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This is where you'll find the latest environmental art related events from exhibitions to conferences and lectures. As you know, greenmuseum.org is a virtual museum so this is often your best chance to see this art in person. Enjoy!

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Oct. 22 - 26 (event web site)
Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival
Location: Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival, 55 Mill Street, Case Goods Warehouse, Building 74, Studio 402, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4 Canada.
Notes: Planet in Focus is Canada's premiere environmental film and video festival. We also house North America largest collection of environmental film and videos. Our festival attracts thousands of attendees and we use our archive of environmental film works to create screenings across the planet throughout the year.
Contact: myan@planetinfocus.org, 416-531-4689

Oct. 2 - 4 (event web site)
Art + Environment Conference at the NMA
Location: Nevada Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, Reno, NV 89501.
Highlight: October, 4 2008: Saturday Afternoon Excursion to the Nevada Desert, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Notes: Global interest in the intersections of nature and culture has broadened in recent years. In this expanding field, contemporary artists and designers have re-envisioned the concept of environment. To better understand the ideas shaping this dialogue, the Nevada Museum of Art will host creative practitioners whose works explore natural, built and virtual environments.

Come, join us to talk about how and why art has become just as important as science in understanding the nature of environments. We're bringing together artists, designers, writers and scientists from around the country to discuss how they change-and are changed by-the natural, built and virtual environments in which they work. See website for details including how to register.
Contact: 775.329.3333, art@nevadaart.org

Sept. 13  -  Oct. 26 (event web site)
Halikonlahti Green Art: WATERWAYS
Location: Salo region - Finland.
Notes: The first exhibition of Halikonlahti Green Art in 2006 received a lot of interest. It was the first of a series of three exhibitions exploring Art and Ecology in the Baltic Sea Region. The upcoming exhibition in Sept-Oct 2008 will focus on WATER. WATERWAYS will be a mix of gallery works for the museum venue in Salo Art Museum and site-specific projects for rural landscapes. Curators Georg Dietzler and Tuula Nikulainen. Please see website for more information.
Contact: greenart@halikonlahti.net

Aug. 17  -  Feb. 1 (event web site)
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet
Location: Various locations, see website..
Notes: Human/Nature is a pioneering artist residency and collaborative exhibition project that, for the first time on this scale, uses contemporary art to investigate the relationships between fragile natural environments and the human communities that depend upon them.

This collaborative multi-year exhibition project sent eight leading artists to eight UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe to create new work informed and inspired by their experiences in these diverse cultural and natural regions. On view at MCASD through February 1, 2009, the exhibition features new commissioned, site-specific works by Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramirez ERRE, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater and Xu Bing created in response to their travels to these threatened sites. Human/Nature will also be on view at BAM/PFA from February 25 through June 28, 2009.
Contact: RareArt2008@gmail.com

Aug. 7 - 21 (event web site)
Muskwa-Kechika Artist and Naturalist Camps
Location: Muskwa-Kechika Information Office, C/O Muskwa-Kechika Advisory Board Coordinator, Suite 200, 9523-100th St., Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada V1J 4N4.
Notes: The M-K Artist Camp (August 7-14, 2008) and the M-K Naturalist Camp (August 14-21, 2008) seeks to raise awareness of the values of the Muskwa-Kechika and to allow artists and naturalists to broaden their knowledge of the land, water, plants, and animals critical to the ecosystem of the Muskwa-Kechika, in northern British Columbia. For more information on the camps, please visit the website.
Contact: T: (250) 262-0065, F: (250) 262-0077

Jul. 27  -  Aug. 17 (event web site)
SEEDS Festival 2008: Ecology
Location: 252 Prospect Street, Plainfield, MA 01070.
Notes: Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance, & Science (SEEDS) Festival invites a diverse group of artists, movement practitioners, architects, scientists, spiritual leaders and activists to creatively research ecology and experiential arts. At SEEDS, we will explore how physicality, practice and science-based inquiry inform one another, through collective experimentation. The festival, itself an ecosystem, will provide a rich nexus for dialogue, reflection and action.

The festival will host workshops, collaborative design projects, panel discussions, live performances, films and interdisciplinary investigations. You can participate in the whole festival, attend a portion, or create a proposal based on the calls that follow our festival mission. SEEDS 2008 will focus on ecology. In basic terms, ecology studies the interactions of organisms with their environment and with one other. It is a rich term because it highlights feedback and interdependence. Ecology invokes mind, matter and movement, revealing the connections between realms as diverse as the natural world, social landscapes, human behavior and imagination. Through the theme, SEEDS Festival intends to explore ecology both as a subject of inquiry, an approach and a metaphor, thereby inviting new applications of ecology to intermix with what we collectively know.
Contact: seeds@earthdance.net

Jul. 23  -  Aug. 19 (event web site)
Deedra Ludwig at the Centre d'Art i Natura
Location: Centre d'Art i Natura, Farrera Spain.
Notes: Centre d'Art i Natura artist in residence Deedra Ludwig will display works on paper that were created from soil pigments, plants, pollen and man made found objects collected in the Spanish Pyrenees. Also added to the paper are delicate drawings depicting native botanicals and a handwritten text of the emotional experience and bond with the landscape. Ludwig documents global environments through the use of non tradition materials with a focus on patterns of connectivity. Her works serve as documentation of environmental changes, shifts, flux and regeneration. Deedra is a graduate of University of Sussex, UK and holds an MFA in art history and currently resides in New Orleans, USA.

El Centre d'Art i Natura de Farrera is a work residence for artists and researchers from all over the world. Situated at an altitude of 1,360 m in the heart of the Catalan Pyrenees, 250 km from Barcelona and not far from Andorra, the village of Farrera (25 inhabitants) benefits from an exceptional and peaceful setting ideally suited to reflection, inspiration and creative work, whether individual or in a group.
Contact: Tel. +34 973 622106, artinatura@farrera.ddl.net

Jul. 18  -  Oct. 13 (event web site)
EARTH ART EXHIBIT
Location: Royal Botanical Gardens Centre, 680 Plains Road West, Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario, Canada, L7T 4H4.
Notes: Royal Botanical Gardens' Earth Art Exhibit showcases renowned Canadian and international artists who create one-of-a-kind environmental and ephemeral art installations throughout our cultivated gardens and natural lands. Ephemeral art utilizes natural materials and plants to create large- and small-scale installations in diverse indoor and outdoor sites. Landscape and art are inextricably linked, revealing new relationships between nature, landscape and the environment.

CURATED BY: John Grande, Canadian world renowned ephemeral art expert and author. Nils-Udo (Germany); Emilie Brzezinski (USA); Simon Frank (Canada); Neville Gabie (UK); Yolanda Gutierrez (Mexico); Ludwika Ogorzelec (Poland/France); Arthur de Mowbray (UK); Roy Staab (USA); Bob Verschueren (Belgium); Sharon Loper (USA). CONTRIBUTING CANADIAN ARTISTS: Arnold Shives, Michael Fromen, Ted Rettig.
Contact: 905-527-1158, 1-800-694-4769

Jul. 11  -  Nov. 1 (event web site)
Chris Drury: Examining Earth Works
Location: Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood Civic Center, 2nd Floor, 1000 Englewood Pkwy #2-230, Englewood, CO 80110 USA.
Notes: An overview of Chris Drury's work made outside with drawings, plans, photographs and videos. To coincide with the making of High Plains Cloud Chamber on a site in the city in September 2008.
Contact: 303-806-0444

Jul. 9 - 12 (event web site)
Artful Ecologies 2
Location: Various locations at University College Falmouth, UK.
Notes: The second Art, Nature & Environment conference organised and hosted by the RANE research cluster at University College Falmouth,in the UK, will take place over four days in July of this year. The conference aims to bring together some of the leading members of the artistic community and the growing community of artists and researchers already engaging with RANE, to consider and discuss how artists might best address current ecological concerns.

Since the successful inaugural Artful Ecologies conference in 2006, any doubts that our planet's ecology is now in real danger have been left far behind. Many now argue that we are on the verge of a crisis that could very soon turn to catastrophe. The number of different scenarios we now face, largely of our own making, all present harsh realities and paint bleak pictures of our future. These problems include the creation of a climate that will make large regions of the earth uninhabitable and force an unprecedented loss of species to rival the planet's previous mass extinctions. Within a generation, toxic levels of pollution and the predicted population explosion will begin to place huge demands on limited resources, with potential shortages of food and water making survival for many an impossibility. The magnitude of the task ahead is almost impossible to imagine, harder still to tackle.

Over the course of four days we will be asking whether there is a role for art to play in facing this impending ecological crisis. If, among other things, art is to be seen as a method for making sense of the world; as a means of interpretation and communication; as a way of exploring and proposing alternatives, then is there more for art to do than simply foreground the problems? What can artists do to provide solutions and address practical concerns? With our environment in crisis, what role for art? For more details on the conference, please visit website.
Contact: robin.hawes@falmouth.ac.uk

Jun. 30  -  Sept. 15 (event web site)
Horizons Rencontres Arts Nature / Horizons Arts in Nature Festival
Location: Auvergne region, in the Parc naturel regional des Volcans d'Auvergne nature reserve, France.
Notes: Horizons - Arts in Nature Festival is the second of a contemporary art event that derives its originality from the registration of short-lived visual works of art created specifically for the Sancy Massif.

The Sancy Massif Community of Municipalities was set up in 2000 and brings together 10 localities: La Bourboule, Chambon-sur-lac, Chastreix, Egliseneuve d'Entraigues, Le Mont-Dore, Murat-le-Quaire, Murol, Picherande, St Diery and Besse/ Saint-Anastaise - Super Besse. Sancy Tourist Office is qualified to organise community events. Through this festival, it hopes to make all kinds of people sensitive to contemporary art and to enhance the area through the creation of contemporary works. See website for more information.
Contact: n.fort@sancy.com

Jun. 22  -  Jul. 6 (event web site)
From Bauhaus to Social Sculpture: Summer Programme in Weimar
Location: Weimar-Jena-Akademie, Jakobstr. 10, D-99423 Weimar.
Notes: Comparing a historical cornerstone - the Bauhaus - to the contemporary concept of Social Sculpture, the course explores the following question: Can the shaping of humane societies be approached as an aesthetic challenge? The course includes processes and practices, where interdisciplinary artist and Beuys student Shelley Sacks, Director of the Social Sculpture Research Unit - the first centre for the exploration of Social Sculpture – will assist participants to access their individual and creative responses to this question. The whole programme is in English.

Weimar was not only the home of the Bauhaus, but also of Schiller (The Aesthetic Education of the Human Being) and Goethe (new organs of perception), both of whom are central to the development of a connective aesthetics and a holistic approach to being in the world. This is a special opportunity to explore social sculpture in relation to earlier experiments in Weimar that were investigating and renegotiating the relationship between life and art.

The Summer School has been very successful in drawing people from all over Europe, including north and south Eastern Europe. Contact between the participants and the potential it offers to develop dialogues and work across countries, is also a very important aspect of this international programme. So we are now running it in English to extend the programme to the English speaking world and to people from countries who do not speak German as a second language.
Contact: Tel: +49 (0) 3643 - 406 595, sommerkurse[at]gmx.de

Jun. 5 - 6 (event web site)
Free Soil Bus Tour No. 2
Location: San Jose, CA.
Notes: Join Free Soil on a journey through the history and currents of free education, counter-institutional movements and the economy of information in Silicon Valley + beyond. Come one, come all! It's the Free Soil Bus Tour! Wanna collect + examine microorganisms, learn the history of Google, how to cook on an engine, how to compost your own pee - all in the valley of heart's delight??? It's a 1.5-day tour leaving San Jose on the morning of June 5 and returning to San Jose mid-day on June 6, including an (optional) overnight stay. Please see website for details. Only 17 more slots! We'd love to see you.
Contact: info@futurefarmers.com

May 26  -  Jun. 6 (event web site)
Creating Nature: Art in the landscape
Location: Schumacher College, The Old Postern, Dartington, Devon, TQ9 6EA UK.
Notes: One or two week options. Teachers on this course, with participants, will explore unique ways to work within the landscape to create works of art that help our understanding and protection of nature and our enjoyment of art.

Susan Derges is a photographer. She has created a major commission for the Eden Project's new Education Resource Centre in Cornwall and has exhibited her work around the world. Lynne Hull has pioneered "trans-species" art, creating sculpture installations as wildlife habitat enhancement and eco-atonement for human impact. She has worked in the American West and eight other countries with a variety of wildlife agencies. James Marriott is a writer, artist, activist and naturalist. He is a Co-Director of PLATFORM, which since 1983 has brought together artists and activists to create projects and campaigns that help the struggle for ecological & social justice. This is a wonderful time of year to enjoy the delights of studying in and around Schumacher College. The course will give opportunity for inspiration and reflection in a context of the artistic heritage of Dartington. For further information on our courses, please see our website.
Contact: +44 (0) 1803 865 934, admin@schumachercollege.org.uk

May 24 - 25 (event web site)
CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO is proud to introduce ZONA VERDE !
Location: 17th Street, between Harrison and Treat Sts., San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Enter ZONA VERDE, a creative two-day explosion of education, celebration and healing dedicated to protecting our urban and natural environment. Join children and adults from a wide array of cultures to share, learn and explore ways of healing ourselves and our planet. Participate in an event that celebrates a sustainable and healthy future.

The best of renewable energy and green technology, Natural home products, Green building supplies, Alternative energy, Conservation techniques, Temporary gardens, Art installations, Interactive learning zone, Organic body and health products, 'Best of the Bay' massage groups and body workers, Natural remedies from around the world, Fair trade global merchandise: jewelry, clothing, and crafts, Organic food and specialty products, Yoga, dance, and martial arts classes and demonstrations, Sacred healing rituals, music, and performance, Meditation, Tribal DJs and much more!
Contact: 415-223-1832 or 415-931-9764

May 24  -  Jul. 12 (event web site)
Field Work
Location: SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 101-111, 1054 PD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Notes: Field Work aims to raise questions about contemporary perceptions and understandings of the natural environment, the ways in which we experience these, and how we gain knowledge about it. The works in the exhibition address a variety of perspectives such as the natural environment as a political construction, as an ideological or utopian projection of the future, and as capital resource. It has been argued (among others by Wallace Heim in her commentary on the Arts & Ecology series by the Royal Society of Arts) that 'nature' tends to be overlooked when arts and ecology are being discussed.

The project at SPS aims to connect this thematic to a parallel trajectory in which the notion of ecology is the focal point. This parallel trajectory will consist of an ongoing discussion (starting online and resulting in a small reader) between artists, curators and theoreticians. The discussion considers particular artistic and curatorial practices from the perspective of ecology, as a strategy rather than a 'thematic'. It will look at parallels between the current interdisciplinary perspective on ecology, and the idea that art production and curating is a cultural activity interwoven with other practices and disciplines. It will also look at parallels between an ecological way of gaining and generating knowledge and art production and curating as a form of knowledge production: ecology as a way of thinking, of engaging with the world rather than simply a theme. For further information, visit website.
Contact: info@smartprojectspace.net, Ph: +31 (0)20 4275951, Fx: +31 (0)20 4275953

May 23 (event web site)
Third Annual Balanced Rock Sculpture Workshops In Berkeley's ACCI Gallery Garden
Location: ACCI Gallery, in the garden, 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA (between Cedar and Virginia).
Notes: Two sessions: 12-1:30 p.m. and 4:30-6 p.m. (register for one session only). Artist Zach Pine will start with a brief demonstration and introduction to the physics, techniques and aesthetics of balanced rock sculptures. Then he'll invite you to work in a spirit of playful exploration while offering one-on-one instruction. No previous rock balancing experience is required. Everyone's work will be included in the online gallery Zach creates from workshop photos.

Each session is limited to five students, and ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Workshops have always been full, so early registration is recommended. Contact Zach to register. The workshop fee is $15 (one scholarship slot is available). All proceeds benefit ACCI through Berkeley Foundation for the Arts. Bring one rock (any size) to the workshop as a donation, and wear clothes that are suited to sitting on the ground while you work. For more information, photos from past years, and directions, see website.
Contact: Zach Pine, zpine@aol.com

May 23 - 24 (event web site)
Carnaval Mecanique
Location: SF Recycling & Disposal, 503 Tunnel Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.
Notes: Tinkerer and kinetic artist extraordinaire, Paul Cesewski recreates an old-fashioned carnival midway at the dump as the latest artist-in-residence at SF Recycling and Disposal. The exhibition will feature the ambiance of a carnival, employing a series of mechanically heavy-handed entertainment devices imbued with a lighthearted sense of nostalgia. Fri. 5-9 pm, Sat. 1-5 pm. Free.
Contact: dmunk@sfrecycling.com, (415) 330-1414

May 17 (event web site)
Mission Playground Pool + Mission Greenbelt
Location: San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Planting at Mission Playground Pool initiated by the Mission Greenbelt project: Come out and help us install 200 + native plants and protective fencing in the existing gardens at Mission Pool. This planting will be a fun and educational opportunity for volunteers to beautify the park, get to know fellow San Francisco residents and learn more about native plants. The planting will happen in tandem with the SFDPW Community Clean Team Day, and is made possible by a collaboration with Mission Pool Staff and the SFRPD, Nature in the City, Sunset Scavenger and volunteers. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Volunteers needed and appreciated, especially those skilled in landscaping and group facilitation. Also needed are snacks and drinks for the volunteers. The Mission Greenbelt project was initially conceived as living artwork made up of a continuous strip of sidewalk gardens. If this project is realized, sidewalk gardens will one day connect Franklin Square Park at 17th and Bryant to the schoolyard garden at John O'Connell High School to Alioto Park to Mission Playground Pool and finally into the heart of Dolores Park at 19th and Linda.
Contact: RSVP to Amber Hasselbring at (415) 786-4957, amber@art-eco.org

May 16 - 18 (event web site)
Steamboat Springs Artposium: Plains, Frames & Land Use Ideals
Location: Carpenter Ranch, Hayden, Colorado (near Steamboat Springs).
Notes: A Weekend for people who love art, writing, and the land. The Artposium is a two-day event exploring the intersection of writing, art and land use. The land stewardship theme will be explored from many different directions including: art, writing, planning and music. The fee includes six main-stage presentations, a choice of workshops, two continental breakfasts, two lunches and two receptions. Environmental artist, Matthew Moore, will show images from his previous projects that question the trading of agricultural lands for urban sprawl. He will also be discussing his new project created at Carpenter Ranch.

We have secure online registration, but if you don't like that new fangled stuff you can call Grant Pound (executive director) at 303.279.5198 or send us a check by mail. All proceeds support Colorado Art Ranch a non-profit arts organization exploring the intersection of art, writing and the land. Please visit website for more information.
Contact: 303.279.5198

May 16  -  Jul. 12 (event web site)
Axel Antas: Structures for the Unseen
Location: SPACEX 45 Preston Street, Exeter EX1 1DF, England.
Highlight: May, 16 2008: Exhibition preview 6 - 8 p.m.
Notes: This solo exhibition by Finnish artist Axel Antas consists of a new body of work including film, large scale drawings and a series of photographs taken in the harsh and vast Catalan Pyrenees. These pieces are shown alongside a selection of earlier works from Antas' 'Intervention' series. The 'Intervention' series feature photographs of low lying mist and clouds hovering in park landscapes. Antas explains that the clouds were artificially created, mimicking nature and momentarily changing the landscape which he captures in a single frame. Artist's Talk: Saturday July 5, 2008 2pm, free, booking essential. Axel Antas in conversation with writer and curator Liz Wells.
Contact: 01392 431786, mail@spacex.org.uk

May 15 - 17 (event web site)
Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice
Location: Santa Cruz, CA.
Notes: Interventionist practices use interruptions to question norms by using humor, surprise, and unusual associations to overturn assumptions about the world. Such practices work within societal structures to re-examine set ideas, subvert norms, map hidden systems and allow us to see and think in new ways.

The University of California Santa Cruz will host a three-day conference and month long series of interventionist exhibitions entitled Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice in May 2008. A series of exhibitions featuring the work of participating artists will run concurrently with the conference, hosted by: the Art department and the Sesnon Gallery at UCSC; the LAB, San Francisco; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose. Interruptions will foster exchange between scholars, innovative regional and international artists and curators, through panel presentations, performances and indoor and outdoor exhibitions. There will be a Wikipedia dedicated to real-time collaboration and exchange between participants. The conference will generate a publication documenting the scholarly and artistic work emerging from this event.

May 12 - 17 (event web site)
Humus Park: International Meeting of Land Art Artists and a Land Art Exhibition
Location: Comune di Pordenone, Humus Park, Italy.
Notes: Thirty artists coming from all over the world (Great Britain, Hungary, Slovakia, South Africa, Norway, French, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, U.S.A., Holland, Taiwan, Russia, Spain, Singapore) have one week to develop a project and build their land art works, using exclusively natural materials found on site, inside the "Parco del Seminario", a 19 hectares green island in between two arms of the Noncello River, an ancient commercial waterway used to join the Serenissima Republic of Venice.

Convention "Naturalmente Artistico" will happen on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 05:30 p.m. at Seminario Theatre (via del Seminario, 1). It is a special convention for Italian and foreign landscapers who make land projects, Landscape Architects, University Professors, Students, and for all that love and are interested in Art and Nature.

Also, a Land Art Exhibition will take place from May 17 to September 30, 2008 inside the Parco del seminario Vernissage. The works will stay in place where built during the summertime. You have the opportunity to witness Nature's artistic work, opposite the Artist's work; that is, you will be able to see the materials transform back to Nature. See website for more details.
Contact: attivitaculturali@comune.pordenone.it, Ph: 0039 (0)434 392917

May 9  -  Jun. 14 (event web site)
Up River: Points of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy
Location: PARC Foundation, 29 Bleeker Street, New York, NY 10012.
Notes: PARC Foundation presents an exhibit by The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) featuring aerial views of intriguing man-made landmarks, large and small, along this storied river. Gallery hours Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Accompanied by the book Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy, published by Blast Books.
Contact: 212-254-5445

May 9 - 28
A terrible beauty by Anne O'Byrne
Location: Town Hall Theatre Gallery, Galway, Ireland.
Notes: "A terrible beauty", an exhibition of new work by Anne O'Byrne delves deeply into her inquiry about how our surroundings impact on our psyche. Drawing her inspiration from the landscape, seascape, townscapes and riverscapes that surround her, Anne's abstract works are concerned with displacement and identity.

May 7 - 18 (event web site)
2nd Paricutin Volcano Festival of Earth Art
Location: Paricutin Volcano, Michoacan, Mexico.
Notes: The Paricutin Volcano Festival of Earth Art seeks to begin a process of democratization, promotion and production of artistic and cultural initiatives located in nature. Based in Michoacan, Mexico, this event will feature ephemeral artworks that reflect a respect for nature and are created on site.

May 7 - 31 (event web site)
Still Waters - Jane Ingram Allen + Marcia Widenor
Location: Tenri Gallery, Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A W. 13th Street, (near 6th Ave.) New York, NY 10011.
Notes: Jane's recent series of works about water and the environment are featured in this two-person exhibition in New York City. She will be doing site specific installations that emphasize the importance of water and the need to conserve water resources. For the installations Jane is using plant fiber handmade paper pulp containing seeds for wildflowers. All of the installations will be recycled into the earth after the exhibition to come back as living blooming wildflowers. Gallery Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 12 p.m.- 6 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos.
Contact: 212.645.2800

May 5 - 30 (event web site)
Treading Lightly: One Foot at a Time
Location: Waterfall Arts, Clifford Gallery, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine 04915.
Notes: Treading Lightly is in the Clifford Gallery- 300 exuberant works of art relating to the intersection of art+nature, all no larger than 1 cubic foot. Click through to the website to see our flickr slide show. Much of the work is for sale; proceeds support the youth scholarship program. Gallery is open from 10 to 5 Tuesday through Friday and Tues & Wed evenings.
Contact: (207) 338-2222, info@waterfallarts.org

May 4  -  Jul. 28 (event web site)
Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s
Location: SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY 11101.
Notes: SculptureCenter is pleased to present Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s, organized by guest curator Catherine Morris. This exhibition focuses on work by women artists who made significant contributions to the development of sculptural practice in the 1970s. They explored the formal constructs of Post-Minimalism: altering notions of sculptural scale, introducing non-traditional mediums, as well as adapting unusual landscape and interior sites. With Alice Adams, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Agnes Denes, Jackie Ferrara, Suzanne Harris, Nancy Holt, Mary Miss, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor.
Contact: info@sculpture-center.org

May 2 - 25 (event web site)
Michele Brody and Rachel Miller: Preservation
Location: chashasma Gallery, 112 West 44th Street, New York, NY.
Notes: chashasma is pleased to present PRESERVATION, a two-person exhibition featuring artists Michele Brody and Rachel Miller. Preservation will combine the work of these two mixed-media artists into a visceral experience of light, sound, space and time that focuses on their distinct methods of preserving the environment and memory.

Michele Brody will encompass the main gallery of chashama's space with an installation of quadrupeds composed of aluminum strips and hardware that will parade charges of floating plants suspended in tubes of nutrient enriched water. The essence of Michele Brody's work, entitled Garden Sentinels, is to understand how we live with change and the constant flux of our environment. By incorporating the growth of plants within a range of materials she wishes to express the meaning of change and transformation as witnessed in the actual life cycle of flora. She wishes to embed within the viewer a desire to be more aware of the tenuous relationship between ourselves, nature, and the urban environment and how we as individuals can make a difference.

Rachel Miller's work explores environmental and ecological patterns, and how they interconnect with our own patterns of growth, departure and rejuvenation. Using both the body and landscape as cynosure and subject, she explores the landscape's role as an active residence for both the living and the deceased. Her works, which include sculpture, installation, performance and costume, examine the constant resurfacing of the past, and its integration with the present. She coalesces topics from ritual, archeology, architecture, travel, textiles and nature. Tuesday-Wednesday 12pm - 7pm, Thursday-Sunday 12pm - 6pm.
Contact: 646-992-9924 or 248-808-5697

May 2 - 31 (event web site)
Natural World Museum International Art Exhibition: Art, Attitudes & Environment
Location: United Nations Visitors Lobby, United Nations Headquarters, First Avenue at 46th St., New York, NY 10017.
Notes: Please join the United Nations Department of Public Information, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Natural World Museum for this international seminar and exhibit launch as part of the Unlearning Intolerance seminar series and the global Art for the Environment Initiative.

Unlearning Intolerance: Art, Attitudes & Environment, is directly tied to the seminar, Unlearning Intolerance: Art Changing Attitudes Towards the Environment. The exhibition compliments and expands upon the ideologies presented at the seminar, such as the connections between art, action, and human security, or art as vehicles for environmental action. Seven artists representing six global regions present their art to generate dialogue as an alternative approach in strengthening community engagement in conservation and preservation.
Contact: events@naturalworldmuseum.org, Tel: +1 415 402 0583

May 2 - 31 (event web site)
Clyde Butcher Photographs
Location: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Hill-Snowdon Community Rooms, 700 South Dixie Highway, Suite 200, West Palm Beach, FL 33480.
Notes: Clyde Butcher captures the transcendent, natural beauty of Florida's rapidly disappearing landscape, particularly the Everglades and Big Cypress regions of Florida. The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties is pleased to present a unique opportunity to view and purchase these remarkable black and white landscape photographs. Hours: Tuesday through Sunday; 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment. A portion of the proceeds from all sales will benefit the Community Foundation's Environmental Endowment Fund.
Contact: info@cfpbmc.org, 561-659-6800

May 1 - 21 (event web site)
Blue Alchemy: A Group Exhibition Exploring the Contemporary Use of Woad
Location: Hive Gallery, 301 Jefferson St., Oakland, CA 94607.
Notes: Blue Alchemy presents a contemporary look at the use of Woad -- a natural pigment produced by the plant, Isatis Tinctoria. Cultivated as a textile dye since the prehistoric era, it fell out of favor around the 1850s when replaced by synthetic, coal tar-based colors. A resurgence of this natural pigment has occurred in the last few years with the desire for non-toxic, environmentally friendly materials. With Ellen Fader, Miriam Fagan, Elise Morris, Judi Pettite, Jessica Serran.

May 1  -  Jun. 7 (event web site)
Untitled (Ground) by Andy Graydon
Location: LMAKprojects (Chelsea), 526 West 26th Street, # 310, New York, NY 10001.
Notes: Untitled (Ground) is a series of new works incorporating photography, sound, and installation that continues Graydon's exploration of media in relation to the phenomenal, architectural, and social constructions that make up our composite notion of place. The latest in his series of "science-fiction ecologies", this work originates in the artist's birthplace on the islands of Hawaii. The islands constitute the "ground" of the show's title, with sound and image recordings forming a kind of informal field study of a place that is at once exotic and yet intimately familiar to the artist, where personal memories, associations and resonances are embedded in each location.

Andy Graydon lives and works in New York City. His work has recently been exhibited in Unmonumental at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2008; Displacement at Greenbelt, Brooklyn, 2008; Room Works at The Portland Art Center, Portland OR, 2007. Sound releases are forthcoming in 2008 from White_Line Editions (UK), and Leerraum (Switzerland). Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and by appointment. For more information, please visit our website.
Contact: info@lmakprojects.com, 212 255 9707

Apr. 27  -  Oct. 26 (event web site)
Nature & Sons
Location: Domaine du Chateau de Seneffe. Museum of Silversmithing , 6, rue Lucien Plasman, 7180 Seneffe.
Notes: You are invited to Nature & Sons, an exhibition at the Domaine du Chateau de Seneffe. These artists have chosen to make magic in an open-air museum. Well-being, tranquility, serenity and meditation in one of the most beautiful parks of the French Community. The soundscapes and plants intertwine, sculptures and acoustic surprises liven up the 22 acres of gardens in the Area of Seneffe. These unique, international creations pursue a goal: the love and respect of nature. Free to the public. Wtih Pierre Berthet, Christina Kubisch, Baudouin Oosterlynck, Paul Panhuysen, Erik Samakh, Bob Versechueren. See website for more details.
Contact: info@chateaudeseneffe.be

Apr. 22  -  May 21 (event web site)
ReVisions/SF: Drive-By Public Art Exhibit & Kids' Art Contest
Location: Located around the Bay Area & in the Thoreau Center of Sustainability, The Presidio of SF, Bldg 1014 (Lincoln Boulevard and Torney Avenue), San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Peter Schulberg, founder of the nonprofit Eco-LogicalART Gallery in L.A., is bringing his drive-by public art project to the San Francisco Bay Area for Earth Day. After discovering that used billboard vinyl is just thrown out, he found a way to recycle the vinyl, got artists to paint on the canvases, and began displaying the art on billboards.

There will also be a gallery opening in San Francisco on Earth Day and a kids' art contest. Along with the huge 14' by 48' pieces, 24 stunning smaller works of art on vinyl will be on exhibit at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability located in the historic Presidio. Eco-LA will simultaneously launch "Gimme Shelter Art!" an eco-art event for Bay Area middle- and high school students. The open call to young Bay Area artists (ages 12-18) seeks submissions of works themed "The World As I See It/World As I Hope It To Be." See website for details.
Contact: eco-la@sbcglobal.net, (310) 525-0676

Apr. 18  -  Sept. 1 (event web site)
Melting Ice / A Hot Topic
Location: Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL.
Notes: The Field Museum in Chicago is the first American venue to host Melting Ice / A Hot Topic. The Natural World Museum is very excited to bring the venue, not only to a US city, but to Chicago where Mayor Daly has made the environment an important part of the city's mission. Melting Ice / A Hot Topic launches on Earth Day, and bridges the six weeks to World Environment Day, as a "call to action" for people to personally commit to living environmentally friendly lives.

This exhibition addresses the theme of Climate Change from a global perspective - the melting and thawing of ice, snow and permafrost are environment-altering changes taking place around the world- from the Andes to the Himalayas to the melting ice caps of the Poles. This international contemporary art exhibition brings together 40 artists from around the world and is designed to generate awareness of global warming and climate change while inspiring positive change in people's attitudes and actions toward the environment.
Contact: 312.922.9410

Apr. 10  -  Jun. 30 (event web site)
Steel Trees - The Future? by Megan O'Beirne
Location: Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, Oxmantown Hall, Birr, Co. Offaly Ireland.
Notes: Steel Trees - the Future?, a solo exhibition of B&W photographs by Megan O'Beirne will be launched on Thursday 10th April at 7pm. at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre and will run until the end of June. The work is part of O'Beirne's research into erosion in the context of global warming and focuses specifically on the erosion of the lodge-pole pine resources of Alberta, Canada, due to the proliferation of the pine-beetle. The drama of this ecological disaster is emphasised by the contrast between the dying/dead organic trees and the architect -designed 'steel trees' installation in Calgary.
Contact: Tel: 057 9122911, Fax: 057 9122894, birrtheatre@eircom.net

Apr. 5  -  May 28 (event web site)
Sensing Nature; Knowing Nature
Location: Nilambur, Kerala, India.
Notes: Sensing Nature; Knowing Nature is an yearly two month long (April to May) workshop conducted in Kerala, India in a small village. The fundamental issues we raise through this event is the 'nature of learning', biologically embedded aesthetic sense in children, role of the 'teacher', do nothing method etc. It looks like we are already born with aesthetic sense. This is our connection to the world and the way we conduct our lives provided we leave that to the nature in all of us. The workshop on sensing nature is for providing space to come together to listen, to see, to taste, to touch, feel, to make etc. There is no teaching.
Contact: jinankb@yahoo.com

Apr. 1  -  Sept. 30 (event web site)
Red Earth's Long Shore Drift
Location: Dunwich Heath, Suffolk, UK.
Notes: Installation. Performance. Participation. April-September 2008. Site-specific installation and performance across a disappearing landscape. An exploration of the radical geological and climatic changes predicted to take place on Suffolk's fragile coastline. Events July 27/28, September 27, 2008.
Contact: contact@redearth.co.uk

Mar. 29  -  May 17 (event web site)
Field Work
Location: SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 101-111, 1054 PD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Notes: Field Work aims to raise questions about contemporary perceptions and understandings of the natural environment, the ways in which we experience these, and how we gain knowledge about it. The works in the exhibition address a variety of perspectives such as the natural environment as a political construction, as an ideological or utopian projection of the future, and as capital resource. It has been argued (among others by Wallace Heim in her commentary on the Arts & Ecology series by the Royal Society of Arts) that 'nature' tends to be overlooked when arts and ecology are being discussed.

The project at SPS aims to connect this thematic to a parallel trajectory in which the notion of ecology is the focal point. This parallel trajectory will consist of an ongoing discussion (starting online and resulting in a small reader) between artists, curators and theoreticians. The discussion considers particular artistic and curatorial practices from the perspective of ecology, as a strategy rather than a 'thematic'. It will look at parallels between the current interdisciplinary perspective on ecology, and the idea that art production and curating is a cultural activity interwoven with other practices and disciplines. It will also look at parallels between an ecological way of gaining and generating knowledge and art production and curating as a form of knowledge production: ecology as a way of thinking, of engaging with the world rather than simply a theme. See website for more information.
Contact: info@smartprojectspace.net, Ph: +31 (0)20 4275951, Fx: +31 (0)20 4275953

Mar. 23  -  Jun. 30 (event web site)
Trade Talk - Part of Allan Kaprow, Art as Life
Location: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90013.
Notes: Experience, participation, reflection, and memory are elusive aspects of Allan Kaprow's art, which are framed via this installation by artist Suzanne Lacy, architect Michael Rotondi, and media producer Peter Kirby. Referring to Kaprow's intimate 1988 artwork Trading Dirt, this reinvention invites private and public reflections - a collection point for the experiences of those who have taken part in Kaprow's Happenings, Environments, and Activities - as told by the participants themselves.

In this new MOCA installation, a circle of chairs with overhead light bulbs is reminiscent of Kaprow's practice of inviting participants to debrief with each other after a just-completed Happening. These chairs will be the site for group conversations and planned reflections. At various times throughout the exhibition, groups who have reinvented Kaprow's Happenings, Activities, and Environments will sit in these chairs and publicly discuss their experiences. Phone booths, a symbol of communication or, often, miscommunication, were part of many of Kaprow's projects. Here, the phone booth allows museum visitors who have participated in an Allan Kaprow art work - from the 1960s to the present - to join the audio archive and help chart the ephemeral ways Kaprow's works have entered the space of memory, changing the course of artists' work and people's lives.

Consult the web site for a schedule of appearances by Rosana Albertini, David Antin, Eleanor Antin, Mary Beebe, Nancy Buchanan, Diane Calder, Dorit Cypis, Brian Dick, Roy Dowell, Newton and Helen Harrison, Coryl Crane Kaprow, Peter Kirby, John Malpede, Vaughan Rachel, Robert Sain, Sylvia Simpson, Judith Hoffberg, Peter Frank and Daniel Schmidt, among others.
Contact: 213/626-6222

Mar. 20  -  May 16 (event web site)
Myca of Twin Peaks by Janet Kessler
Location: Seed Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, The Presidio, 1016 Lincoln Blvd., San Francisco, CA.
Notes: The Seed Gallery at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability is pleased to exhibit "Myca of Twin Peaks," a photographic exhibit by Janet Kessler. Last summer Kessler photographed a wild coyote she spotted on Twin Peaks and named her Myca. Kessler's photographs capture her fondness for Myca and her appreciation for the wilderness that exists in parts of our urban landscape. 9 - 5 weekdays. Free.
Contact: 415-561-7823, bruce@thoreau.org

Mar. 15  -  Aug. 2 (event web site)
Susan Beiner: Synthetic Reality
Location: Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ.
Notes: Synthetic Reality is the most ambitious installation of Susan Beiner, faculty member of the ceramics department at ASU Herberger College School of Art. The room-sized project explores the artist's concerns of genetically altered foods, cloned animals and the hybridization of the material world. Crossing the boundaries of conventional ceramics, Beiner's focus is making what is organic synthetic. Synthetic Reality uses encrusted walls, floors and ceiling space to surround the viewer in an imagined world of manufactured, hybridized life. Tuesday through Saturday from 11am to 5pm, and Sunday 1pm to 5pm, closed Monday.
Contact: spiak@asu.edu

Mar. 8  -  Jun. 1 (event web site)
Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress
Location: Wave Hill, 675 West 242nd Street, Bronx, NY.
Notes: Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress calls attention to the indelible impact of human activity on the environment from the Arctic to the Equator. The featured artists have traveled widely to examine the fragility of varied landscapes. Artists include Edward Burtynsky, Sasha Bezzubov, Gilles Mingasson, Joan Perlman, Wout Berger, Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project, Travis Roozee, Sergio Vega. See website for details including various Public Programs.
Contact: (718) 549-3200

Mar. 5  -  Jun. 8
Shake before Using
Location: Lower East Room, ARTIUM de Alava, Vitoria Gastiez, Spain.
Notes: With artists Hanra Abbas, Jean Michel Alberola, Catherine Bertola, Chris Drury, Katharina Grosse, Maider Lopez, George Machi, Merzyk & Moriceau, Robert Waters.

Mar. 2  -  Aug. 8 (event web site)
Water: The Common Experience
Location: The Gallery of Common Experience, Mitte Honors Forum, Lampasas, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666.
Notes: The Gallery of the Common Experience presents the art exhibit Water: The Common Experience. The exhibit will feature artwork from artists from several states and several countries, as well as selected student artwork.
Contact: (512) 245.2266

Feb. 28  -  May 18 (event web site)
GREENWASHING. Environment: Promises, Perils and Perplexities
Location: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo centre for contemporary art, via Modane 16, Turin, Italy.
Notes: Greenwashing presents the work of 25 international artists and artist-groups whose practice suggests that the literalism embedded in old-fashioned concepts such as 'environmentalism' and 'nature' are not equipped to comprehend the ecological territory of our time. Today we negotiate an evermore urgent and pervasive ecological (and thereby cultural, political, social and economic) arena that is darkly shadowed by potentially catastrophic ecosystemic collapse. In the face of a constant bombardment of eco-economic guilt, corporate agendas and political point-scoring, what might emerge is genuine perplexity and false promises, though still possibly capable of unleashing creative change.

The artists presented in Greenwashing adopt process-based and speculative approaches in their work which articulate energy and material transformations, fundamental ecological processes. Likewise, several works in the exhibition consider repositories of energy - whether waste, water, oil in ways that reveal previously obscured patterns, while similarly 'upcycling' meaning.
Contact: helen.weaver@fondsrr.org, +44 (0)7772 159219

Feb. 18  -  May 18 (event web site)
Josh Green: Some Parts Might Be Greater Than the Whole
Location: Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Mill Avenue and 10th Street, Tempe, AZ.
Notes: San Francisco-based artist Josh Greene will be the second artist in residence for the Social Studies initiative of the ASU Art Museum, an exhibition series in which the Museum turns over a complete gallery to an artist to explore their social interactive approach. Greene's Some Parts Might Be Greater than the Whole is an exploration of how and where inspiration is found.

Through community engagement, the artist will use the "safe zone" of the Museum gallery to allow relationships to move forward and develop. Unlike traditional public space in the United States where contact and relationship building with strangers is often contrary to social norm, or even a traditional Museum exhibition in which interactions mostly occur between viewer and object, the space provided will be continually adjusted by Greene to encourage social interactions. Through this community engagement, one of the most important ASU commitments, the results of these interactions will take the work and the artist beyond the Museum's traditional exhibition structure.
Contact: 480-965-2787

Feb. 17  -  Aug. 17 (event web site)
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
Location: Walker Art Gallery, Target Gallery, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Notes: Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the contemporary American suburb and its catalytic role in the creation of new art, premieres at the Walker Art Center. Worlds Away features more than 75 works-paintings, photographs, prints, architectural models, sculptures, and videos-addressing commonly held assumptions about the origins, demographic composition, persistence, and sustainability of the suburban landscape.

Some 30 artists and architects draw inspiration from, provoke discussion about, or cast either an appreciative or critical eye on today's suburbs. The exhibition co-curators are Andrew Blauvelt, Walker design director and curator, and Tracy Myers, curator of architecture at Carnegie's Heinz Architectural Center. Featuring artwork by Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Catherine Opie, Matthew Moore and Edward Ruscha, among others, and architectural projects by firms such as Fashion.Architecture.Taste, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, MVRDV, and Estudio Teddy Cruz.
Contact: info@walkerart.org, 612.375.7600

Oct. 25  -  Sept. 30 (event web site)
The Seed Project - A Global Environmental Installation
Location: Winkleman Gallery, 637 West 27th St, Ste A, Between 11th and 12th Aves, New York, NY.
Notes: The Seed Project Exhibition will be opening at Winkleman gallery in Chelsea and will feature artwork from over 140 artists from around the globe. The Seed Project began in March 2006 by David Cohen, a Brooklyn based artist who used crowd sourcing to find artists and activists to plant wheat grass seeds creating individual art projects from what was grown. The result is a "Virtual Field," and was published in the Seed Issue of Artworld Digest Magazine. The project has continued to grow and currently the seeds can be purchased in Wholefoods, throughout New York, Conneticut and New Jersey.

The Seed Project is intended to solve environmental and social problems. It is a bridge between art and the environment as well as a creative cultural reclamation of our stewardship of the earth. The strategy is for individuals planting and re-foresting the earth to fight global warming and to create a global network of concerned citizens and activists. Seed collectives are a way for individual artists to create cultural capital by networking with other artists and allows them to take ownership as well as collaborate with the group to see these visions come to reality. The project fosters the creative act and encourages a widening cultural identification with artists, encompassing all people who have creative power.
Contact: T: 212.643.3152

Feb. 16  -  Jul. 31 (event web site)
Paradise Lost? Exhibitions and Educational Forums on Climate Change in the Northwoods
Location: Various locations.
Notes: In 2006, 20 Midwest artists gathered with 13 scientists and educators to discuss the science of climate change. They created a traveling exhibition of artworks, poetry, and music coupled with scientific information to increasing public awareness of the impact of climate change on northern ecosystems and actions we can take. These pieces are being assembled into an exhibit along with related scientific information and visuals. The exhibit will travel to the following locations:
Nicolet Community College, Rhinelander, WI- Feb 16 - March 19 (Opening Reception - Feb. 17)
Gogebic Community College, Ironwood, MI- March 31-April 19 (Reception - March 31)
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, WI- May 5-July 31 (Reception - May 5th)
North Lakeland Disc. Center, Manitowish Waters, WI- August 17-20
Omphale Gallery, Calumet, MI- Sept 15-Oct 20(Reception - Sept. 15)
Contact: klebesadel@tds.net

Past Events

May 8, 2008 (event web site)
United Nations Unlearning Tolerance Seminar: Art Changing Attitudes Toward the Environment
Location: United Nations Headquarters, First Avenue at 46th St., New York, NY 10017.
Notes: Please join the United Nations Department of Public Information, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Natural World Museum for this international seminar and exhibit launch as part of the Unlearning Intolerance seminar series and the global Art for the Environment Initiative.

Opening remarks and Session 1 Moderator: Kiyotaka Akasaka, UN Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information. Artist Seminar Panelists: Noor Al-Bastaki, El Anatsui, Subhankar Banerjee, Catherine Chalmers, Ichi Ikeda, Philippe Pastor and Cecilia Paredes. Expert Panelists: Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Elisabeth Guilbaud-Cox, Deputy Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office North America. Session 1: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm. Session 2 Moderator: Eric Falt, Director, Outreach Division, United Nations Department of Public Information. Session 2: 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm. REGISTRATION 9:00 am - 9:45 am. Online Pre-Registration Required.
Contact: RSVP for the Seminar: unchronicle@un.org Tel: 917 367 9326/3030

May 8, 2008 (event web site)
Seminar: Unlearning Intolerance - Art Changing Attitudes Towards the Environment
Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
Notes: Join NWM and the United Nations for the 6th seminar of the United Nations Department of Public Information's Unlearning Intolerance series. Two panels of international artists and UN experts will discuss: Confronting Environmental Intolerance: Art, Action and Human Security; and Art for Change: Vehicles for Environmental Action. Admission is FREE.

May 3 - 4, 2008 (event web site)
Force of Nature: Celebrating the Earth
Location: St. Luke in the Fields Church, 487 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.
Notes: Melodia Women's Choir, the acclaimed 32-member ensemble of singers and instrumentalists now celebrating their fifth year, will perform "Force Of Nature: Celebrating the Earth," music about the natural world. Composers represented include Samuel Barber, Zoltan Kodaly, and composers from Great Britain, Asia and Latin America.
Contact: (212) 252-4134

Apr. 27, 2008 (event web site)
Art to Action on Forest Terrace Trail
Location: Meet at Corner of Meernaa Ave and Forest Terrace, Fairfax, CA 94930.
Notes: A Community Work Party and Art-In-Nature Event in Partnership with Marin Ayurveda, Fairfax Volunteers & Sustainable Fairfax. Discover, renovate, create, celebrate and feast in nature! FREE! 9:30 - 10:00: Meet (free coffee) at the corner of Meernaa Ave and Forest Terrace, Fairfax.

10:00 - 11:00: Trail restoration including brush clearing and step building.
11:00 - 12:00: Use cleared brush and other found natural materials to create temporary nature sculptures with environmental artist Zach Pine.
12:00 - 1:00: Picnic lunch (bring your own). For more information, including a map to the location, visit the website and look under "NEWS."
Contact: zpine@aol.com

Apr. 25 - 26, 2008
GREENING THE ARTS: A Symposium to Explore a Role for the Arts in Creating a Sustainable World
Location: Ithaca, NY.
Notes: Artists, educators and activists invited to explore 1.) what IS 'green' art? and 2.) what role can it play in creating sustainable communities? An informal panel, participant post-it thoughts, and an Open Space will lay groundwork for regional (NYS) and global(UN/DESD) next steps. Write-in thoughts welcome. Post-event CD available on request. Open Space outcomes will be posted at uspartnership.org. Part of Ithaca, New York's Earth Week Celebration.
Contact: levelgreeninstitute@yahoo.com

Apr. 24, 2008
SDSU Visiting Artist Presentation: Amy Balkin
Location: San Diego State University, ART 512B, San Diego, CA.
Notes: Kim Stringfellow will host a lecture by San Francisco based multimedia/activist artist, Amy Balkin on Thursday, April 24th 2008 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in ART 512B. If you would like to visit the campus to attend this presentation please contact Kim Stringfellow at mail@kimstringfellow.com for information on parking before Thursday, the 24th.

Amy Balkin is a San Francisco based artist whose recent body of work focuses on how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit. Her projects include Invisible 5, a collaborative critical audio tour of the I-5 corridor between SF and LA produced with artists Kim Stringfellow and Tim Halbur with environmental justice group, Greenaction [www.greenaction.org]; This is the Public Domain [www.thisisthepublicdomain.org], an effort to create a permanent international commons from 2.5 acres of land located near Tehachapi, CA, via legal transfer to the global public. Other recent projects include Public Smog [publicsmog.org], which examines the commodification of the atmosphere, through the economic mechanism of carbon trading.
Contact: mail@kimstringfellow.com

Apr. 24, 2008 (event web site)
Earthworks Landmark Hearing
Location: City Hall Council Chambers, 220 4th Avenue S., Kent, WA USA.
Notes: Please join us at 5:00 p.m. for a public hearing on the historical significance of Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park by Herbert Bayer. The Earthworks must meet the criteria of "exceptional significance" to be designated a Kent Landmark. We invite you to share your stories and thoughts about what makes the Earthworks "exceptional" with the Landmarks Commission.

Directly preceding the public hearing, a tour of the Earthworks will begin at 4:00. Meet at the historic plaque near the west entrance and parking lot, 742 E Titus, Kent, Washington. The Earthworks, designed in the early 1980s by internationally renowned artist Herbert Bayer, is a sculpted landscape that functions as a water detention dam for Mill Creek.

Apr. 22 - 26, 2008 (event web site)
Ecocity World Summit
Location: San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Throughout Earth Day Week in San Francisco, California, the Ecocity World Summit (7th International Ecocity Conference) will be convening an international community of inspired change-makers; courageous individuals who are addressing problems of the world's environment with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable, ecologically healthy and socially just.

Ecocity World Summit puts the largest things humans create - the built environment of cities, towns and villages - squarely within the context of the triple crisis of peak oil, species extinction and climate change. It focuses on how we can redesign the built environment so that it works for everybody, not just the few, and is contributing to biodiveristy on the planet, not destroying it. Space is nearly full for the Full Conference. Main Conference registration availability is still plentiful. We have opened up the Main Hall Sessions at Nob Hill Masonic Center for Day Passes on April 24-26th. Exhibitor Space has sold out. See website for complete details.
Contact: 510.419.0850, kleighmi@flash.net

Apr. 22, 2008
The Last Dance
Location: New Federal Building Plaza, 7th and Mission Street, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Inspired by the dance instruction prints made by Andy Warhol, footprints will be arranged on the plaza representing the ecological footprints of some 70 nations. The ecological footprints will be cut from recycled carpet padding that is composed of post-consumer mixed foams and fibers each to a size representing the quantity of resources used by that country. The Last Dance will show that we are all partners on this planet but, some of us have way bigger feet. It will exemplify the disparity hopefully, in a fun way; that we are all need to watch our steps and that we all are dancing together. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Contact: 415 626 5496, judith@sfelectricworks.com

Apr. 20, 2008 (event web site)
Headlands Center for the Arts Spring 2008 Open House
Location: Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965.
Notes: Just three times per year Headlands Center for the Arts invites you behind the studio doors of its world renowned Artist in Residence program to witness the creative process of writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists of all kinds. This spring welcomes a diverse group of individuals from the Eastern, Southern, Western and Midwestern United States, as well as guests from Sweden, Korea, Japan, Finland and Germany, all of whom meditate on, and create work about, environmental, national, physical, cultural, communal and aesthetic issues.

So, come visit our charming and historic 1907-era buildings, listen to fiction/non-fiction readings, discuss works-in-progress with artists, see musical/dance performances and enjoy a delicious locally grown lunch prepared by Chef Juliette Delventhal in the Mess Hall. Some of the Bay Area's best artists and performers have honed their chops at the Headlands Center for the Arts and its open house events are a great opportunity to see what's new in the arts and who's going to be the next big thing. 12 - 5 p.m. FREE admission. Mess Hall Cafe Open from Noon - 4:30PM.
Contact: (415) 331-2787

Apr. 19, 2008 (event web site)
Public Art in a Nutshell
Location: Seattle Public Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA.
Notes: Public Art in a Nutshell is designed for visual artists interested in an introduction to working in public art. Experienced public artists will discuss the skills and strategies they draw upon to realize creative and successful projects for public spaces. 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panelists are Cheryl dos Remedios, Carolyn Law and Horatio Hung-Yan Law. To register contact Eleanor Beerman, (206) 233-3930. Cheryl dos Remedios' public artwork is located at Seahawk Stadium, Harborview Medical Center and the Kent train corridor. She endeavors to focus public attention on cultural landscapes through site-specific events. As a member of the 4Culture Public Art Advisory Committee, dos Remedios has reviewed over 30 public art projects.

Carolyn Law has worked on individual and design team public art projects for over 20 years. Her projects include a central park plaza in Santa Cruz, Calif., a pedestrian bridge in Scottsdale, Ariz., and artwork for a Seattle trolley line, and artworks integrated into a subsidized King County housing re-development. Horatio Hung-Yan Law's artwork includes mixed media installations, public art projects and community residencies. Law uses common cultural artifacts to explore issues of identity, memory and cross-cultural struggle in the evolving global community.
Contact: Eleanor Beerman, (206) 233-3930, eleanor.beerman@seattle.gov

Apr. 19, 2008 (event web site)
CLIMATE DAY FOR KIDS at Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park
Location: Olympic Sculpture Park, PACCAR Pavilion, 2901 Western Ave., Seattle, WA 98121.
Notes: Kick off Earth Day at SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park!
* Learn strategies for reducing your family's climate footprint.
* Create your own critter out of soil.
* Take a muddy pledge.
* Enjoy storytime and games.
* Pick up your own home energy kit.

This event features activities from the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, CoolMom.org, IslandWood, King County Metro, MudUp (Alliance for Puget Sound Shorelines), SAM TASTE, Seattle Climate Action Now (City of Seattle), Seattle Green Schools, SPOKESPEOPLE, and the University of Washington's Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Program on Climate Change. Free and open to the public. Noon - 3 p.m.
Contact: 206.654.3100

Apr. 19, 2008 (event web site)
Fourth Annual Earth Day Celebration at Stinson Beach: Artists Gathering to Celebrate the Earth (p.s. Everyone is an Artist)
Location: South end of Stinson Beach, CA 94970.
Notes: Saturday April 19, 2008, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Come anytime, free and open to the public! Celebrate Earth Day by creating art on the beach! Join in as community members, professional artists, and passers-by construct sculpture using sand, rocks, shells, seaweed and other beach treasures. The gathering will take place rain, shine, or fog. Beach cleanup is part of the event. Bring a bag or gloves if you wish. To learn more about the event, see photos from past years, or form a carpool, click the link under "NEWS" on the website.
Contact: 510-708-5528, zpine@aol.com

Apr. 19, 2008 (event web site)
Ecolution
Location: Mattress Factory Art Museum, 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15212.
Notes: Ecolution is Pittsburgh's first "green" Earth Day event at the Mattress Factory Art Museum on Saturday, April 19th. A VIP Reception hosted by Bob Sendall from All in Good Taste Productions will feature organic foods and an open bar beginning at 6p. The main event will begin at 7p until 11p. Enjoy an evening of music by DJ Soy Sos and organic food from Giant Eagle Market District and Mung Dynasty presented by All in Good Taste Productions, and eco-friendly cocktails provided by Rain Vodka, Rhum Clement, and Great Lakes Brewery.

Other entertainment includes an eco-fashion show and Elements performance including Umoja African Drummers, dancers from Bodiography, and Lady J. the Fire Eater. Ecolution's Mindful Marketplace will offer a unique interactive experience. Vendors will share their green message and feature silent auction items benefiting the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. To learn more and to purchase tickets please visit the website.
Contact: T: 412.231.3169, info@mattress.org

Apr. 18 - 20, 2008 (event web site)
Green Apple Festival
Location: Various locations, visit website..
Notes: The third annual Green Apple Festival, produced in partnership with Earth Day Network, announces "America's largest Earth Day celebration" - a weekend of music and environmental awareness culminating on Sunday, April 20th with eight free festivals occurring simultaneously at landmark locations across the U.S.

Approximately 500,000 people are expected to attend the all-inclusive, interactive and free public events in New York City (Central Park), Washington, DC (The National Mall), Chicago IL (Lincoln Park Zoo), Miami FL (Bicentennial Park), Denver CO (City Park), Dallas TX (Fair Park), San Francisco CA (Golden Gate Park) and Los Angeles CA (Santa Monica Pier).

Earth Day Network, the non-profit organization created by the original founders of Earth Day in 1970, and Green Apple Festival are proud to announce that the National Mall event in Washington, DC alone will bring together world environmental leaders, community activists, A-list talent and crowds in the hundreds of thousands to make this one of the largest Earth Day gatherings in U.S. history. See website for details.

Apr. 17, 2008 (event web site)
ATHENAEUM PRESENTS How We Choose to Live: Remapping Perspectives
Location: 1008 Wall St., La Jolla, CA 92037.
Notes: The next installment in the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library's Dialogues in Art and Architecture series will feature a discussion among Alexis Bhagat, writer, sound artist and activist; Oscar Romo, who coordinates the Coastal Training Program at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve; and Christina Ulke, a public artist based in L.A and co-editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; moderator, Richard Farson, Ph.D, is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and educator, and president of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute.

Dialogues in Art and Architecture is a program of free public talks on the experimental edge of new art and architecture. The series is coordinated by the Athenaeum with artist and environmental sculptor Joyce Cutler-Shaw. The programs are co-sponsored by the San Diego New School of Architecture (affiliated with the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture), the Council of Design Professionals and the San Diego Architectural Foundation.
Contact: kmeek@ljathenaeum.org, cfeye@ljathenaeum.org, (858) 454-5872

Apr. 16 - 17, 2008 (event web site)
GRASSROOTS: Green Art and Ecology Conference
Location: Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.
Notes: GRASSROOTS is a 2-day conference, a public forum for discovering and debating the wide field of art and ecology today with renowned and specialist speakers leading the way. You don't need to be a specialist, just come with an open and inquiring mind. GRASSROOTS is a meeting place for people who seek motivation, inspiration, critical discussion and creative interaction (workshops). Audiences explore on the edge cooperation and regional development through arts and ecology.

Some folks, though, are working towards a different aesthetic. Artistic practice aims to offer interpretations and models of thinking about the natural world, suggesting an ecological and ethical perspective that helps to promote a sustainable future. Furthermore people in different disciplines are seeking ways to make what's good for our communities and ecosystems work better and resonate more effectively. GRASSROOTS takes us beyond passive care and into the realm of creative action, towards changing the way we think about our environment - from vision to commitment. CONFERENCE FEE: 20 Euros for whole conference, 10 Euros for one day, students -50%.
Contact: Booking essential through Leena Suominen, leena.suominen@msl.fi

Apr. 14 - 17, 2008 (event web site)
Resilience 2008: Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times
Location: Aula Magna Lecture Hall, University of Stockholm and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Notes: The aim of "Resilience, adaptation and transformation in turbulent times - preparing for change in social-ecological systems" is to bring together scientists working with the complex dynamics of interconnected social-ecological systems and to present, discuss, and if possible, summarise the current understanding of resilience, adaptability and pathways of transformation in such systems.

Representatives from government, business and other major actors will be invited to discuss the challenges facing societal development, and together with scientists propose directions to go and pathways to avoid. To explore this further and to complement and enhance the scientific symposium, there will be a Resilience Art Exhibition, a joint project of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, through Mejan Labs in Stockholm and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through the Beijer Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in collaboration with the Resilience Alliance. Please see website for more information.
Contact: chris@beijer.kva.se

Apr. 12, 2008 (event web site)
Make Nature Sculpture with Zach Pine at the 2008 Wildflower Celebration
Location: Ulistac Natural Area, Lick Mill Boulevard, between Hope Dr. and Tasman Dr., Santa Clara, CA.
Notes: A nature sculpture arena has recently been designated within the 40-acre Ulistac Natural Area. As part of the annual Wildflower Celebration from 10 am to 2 pm, Zach Pine will be collaborating with visitors of all ages, making spontaneous creations in and with nature. Last year's event, which drew over 300 people, featured music, speakers, and environmentally-oriented activities for all ages. For more information, including a map to the location, visit the event website.
Contact: zpine@aol.com

Apr. 12, 2008 (event web site)
1st Annual WAMMFest (Women & Minorities in Media Festival) featuring screening of "Black Diamonds"
Location: Main Stage, Center for the Arts building, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD.
Notes: Come celebrate the works of women and minorities working in media at the first annual WAMMFest on Saturday, 4/12 from 5:30 - 10 or 11PM. The event is free and open to all, and will include a reception. 5:30 - 7:00 Student audio and video works from Towson University and from various Baltimore City and Baltimore County high schools; 7:00 - 8:00 Reception; 8:00 Screening of "Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice" along with a talk and Q&A by our featured media artist Catherine Pancake. The event will be held at the Main Stage in the Center for the Arts building at Towson University. Please join us at WAMMFest @ 5:30PM, as we celebrate and encourage diversity in media!!

Apr. 5 - 28, 2008 (event web site)
Claudia Chapline, Wetlands Paintings
Location: Claudia Chapline Gallery, 3445 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, CA 94960.
Notes: Claudia Chapline shows her Wetlands Paintings on canvas and paper at her gallery in Stinson Beach, CA. The exhibition includes six new works on paper painted in response to the Coco Buson oil spill in the San Francisco Bay last year. "The beauty of nature inspires my art. The Bolinas Lagoon is one of the few remaining salt water estuaries in the United States. My Wetlands series of acrylic paintings on canvas, plastic and paper are abstract interpretations of the fragile and continually changing coastal atmosphere of the surrounding lagoon, marshlands and beach. Layers of color washes work on the painting in a process similar to that of natural forces of wind, water, and fog. The paintings are atmospheric and topographical.

My paintings pay homage to the beauty of the fragile and endangered coastal landscape of Northern California. Natural wetlands that provide sanctuary for much wildlife have been largely destroyed by development in the U.S.A. About 40,000 acres of coastal wetlands providing essential spawning, feeding and nursery areas for three-fourths of U.S. commercial fish catches are disappearing each year, according to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. I believe in returning energy to the source. Therefore, funds from the sale of my Wetlands paintings will be donated to the Bolinas Lagoon Foundation to support the preservation of the Bolinas Lagoon." Hours: Saturday - Sunday 12 - 5 P.M. & by Appointment
Contact: 415-868-2308

Apr. 5 - 6, 2008 (event web site)
ECO Film Festival of Massachusetts
Location: In and around Beverly, MA.
Notes: The ECO film festival represents a new kind of film festival that is dedicated to increasing awareness about environmental issues and how our daily choices can have a profound affect on the quality of our air, water and land. The mission of the ECO film festival is to present thought-provoking films that educate and motivate each one of us to reduce pollution and waste and to protect our environment.

The weekend will feature nine films shown in various locations throughout Beverly, Massachusetts, along with special festival events. On Saturday the day and evening events take place at the Wylie Conference Center located on Edicott College campus. A Green Lounge will feature companies and grass roots organizations supporting the preservation of our environment.

Saturday night is the Gala Party to benefit Solar Now, the oldest solar site in the U.S., located next to Beverly High School. On Sunday you can enjoy a guided tour of Solar Now, followed by a movie, and then lunch at one of the local restaurants and cafes featuring organic and locally produced menus. Children's activities with educational films and games will be offered throughout the weekend. Sunday night the festival wraps up with an Art and Wine Reception at Montserrat College of Art entitled: "It's Getting Hot in Here".
Contact: Ph: 978 590 9212, lisa@mangonetworks.com

Apr. 4, 2008 (event web site)
Fifth Annual EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Location: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607.
Notes: You're Invited! Please join us for an evening of unexpected delights:
7 p.m. Wine, Cheese, & Chocolate Reception
7:30 p.m. 90 minutes of weird and wonderful environmental films
9:30 p.m. 90 minutes of more weird and wonderful environmental films
Free with Museum Admission ($8 general, $5 students & seniors).

EarthDance is not your average film festival. Our 20 short films (30 seconds to 30 minutes each) are a fun, funny, and provocative lot. Compiled into 2 - 90 minute blocks, our juried compilation of comedies, documentaries, animations, and adventures invite you to laugh and celebrate your relationship to the natural world. We are proud that our unique films help individuals to feel connected to and inspired by a growing community of people who are actively engaged with the planet - from business people making green from going green, to artists, designers, and architects inspired by the natural world, to extreme athletes and comedians sweating and poking fun at green. Whoever said you had to sacrifice entertainment for ecology?
Contact: 510.701.4019, zakzide@yahoo.com

Apr. 2 - 28, 2008 (event web site)
Antarctica: A Heartbeat of the Earth
Location: Beaux Arts, 22 Cork Street, London W1S 3NA.
Notes: An exhibition showcasing the work of Chris Drury. Gallery hours Monday to Friday 10 - 5.30, Saturday 10 to 1.30.
Contact: Ph: +44 (0)20 7437 5799, info@beauxartslondon.co.uk

Apr. 2, 2008
Public Lecture by Agnes Denes
Location: Marywood University Learning Resource Center, Room 160, 2300 Adams Ave., Scranton, PA 18509.
Notes: The Fresh Perspectives-New Solutions Environmental Artist Program offers a free public lecture by Agnes Denes, one of the early pioneers of the environmental art movement, on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:00 p.m., Marywood University Learning Resource Center, Room 160. The series is supported by the Willary Foundation.
Contact: 570-348-6278

Apr. 1 - 30, 2008 (event web site)
It's Not Easy Being Green
Location: O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941.
Notes: It's Not Easy Being Green is a group show juried by Diana Marto. This exhibition will feature multi-media artwork from Bay Area artists and O'Hanlon Center Members that explore ecological or environmental themes, landscapes, the season of Spring, or will incorporate the color green predominantly and may include conceptual and site-specific installations. Juror Diana Marto is an international environmental performance art artist, visual artist and activist on behalf of whales.
Contact: 415.388.4331, office@ohanloncenter.org

Apr. 1 - 19, 2008 (event web site)
Patrick Dougherty: Stick Works
Location: Samson Park, North side of Coors Ampitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO.
Notes: The Museum of Outdoor Arts is pleased to present a site-specific outdoor installation by internationally acclaimed land artist, Patrick Dougherty. Dougherty's large-scale temporary structures are built without the use of tools or any other supportive hardware. StickWorks will be constructed on site from tree saplings gathered in the nearby landscape, and the artist will be working from April 1 through April 19. The installation will be located in Samson Park, adjacent to Coors Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village, CO.
Contact: 303-806-0444

Mar. 31  -  Apr. 18, 2008 (event web site)
Virtual Redundancy - Part of "Sublime Climate - Addressing Global Warming"
Location: NCN Gallery, Nottingham, UK & Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, USA.
Notes: This is a two site installation of deconstructed new technology. At NCN Gallery, Nottingham, UK the physical installation will be made. Images of this and its making process will then be streamed to The Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts, USA where it will be projected onto the floor. To travel to the USA to make an installation for an exhibition about climate change would be slightly hypocritical. This process aims to encourage by example. Please see website for complete details.
Contact: matosic@ic24.net

Mar. 30  -  Apr. 27, 2008 (event web site)
Upon Nature
Location: Gallery MAMU Tarsasag, Damjanich u.39, HU 1071 Budapest, Hungary.
Notes: The MAMU Association cordially invites you to Upon Nature. Four artists from Korea and two from Germany show their reflections and visual comments on nature. This exhibition evolved by the artists exchange between South Korea and countries abroad since 1990. Throughout the years many artists working in/for/with nature were invited to contribute a work for exhibitions, symposia and Nature Art Biennales organized by Yatoo, the Korean Nature Artists' Association. In reverse the Koreans were invited to show their work for the nature in many different countries.

In exhibited works nature is met in a broad variety of ways. The notion of nature ranges from the use of natural material, i.e. to create a natural contrast to geometric white cube exhibition spaces. With Ko,Seung-hyun, Kang,Hee-joon, Jeon,Won-gil, Gerd Logemann, Anke Mellin.
Contact: Tel: 0036.1.7867.076, mamu@mamu.hu

Mar. 29 - 30, 2008 (event web site)
Michele Brody's Tea House Productions
Location: Hotel 30/30, 30 East 30th Street, New York, NY.
Notes: TEA HOUSE PRODUCTIONS will be setting up house and serving Tea during the ART NOW FAIR, New York City in the lobby of Hotel 30/30. Saturday, March 29 and Sunday March 30 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. Please stop by during the hubbub of the Art Fairs to take a break and share a tea with me.

Mar. 28  -  May 3, 2008 (event web site)
Katie Holten: uprooted
Location: Gasser & Grunert, 148 9th Ave, Floor 2, New York, NY 10011.
Notes: Gasser & Grunert Gallery is proud to present uprooted, its first exhibition with Katie Holten. Born in Ireland and now based in New York City, Holten's globetrotting presence has left its mark - both through her art and persona - in many corners around the world. Her constant creations redefine not only Nature - as a concept and subject - but also challenge environmental and geographical conventions, with a need to "re-map" the globe.

In uprooted, Holten will present a large tree, a small forest, roots and new drawings. Through these delicate works on paper, as well as with her low-tech sculptures and installations, she blends personal aspects with local and universal elements in an endless loop of mutual correspondence.
Contact: Ph: 212.807.9494, Fx: 212.807.6594

Mar. 22, 2008 (event web site)
Behind the Enantiomorph: A Biographical Key to Robert Smithson's References to Doubling-and to Death
Location: NURTUREart Non-Profit Inc., 910 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
Notes: NURTUREart is pleased to present a lecture by Suzaan Boettger in the context of the gallery's current exhibition, Enantiomorphic Chamber. A scholar of earthworks and of Smithson, Boettger will discuss the particular circumstances of Smithson's birth and family structure-a type of situation well--known in psychoanalytic literature and similarly experienced by Vincent van Gogh, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, Cary Grant and Princess Diana--and argue its revelatory force in understanding particular themes in Smithson's painting, earthworks, nonfiction prose, and poetry. 4:00 PM.
Contact: gallery@nurtureart.org

Mar. 21  -  May 5, 2008 (event web site)
Fran Crowe: Walking to Save Some Sea
Location: Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England.
Notes: Shocked by a UN report that estimated that on average there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter per square mile of ocean worldwide, Suffolk artist Fran Crowe was determined to do something about it and embarked on a personal challenge to pick up 46,000 pieces of litter whilst walking on beaches near her Suffolk home. Her aim was not just to help clear local beaches but to raise awareness of the harm plastics do to wildlife. The UN estimate that over one million seabirds and over 100,000 marine mamals and turtles die every year due to entanglement with or swallowing litter.

Whilst walking, Fran has raised nearly £1000 for the Marine Conservation Society through sponsorship and sale of her unique seaside 'souvenirs'. She is now bringing her collection (and 'souvenirs') to Landguard Fort in Felixstowe where she will create a provocative art installation for visitors to the Fort. Fran's challenge took her exactly a year to achieve - in total she walked over 200kms and carried away nearly a third of a tonne of rubbish. More about Fran's collection and her other work can be found on her website.
Contact: fran@flyintheface.com

Mar. 21  -  May 3, 2008 (event web site)
Teach the Starlings in Kansas City: a project by Brian Collier
Location: Paragraph Gallery, 23 E 12th St., Kansas City, MO.
Notes: 'Teach the Starlings in Kansas City,' new work from the Kansas City flock continuing BD Collier's starling teaching program. Please come help teach the starlings. Special Event: Starling Teaching tour- April 12, 1pm (leaves from Paragraph Gallery).
Contact: 816.471.5937

Mar. 20, 2008 (event web site)
Gaia's Ring - Spring Equinox Finale
Location: Green Oasis Community Garden, East 8th Street between Avenues C and D, Lower East Side, New York, NY.
Notes: Celebrating the first day of spring and the conclusion of a year-long environmental installation by Noah Baen. 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Rain-date: the next dry day. Coinciding with the first day of spring, the beginning another yearly cycle, this gathering marks the conclusion of an installation which evolved over a year of changing seasons. Images of "Gaia's Ring" from its beginnings at last year's spring equinox will stand among the remnants of volunteer plant growth. Around sunset these images and what remains of the plants will serve as fuel for a site-cleansing burn.
Contact: noahbaen@yahoo.com, 718-522-2558

Mar. 20, 2008 (event web site)
Dialogues in Art and Architecture - Helen Mayer Harrison and Sam Bower
Location: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla, CA 92037.
Notes: Panel discussion with environmental artist Helen Mayer Harrison and Sam Bower of greenmuseum.org, moderated by Mike Stepner. Now in its 16th year, the 2007/2008 Dialogues in Art and Architecture is a program of free public talks on the experimental edge of new art and architecture, addressing architectural design, urban planning, our changing ecology and the artist's perspective on these issues, as models of possibilities for the San Diego environment.

The series consists of lectures by outstanding professionals of national/international reputation with respondents presenting perspectives from the San Diego region. The series is coordinated by the Athenaeum with artist and environmental sculptor Joyce Cutler-Shaw, and has been co-sponsored by Woodbury University's School of Architecture with architect Teddy Cruz of UCSD's Visual Arts Department, as a program coordinator. Precious participants have included architects Kisho Kurakawa, Raoul Bunschoten, Julie Eizenberg, artists Allen Kaprow , Allan Sekula and Martha Rosler, such writers and social historians as Mike Davis, Rebecca Solnit and Kevin Starr, and scientists such as Jonas Salk.

The theme for this year's series is: "How We Choose to Live: No Simple Answers." In our daily lives, with awareness or not, we experience the consequences of a changing natural environment and of public policies and economic and bureaucratic decisions about art, architecture and land use in the public realm. Our daily lives are also shaped by discoveries in science and technological innovations across disciplines. Our programs this year will address our potential to be effective participants in shaping, to our benefit, our social and cultural realm. Speakers and respondents will represent a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including those of social and cultural anthropology, urban theory, planning policy and the arenas of art, art history, architecture and landscape practice. The discussion takes place at 7:30 PM in the Athenaeum's Music Room in La Jolla, which holds up to 160 participants and last about 45 minutes to one hour with time for questions and answers.
Contact: 858-454-5872

Mar. 15  -  May 3, 2008 (event web site)
Exit Art Announces S.E.A. (Social Environmental Aesthetics)
Location: Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10018.
Notes: Exit Art is pleased to announce the opening of E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project we have invited Amy Lipton and Patricia Watts, co-curators and founders of ecoartspace, a leading international environmental arts organization, to collaborate with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material.

E.P.A. will include performance documentation from more than 30 international artists. These works, created in the public sphere, draw attention to and engage the public in a dialogue about issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival. E.P.A. will set the precedence for future exhibitions of S.E.A. dealing with environmental issues including The End of Oil, about the global oil crisis and alternative energy, and Consume, about food production, agricultural and sustainable living practices. An exhibition of historical social-environmental art works is also planned to place this work in context. See website for complete details as well as a list of participating artists.
Contact: 212-966-7745

Mar. 14 - 17, 2008 (event web site)
Community Built Association Conference 2008 in Monterey, CA
Location: Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, CA.
Notes: Community Built Association (CBA), a national non-profit network of creative professionals who work to transform community spaces will gather at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, CA, on March 14th-17th, 2008. This biennial Conference will bring together community builders from coast to coast to share professional expertise and experiences, collaborate on workshops, inspire and be inspired.

The CBA Conference will feature special presentations and hands-on workshops that further the practice of uniting professionals with volunteers to develop innovative, community projects that reshape the physical environment. Community-built professionals from around the country will converge as presenters and participants to discuss topics such as participatory design, funding community art, storytelling, community gardens, natural playgrounds and creating gathering spaces. More information on the website.
Contact: cba@communitybuilt.org

Mar. 14  -  May 3, 2008 (event web site)
Vapor
Location: Southern Exposure417 14th Street @ Valencia, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Notes: Vapor features work by Amy Balkin, Futurefarmers, Natalie Jeremijenko, The Living, Eric Paulos and Preemptive Media. Curated by Alison Sant and Jordan Geiger, Southern Exposure Curatorial Committee Members.

Vapor is a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining air quality as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative work. Often inspired by forms of activism, the works react to the sources of climate change through the use of technologies - sensors, databases, and communications equipment - that are only recently accessible outside a lab. In this sense, the show's title also refers to the growing means by which this art is being produced, in addition to the ubiquity of greenhouse gases and other air conditions that serve as this