In this essay, we share how a small, independent, academic open access (OA) press, punctum books, has survived and can maybe thrive financially, but also in terms of human quality of life dividends, in the very precarious landscape of making and funding open books. Tracing the history of the press and our bumpy road to better financial…[Read more]

This paper was presented at “Encounters with the Uncanny in Education” seminar organized by Antti Saari, Jan Varpanen, and Johanna Kallio at University of Tampere. The seminar was part of their EnAct – Researching Environmental Activism and Self-Cultivation research project.

In this short essay collection, Simon Bowie presents three meditations on the link between time and trauma in three contemporary television series: Twin Peaks: The Return, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Watchmen. In particular, the book looks at how psychological trauma is often linked to non-linear representations or conceptions of time; how…[Read more]

Located only a little over an hour from New York City and Philadelphia, the Jersey Shore is a world away and full of wonder. Yet, ocean industrialization projects, pollution and climate change impacts threaten its fragile status and are a cause for worry. The oil paintings by June Julian celebrate the beauty she experiences on her daily beach…[Read more]

The Subway Series consists of limited edition fine art prints in plate lithography and copper etching by artist, June Julian. She incorporates her life drawings of female models into the ambiance of the New York City subway, and uses their waiting for the train as a metaphor for the object of desire, in human and environmental terms.

In The Sound of the Sea lithographs by June Julian, wild and infuriated seas personify our human rage and ecological grief about human induced climate impacts on fragile coastlines everywhere.

In the Sea, My Bones lithographs, June Julian utilizes fine art printmaking to reflect her emotional engagement with vanishing corals and their relationship to the human narratives of yearning and loss. Sadly, there are more than twenty-five threatened coral species currently listed under the Endangered Species Act. Does the tragedy of the…[Read more]

The dynamic compositions of the paintings in The Whirlwind series, by artist June Julian, reflect her deep
sense of place at one point in time. They consist of large undulating surfaces that represent illusions of wave motion,
whirlwinds and whirlpools, and ultimately act as metaphors for riding out life’s challenges with gusto!

In a time when we all are burdened by the woes of the pandemic and world news, perhaps it is the right moment to teleport ourselves to lands of sunshine and beauty by vicariously revisiting past travel experiences through art. June Julian compiled a visual record of her multiple trips to the Cádiz area in Spain In her numerous sketchbooks,…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the aesthetic inquiry research methodology for her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her…[Read more]

In 2022, almost 900,000 acres had burned across New Mexico. Artist June Julian visualized the fears that she experienced at that time in her “Black Fire in the Gila Wilderness” Monotypes in the Smoke and Fire series.