Dorothea Lange’s water photography asks: How do we create systems that let us live justly with one another and the earth?
Art and Design
Summer Issue 2024
Look Here—a Farewell From Our Arts Columnist
“Through their work,” writes Matthew Harrison Tedford, “I saw how art can transform our understanding of the natural world, or our relationship with it.”
Art and Design
He Set Out to Photograph All of California’s Forests. Then They Began to Burn.
Stefan Thuilot has been documenting a very big picture view of how forests are changing.
Spring Issue 2024
Stitching Nature Together
The project, says artist Liz Harvey, “draws on the past to navigate toward an uncertain but yet hopeful future.”
Winter Issue 2024
Landscapes of Change, at SFMOMA
They’re secret repositories of history, and places to contest exclusion, forgetting, and destruction.
Fall Issue 2023
Fall 2023 Almanac: Condors, Cones, and Raccoons
When you’re the biggest bird in North America, it takes a little while to grow up. Illustrations by Jane Kim.
Fall Issue 2023
Plants Are Culture, Too
¡Plantásticas! Our Lives with Plants, a temporary exhibition at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, explores the myriad relationships between people and plants, with a special focus on Latinx and Indigenous perspectives.
Summer Issue 2023
With Instruments of Rocks and Shells, Cheryl Leonard Brings Nature’s Music To Life
“Anything can be musical instruments!” Leonard exclaims, in a studio full of bones, driftwood, feathers, stones, and homemade instruments.
Summer Issue 2023
Summer 2023 Almanac: Barnacles, Bats, and Berries
This issue’s almanac features barnacles, berries, Steller’s jays, and more.
Spring Issue 2023
An Artist Goes Bird-Swatching
Artist Christopher Reiger’s “field guides” are on view at the Laguna Environmental Center in Santa Rosa until April 28.
