This is a response to an article in the Times Online, "A modern moral dilemma: ordering fish in a restaurant"
For a number of years the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California has provided a "Seafood Watch" for those of us in the States (mostly) to help choose food from sustainable fisheries (is there such a system?). I volunteer with the Seattle Aquarium to provide natural history interpretation on city beaches, and we have noticed confusion about the environmental costs of fish farms and even suppliers insisting that "Northwest" octopus is sustainable. I think constant discussion is required and agree about the seediness of resorting to foods with traditional cachet as a hallmark of quality. Are we not gatherers after all? Assessing food sources is professionalism.
Alice Dubiel has exhibited her work in the US, Asia and Europe for more than 35 years. Since 1994 she has created paintings and prints as well as installations and projects concerned with ecology and the politics of representation. She has worked with community based groups and exhibits in similar spaces. The Landscape Tale and Implode the Dome were conceptual works to stimulate community-based land use dialogue, appearing at Bumbershoot, the Seattle Arts Festival, 911 media arts and in ArtPapers, published in Atlanta. In 2007, she co-curated with artist Deborah Lawrence, Syndicalism: The Art of Tend and Befriend, a group exhibition by Art Cartel at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center.Dubiel has received public funds for artmaking and research including the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007 she received funds from 4Culture in King County, WA for The Hazel Tree Mother and again in 2014 she received 4Culture funds for travel to Korea. In 2006, she was artist in residence at North Cascades National Park.Ā Her work appears in the collections of the University of Washington and Swedish Medical Centers, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and is represented in private US collections. Her work appears in Women Artists of the American West by Susan Ressler.Born in Berkeley, CA, she received a master's in painting from San Jose State University and an AB in English literature from UC Santa Cruz, and pursued graduate literature studies in medieval literature, art and critical theory. Dubiel works and lives with her family in Seattle where she volunteers as an amateur naturalist.
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