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Asante Riverwind founded Gaia Ki in July 2010. He has over 40 years of experience as an artist and activist working on environmental and social justice issues across the Pacific Northwest. Through his work with various organizations, he has helped achieve many ecological victories and cultural changes. Currently, Gaia Ki continues regional conservation efforts while addressing societal issues and solutions to challenges through Asante's art, education, legal actions, and outreach.
Asante Riverwind founded Gaia Ki in July 2010. He has over 40 years of experience as an artist and activist working on environmental and social justice issues across the Pacific Northwest. Through his work with various organizations, he has helped achieve many ecological victories and cultural changes. Currently, Gaia Ki continues regional conservation efforts while addressing societal issues and solutions to challenges through Asante's art, education, legal actions, and outreach.
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Asante Riverwind founded Gaia Ki in July 2010. He has over 40 years of experience as an artist and activist working on environmental and social justice issues across the Pacific Northwest. Through his work with various organizations, he has helped achieve many ecological victories and cultural changes. Currently, Gaia Ki continues regional conservation efforts while addressing societal issues and solutions to challenges through Asante's art, education, legal actions, and outreach.
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Asante Riverwind, Founder and Conservation and Arts Director, asanteriverwind@gmail.com
Gaia Ki was founded in July 2010 by Asante Riverwind, its
Conservation and Arts Director. Born in early 1953 in the "Year of the Dragon" Asante is a fiery artist, encouraged by his artist mother as soon as he could hold a pencil. Ten years of formal study at five universities were completed in 1980. His art has been exhibited at scores of galleries and other venues, and published worldwide (and a few of the thousands of artworks completed can be viewed at www.asanteriverwindarts.com).
Asante began focused activist work on ecological and social
justice issues in 1968 at age 15. He has worked in the Pacific Northwest and Western States regions since first coming to Oregon in 1974. Over the years he has worked with movements and organizations ranging from Students for a Democratic Society, Greenpeace, Earth First!, the Columbia River Bioregion Campaign, Coalition Organizing Hanford Opposition, Oregon Chapter Sierra Club, and many others; and helped co-found a number of organizations including Seattle Nonviolent Action Group, Cedar River Action Group, Racine Movement, Direct Action Network’s WTO actions in Seattle, and others. In 1991, he co-founded the League Of Wilderness Defenders – Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in eastern-central Oregon, co-directing LOWD-BMBP for 13 years before moving to Arizona for a couple years and co-founding the Chiricahua-Dragoon Conservation Alliance non-profit organization (now known as the Dragoon Conservation Alliance). He worked as the Oregon Chapter Sierra Club’s Eastern Oregon Forest Organizer from 2006 through July 2010. Upon leaving the Sierra Club in 2010, he has continued regional conservation efforts assisting existing organizations while founding Gaia Ki, to continue effective advocacy protecting our remaining natural wild lands while broadening localized "triage" efforts to address societal issues and proactive solutions at the root of contemporary challenges.
Over his many years of activism and arts he has
been involved in helping achieve many ecological victories as well as inspiring cultural changes. He continues to be involved in extensive ecological education and protection efforts, including legal actions, surveys & monitoring, research & writing, hikes, articles, and speaking events. Learning directly from nature, our wisest teacher, Asante lived for over 16 years in tipi’s, a yurt, an earth lodge, and a strawbale home - from an island in Puget Sound, to the forests of the Cascades and Blue Mountains, to Arizona's Sonoran Desert. He continues to hike, camp, and kayak across western North America. In addition to creating paintings, drawings, and sculpture, he is also a poet and musician, inspired by dream visions and wild wonderful nature. "Art and Evolution" is the name he uses for this amalgamation of activism and art. He has three grown sons, and one grandson, all of whom help inspire his ongoing efforts to help protect nature and encourage us all to celebrate life in balance with this beautiful living Earth. "From the River's Wind"