As A Child

Making Art in 2025

Detail of “If,” a mural for the Maine Musuem of Contemporay Art 2002 showing how contiguous empty lots in the city of Portland, Maine might become cascades for regional habitat rstoration in the midst of an urban enviornment. Aviva Rahmani

Last night, in a private celebratory event for New Village Press'(NVP)s 20th anniversary, hosted by author Arlene Goldbard and the publisher Lynne Elizabeth, I referenced the term refugia as a place where healing might begin after an ecosystem collapse, ie., after environmental collapse. I wonder when and how, going forward, we will find those places for this country. Surely NVP and other small publishing houses might be a start.