Julie Sperling

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Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration Slow TV is attracting viewers with hits such as a knitting marathon, burning firewood and swimming salmon

"“It becomes, in a strange way, gripping, because nothing catastrophic is happening, nothing spectacular is happening," said Annette Hill, a professor of media and communications... “But something very beautiful is happening in that minute-by-minute moment.”" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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“It’s that mindfulness, social connection and stress reduction that happens when you step into a space that inspires awe that improves our health.”
Good to be on CBC’s Early Edition today with @vanartgallery.bsky.social‘s Eva Respini to talk @bcparksfdn.bsky.social’s #PaRx collab.
#healthybynature

What are Mark Carney’s Liberals, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and other federal parties promising when it comes to climate change, the oil and gas industry, mining and the environment? Here’s what we know so far:
#canpoli #election
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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

The insides of incandescent lightbulbs jutting out from the canvas at odd angles, surrounded by small pieces of cement

The start of this project has been so finicky that it has made me not want to work on it. But now that finicky part is over and I get to move on to the fun stuff!

Artwork of thousands of paper birds spiraling towards the corner of a room

Coming very late to #printpromptmonday with this big installation I made in 2019, Lesser Bodies. It’s about the collapse of chimney swift populations in the US. Not in the water, but I was inspired by the motion of water circling a drain.

📣 New fellowship for First Nations women! 📣

Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, we're co-hosting the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation alongside the Indigenous Leadership Initiative 🧵🌎

An Ontario teacher found works of art in the bargain bin. So she set out to find their creator | CBC Radio While questions remain about how the sculptures ended up for sale, the teacher and the artist say theirs is a story about friendship — and the kindness of strangers.

This is a lovely, feel-good story if you need one, about art, shipping disasters, and strangers brought together in an effort to make things right.

You can catch the radio story on The Current podcast too, and hear how the artist and teacher have become friends and what this meant to them both.

It is not too late to act on climate change because climate change is not pass/fail. Every faction of a degree matters and is worth fighting for.

That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.

The insides of incandescent lightbulbs protrude from the canvas

Finally back in the studio after a long hiatus. This is the start of a piece about #biodiversity and the impact of light #pollution.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

An abstract mosaic. The centre is a broken ceramic loon, surrounded by cement. The whole piece is sort of round, with a wavy outer line.

Detail of the broken ceramic loon, highlighting its two red eyes staring back at the viewer.

Hey #ArtAdventCalendar followers, here's one from a few years ago all about #biodiversity loss, called "In The Red"

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How conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier uses visual storytelling to inspire action Conservation photography occupies a unique space, blending the art of visual storytelling with the urgency of environmental advocacy. Cristina Mittermeier, a pioneering figure in this field, has…

How conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier uses visual storytelling to inspire action https://buff.ly/49KffWx

Thanks! It's one of the ones I'm most proud of 😊

Really keen to see what's in these, especially the transformative change assessment report.

A mosaic made of green, blue, and white mottled glass on the left, merging with shale on the right. On the righthand side, about a third of the way in, there is a vertical line of spiky shale and shell casings.

A detail view of spiky shale, shell casings, and some red glass shards

Slacked off over the weekend, but back at #ArtAdventCalendar today! Here's one honouring environmental defenders, called "For Berta (They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless)". sperlingmosaics.com/2019/03/on-t...

An abstract mosaic of 9 irregular squiggly vertical forms. All but one of them go from dark natural materials like shale at the bottom to brown materials in the middle (petrified wood, nut shells, sandstone) and then light materials on top (limestone, petrified wood). One of the forms is made of technological materials (gold, circuit board pieces, copper), but has the same colour gradation as the rest.

A detail view of the bottom of some of the forms, showing the contrast between the natural and human-made / technological materials.

Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is "The Problem With Billionaires" - all about how tech-bro billionaires are elbowing their way into the #climate space, betting on shiny tech fixes, and swaying policy in favour of solutions that benefit them and don't require them to change a damn thing.

a close-up view of the cigarette warning labels, as well as cellophane packaging wrapped around shale

Abstract mosaic made of cigarette packaging, shale, and coal - strips of paper and cardboard packaging and shale run vertically, and there is a line of cigarette butts cutting across the mosaic horizontally

Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is for the #ClimateChange folx. It's called "Smokescreen" and it's about the fossil fuel industry's dirty, shameless, and persistent misinformation campaign built on Big Tobacco's playbook (with some dirty tricks of its own).

Close up view of a "wave" made of pieces of a can of Spam

Mosaic showing a side profile of the Mariana Trench, with waves made of pieces of cans of Budweiser and Spam.

Since there are a lot of ocean folx in my feed, how about this #ArtAdventCalendar contribution: "Everything We Touch" (from my #anthropocene series) - inspired by how NOAA found a can of Spam and a can of Bud at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. sperlingmosaics.com/2019/08/noth...

Intricate mosaic of white plastic, with three clear plastic cups on top and a ball of spiky shale

Mosaic ball of spiky shall as seen through a clear plastic cup resting on its side

Today's contribution to #ArtAdventCalendar: "Shell Game" is a #ClimateChange mosaic all about how Big Oil is banking on plastic to keep it profitable. (Yep all those white bits are plastic.)

Oh hey everyone! What better way to introduce myself to the Bluesky world than by participating in #ArtAdventCalendar! Here's "To aid and abet" - part of my mosaic series about #ClimateChange. This one's all about the cozy relationship between extractive industries and law enforcement.