nature drawing nature - online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025
Nature drawing nature
online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025
Last days for seminar submissions !
NEW deadline - 12 of March
We invite contributions that explore the interconnectedness of humans and nature through the lens of drawing. As part of nature, everything we create—every line, every mark—emerges from and interacts with the environment. This theme emphasizes drawing as a tool for reflection, care, and awareness, urging us to consider the impact of our actions on the delicate balance of ecosystems. Inspired by ideas of biodiversity preservation as gestures of hope and responsibility, and considering drawing as an ecological act, we seek papers that address drawing as both a creative and ethical practice.
Kiera O'Toole, The Sound of Crows in Handball alley, Manorhamilton, Northwest of Ireland, 2022
Contributions may explore themes such as:
- The role of drawing in fostering a deeper connection to nature.
- Artistic responses to environmental crises and ecological degradation.
- Crisis fatigue, and what to do when a sense of urgency wanes.
- Drawing as an act of preservation, documentation, and activism.
- How drawing can challenge anthropocentric perspectives and reframe humanity as part of a larger, interdependent system.
Join us in sensitizing to the urgency of caring for nature and confronting the self-destructive consequences of mistreatment. Let us explore how drawing can become a shared language of responsibility, recognition, and renewal.
Submissions are welcome in formats ranging from scholarly articles to visual essays,
Use our Template and write your paper in one of the following formats:
- Conference Abstract (250-300 words);
- Reviews - Short Notes ( ± 500 words);
- Essay - Working Papers ( ± 1000 words);
- Article - Full Papers ( ± 5000 words).
On this title is not mandatory to resolve the APC Article Processing Charge (no fees).
Seminar abstracts (or full papers) should be submitted in English trough:
https://journals.ap2.pt/index.php/BBDS/about/submissions
(exceptionally also via: info@wisethorough.com)
We expect to share the seminar program on 15 of March.
Full papers will be published in:
BBDS - Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal
Sara Schneckloth; From Charting the Badlands: Lands Divided; 2020; Earth pigment, colored pencil, graphite, ink
