For more than five decades, Beverly “Bee” Naidus has created socially engaged art that responds to the climate emergency and the harms caused by systems of oppression—while also asking how we might celebrate the present moment in the midst of dire circumstances and imagine, together, what the next world could be.

Her work includes interactive and site-specific installations, digitally rendered artists’ books, and community-based art projects. She studied at Carleton College and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and has been influenced by an extraordinary range of mentors, including Joanna Macy, Laurie Anderson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Augusto Boal, and adrienne mareebrown.

Bee has taught at the Institute for Social Ecology, Goddard College, CSU Long Beach, Hampshire College, and elsewhere. Her work has been exhibited internationally—in museums, alternative spaces, and on the streets—and is discussed in numerous books and journals.

An Emerita Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Art at the University of Washington Tacoma, she created and taught an interdisciplinary studio arts curriculum focused on art for social change. Inspired by her work with students, she authored Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame (New Village Press).

Learn more through her Substack, Gravity Humming:
https://beverlyenaidus.substack.com/