Performative Reading + Dialog: Featuring Ruth Wallen

Performative Reading + Dialog: featuring Ruth Wallen

🌿 My Stained Hands: The Stickiness of Touch: Artist Talk with Ruth Wallen
Thursday, November 13th · 7 PM (EST)
Hosted by WEAD: Women Eco Artists Dialog in partnership with The 109 Gallery

Join us for an intimate evening of poetic & creative dialog with Ruth Wallen (www.ruthwallen.net), presented virtually through Zoom and in person at The 109 Gallery in Historic Downtown Chickamauga, GA.

Ruth will share intimate conversations with a girdled tree, whose bark has been circumferentially removed as part of an effort to prevent forest fires. Through these exchanges she will reflect on how to touch and be touched by a tree in the forest, the power of fire, the legacy of settler colonialism, and the ongoing ecological degradation of our times.

📍 In-Person Experience:
Guests at The 109 Gallery will join the live Zoom session from the gallery space, allowing them to listen, ask questions, and engage directly in the conversation with Ruth and virtual participants. After the talk, the group will share additional poetry and reflections inspired by Ruth's work and our local community voices. Arrive a little before 7pm EST to get settled in. Leah Dalton will begin th evening with a poem, and then the atist talk will begin promptly at 7pm.

💻 Virtual Experience:
Online attendees will join via Zoom for Ruth's full presentation and group discussion, connecting in real time with both Ruth and the in-person audience.

✨ About the Exhibition:
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent explores care, connection, and multispecies consent through the work of women artists worldwide. Presented by WEAD, the full exhibition is viewable online, with select works featured in person at The 109 Gallery.

🎟️ RSVP Required
Please RSVP to indicate whether you’ll attend in person or virtually.
(Limited seating for in-person guests.)

Artist's Biography

Ruth Wallen, www.ruthwallen.net, is a multi-media artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. For over a decade she has been bearing witness with trees dying because of urbanization, globalization, in the form of introduced species, and climate change in all its guises, including drought, bark beetles and fire.

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