to food production, land management, and energy generation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6269\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6269 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=696%2C392&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=1068%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?resize=747%2C420&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcometomywoods.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Weintraub &#8220;Welcome to My Woods&#8221; 2017 Interactive installation at UCLA Moss, bones, feathers, twigs, honey comb, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6270\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6270 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=696%2C392&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=1068%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?resize=747%2C420&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/welcomewoodsgraphic.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Weintraub &#8220;Welcome to My Woods&#8221; 2017 Graphic from interactive installation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/LindaWeintraub.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listIn addition to being an artist, Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. 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