Mid September WMW Update

The world map above demonstrates that Women Mind the Water is connected to an expanding network of places. We’ve had conversations in Mexico, France, England, Australia, Canada, and Indonesia. That’s in addition to places like Washington, California, New York, and Maine. These conversations are building a community of water women and also bringing new guests to the Artivist Podcast Series.

Women Mind the Water continues to produce new podcasts and news stories. The Artivist Series podcast’s most recent guest is Janina “Nina” Rossiter, an author, illustrator, and graphic designer, who is passionate about the ocean’s creatures. Nina is making a difference with her ocean-inspired children’s books, as well as working with nonprofits and cofounding the Artivist Chat on Clubhouse.

Our next artivist will be Dianna Cohen, a visual artist whose two- and three-dimensional artworks are made with recycled plastic bags. She’s co-founder of the nonprofit Plastic Pollution Coalition. Future podcasts will feature a discussion with Janavi Kramer, a mixed media artist whose mission is to cultivate an appreciation of the natural world and generate funds for charities like Manta Trust and Shark Guardian and Ivy Frignoca who is involved with a corps of volunteers to use photographs to document changes to Casco Bay evaluate changes occurring in one of Maine’s waterways. Much more is coming!

Alternating with the Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcasts are ocean-related news stories. The most recent is a timely story about the status and management plans to save the North Atlantic right whale from extinction. There are roughly 350 North Atlantic right whales still in existence. Sadly 34 have been killed in the last five years, a rate of death that represents more than a ten percent decline in the total number of North Atlantic right whales. Read the story to find out why the management plan to save the whales is controversial.

We welcome your ocean-related questions. If you have a please email womenmindthewater@comcast.net with a topic you’d like us to explore.

We’ve had conversations in Canada, Australia, France, England, Mexico, and most recently Indonesia. We’ve talked with artivists in such US states as Washington, California, New York, and Maine. The conversations are building a community of water women and many are bringing new guests to the Artivist Podcast Series. Women Mind the Water is glad to have you as part of our community.