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"Fracking the Shale" by Gloria Betlem

8/27/2013

Fracking the Shale -- detail from the original 12"x180" mixed media drawing

Gloria Betlem paints the natural world around her in upstate New York and central Florida. She specializes in the pastel medium, utilizing its wide spectrum of pure color to its fullest, in her vibrant interpretations. Increasingly, her work has taken on critical environmental issues, including carefully researched topics such as hydrofracking, preserving Hemlock and Canadice Lakes and Florida’s at-risk areas and species. She occasionally ventures out into other interests in her art, embracing portraiture and subjective imagery. Her work is in collections world-wide and she is a sought after, caring teacher. www.gloriabetlem.com

Fracking the Shale is part of a larger installation, "The Finger Lakes: Above & Below," which has been traveling throughout western New York. Fracking the Water is the artwork on the cover of Vigil for the Marcellus Shale, edited by Dwain Wilder and Bart White.

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Vigil for the Marcellus Shale

8/24/2013

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artwork by Gloria Betlem

Public Poetry in a Dire Time

The world is at a great crossroads, a moment defined by growing global awareness of the huge disparities between the power, wealth and rapacity of corporations, the sway they have over government, legislators, regulators, and even - to some extent - the courts, and the plight of ordinary people, waving as in Whitman's image, like tall prairie grass over the whole Earth.

The struggle to keep our environment free of hydraulic fracturing has become, in many ways, the epitome of this crossroads, pitting grassroots rural people, aroused and radicalized because of its dangers, against the power of the world's richest corporations - the oil and gas industry….

-Dwain Wilder, Co-editor

Against Giants

A rapturous hymn in celebration of water… a couple facing hopeless bills and hard choices…an elegy for land rendered sterile and a defiant shout of "Keep Off!"… ground zero in the fracking wars…A lying down before bulldozers. A brave refusal to move.

Poems of anger, poems of sorrow. What can a few poor poets do against the might of Exxon® and other corporate mammoths? For what comes next, we need the angry kind. We need poets to defy their power. We need small farmers and ordinary citizens who are brave, stubborn, unshakeable and cunning. We will play David to their Goliath. We're pretty handy with slingshots.

-Bart White, Co-editor

Click here to find out more about Vigil for the Marcellus Shale.

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"Fracking the Shale" by Gloria Betlem

Vigil for the Marcellus Shale

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