I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my recent interview with artist Kim Anno, held on July 7, 2025, as part of the San Francisco Art Institute Artists Alumni Series, is now available online.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Kim Anno reflects on her trajectory as an artist working at the intersection of climate change, social justice, and experimental film. We discuss the legacy of SFAI, the role of artists in times of crisis, and how her practice continues to evolve in response to urgent planetary concerns.

Thank you to the SFAI Artists Alumni Series for hosting the event, and to Maria Theresa Barbist and Annie Holleb for making this conversation possible.

Watch the interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMU2ECPWR8

I was an undergraduate there in the late 1970s—Trinity is a small liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut—and it was meaningful to reflect on how my time there helped shape the work I do today on climate change, feminist art, and visual culture.

Trinity website: trincollreporter.online/Bloom

View pdf of my bio in Trinity Reporter Spring 2025

I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my recent book talk at Pratt Institute (April 21, 2025) is now available online.

In this talk, I explore how artists are responding to climate change, ecology, and social justice, and how these intersections are reshaping contemporary art and cultural narratives.

Thank you to Pratt Institute for hosting the event and to everyone who attended.

▶️ Watch the full recording here: https://talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_fzlcsw4c

Included as one of the influences on his powerful film True North, the book appears in a display case alongside works exploring race, sexuality, and polar exploration.

Look out for my catalogue essay:
“Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North.”

This is Julien’s first US retrospective and his largest to date—don't miss it!

de Young Museum, SF
April 12–July 13, 2025

for my talk, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic. I’ll be presenting from my book, with a small reception to follow.

Free and open to the public, but registration is required — scan the QR code on the poster to RSVP.
Hope to see you there and feel free to share widely!

“An aesthetic antidote to older ideologies, imagining the poles otherwise... [The book] offers politically thoughtful perspectives from feminist, Black, and Indigenous artists like Anne Noble, Isaac Julien, and Zacharias Kunuk.” – Robert Bailey & Pete Froslie

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See "Foreword.” Communicating Ice Through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jurgens. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. v.

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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom (review)

Jenna M. Coughlin Scandinavian Studies, Volume 95, Number 4, Winter 2023, pp. 540-543 (Article)

Published by University of Illinois Press

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