Mary Jo Aagerstoun has just posted the following to the EcoArt South Florida website: Why does South Florida need EcoArt? EcoArt SoFla believes art must be integrated into sustainability strategies. In South Florida, like everywhere else on the globe, sustainability strategies have been driven by science and political expediency. One searches in vain at all levels... Continue Reading →
More Water
Another interesting project around water. Watershed: Art, Activitsm and Community Engagement is a programme organised by Raoul Deal and Nicolas Lampert looking at Milwaukee and the Great Lakes Basin. There are three phases spanning 1) community outreach, 2) public interventions, and 3) exhibition. There is an interesting video about Colleen Ludwig's piece in the exhibition... Continue Reading →
Teaneck Creek – Artists’ Projects
Rick Mills, Professor of Printmaking at Long Island University, is also artist in residence at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy and through this has developed a programme of art and education. He has involved a range of artists with environmental/ecological practices, as well as work with children and young people in local schools. Using resources of... Continue Reading →
Growing Exchange discussion
Friday 25 February 2011, 4-6pm at CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Free public discussion between Alex Wilde and Annechien Meier reflecting on the residency at CCA sharing research and talking about practice, leading into a discussion on community growing and related issues in Glasgow. growing_exchange_flyer
O Donald Trump, Woe Donald Trump
"It is not an art poem. It is a bardic declamation coming out of a tradition that speaks social truth direct to power – hot, rough, and on the hoof." O Donald Trump, Woe Donald Trump, from Alastair McIntosh to Donald Trump on a personal basis, published on Bella Caledonia, an online magazine exploring ideas... Continue Reading →
Mainstream ecology in public art
Make a contribution, air your most profound lessons (or the things you rant about). The questions raised by art and ecology, the issues of culture in a time of environmental crisis, don't always impact on mainstream public art practices. The public invitation to contribute to a new series of books, entitled Hints and Tips, is... Continue Reading →

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