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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! View by: Type
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Past Events
Nov. 6 - Dec. 11, 2009
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Essensual Delights; Field Notes
Location: ArtSpace404, 404 Mendocino Avenue, Suite C Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
Notes: Essensual Delights is an intimate investigation of research and experiments resulting from each artist's investigations of Sonoma County as "place". This documentation of visual and audio work of land energies, plant-life, and natural waterways features individual and collaborative works by featured artists Cathy Richardson, Corey Hitchcock, and Sasha Duer. Essensual Delights illuminates awareness that community is as interdependent as the natural ecosystem.
Contact: nlee@sonomaarts.com, p. 707.579.2787 x103
Sept. 18 - 20, 2009
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Ecology and Forests for Public Health
Location: Soria Moria Hotel in Oslo, Norway.
Notes: The Aim of the Conference is to focus on environmental, climatic and cultural changes that threaten the Public's Health today. This event will analyze the importance of forests for people on our planet. A wide range of aspects therefore will be addressed through key-note speakers, submitted abstracts, workshops and side events. Subthemes like vocational rehabilitation in nature, recreation, physical activity, well-being and outdoor life (friluftsliv), farming for health etc. are also planned as part of the programme. Expected Outcomes: The conference is a joint endeavour of researches, policy makers and practitioners. Proposals for policies, practical solutions and further research will be developed.
Jul. 1 - Sept. 20, 2009
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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 third of a contempory art event that derives its originality from the registration of monumental short-lived visual works of art created specifically for the Sancy Massif. The Sancy Massif Community of Municipalities was set up in 200 and brings together 11 localities: Besse et Saint Anastaire, La Bourboule, Chambon-sur-Lac, Chastreix, Egliseuve d'Entraigues, Le Mont-Dore, Murat-le-Quaire, Murol, Picherande, St Diery and St Nectaire. 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@horizons-sancy.com
Jun. 28 - Jul. 11, 2009
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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. 19 - 28, 2009
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Floating Land: Rising Seas and Changing Climate
Location: Lake Cootharaba on the Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Australia.
Notes: "Floating Land: Rising Seas and Changing Climate" is a 10-day art event to be held from 19 to 28 June at Lake Cootharaba on the Sunshine Coast, 15 minutes north of the UNESCO-listed biosphere of Noosa, Australia. What was once a sculpture exhibition has become a 10-day event that gives the public a chance to meet with artists, writers, performance artists, musicians, photographers and academics to watch, talk and learn about art and the environment. Visitors to Floating Land are encouraged to stop and watch the sculptors, participate in the workshops, attend the forums, follow the daily photography exhibitions, and to generally get involved in art and the environment. For more information see website.
Jun. 14 - 28, 2009
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SEEDS Festival 2009: The Workshops
Location: SEEDS is hosted at Earthdance, a dance retreat center in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts..
Notes: SEEDS Festival is a unique interdisciplinary summer festival dedicated to arts and ecology. SEEDS features workshops, collaborative design projects, live performances, films, panel discussions, interdisciplinary investigations, and an archiving project. SEEDS cultivates innovative practices, by researching the connections between green, embodiment, justice, interconnectivity, reflection, investigation, art, science, and sacred.
SEEDS 2009 will focus on potentiality . Potential for new growth is generated in places where diverse organisms meet. In this year of potential political change, we invite this phenomenon into our interdisciplinary investigations. 2009 Format: Week One consists of workshops and a weekend mini-festival. Week Two is comprised of multiple interdisciplinary investigations. The Festival will culminate in a community day presenting research findings and offerings for the public. You are welcome to attend the full two weeks of SEEDS , to experience the integrative nature of this project. Attend the whole event or a portion - either way, you will be a part of this creative thread.
Contact: contact@earthdance.net, (413) 634-5678
Jun. 13 - Sept. 27, 2009
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2009 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival
Location: Guandu Nature Park, 55, Guandu Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
Notes: Guandu Nature Park announces that the 2009 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival will take place at Guandu Nature Park in Taipei, Taiwan, from June 13 to September 27, 2009. The 2009 Sculpture Festival will feature art installations by 8 international artists that focus on the environment and relate to "Land, Water and Culture." Artists selected for the 2009 Festival are Ashish Ghosh - India, Bonggi Park - Korea, Karen McCoy - USA, Merijn Vrij - Netherlands, Roy Staab - USA, Stuart Frost - Norway, Chao-chen Lee - Taiwan, Chun-sen Yang - Taiwan.
These artists will all be working at Guandu Nature Park from June 1 - June 12 to make their site-specific outdoor sculpture installations. The artists will use sustainable natural materials and earth-friendly techniques, and will work with volunteers and staff at Guandu Nature Park to complete their artworks for the public opening on June 13 and June 14. Each artist is creating a unique artwork about environmental problems related to land and water from the perspective of their own country and culture. Artists with their vivid imaginations and ingenuous creations can help to raise awareness and lead us in thinking about creative solutions to universal environmental problems. The sculpture installations will include works on land and on water. Public programs and DIY activities with the artists are being planned for the opening weekend, June 13 and 14 and for the three months of the exhibition.
Contact: Jane Ingram Allen, Curator, guandusculpturefestival@gmail.com, Tel: 09-30-375-160
Jun. 5 - Jul. 17, 2009
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(RE)CONSIDER
Location: ArtSpace404, 404 Mendocino Avenue, Suite C Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
Notes: (Re)consider highlights personal and social conventions of waste, consumption, and disposability through the work of San Francisco Bay Area artists Cameron Kelly, Alicia Escott, Anna Adair, and Julia Goodman. As recent MFA graduates of California College of the Arts, each artist responds to the mass production of goods and its consequent waste by re-contextualizing and manipulating found objects.
Contact: nlee@sonomaarts.com, p. 707.579.2787 x103
Jun. 2 - Nov. 21, 2009
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LAND/ART A collaborative exploration of land-based art in New Mexico
Location: Multiple venues around New Mexico.
Notes: WHEN: Events & exhibitions throughout June - November, 2009, with Symposium Weekend June 26-28. WHERE: Multiple venues at indoor and outdoor sites around New Mexico
Albuquerque - Santa Fe - Mountainair.
In the summer and fall of 2009 a group of New Mexico arts organizations will join together to present LAND/ART, exploring relationships of land, art and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, a speakers series and a culminating book. Focusing on "environmental" or "land" art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live. Please see website for a full list of programs and events.
Contact: t. 505.242-1445
May 12 - Jun. 14, 2009
ART ROOTS HERE: A recession remedy art exhibit
Location: Big Daddy's Complete Rejuvenating Community Garden, 3601 Peralta Street, Emeryville, CA.
Notes: Once again, the students from the Laney College EcoArt Matters class are staging their semi-annual exhibition, this time in a community garden featuring art and live installations about growing your own food and relationships to dirt, compost and growing things, including a geodesic-domed greenhouse, solar powered water fountains, sunflower sundials, seedfilled dirtballs, a mother earth sculpture, some "live" ladybugs and bees and more. The Merritt Natural Building class is collaborating by building an ecological tool shed, which will incorporate straw bale, cob, wattle & daub and other natural building techniques! There will be two openings to see the bugs and bees in action, and get some give away and for sale plantings. Hope you can join us!
Artists: Kathryn Adkins, Christine Atkins, Christina Bertea, Patricia DPP-Byrne, James Cline, Pamela Consear, Emily Frost, Laura Lackey, Isabel Jenssen, West Lenz, Alida Line, Abigail Lloyd, Tina Martin, Roke Noir, Tracy Nguyen, Barbara Petterson, Lauren Roellig, Eric Steiner, Askia White
Guest curator: Vickie Jo Sowell, EcoArt Instructor: Andree Singer Thompson, Merritt instructor: Marisha Farnsworth.
Contact: andreest@yahoo.com, 510 841 0588
May 10 - Aug. 3, 2009
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The University of Trash
Location: Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, New York 11101.
Notes: From April through July this year, New York based artist Michael Cataldi and London based artist Nils Norman will transform the Sculpture Center into The University of Trash, an exciting experiment in alternative city building and design. Working collaboratively and collectively with students, local organizations, activists, and academics, the artists will gather and investigate research material related to the activities of 1970s countercultural "Appropriate Technology" movement, adventure playgrounds, "Non-plan", emergency and low-impact design, and the vernacular of makeshift housing in 3D form.
The result will be the creation of a crazy complex of interconnected architectural spaces, pavilions and walkways from readymade, recycled and found materials. On view May 10 - August 3, the exhibition will run parallel to an extensive series of related workshops, talks and film screenings.
Contact: 718-361-1750
May 9 - Jun. 9, 2009
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Bodice Of The Goddess-The Secret Life Of The Hudson River
Location: bau gallery -161 Main Street, Beacon, NY.
Notes: bau is pleased to present a solo show of new works by it's newest member, Carla Goldberg, "Bodice Of The Goddess- The Secret Life Of The Hudson". In her newest series of mixed media paintings "Bodice Of The Goddess- the Secret Life of the Hudson River", Carla Goldberg gives liberal license to the stories behind the histories, myths and legends of the Hudson River exploring the playful and vengeful sides of the River Goddesses of the Hudson. It is the interaction of Goddess affections and jealousies, in play with Earth, water and the human world that puts the viewer as witness to the radical weather phenomena unveiling before their eyes.
Contact: 845-440-7584, beaconartistsunion.com
Apr. 24, 2009
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Creativity in the Face of Climate Change:The Role of Humanities in Awakening Societal Change
Location: UC Berkeley Art Museum Theater and Pacific Film Archive 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA.
Notes: An exploration of the visual arts in conjunction with the exhibition Human /Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet on view at the UC Berkeley Art Museum through September 27, 2009. Date: Friday, April 24, 2009 from 2:00pm - 4:30pm Reception to Follow. Free and Open to the public, please RSVP.
Human society is at a crossroads. Today's decisions will determine whether human culture continues to impose catastrophic effects on the earth's climate, oceans, and ecosystems. While scientists explore the technical approaches to our environmental predicament and exert influence on governments, many see the humanistic fields of inquiry as having a critical role to play in helping society face the challenge of climate change. Artists and writers hold a unique place in manifesting society's values and challenge us to rethink our collective responsibilities to each other and to the future of the planet. A distinguished panel of scholars and artists will explore in conversation the role that the visual arts must play in the transformation of society towards one that can sustain the planet.
Apr. 24 - Jul. 19, 2009
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Green Platform - Art, ecology, sustainability
Location: Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy.
Notes: The concept of the project has its roots in the theoretical work of Gregory Bateson (Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972) and Felix Guattari (Les trois ecologies, 1989) but intends to look at the current artistic practise and communication methodologies which target a social, political and cultural change to foster a sustainable coexistence of the human kind and its environment.
Facing the possible collapse of our global ecosystem, many artists of the latest generation have initiated new creative processes developing artistic practise and communication methodologies which target a social, political and cultural change to foster a sustainable coexistence of the human kind and its environment. Some of these artistic expressions are firmly rooted in the pioneering experiences of the vanguards of the early 60s and 70s. In the general artistic setting we have identified three main categories which we would like to call the 'eco-aware', the 'eco-activists' and the 'eco-sustainable'. All three groups have developed own utopias and own cultural practices and sometimes, artistic production.
Green Platform aims to select examples which illustrate the different attitudes, focusing on the current international discourse and cultural production. With: Amy Franceschini and Futurefarmers, Henrik Hakansson, Katie Holten, Lucy & Jorge Orta, Superflex, Michael Rakowitz and others. Curators Lorenzo Giusti and Valentina Gensini will identify and present projects which pay particular attention to promote a public debate about the theoretical assumptions which, at present, are being underrated.
Contact: Tel. + 39 055 2645155, info@fondazionepalazzostrozzi.it
Apr. 22 - May 10, 2009
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Tree Gems: Temporary Environmental Outdoor Installation using renewable and recycled materials
Location: The First Presbyterian Church, South Lawn, 5th Ave at 11th Street, New York, NY.
Notes: The installation opens on Wednesday, April 22 with an Earth Day dedication service at 6pm. The installation should be enjoyed in the moment, and temporary like the seasons, will only be on view from April 22- May 10, 2009. Artists Thea Lanzisero and Barbara Lubliner collaborate to create this eco-friendly installation working with the community of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City. This playful art installation is an acknowledgment to be respectful and responsible of our environment.
Post consumer bottles were collected and formed into 'crystals' set atop bamboo 'tree trunks'. These beautiful recycled Gems will glow at night with the power provided by the sun, truly creating an homage to mother earth about how we can be mindful of our planet by working with renewable and reusable materials.
Contact: 631-988-8373
Apr. 22, 2009
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Earth Day Party - Awaken Cafe - eMagazine and Green Job Exchange Out Now!
Location: Awaken Cafe,414 14th Street in Oakland, CA.
Notes: PlanetShifter.com, a green network dedicated to innovation, announces an Earth Day party and a bevy of news and events for April. Planet Shifter is an "action network", a vehicle by which communicators rally around innovation to accelerate awareness and adoption of green issues and solutions. The community is driven by artists, musicians, writers and inventors.
Join them on Earth Day, April 22nd, from 6 - 8 pm at Awaken Cafe at 414 14th Street in Oakland, California.
The festivities focus on the launch of their eMagazine, GreenCatcherUnion, designed to catalog and codify the collective works, art and writings of Planet Shifter participants and members. Awaken is a full cafe, serving drinks and food for the occasion. Please invite your friends and colleagues - and join us!
Contact: center@planetshifter.com
Apr. 21, 2009
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Earth Day Eve Create-With-Nature Celebration in Downtown Berkeley, CA
Location: In front of Old City Hall (Maudelle Shirek Bldg.), 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA.
Notes: 5 - 6:45 p.m. Join in as community members, professional artists, and passers-by honor the earth by constructing temporary sculpture using branches, leaves, rocks, shells, flowers, bamboo, pinecones, and other natural treasures. Environmental artist Zach Pine is your host. April 21, 2009 will be proclaimed "Zach Pine Day" in the City of Berkeley at the City Council meeting immediately following the event. Heavy rain cancels the event. Free! All ages welcome!
Contact: Zach Pine, zpine@aol.com
Apr. 18, 2009
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Fifth Annual Free Public Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration at Stinson Beach
Location: Extreme southern end of Stinson Beach, Stinson Beach, CA.
Notes: Using sand, rocks, shells, and other natural objects from the beach, participants work alone and in groups to spontaneously create outdoor sculpture. In past years, beachgoers stacked rock towers, made spirals from seaweed, planted a forest of "trees" made of driftwood, and created dragons, fairies, and abstract designs.
The event is hosted by environmental artist Zach Pine. Pine's motivation for hosting the event comes from a desire to inspire environmental action not only on Earth Day but throughout the year. The site for the event, at the south end of Stinson Beach, offers an unusual diversity of natural materials and microenvironments: boulders, stones, tide pools, seaweed, driftwood, feathers, and sea glass. The event begins with beach cleanup and collecting materials. No need to register; drop in at any time between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.; free; all ages; rain or shine; bring a picnic; full information at naturesculpture.com under "NEWS."
Contact: zpine@aol.com
Apr. 17 - 19, 2009
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Rising Tide Conference: The Arts and Ecological Ethics
Location: San Francisco Campus of California College of the Arts and Stanford Campus.
Notes: The Rising Tide conference is a series of topically organized panels, seminars, and roundtable discussions, bringing together creative professionals, scholars and students to engage in conversations and debates about the intersections of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism. This groundbreaking conference will be jointly hosted by California College of the Arts and Stanford University. Please visit website for complete details.
Contact: info@risingtideconference.org
Apr. 17 - 25, 2009
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CREDO2009: The Herb Garden of the Ideal City
Location: Abbey of Fontevraud, near Saumur (France) in the Loire Valley.
Notes: CREDO (Cooperation in Research and Education for Design Options) workshops will take place between 2007 and 2009 in the Abbey of Fontevraud. The theme chosen for the 2009 CREDO session is: "The Herb Garden of the Ideal City." This theme is related to a cultural event to be held in the fall of 2009 at the abbey and called "The Ideal City." The outcomes of the workshop will be exhibited on this occasion.
The garden is a keystone in the organization of an abbey, be it seen as an Ideal City or a just as a place to live. In a monastery the garden acts as a self-sufficient space dedicated to experimentation and preservation, a place where vegetal species with healing and soothing properties are kept. Its mention echoes several modern-day issues at the crossroads between eating habits, health/well-being and vegetal life. During this year's session we will strive to think up new prospective scenarios to answer a number of related questions.
The CREDO workshop series are meant to be a platform for the confrontation and sharing of design practices and methods. Industrial design and interaction design are the main domains concerned. The workshops are intended to be active and project-oriented, a space where design education institutions all over Europe can share current contemplations in the field. The idea is to communicate to the general public, via a "scenario" what the design process is all about. It will explain and illustrate how designers render a prospective view on the future. The notion of eco design, sustainable development and the global responsibility of the designers are especially emphasized.
Contact: f.degouzon@lecolededesign.com, +33(0)251135070
Apr. 17 - May 22, 2009
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Science Species Lab
Location: ArtSpace404, 404 Mendocino Avenue, Suite C Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
Notes: Science Species Lab is an institute whose proficiencies range from the microscopic to the transnational. Founded in 2005 by Anneliese Vobis, Vanessa Vobis, and Craig Dietrich, Science Species Lab constructs synthetic landscapes that investigate this unique period in American culture and global consumption. Each artist creates a sensory experience of an otherworldly landscape that evolves and changes throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Contact: nlee@sonomaarts.com, p. 707.579.2787 x103
Apr. 4 - May 15, 2009
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OPENING A BOOK: environmental artists' books at THE LAND/gallery
Location: THE LAND/gallery, 419 Granite Avenue NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102.
Notes: OPENING A BOOK: ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS' BOOKS presents work by artists from New Mexico and around the country, each uniquely exploring the artist's book as medium for addressing ideas about the environment. The show, curated by J. A. Lee, will feature altered and sculptural books, works of visual poetry, books built around process and performance, and other formally innovative works by David Abel, Kathy Bruce, Abigail Doan, Basia Irland, Mary Ellen Long, Alastair Noble, mARK oWEns, Maria Delgado Rooks, Marilyn Stablein, Beata Wehr and Margaret Whiting.
THE LAND/gallery is operated by THE LAND/an art site, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides opportunities for environmental artists to work in New Mexico and to engage and educate the public about the environment through their work. THE LAND/an art site also maintains a forty-acre site in the Manzano Mountains devoted exclusively to site-specific, environmentally low-impact, land-based art.
Contact: theland@comcast.net
Apr. 4 - Sept. 7, 2009
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antARcTica: collected Works from the Bottom of the World
Location: Maryland Science Center, 601 Light Street, Baltimore, MD.
Notes: The works Xavier Cortada created in Antarctica during his 2006-2007 National Science Foundation artist's residency will be on display at in an exhibit of art, photography, writings and sculpture coincides with the 50th anniversary convening of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting held in Baltimore in April 2009. Never before has an extensive collection of the NFS Antarctic Artists and Writers Program works been on display. For more information, please visit website.
Contact: 410-685-2370
Apr. 2 - May 8, 2009
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The Reclamation Project
Location: Court House Cultural Center, 80 E. Ocean Boulevard Stuart, FL.
Notes: The Arts Council serving Martin County presents The Reclamation Project, a solo exhibit by artist Xavier Cortada in the Art Gallery at the Martin County Court House Cultural Center located in downtown Stuart, Florida. The Reclamation Project aims to remind us how South Florida was like before being urbanized, as it explores our ability to coexist with the natural world.
Contact: mcca@martinarts.org
Apr. 2 - 5, 2009
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Eco-Art Florida
Location: Stuart, FL.
Notes: Followers of art and friends of the environment will learn about a cutting-edge art practice April 2-5 at Eco-Art Florida. Through seminars and films, the symposium will demonstrate how public interaction with art can solve environmental problems.
The Arts Council in Martin County presents Florida's first symposium on Eco-Art. The non-profit organization is bringing in world-renowned artists who promote the environment through their creative work. The program, funded by a grant from the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties, emphasizes direct interaction between artist and audience.
On April 2, leaders of the Eco-Art movement will make presentations at the Chastain Campus of Indian River State College. The speakers are: Keynote speaker Sam Bower, founder and president of the non-profit Greenmuseum, the most comprehensive Web site on the environmental art movement, Xavier Cortada, Florida Eco-Artist and creator of a mangrove reclamation and native tree reforestation project, Michael Singer, designer of an award-winning, Eco-Art power plant in Greenpoint, N.Y., Betsy Damon, an Eco-Artist whose public art events help clean urban waterways and raise water awareness.
On April 3 and April 4, there will be showings of Eco-Art films and panel discussions at the Elliott Museum on Hutchinson Island. The symposium will conclude on April 5 at the Blake Library with more films and panel discussions. Who should attend? Artists, scientists, engineers, hydrologists, public officials, governmental and non-profit arts groups, green builders/architects/landscapers, and all advocates and citizens who care about sustainability in South Florida.
Contact: 772-287-6676
Mar. 28, 2009
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First Annual iLAND Symposium: Connecting to the Urban Environment
Location: Eugene Lang College - The New School for Liberal Arts, Room #D1009 (auditorium), 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY.
Notes: Connecting to the Urban Environment: Creating embodied and relational approaches to environmental awareness, iLAND's first annual symposium, will address issues emanating from the creative collaborations of past iLAB residencies. iLAB alumni will be paired with representatives from environmental organizations who are actively designing new relationships to urban space.
Presentations will share the results of grappling with the project of finding shared language and processes across the arts and sciences while centering dance and the body as the mediator and resource for experience, imagination and knowing. The symposium will include oral and media presentations, workshops, and small-group discussions. For reservations, more information, and a detailed schedule of events contact info@ilandart.org or call 917 860-8239.
Contact: info@ilandart.org, T: 917-860-8239
Mar. 27 - 29, 2009
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Systems of Sustainability: Art, Innovation, Action
Location: Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre, and Blaffer Gallery University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Notes: Part arts festival, part academic symposium, Systems of Sustainability (S.O.S.) looks at creative enterprise as an integral tool for cultural growth and social change. Experience a range of events that showcase innovative practices from local, national, and international participants including prominent artists, researchers, activists, and scholars. The program includes site-specific projects, participatory activities, lectures, scholarly panels, and many opportunities for dialogue.
The performing, visual, and literary arts can be highly effective in posing solutions to our biggest global challenges. S.O.S. invites you to join a list of renowned speakers and participants in the ever-more-pressing conversation about what it means to sustain our planet, our culture, and our creative enterprise.
Participants include Amy Balkin; BD Collier, Matthew Coolidge, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI); Lisa D'Amour, Katie Pearl, and Kurt Mueller; Sasha Dela; Philip Galanter; Fritz Haeg; Dr. Robert Harriss, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC); Alexandra Broches and Barbara Pagh, Hera Gallery; Natalie Jeremijenko; Marc Bamuthi Joseph; Richard Lerman; Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; Helen Lessick; Michael Mercil; Steve Nalepa; Dario Robleto; SIMPARCH; Stephanie Smith; Lindsay Utz, GOOD Magazine; Liz Ward; Matthew Wettergreen, Caroline Collective; WochenKlausur; Karen Stokes and Teresa Chapman, UH School of Theatre & Dance.
Mar. 26 - 28, 2009
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Celestial Aesthetics: The Aesthetics of Sky, Space and Heaven: 7th International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics
Location: The Valamo Monastery, Heinavesi, Finland Address: Valamontie 42, 79850, Uusi-Valamo, Finland.
Notes: The multidisciplinary series of conferences on environmental aesthetics began in 1994 and is now reaching its final stage. So far, the conferences have reflected on the Earth's cover and its topography: forests, bogs, water, fields and rocks - all of which also incorporate a dimension of depth under our feet. Above, the sky unites them and provides a sheltering cover. Behind it is space, whose objects belong to our perceivable sky too; we talk about deep sky that is beyond our solar system. Our sphere of life is limited by the atmosphere, which begins from the ground and stretches all the way to up to approximately 100 kilometres, slowly becoming thinner and fading into space.
Themes: THE MYTHOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS SKY (26 March), THE SKY AS AN ATMOSPHERE AND SPACE (27 March), THE IMAGED AND IMAGINED SKY (28 March). Opening session 26 March 2009 at 10am, and closing 28 March 2009 at 4pm. The participation fee of 290 € includes the three-day programme with lectures, artistic programme and meals. The daily participation fee is 100 € (incl. lunch and coffee). More information on website.
Mar. 26 - Apr. 26, 2009
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Don Simon: NATURE 2.0 Exhibition Benefitting Million Trees L.A.
Location: Timothy Yarger Fine Art + YARGER | STRAUSS Contemporary, 354 N Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Notes: Don Simon: NATURE 2.O is a recognition and celebration of new era in art, environmental awareness, and community action. This exhibition is a unique collaboration between artist, community leaders, environmental activists, and the fine art community of Los Angeles. As a featured artist on Treehugger.com and Grist.org, Don Simon is quickly becoming a central force in a new era of environmental awareness.
This exhibition is the latest evolution in Don Simon's Unnaturalism Series. His current work expands on the themes of man vs. nature to envision a world after our worst fears about Global Warming are realized. Simon's drawings are meticulously rendered in color pencil, creating soft yet quietly disturbing imagery that carefully allies the viewer with the animal kingdom. Proceeds from the exhibition will benefit Million Trees LA, a project of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Contact: T: 310.278.4400, x 103, bryson@yargerstrauss.com
Mar. 23 - Apr. 23, 2009
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Sustainable?
Location: Central Connecticut State University, Samuel S. T. Chen Fine Arts Center, New Britain, CT.
Notes: In conjunction with the April 15-16 2nd annual CCSU Symposium on Global Sustainability and Climate Change, the CCSU Art Galleries present an exhibition which poses the questions: can we humans achieve sustainable development, "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs"? And is ecologically aware art an effective means of promoting the learning process that is a prerequisite to sustainability?
With some 30 works by 22 artists, in a range of media, the exhibition encompasses the larger contextual theme of a global ecology and points to the tension between the natural sublime and a toxic man-made sublime. An historical dimension is provided by the suggestion of 19th century industrialization, current climate change, and growing alarm. Some of the larger issues of sustainability on which the exhibition focuses are stewardship of watershed, the tension between fast and slow food, alternative clean energy sources, urban forestry and open space. These issues are addressed at the regional and local levels: Hartford's Park River watershed; slow food in a novel installation of New Britain's Urban Oaks Organic Farm Stand; the celebration of urban forestry and our local open space in New Britain's Olmsted-designed Walnut Hill Park.
The exhibition culminates on April 24 in the participatory action of making a Bass Brook Basin Rivercube, a first step in engaging those who live within the Park River Watershed in urban watershed stewardship. Public school teachers and their classes are especially invited to visit this exhibition, as students are the next generation who will answer the questions posed in SUSTAINABLE? The art accompanied by a brochure with hard facts as well as artists statements challenges the visitor. Do the arts have something important to contribute to our ability to respond to mounting environmental concerns?
Contact: 860.832.2633
Mar. 21 - 22, 2009
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Art of Common Space Event at Gunpowder Park
Location: Gunpowder Park, The Field Station, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3GP.
Notes: We invite you to join us in Gunpowder Park to celebrate the Art of Common Space programme and the culmination of the five year programme of arts led research and development projects in Gunpowder Park, Essex. The four new commissions presented include: Pilot Publishing's inspiring off-grid Energy Cafe launching their biggest local food cook up so far, the permiere of Simon Faithfull's new epic film 0.00 Navigation, the international research project Being in Common by artist studio Proboscis and Siphonophora.
Projects will be sited throughout the 90 hectares of the Park and in the landmark Field Station gallery space. Screenings and activities are scheduled for 11am through 6pm on both days. Visit the Art of Common Space website for more details.
Contact: info@artofcommonspace.org, Tel: +44 (0) 1992 762 128
Mar. 20 - Jun. 21, 2009
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Terroir: A Sense of Place
Location: Marin French Cheese Company, Pt. Reyes-Petaluma Road, near end of Novato Blvd., Petaluma, CA.
Notes: Terroir: A Sense of Place is the inaugural exhibition for an exciting new venue in Marin County at the Marin French Cheese Company. Included are twenty-eight artists from around the Bay Area whose work presents a unique perspective of our relationship with the land. Most people have heard the word Terroir used in reference to describing distinct wine appellations. Originally a French term, it expresses the special characteristics that a specific landscape contributes to growing foods; like the soil, the weather conditions and the farming techniques. For this exhibition, the definition has been co-opted to express the Sense of Place that these artists experience in nature. Their work reveals elemental, cultural, ecological, and social layers that expand on the agricultural characteristics of Terroir.
Both indoor and outdoor works include temporary and permanent installations and interactive events, and photography, painting, sculpture and sound work indoors. Artists include: Adriane Colburn, Ann Weber, Benicia Gantner, Caitlin McCaffrey, Claudia Tennyson, Edwin Hamilton, Emily Payne, James Gouldthorpe, Jessica Resmond, Jorge Bachman, Josh Keyes, Judith Selby Lang, Lawrence LaBianca, Lea Redmond, Lewis de Soto, Mari Andrews, Mark Brest van Kempen, Meadowsweet Dairy, Michael Mellon, Philip Krohn, Sarah Klein, Sarah Pedlow, Sharon Siskin, Sonja Hinrichsen, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Suzanne Biaggi, Walter Orion, Wowhaus. Open to the public + FREE.
Contact: tricia@ecoartspace.org
Mar. 16 - Apr. 28, 2009
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NatureBeingArt
Location: Gaia Arts Center, 2116 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA.
Notes: Jamie McHugh's contemporary abstract photography from the California coast moves the boundary between photography and painting, capturing the commonplace and revealing its underlying magic. The digital images are minimally altered, showcasing nature's rich colors, textures and forms. These archival chromagenic prints are mounted on aluminum with a recessed back frame so the image can float in space boundary less. They are also covered with a UV-protective laminate so there is no separation between the art and the viewer, allowing for an intimate connection.
Join Jamie on Thursday, March 26 for a celebration of NatureBeingArt from 6- 8pm, with a 20 minute participatory event at 7pm: Embodying Art through Somatic Meditation. Jamie McHugh is a somatic coach and fine art photographer.
Contact: info@gaiaarts.com, 510.665.0305
Mar. 11 - Apr. 15, 2009
Outdoor Sculpture Installation
Location: Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Salisbury University, 1101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801.
Notes: Environmental artist and philosopher James Hatley will construct a site specific installation on the green in front of Fulton Hall fashioned from natural materials and based on the theme of "solar and earthly orientations."
Contact: (410) 548-2547
Mar. 11 - Apr. 15, 2009
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Global Warming Portfolio
Location: Atrium Gallery, Guerrieri University Center, Salisbury University 1101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801.
Notes: Twenty five artists created the posters that make up the Global Warming Portfolio exhibit at Salisbury University, organized by Clay McGlamory, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University. The posters serve to highlight concern over environmental issues such as pollution, global warming, and species depletion. Worldwide, artists are responding to these issues in order to address the changing relationships between nature and society. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Student Poster contest: In conjunction with the exhibit, students will create their own global warming poster designs to compete for three gift certificate prizes from The Book Rack. Three award winning student posters will be on display in the Global Warming Portfolio exhibit.
Contact: (410) 548-2547
Mar. 6 - Jul. 6, 2009
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Expedition to the Total Eclipse
Location: Mediatheque, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Finland.
Notes: Capsula's cross-disciplinary expeditions, straddling the borderline between art and science, study and marvel at natural phenomena through personal experience. The first expedition was made in summer 2008 to Siberia, where the total eclipse of the Sun could be observed. The base of the expedition was set up at the Novosibirsk Zoo, from which it continued on to the Altai wilderness and all the way to the Moon. Travelling slow, using methods of transport that only moderately burden the environment, is a key aspect of the expeditions.
Could natural phenomena and the spectacles of nature still fascinate people in a modern world, saturated by entertainment like video games and action movies? And, could these splendid and thrilling emotions lived within the nature, shift the attitude of people to more a respectful and caring direction concerning their environment? Participating artists: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Mireia C. Saladrigues, Tommi Taipale, Curated by: Ulla Taipale / Capsula.
Contact: ulla@capsula.org.es
Mar. 5 - May 31, 2009
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Artists + Environments: Generative Practices and Conversations, a Collaborative Art + Media Project
Notes: In Spring 2009 (March through May) smudge studio (smudgestudio.org) will orchestrate collaboration among 16 artists, art educators, museum educators, and media designers. The three-week long web event is entitled "Artists + Environments: Generative Practices and Conversations." William L. Fox, Director of the newly formed Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, will convene the first week of digital collaborative exchange on March 5, 2009.
Participants will experiment with five new "elements and principles of art": hybridity, time, space,
performance, appropriation. They will use these concepts to creatively respond to their own and other artists' works that address natural, built, and virtual environments. One of the conversation's moderators, Susan Rotilie, Program Manager of the Walker's School Programs, has developed museum programs based
on the five elements. She uses them to make forces and practices in contemporary art more accessible to new audiences and to students and teachers.
Moderators will kick off each week of the event with a provocation. Participants will respond collaboratively via a blog designed especially for the event (generativeconversations.blogspot.com). They can design and edit their posts, upload new works, stream media (video and audio), engage in "live chats" with one
another, and leave comments on one another's posts. On March 26, 2009, smudge studio will take the resulting images, ideas, and insights and turn them into a
web exhibition for its current project: ExtremeMediaStudies.org, which will be
launched on May 10, 2009. Smudge will distribute the site to art educators
and museum educators, with the invitation to creatively appropriate it for their museum education programs, websites, courses, and events. ARTISTS: Kim Stringfellow, Caryn Cline, The Canary Project, Chris Drury, Emily Scott, Jarrod Beck.
Contact: smudgestudio@gmail.com, 917.584.9030
Mar. 1, 2009
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WILD APPLES FOR JO: a memorial sculpture in honor of JO HANSON, AIR program founder
Location: 401 Tunnel Avenue, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Please save March 1 to help us celebrate Jo Hanson's memory and contributions to the Artist in Residence Program she founded at NORCAL Sanitary Fill Company--San Francisco's waste management & recycling company. Meet at 401 Tunnel Ave at 1 pm for light refreshments, 2pm - words and video in Jo's honor, 2:30pm - walk/drive to the garden to see the sculpture. More details to come.
Contact: Deborah Munk, 415-330-1415
Feb. 25 - May 10, 2009
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Join & Participate: Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant
Location: New York, NY.
Notes: An ecological parade and performance art event, to raise awareness for the restoration of the Hudson River as a vital urban estuarine sanctuary, and address the future effects of climate change on the river and our shoreline in New York City.
The community is invited to participate in a Earth Celebrations ecological art workshop series at Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center, from February 26 - May 6 creating spectacular giant paper mache puppets and spectacular costumes representing the various species and habitats of the river. The culminating pageant on Saturday, May 9, 2009, 2-5pm, (raindate: Sun. May 10) features a magnificent parade of giant puppets, spectacular costumes, music, dance, performances, songs, and poetry, highlighting the river and issues. The performances are presented at the various piers and significant sites along the parade route, from Manhattan Youth to Gansevoort Street, in the downtown portion of the Hudson River Park. See website for more details, and for volunteer opportunities.
Contact: (212) 777-7969, mail@earthcelebrations.com
Feb. 21 - Jun. 13, 2009
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(un) Natural
Location: di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Gatehouse Gallery, 5200 Carneros Highway 121, Napa, CA 94559.
Notes: An exhibition of works of art interpreting nature and created by Bay Area artists. Throughout history, artists have responded to the natural environment, whether in detailed studies of plants and animals or lush paintings of the land or sea. In recent years, as the lines between what is truly natural and what has been altered, genetically or otherwise, by mankind has become increasingly hard to distinguish, artists are responding to nature --or what passes for nature-- in entirely new ways. (un)Natural looks at this phenomenon through the work of a small group of Bay Area artists, including Jessica Cadkin, Ross Campbell, Misako Inaoka, Carrie Lederer, Kathryn Spence, Lucrecia Troncoso and Tara Tucker.
Special event: CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS, Curator Michael Schwager and artists Ross Campbell and Kathryn Spence discuss how artists are responding to nature - or what passes for nature - in entirely new ways. Thursday, April 23, 2009 7 PM, Gatehouse Gallery, $5 di Rosa Preserve Members / $10 General. RSVP 707-226-5991 x 47 or kristin@dirosapreserve.org. Gatehouse Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., Saturday with tour appointment.
Contact: kristin@dirosapreserve.org
Feb. 20 - Jun. 7, 2009
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unity - herman de vries
Location: The Kröller-Müller Museum, Houtkampweg 6 6731 AW Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Notes: The Kröller-Müller Museum is displaying its extensive collection of works by the Dutch artist herman de vries (1931) in the exhibition unity. The exhibition offers an overview of de vries' wide-ranging approaches and diverse media but also highlights the conceptual unity in his oeuvre spanning more than fifty years. The relationships between individual works are explored using universal themes such as 'order and chaos', 'nature and culture' and 'individuality and unity'. Recent acquisitions complement the museum's existing collection of de vries' work, including drawings, paintings, prints, reliefs, collages, earth rubbings, installations, films and numerous artist's books.
In the 1950s and '60s de vries gradually exchanged his work as a biological researcher to become an artist. In his early work de vries displayed an affinity with Informal and Zero art, but he developed a highly personal artistic vision fusing nature, art and science. For example, the works on a roadside near restinga (1978) and from earth (2007) comprise respectively collections of plants and earth samples presented with a seemingly scientific objectivity. This literal use of natural materials stems from de vries' great love and knowledge of nature, and his concept of concrete presentation. Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00.
Contact: tel: +31 (0)31 85 92 41
Feb. 17 - Apr. 17, 2009
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Out of the Blue
Location: Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652-1595.
Notes: Out of the Blue is an exhibition about weather + the creative process
Curated by Amy Lipton, Joy Episalla and Joy Garnett. The exhibition focuses on the dynamics of human creativity as a metaphor for geological and atmospheric
phenomena. Treating issues of weather both literally and symbolically, out of the blue approaches the creative process as a kind of weather system. out of the blue generates its own weather conditions, a storm of intertwined processes-artistic, social, political, atmospheric, and geological. As we influence one another, we in turn affect our culture and the environment, and creativity itself becomes a force of nature.
Participating artists: Stephen Andrews, Michele Araujo, Robert Bordo, Diane Burko, Christos Dikeakos/Robert Smithson, John Dougill, Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Erik Hanson, Geoffrey Hendricks, J.J. L'Heureux, Bill Jones, Zoe Leonard, Frank Moore, Jaanika Peerna, Andrea Polli, Hunter Reynolds, Austin Thomas, Bing Wright, Carrie Yamaoka, Andrea Zittel.
Contact: t. (201) 447-7100, amy@ecoartspace.org
Feb. 7 - May 4, 2009
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Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art
Location: The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
Notes: The familiar spaces of The Whitworth Art Gallery are disturbed and subverted by this major exhibition, which traces the affinities between the work of historical Surrealist artist and visual culture today. The usually sunlit South Gallery becomes shrouded in darkeness for a new work by internationally acclaimed German artist Gregor Schneider. This darkened space is the setting for Kinderzimmer, a replica of a nursery that was part of a village demolished to make way for an opencast mine near where the artist lives in the Rhineland. It's ghostly presence draws attention to the effects of industry on landape and community in both Germany and post-industrial Manchester.
Subversive Spaces examines past and present representations of space through two main locations: the domestic interior and the streets of the city. Moving from the work of Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte where nothing is what it seems, to the dangerous playpens of Mona Hatoum and Robert Gober, the home becomes a locale for unease and disquiet rather than comfort.
Meanwhile the city streets, wastelands and ruins are considered as sites to be reclaimed by the artist. Following the Surrealists' random explorations of Paris, visually represented in the photographs of a disappearing city by Brassai and by Eugene Atget, the exhibition looks at contemporary artists' routes around the city including Alex Villar's attempts to inhabit cracks and gaps around the city to Francis Alys' interaction with London's streets.
Contact: T: +44 (161) 275 7450, whitworth@manchester.ac.uk
Jan. 31 - Mar. 28, 2009
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Your Donations Do Our Work
Location: UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, 3800 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501.
Notes: Bring your spirit of generosity to a new performance installation by Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy. Along with previous work, the artists present a new collaboration, a performative "collection point" for discarded clothing and small household appliances. This exhibition marks their first collaboration. Your bags of "stuff" will be transformed in Riverside, California. They will be cleaned, ironed, repaired, and prepared for their distribution as part of a barter economy established by the artists and Otis College of Art and Design students in the small farming town of Laton, California.
Donations are accepted during gallery hours, but special focus is on the Reception and ArtsWalks featuring a do-it-yourself repair team of students, merchants and local activists. Performance dates: January 31st Opening Reception, 6-10 pm; February 5th ArtsWalk, 6-9 pm; March 5th ArtsWalk, 6-9 pm.
Contact: 951-827-3755
Jan. 28 - Feb. 28, 2009
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EcoLOGIC
Location: Cypress College Gallery, 9200 Valley View, Cypress, CA.
Notes: A survey of Southern California artists, architects, and designers who pose aesthetic inquiries that express a unique logic, ecological reasoning or discourse. Guest Curated by Patricia Watts of ecoartspace. Includes: Calvin Abe, Kim Abeles, Samantha Fields, Sant Khalsa, Manfred Menz, Kathryn Miller, Lothar Schmitz, Glen Small, and Joel Tauber. Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Tuesday-Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. The gallery is closed Friday, except by appointment.
Contact: Paul Paiement, 714.484.7133
Jan. 24 - Mar. 12, 2009
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Repeat Until.
Location: compactspace, 105 E. 6th St. Los Angeles, CA 90014.
Notes: compactspace, Los Angeles is proud to present Repeat Until., a group show of photo and video-based work by artists Merve Kayan, Michael Trigilio, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Mauren Brodbeck and Gretchen Mercedes curated by fellow artist Glenna Jennings.
Repeat Until. takes its inspiration from Mierle Laderman Ukeles' Maintenance Art Manifesto, the titular loop command found within Pascal computing language and simple acts of doing and doing again. The artists' subject matter, ranging from storerooms and skulls to hole-ridden sweaters and stand-up comedy, comments tangentially on architectural structures, commercial products and/or repeated performances that participate in or evoke labor, time and thought-intensive reverberations. The cumulative product is a whimsical investigation of micro-economies that flourish and languish within vortexes of market demand and personal leisure.
Contact: 626.676.0627
Jan. 24 - 31, 2009
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...the issue of rubbish has come to a head in Bisley
Location: The Pavillion, Van Der Breen Street, Bisley, Glos GL6.
Notes: An exhibition and residency by artist
Gavin McClafferty in partnership with
6 households from Bisley,
Gloucesteshires' flagship Zero Waste
Village. During the residency samples taken from
participants rubbish form part of a
pseudo-forensic process extending the
idea of profiling into portraiture.
The resulting work examines the Zero
Waste principal and how personal and
cultural identity is simultaneously
transmitted through rubbish.
The month long residency, based at the
Pavilion, Van Der Bren St, Bisley,
culminates in a week long exhibition,
during which the artist will create a
colossal head in situ out of the
accumulated 'samples' and local mud.
This event is part of Gloucestershires Zero Waste Challenge Week.
Jan. 24 - Apr. 5, 2009
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The Animal Gaze
Location: CCANW, Haldon Forest Park, Kennford, Exeter, EX6 7XR UK.
Notes: The Animal Gaze is a multi-site contemporary art exhibition that explores the complex relationships between animals and humans. It features the work of over 40 international artists at CCANW and at four exhibition venues in Plymouth.
This exhibition is also part of Darwin200, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin and marking 150 years since On the Origin of Species was published. Darwin's concept of the evolution of species through natural selection revolutionized our understanding of nature and our place within it.
Contact: info@ccanw.co.uk, +01392 832277
Jan. 24 - Mar. 22, 2009
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Interspecies
Location: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, UK M1 5NH.
Notes: Can artists work with animals as equals? Interspecies uses artistic strategies to stimulate dialogue about the way we view the relationship between human and non-human animals, in the year of celebrations of Darwin's birth 200 years ago. Interspecies comprises new works by four artists - Nicolas Primat, Kira O'Reilly, Antony Hall and Ruth Maclennan, and existing pieces by Rachel Mayeri, Beatriz Da Costa and Kathy High. All the artists in Interspecies question the one-sided manipulation of non-human life forms for art. They instead try to absorb the animal's point of view as a fundamental part of their work and practice.
Contact: info@cornerhouse.org, +0161 200 1500
Jan. 23 - 24, 2009
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Art at the Dump!
Location: SF Recycling & Disposal, 503 Tunnel Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.
Notes: Two Bay Area artists, Christine Lee and David King working in different mediums shared a 4-month art residency at SF Recycling & Disposal. During their residency both artists scavenged all of their materials from the public disposal area, aka "the dump". The artist-in-residence program at San Francisco's dump is a one-of-a-kind program started in 1990 to encourage people to conserve natural resources and instill in children and adults an increased appreciation for the environment as well as art. Over 75 professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies. Applications are accepted annually (in August) from professional artists from the Bay Area.
Contact: debmunk@yahoo.com
Jan. 23 - Mar. 29, 2009
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The times of a place
Location: INDOC, Art and Nature Documentation Centre, Beulas C/ Doctor Artero s/n 22004 Huesca, Spain.
Notes: The project "The Times of a Place" brings together work by a number of artists exploring questions of time, various temporalities that share the common denominator of being developed in the natural environment.
"The Times of a Place" can be understood as the conjugation of a landscape. It enables the transition of the term "landscape" from its nominal condition to a verbal condition; it allows it to shift from a noun to a verb, as W.J.T. Mitchell advocated. The pieces comprising this exhibition take their references from "landscapes" which are ultimately developed and shown as "places", with "place" understood as a much broader and more ambivalent concept. In turn, place becomes a much more dense, rounded and complex term given that it incorporates the factor of time.
Places become time capsules where events accumulate, layered like strata, and where the gaze activates the possible pasts of these places. The place dynamises the possible political meanings of a specific landscape, through the time its condenses. Participating Artists: ROBERT SMITHSON, STAN BRAKHAGE, CHRIS WELSBY, JAMES BENNING, TACITA DEAN, PATRICIA DAUDER, DARREN ALMOND, BERYL KOROT, MELIK OHANIAN.
Contact: info@cdan.es, Tel. +34 974 239 893
Jan. 17 - Mar. 14, 2009
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The New Landscape
Location: Royal Cornwall Museum, River Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2SJ.
Notes: "The New Landscape" will bring together artists working in Cornwall who have, in different ways, been inspired by the landscape. One of the distinctive features of art made in Cornwall over a number of generations has been its relationship to the landscape. In recent years in Cornwall artistic representations of the landscape have taken a large number of forms beyond traditional painting. Increasingly, newer media, like video and digital photography, have become important, often as a way of documenting interventions or performances in the landscape. This exhibition will show a wide variety of work in a range of media, which all share a relationship with the Cornish landscape.
Contact: Tel 01872 272205, Fax 01872 240514, enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
Jan. 17 - Mar. 29, 2009
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Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry: an exhibit by The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Location: Blaffer Gallery, 120 Fine Arts Building, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Notes: The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization based in Culver City, California, involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry will be the culmination of the CLUI's study of Texas and will show how the extraction and refining of oil has sculpted the state's terrain.
The exhibition will open with a "landscan" video, an extended aerial shot of petroleum refineries and shipping yards that shows the massive scale of these places. In addition to this projection, the galleries will be filled with CLUI photographs and texts on many different sites across the Lone Star State from west Texas oil towns such as Odessa and Kermit to petrochemical processing centers on the Gulf Coast and everywhere in-between. These places tell the incredible and often surprising story of an industry that fuels our civilization by using deposits of hydrocarbons to create gasoline, fertilizers, plastics, and many other products.
Jan. 17 - Feb. 17, 2009
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Art in Public Places and AORTA Projects Present "Flood Marker & "Field Guide"
Location: Milne Boys Home Driveway, 5420 Franklin Ave, Gentilly, New Orleans, LA.
Notes: The Arts Council of New Orleans is pleased to partner with AORTA Projects to celebrate two site-specific art projects in Gentilly, both supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Christopher Saucedo's "Flood Marker" and Jacqueline Bishop's "Field Guide" share the same stretch of Franklin Avenue in front of the historic Milne Boys Home. Please join us Saturday Jan 17th from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m to meet the artists and enjoy this unique setting for contemporary art.
Christopher Saucedo's, "Flood Marker", is a nomadic monolith at rest. The piece is an 8,000 lb freestanding and monumental granite block of water with 1,836 waves carved into the stone, one wave for each life lost to the water. "Field Guide" consists of 5500 simple black bird stencils that were individually cut from original drawings and painted with Industrial Zone and Marking paint directly onto the pavement of the Milne Boys Home driveway. This installation hopes to celebrate and raise consciousness about our unique and fragile environment.
Contact: aortaprojects@gmail.com
Jan. 16 - Mar. 1, 2009
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SUPERFLEX presents FLOODED MCDONALD'S
Location: South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH.
Notes: The South London Gallery presents a new film work by Danish collective Superflex entitled Flooded McDonald's. This will be their first solo show in London. From large-scale installations, through to long-term process-based projects and, more recently, films, Superflex's work is founded in economic and political awareness. They create works inspired by the points where definitions and possibilities of art become blurred.
Flooded McDonald's is a new film work in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonalds burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrics short circuit and eventually the space becomes completely submerged. Without being didactic, Flooded McDonald's hints at the consumer-driven power and influence, but also impotence, of large multinationals in the face of climate change. Without pointing the finger at anyone, the film questions with whom ultimate responsibility lies.
Contact: mail@southlondongallery.org, T. 020 7703 6120
Jan. 12 - Mar. 12, 2009
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Nature Being Art by Jamie McHugh
Location: Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965.
Notes: Jamie McHugh's contemporary abstract photography from the California coast moves the boundary between photography and painting, capturing the commonplace and revealing its underlying magic. The digital images are minimally altered, showcasing nature's rich colors, textures and forms. These archival chromagenic prints are mounted on aluminum with a recessed back frame so the image can float in space boundary less. They are also covered with a UV-protective laminate so there is no separation between the art and the viewer, allowing for an intimate connection. Jamie McHugh is a somatic coach and fine art photographer. He exhibits throughout California and is represented by Beckmann Moore Yaki Studio in San Francisco. Open Tuesdays - Saturdays 9am-4pm.
Contact: 415.332.3871
Dec. 15 - Jan. 30, 2008
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For A Completely Different Climate: An exhibition project by Oliver Ressler
Location: Galleria Artra, Via Burlamacchi 1, 20135 Milan, Italy.
Notes: The exhibition project "For A Completely Different Climate", curated by Marco Scotini, deals with an emerging social movement that questions and selectively fights the response (or non-response) of states and corporations to climate change.
This leftist movement has the potential to mobilize especially in Britain, where in August 2008 a Climate Camp was organized to close the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station east of London. Although the Kingsnorth station will be shut down, the energy corporation E.ON plans to build, at the same location, a new coal-fired power station that will assure profits for the next few decades. This project completely
conflicts with the necessary goal of reducing CO2 emissions. Preventing a new coal-fired powerplant in Kingsnorth is of great symbolic value, since a successful resistance could mean the end of other planned projects for coal-fired powerplants elsewhere in Britain.
The centre of the exhibition "For A Completely Different Climate" is a
3-channel slide installation, based on 96 photos taken in the Climate
Camp and at the demonstrations and blockades of Kingsnorth. These photos
are combined with short texts and audio recordings of the demonstrations
and workshops. In a presentation lasting 16 minutes, three connected
projections will be shown on an 18-metre-long wall of the gallery. The
exhibition also includes three light boxes combining photos with police
search protocols and information sheets that identify state repression. Open Tue to Sat, 15.00-19.00.
Contact: artragalleria@tin.it
Dec. 12 - 21, 2008
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48°C Public.Art.Ecology
Location: Delhi, India.
Notes: 48°C Public. Art. Ecology brings to view art works by 25 Indian and international artists in eight public spaces across the capital of Delhi to offer perspectives on the the ecology in the metropolis. We invite you all to interrogate and debate issues raised by these works, and above all, delight in a renewed perception of the city!
In addition, the festival features an international symposium on the role of art and urban design in the city's development, city walks and talks by eco-experts, eco-cycling and eco-bus tours around the city, film screenings, performances, a concert and more! For more details, visit our website. Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and GTZ (German Technical Organization). Artistic Director and Curator: Pooja Sood.
Contact: public.ecoart(at)gmail.com, Tel: +91 11 6465 3980
Dec. 10 - Jan. 28, 2008
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Implant Redux
Location: The Horticultural Society of New York, 148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
Notes: IMPLANT REDUX is an offshoot of IMPLANT, originally on view at The UBS Art Gallery from August to October 2008. The installation of this exhibition at The Horticultural Society of New York recontextualizes the concepts inspired by Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire put forth in the original exhibition, reimagining the works on view in an absorbing environment defined by plant life.
With Darren Almond, Carol Bove, Julia Margaret, Cameron, Ian Campbell,
Peter Coffin, Sharon Core, Ann Craven, Tacita Dean, William Eggleston,
Roe Ethridge, Jane Freilicher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Amy Granat, Zach Harris,
Susannah Hewlett, Katie Holten, Ellsworth Kelly, Jude Miller, John O,
Dennis Oppenheim, Edgar Orlaineta, Giuseppe Penone, Pipilotti Rist,
Gino Saccone, Jim Sams, Hiraki Sawa, Roman Signer, James Welling,
Carol Woodin, Francesca Woodman. Gallery hours: Monday - Friday from 11am to 6pm + by appointment.
IMPLANT REDUX will feature an evening of film screenings at HSNY on Tuesday, January 27th, from 6:30 to 8:30pm. The program will feature the plant and landscape inspired 16mm films of Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Amy Granat, Kurt Kren, Rose Lowder, Marie Menken, Julie Murray, Charlotte Pryce and Timolean Wilkins. Curated by Jodie Vicenta Jacobson.
Contact: T: (212) 757-0915
Dec. 8 - Jan. 17, 2008
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The Line of Questioning
Location: Addison Street Windows Gallery, between Milvia and Shattuck, Berkeley, CA.
Notes: The Addison Street Windows Gallery, a public art project of the City of Berkeley, presents "The Line of Questioning," an installation by Janet Delaney and Laurie Polster. The project draws on the primordial nature of trees as a metaphor for ecological and social sustainability and incorporates Delaney's large-scale photographs, Polster's sculptural elements created from tree limbs, and text. Juxtaposing evocative visuals with two disparate, resonant stories - the collapse of Easter Island and the rise of catastrophic forest fires - The Line of Questioning raises critical issues about the seduction of ideology and mythology that impacts our relationship to the natural world. The exhibition is free, wheelchair accessible, and on view 24 hours a day.
Contact: (510) 981-7546
Dec. 5 - Jan. 17, 2008
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Carmon Colangelo: Big Bang to Big Melt
Location: Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Blvd (in Grand Center) | Saint Louis, MO 63108-3611 USA.
Notes: Big Bang to Big Melt explores ideas about the creation of the universe and man-made changes in the in the environment-from the Big Bang to the Big Melt. This paradoxical relationship expands on Colangelo's investigation of the biological aspects of evolution and takes a closer look at the physical environment.
His imagery presents a playful odyssey that references the meta-narratives of art history and natural history by juxtaposing utopian ideals of modernism with the contingent aesthetics of surrealism and conceptual art. His taxonomy ranges from primitive organisms to bears and rhinoceros to other more bizarre and ambiguous creatures. The animals function in or independently from architectonic forms and urban landscapes, producing a vivid, chimerical vision. Colangelo's works push the physical and haptic qualities of the print, using new methods and transformative materials such as wax and iridescent inks.
Contact: 1.314.531.3030
Nov. 29 - Dec. 21, 2008
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Free Create-with-Nature events with Environmental Artist Zach Pine
Location: Sawtooth Building, 2525 8th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710.
Notes: In addition to displaying photographs of his ephemeral sculptures made from natural materials, Zach Pine will engage the public in creating collaborative, spontaneous art using leaves, stones, branches, seashells, feathers, sticks, pods, vines, driftwood, and more. Participants of all ages and artistic abilities will join in the creative process at Pine's studio inside Berkeley's historic Sawtooth Building, as part of Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios. He'll bring his collection of natural treasures indoors to use in art making.
Pine has led 25 art-with-nature events in the past year, with participants ranging from Intel executives to homeless children. "My aim in these events," he says, "is to impart a sense of discovered knowledge, to release creative energy, to arouse delight in nature, and to inspire collective action on behalf of the environment." Nov. 29 - Dec 21, 2008 (weekends only). Please visit www.naturesculpture.com for more information.
Contact: zpine@aol.com
Nov. 29 - Oct. 31, 2008
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Xavier Cortada's "Four Elements" at the Frost Art Museum
Location: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, 10975 S.W. 17th Street, Miami, FL, 33199.
Notes: Xavier Cortada's 40-foot tapestry entitled "aer" hangs in the atrium of Florida International University's new Frost Art Museum for its grand opening Nov. 29. "Aer" is the first of four commissioned works that the artist describes as "digital tapestries". The works are inspired by the four elements of water, air, fire and earth, and will be rotated throughout the year. The images of leaves on the banners belong to native trees that at one time grew at the very location of the Frost. Cortada's work was chosen from among 80 artists who submitted proposals to the Frost for an installation as part of Art in State Buildings.
Contact: 305-348-2890
Nov. 26 - Jan. 26, 2008
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Intervened Nature: Thoughts on Nature, Environment and New Technologies
Location: Espacio Inciarte, Seville, Spain.
Notes: Reflections on Nature, the Environment and New Technologies: Juan Ramon Barbancho, Alanna Lockward, Andres Isaac Santana and Nilo Casares. Part of the Seville Video Cycle program at the Espacio Iniciarte. Supported by VideoArtWorld.
Nov. 20 - Jan. 2, 2008
Above and Below the Surface: An Atlas
Location: EBMUD Gallery, 375 11th St.,Second Floor Lobby, Oakland, CA 94607.
Notes: Oakland artist Lorrie Fink opens a solo exhibit of new paintings at the EBMUD Gallery on Nov. 20, 2008. Inspired by organic forms found in nature, Lorrie Fink explores connections between painting, nature, and the rhythms of life cycles. This series is informed by coastal phenomena: tide pools, coastal rock formations, shorelines. Offering topographic views, the paintings depict intersections that are revealed when peering over edges and into seams. Free, wheelchair accessible. Gallery hours: M-F, 8am - 4:30pm.
Contact: lorrie@Lorriefink.com, (510) 326-1990
Nov. 18, 2008
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From Paradise to Social Sculpture and Beyond: 3 Lecture-Seminars by Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick
Location: Oxford Brookes University, Sinclair Building, Gipsey Lane Campus SG01 Oxford, UK.
Notes: This is an invitation to the last of these 3 Social Sculpture lectures, "Everybody is an artist: Transforming society by developing individual potential," by Wolfgang Zumdick - on Tuesday November 18 at 5.30. Hosted by the Social Sculpture Research Unit and the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University.
Dr. Wolfgang Zumdick is a philosopher, writer on contemporary arts and curator, based in Germany, whose work explores the philosophical underpinnings of the social sculpture ideas in their historical perspective and their relevance for contemporary life. He has lectured widely both as a guest lecturer at the University of Basel and as a keynote speaker to numerous national and international Beuys symposia; authored five monographs and written catalogue essays for museums and galleries including Portikus Frankfurt, Zurich Kunsthaus, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. He is actively engaged in the work of the Social Sculpture Research Unit and is currently International Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
Contact: c.graveling@brookes.ac.uk, +01865 483665
Nov. 15 - Jan. 3, 2008
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Honoring and Dishonoring Nature
Location: SCIART West, 519 South C Street, Oxnard, CA 93030.
Notes: Susan Scott has brought together the work of two venerable artists: Claudia Chapline and Hiroko Yoshimoto, under the banner: "Honoring & Dishonoring Nature." Yoshimoto will be showing her new series of sumi drawings, Shantih. Shantih is the last word of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, meaning "peace". Chapline will be presenting her new Spill Series, a response to the Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay in October 2007. Gallery Hours: Thur-Fri, 1:00-4:00 PM, or by appointment.
Contact: sciartcenter@earthlink.net, (805) 483-3148
Nov. 15 - 16, 2008
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Efest Green Living Music & Arts Festival
Location: 8201 Polo Club Lane, Sarasota, FL 34240.
Notes: The fourth annual Efest Green Living Music & Arts Festival is set for November 15-16, 2008 at the Sarasota Polo Grounds in Lakewood Ranch. More than 25,000 visitors are expected to attend.
Efest 2008 highlights include a Green-N-Healthy Expo with more than 175 exhibitors, panel discussions with local experts and community leaders, a children's eco-village with learning programs and fun activities, the Trash to Treasures Eco-Art Contest featuring art made from recycled and found materials, performances by more than a dozen bands on the main stage, performances by more than a dozen dance groups on the performing arts stage, an eco-fashion show, a horticulture tent focused on native Florida plants and sustainable landscaping, a food court with more than 25 food vendors, and a beer and wine garden. More than 35 volunteer coordinators from throughout the region are developing programs and activities for Efest 2008. Efest is seeking additional coordinators.
Contact: ph: 941.924.9065, fx: 941.925.4526
Nov. 14 - 16, 2008
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CONFLUX Symposium
Location: Waterfall Arts, Clifford Gallery, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine 04915.
Notes: November 14, 15 and 16 artists, artisans, designers, craftsmen, environmental activists and community leaders will gather at Waterfall Arts in Belfast, Maine for a symposium led by California based Wowhaus- Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas Constable.
CONFLUX focuses on their radically simple initiative of Deep Craft. In response to the noise of rampant consumerism and related global inequities, Deep Craft is an open-ended, open source initiative with the goal of reassessing the meaning and role of the handmade by observing and articulating sustainable patterns of design and craft from past and present models. Schedule includes panel discussion, speakers, breakout sessions and hands-on workshop. Please visit the website for complete details.
Contact: (207) 338-2222, info@waterfallarts.org
Nov. 13, 2008
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Library of Dust - Book Signing and Presentation
Location: SF Camerawork, 657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Notes: Join photographer David Maisel for a book signing and presentation of his new monograph "Library of Dust" at SF Camerawork.
Contact: 415 512 2020, info@sfcamerawork.org
Nov. 7 - 26, 2008
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Our Environment; the Good, Bad and the Ugly
Location: The Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 N College Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80524.
Notes: Our Environment; the Good, Bad and the Ugly, will tell a story of the human foot print left on this earth. This exhibition is for those who consider themselves nature conservationists and just photographers with a conscience. It's time to go green.
Nov. 6 - Dec. 13, 2008
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Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson Public Installation and Exhibition
Location: Galeria adhoc, Rua Joaquin Loriga, 9 36203 Vigo, Spain.
Notes: Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson work with a wide range of artistic media and examine themes relevant to the socio-political situation of public and urban space; their art is a matter of language, urban identity and the effects of globalisation on local communities.
In the exhibition in galeria adhoc, for the first time in Spain they will be showing the public installation Uterus Flags in Rua Joaquin Loriga from the 6th of November to the 13th of December, as an extension to the exhibition. The project has been produced specifically for this exhibition and is a new version in different colours of interventions previously made for various European cities: Hasselt, Belgium; Reykjavik, Island; Rovereto, Italy...
Contact: T: +34 986 228 656, info@adhocgaleria.com
Nov. 4 - Dec. 14, 2008
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Lukas Felzmann: GHOSTPILE
Location: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, off Palm Drive, 419 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA.
Notes: Ghostpile features Lukas Felzmann's photographic work, an exploration of the Sacramento Valley as both place and metaphor, documents a marsh altered through agriculture. In this collection, images and ideas about landscape and natural and cultural conditions intersect. The waters photographed are in the middle of the journey from the sky to the sea. They have left the steep watersheds, but have not yet reached the delta. Flowing south between the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada, their paths have been contained in the mud channels and concrete canals. Felzmann's intention was not to produce an inclusive documentation, but to construct an empirical archive and to weave a story out of fragments - a sort of poetry of ruins.
Born and educated in Zurich, Switzerland, Lukas Felzmann received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught photography at the California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Stanford University since 1993. His second monograph: Waters in Between, published by Lars Muller Publishers in September 2008 containing this work is subtitled An archive of a marsh with marginalia by Angelus Silesius and John Berger.
Contact: 650-723-2842
Nov. 3 - 25, 2008
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Recollections: Celebrating 30 Years of SCRAP
Location: Market Street Gallery, 1554 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.
Notes: SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts) is proud to present Recollections: Celebrating 30 Years of SCRAP, an exhibition of Bay Area artists whose work represents the ethos of SCRAP: reuse. SCRAP has been promoting creative reuse and preventing reusable materials from becoming landfill for over 30 years. In 1978 SCRAP was incorporated as an independent non-profit organization.
To celebrate this milestone and pay tribute to those who have supported SCRAP over the years, and through all its changes in location, an exhibition of artists who work with reused materials and have an affiliation with SCRAP will be held November 3rd to the 25th at the Market Street Gallery with an artists' reception on November 15th from 6-8pm.
Exhibiting artists are Jody Alexander, Jeanine Briggs, Stacey Carter, Claudia Chapline, Deborah Colotti, Colette Crutcher, Christine Dhein, Kat Flyn, Deborah Hayner, John Kuzich, Laurielu, Reddy Lieb, Linda Masotti, Sara Morris, Jane Newman, Emiko Oye, Remi Rubel, and Sharon Siskin.
Oct. 29 - 30, 2008
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Spiral Jetty Expedition
Location: Salt Lake City, UT.
Notes: Evening panel discussion of Robert Smithson's Sprial Jetty with:
Moderator: Jill Dawsey, Curator, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Panelists: Hikmet Loe, Art Historian and Writer, Bob Philips, Project Manager, Parson Construction, Laura Raicovich, Interim Director, Dia Art Foundation. Thursday: Day trip to Spiral Jetty (includes box lunch). Evening Reception. Tickets are $500 per person. Open to ISC Friend level members and one guest only. See website for more information.
Contact: events@sculpture.org, 609-689-1051 x302
Oct. 23 - Dec. 11, 2008
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It's Getting Hot in Here
Location: Akus Gallery, Shafer Hall, Lower Level, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham St, Willimantic, CT 06226.
Notes: This exhibition presents the work of eight artists using recycled materials as media in a subtle commentary on environmental awareness in the context of global warming. They have turned newspapers, bread tags, old paint, tin foil, cardboard tubes, #2 plastic bottles, glassine envelope windows, and fruit stickers as well as other recycled materials into works of art which are both lovely and which remind the viewer of the importance for our planet to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
ARTISTS: Vaughn Bell; Ellen Driscoll; Niizeki Hiromi; Katie Osediacz; People Powered, Pat Shannon; Yuken Teruya; Rachel Perry Welty. Curators: Leonie Bradbury and Shana Dumont, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. Free admission.
Contact: petersonel@easternct.edu, 860-465-4659
Oct. 22 - 26, 2008
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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. 19, 2008
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Nature Sculpture Arena at the North Berkeley Spice of Life Festival
Location: Lincoln St. and Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA.
Notes: Bamboo, leaves, branches, flowers, pods and other wonders of nature are the inspiration and the materials for this spontaneous collaborative artistic expression. Join in, get creative, and have a blast while appreciating and honoring nature in a new way. Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.
The Arena, hosted by ACCI Gallery, will be located at the corner of Lincoln Street and Shattuck Avenue, next to ACCI Gallery. Admission to the festival, which extends from Virginia to Rose on Shattuck Avenue in North Berkeley, is free. The festival includes music on two stages, culinary demos, arts, crafts, and food vendors, and a silent auction.
Contact: zpine@aol.com
Oct. 18, 2008
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Eco-Artists. Free-Radicals. Agents of Change.
Location: Bioneers Conference, Marin Center,101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, CA.
Notes: Legions of artists are currently directing their creative ingenuity toward solving urgent environmental challenges, infusing society with promise. Hosted by Linda Weintraub, author of Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. With: Betsy Damon, whose installations restore waterways while creating community art spaces; John Francis, aka "Planetwalker," whose art practice models a conscientious ecolifestyle; Greywater Guerrillas (Laura Allen and Christina Bertea), a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders and artists who empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure; and Sharon Siskin, community-based public artist addressing such crucial environmental issues as AIDS, the homeless, and waste management. Part of the Bioneers Confrence. 2:45-4:15pm.
Contact: 877.BIONEER (246.6337), conference@bioneers.org
Oct. 17 - 19, 2008
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2008 Bioneers Conference
Location: Marin Center,101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, California.
Notes: The Bioneers Conference is an acclaimed leading-edge forum where you can see tomorrow today: a future environment of hope. Social and scientific innovators focus on breakthrough solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity. These visionaries are already creating a healthy, equitable, diverse and beautiful world, our legacy for future generations and the web of life on which our lives depend. Here you can connect with hundreds or thousands of engaged folks making a real difference. Please see website for detailed information.
Contact: 877.BIONEER (246.6337), conference@bioneers.org
Oct. 17 - 25, 2008
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"Green" exhibition at Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Location: Haven Arts Gallery, 50 Bruckner Blvd. Bldg. A, Bronx, NY 10454.
Notes: Haven Arts presents the "Green" , with Sculpture, painting, photography, fiber art, and collage will be on display, from ten eco- artists, or artists using recycled materials. Participants include Bob Braine, Jacob Bluestone, Gian Pietro Carriozza, Janet Culbertson, Nickolas Laskot, Indian artist Marishka, Walter Mason, Catherine Pena, Sarah Nicole Phillips, and Ustya Tarnawsky. Also presenting are seven organizations or individuals who are engaged in greening their communities: Alliance For Climate Protection, Columbia University MA program in Urban Design, Friends of Brook Park, South Bronx CSA, Program, South Bronx Food Coop, and architect Juan Carlos Taino.
On Wednesday, Oct. 22 from 5 to 8pm there will be a "Green" Authors Talk, with Lori Bongiorno (author of "Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life") and Eugene Linden (author of eight books, including "The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations" and "The Future is in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability").
Contact: info@havenarts.org, 718 585 5753
Oct. 10 - Nov. 2, 2008
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Resuscitation
Location: ACCI Gallery, 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709.
Notes: Photographs of recent ephemeral nature sculptures by environmental artist Zach Pine will be included in this group show produced by the oldest artists' cooperative west of the Mississippi. The show features two- and three-dimensional works of art from rebuilt, found, recycled, and natural objects.
Contact: 510-843-2527, info@accigallery.com
Oct. 10, 2008
Bay Area Arts and Ecology Summit
Location: Exploratorium's McBean Theater, Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123.
Notes: The Arts and Ecology movement is a field of abundance in the Bay Area
with its deep roots in environmental activism from the 1960s. There are
currently multiple organizations working independently to grow ecoart
programming as we converge on a watershed moment in this important
election year.
This summit invites artists, curators, environmentalists and educators
to participate in a field-building roundtable discussion including audience
participation. How can art and ecology intersect in the 21st century in
new and productive ways? What are some emerging practices, and who are
the innovators? How is the "green movement" informing our approach, context,
and mission? What are key challenges ecological arts organizations face
locally and globally? What best practices can we share to strengthen and
sustain the field?
Time: 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Tickets: $5. Participants include: Sam Bower, greenmuseum.org; Susan Leibovitz Steinman, WEAD; Patricia Watts, ecoartspace; Peter Richards, Exploratorium; and special guest Shai Zakai, Israeli Ecoart Forum.
Contact: Patricia Watts, 310.704.2395
Oct. 8, 2008
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Where Nature, Art and Science Meet
Location: The Whale Museum, 62 First St. N., Friday Harbor, WA 98250.
Notes: Engineer/Artist Mark Fischer will give a presentation on "Whalesong Art", from 7 to 8pm on October 8th, 2008, at The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor, Washington, USA. For eight years Mr. Fischer has been researching ways to visualize the sounds of birds, whales and dolphins. Recent work includes investigations of the sounds of the Minke whale, the subject of 'research whaling' near Antarctica, the sounds of the north Pacific Blue whale; and tropical birds native to Kaua'i.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, Utne Reader, The Weekly Reader, Greenpeace (Germany), NRDC's OnEarth, the Discovery Channel magazine, GEO, Odyssey and Expressions magazines, San Diego Union Tribune, and AAHA's Trends.
Contact: aguasonic@gmail.com
Oct. 5 - Nov. 15, 2008
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Global Warming at the Icebox
Location: Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Notes: Scientists are investigating it, world leaders are discussing it, polar bears are living it, and artists are doing what artists do - making art about it. In the exhibition "Global Warming at the Icebox," Philadelphia Sculptors will be providing a platform for artists to express their creativity as they give visual form to the many ramifications of climate change. This major sculpture exhibition will take place in the Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia's Crane Arts Building.
Michael Alstad (Canada), Stacy Levy (US), Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico), Chicory Miles (US) and Shai Zakai (Israel) will all be traveling to Philadelphia to install their latest works. "Global Warming at the Icebox" is organized and curated
by Leslie Kaufman, President of Philadelphia Sculptors, and Cheryl Harper, Independent Curator. Free and open to the public.
Contact: lesliekaufman@philasculptors.org, 215-413-9126
Oct. 4 - Jan. 25, 2008
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Digital'08: Imagination On Behalf Of Our Planet
Location: The New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 47-01 111th Street Queens, NY.
Notes: On view from October 4, 2008 through January 25, 2009 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, Digital'08 is the result of an international "open call" that invited entrants to examine their environmental concerns, indulge their fantasies, and then share their digital visions of how a sustainable future might look.
This exhibition explores topics from: physical and digital recycling, as well as an imaginative, new alternative energy source; the fragility of nature in relation to its sustainability and ours; the promises of science and biotechnology, and the healing power of music; the loss of our "natural heritage" marked in time; while from less down-to-earth perspectives come suggestions of there being more to "matter" than meets the eye; as well as the celebration of a more holistic, cosmic consciousness that sees man as "part of" rather than "separate from" nature.
Contact: 718.699.0005
Oct. 2 - 4, 2008
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Art + Environment Conference at the NMA
Location: Nevada Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, Reno, NV 89501.
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. 27 - May 17, 2008
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Katie Holten: Atlas of Memory
Location: Nevada Museum of Art, Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts, E. L. Wiegand Gallery, 160 West Liberty Street, Reno, NV.
Notes: A native of Ireland, Katie Holten creates artworks that bring people together to investigate human impact on the natural environment. Often made from recycled materials, her thoughtful renderings of maps, plants, and ecological phenomena encourage dialogue on issues ranging from biodiversity to global warming. Atlas of Memory includes a selection of Holten's colorful globes, as well as new drawings from metropolitan cities around the world-including Reno. Holten represented Ireland in the 2003 Venice Biennale.
The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm, late on Thursdays until 8 pm; closed Mondays and national holidays. Admission: free for museum members; $10 adults, $8 students/seniors. For more information, please call or visit the website. This exhibition is presented as part of the Art + Environment series, an initiative of the Nevada Museum of Art that brings community, artists, and scholars together to explore the interaction between people and their environments.
Contact: 775.329.3333, art@nevadaart.org
Sept. 26 - 27, 2008
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Recycled Art at SF Recycling & Disposal
Location: SF Recycling & Disposal, 503 Tunnel Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.
Notes: Re[F]use and Tell Me Your Story is the culmination of a four-month residency in which artists Barbara Holmes and Casey Logan made art from San Francisco's discards. The exhibition features two separate bodies of 3-dimensional work that was inspired by and composed of salvaged materials from the public disposal area at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc., a subsidiary of Norcal Waste Systems. Open 5 pm to 9 pm on Friday, September 26 and 1 pm to 5 pm on Saturday, September 27.
Contact: dmunk@norcalwaste.com
Sept. 26 - Dec. 31, 2008
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Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Location: Chapo Marquez 133, in Colonia Federal, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, CP 22310.
Notes: Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura (COFAC) will open La Casa del Tunel: Art Center, an international community center dedicated to promoting and facilitating borderless arts, culture and environmental investigation and awareness. The Center is located 75 feet from the U.S./Mexico Border with a panoramic view of Tijuana and San Ysidro.
The series of opening events will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, with a dedication reception for friends of COFAC and the media. At 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, the celebration will continue with a public reception featuring Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments, an art exhibition examining environmental justice.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Ala Plastica, Lauren Bon, BULBO, CoLabART (Lynn Small + Dennis Paul), Echo Park Film Center, Fallen Fruit, Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison, Invisible 5, Natalie Jeremijenko, Tom Reddock, Shannon Spanahake, Kim Stringfellow, Robert Tannen, Los Animistas, 18th Street Artist Fellow.
Contact: luis_ituarte@hotmail.com, 011-52-664-682-9596 (from the U.S.) and in Mexico (664-682-9596)
Sept. 20 - Nov. 30, 2008
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Gaia Project Presents URBAN/ECOLOGY
Location: Liverpool (city-wide, various outdoor sites), England.
Notes: Gaia Project is very proud to announce the launch of URBAN/ECOLOGY, its new cross-disciplinary environmental arts project exclusively in Liverpool - in association with Liverpool Biennial Independents 08 and the Environment Agency. Our primary objective is to promote the Gaia Project 'art-ecology-community' philosophy to the wider public and to put this on Liverpool's cultural agenda in 2008. We will endeavour to achieve this by working with a group of artists who will collectively exist as the URBAN/ECOLOGY project team.
The priority for the artists will be to publicly communicate the importance and relevance of - the current 'environmental' debate - the inextricable links that ecological systems have to our daily lives - and subsequently to explore how climate change is affecting the environments in which we live in a local and national context. Please visit website for more details.
Contact: info_gaia_project@yahoo.co.uk
Sept. 14 - May 31, 2008
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Fieldwork Presents "Migra-scoping"
Location: Eastern Ontario, Canada.
Notes: Fieldwork presents a site-specific art installation each season in a field open to the public in eastern Ontario (near Perth). Artists for 2008-09 are Chris Osler (summer 08), Chris Grosset (autumn 08), Susie Osler (winter 08/09), and Erin Robertson (spring 09). September 14, 3-5pm is the launch date for our second installation 'Migra-Scoping' - an interactive piece to do with climate change and changing bird migration patterns. More information and directions can be found at our blog.
Sept. 13 - Oct. 26, 2008
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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
Sept. 12 - Oct. 18, 2008
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Amy Wilson: The Myth of Loneliness
Location: 526 West 26th Street, Suite 211, New York, NY, 10001.
Notes: Amy Wilson's work blends the personal and political; her books and drawings are about the space that exists between the "outside world" and the "inside" one. She has created an installation that literally pops out of a book and unfolds throughout the gallery. Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm.
Contact: phone 212 462 4404 / fax 212 462 4406, inquiry@bravinlee.com
Sept. 6 - 28, 2008
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From The Woods
Location: Young Blood Gallery & Boutique, 636 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA 30306.
Notes: Linda Hall, an artist from Tallahassee, Florida is having an art show of paintings and sculpture at the Youngblood Gallery in Atlanta. Hall produces alter egos for both human and non-human animals that emphasize their interrelation of identity an interrelation that also speaks to the deep interconnectedness of life in the age of catastrophe in the natural world by global warming and other manifestations of the physical intrusion of humans in the natural world. Forcing human and animal together into the same object is her attempt at forcing a kind of empathy or a dialog, between us and the natural world, between us and the nature within us.
Contact: 404 254 4127
Sept. 6 - Nov. 29, 2008
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Andy Goldsworthy - North Uist Works
Location: Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland HS6 5AA.
Notes: In March 2008, Internationally acclaimed environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy spent a week on North Uist at the invitation of Taigh Chearsabhagh. This exhibition of photographs documents some of the ephemeral works created on Baile Sear beach during that short residency. Free. Open 10am - 5pm Monday - Saturday. Closed Sunday. Disabled access.
Contact: Tel: 01876 500293, Fax: 01876 500240, admin@taigh-chearsabhagh.org
Sept. 4 - 7, 2008
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VII International Sculpture Symposium: Approaches to Sculpture in the Landscape
Location: University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Notes: The VII International Sculpture Symposium entitled Approaches To Sculpture In The Landscape is being held at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom from 4-7 September 2008. The 3-day symposium brings together authorities on aspects of Sculpture in the Landscape across Europe, examining the diverse approaches to the choice, placement and organisation of Sculpture in different landscapes. The symposium includes a day visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. For information on speakers, accommodation, travel information, etc. as well as the registration form, please see website.
Contact: s.lacey@adm.leeds.ac.uk, Ph: +44 (0)113 343 6106
Sept. 1 - May 1, 2008
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Stanley Park Environmental Art Project
Location: Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC Canada.
Notes: In 2008-2009, six artists are collaborating with ecologists and park stewards in the creation of environmental artworks in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada. This project was developed in reply to the overwhelming public response to the impact of the windstorms of 2006. A program of discussions and hands-on workshops will create opportunities for everyone to engage with nature through art and help explore a new relationship with our natural environment.
Envisioned as a collaboration between artists, ecologists, park stewards, environmental educators, and the very ecology of the park itself, this two-year art project started with the creation of ephemeral works in the summer and fall of 2008 and will continue with the creation of semi-permanent works in 2009. For more information visit our website.
Contact: anna.nobile@vancouver.ca
Sept. 1, 2008
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Secrets of Sand Spheres Revealed : Free Instructional Workshop and Collaborative Art Installation
Location: Stinson Beach, south section, Stinson, CA.
Notes: Environmental artist Zach Pine has been refining his technique for creating globes of sand over the past nine years, using the globes as evocative elements in a variety of ephemeral art works. In this event, Pine will continuously teach participants to make sand globes (it takes about 5 minutes to learn the basic technique), and encourage participants to teach others; the hundreds of sand globes made by all will be assembled spontaneously in a collaborative ephemeral art installation on the beach. 11:30 am - 2:00 pm; free, come anytime. See the event website for more information, including directions and carpooling.
Contact: 510-708-5528
Aug. 28 - Jan. 4, 2008
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Location: Price Tower Arts Center, 510 Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, OK 74003.
Notes: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, curated by Michaela Merryday and Scott W. Perkins, brings together a group of artists and designers who reclaim, reuse and reinterpret cast off everyday objects and materials to question the values of a culture based on consumption, excess and disposability. As the devastating effects of large-scale industrial development, the reliance on non-renewable resources and overflowing landfills on the environment become unmistakable, so does the necessity to rethink our attitudes towards consumption. To break this cycle of mindless consumption we have to examine the cultural, social and psychological dimension of consumption as these artists do.
Artists include 2nd Chance Design, Butch Anthony, Robert Gay, and Jack Sanders, Johanna Burton, Diem Chau, Rebecca Earley, Zac Freeman, Alyson Fox, Chris Jordan, Tracy Kendall, Marcus Kenney, Miwa Koizumi, Cal Lane, Lucy D., Play Design Ltd., Qubus Design, Georgia Russell, Alyce Santoro, Greetje van Tiem, Volksware, Jil Weinstock, and Anke Weiss. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10am to 5pm, Sunday: 12pm to 5pm.
Contact: 918.336.4949
Aug. 27, 2008
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YBCA and House of Campari present Sustainable Systems: 3 Local Solutions
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. at Third, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Notes: Join us as three individuals based in the Bay Area talk about their initiatives for sustainable urban living. John Bela, architect, designer, and member of the artist collective Rebar, is the designer of the City Hall Victory Gardens, a collaborative project currently on view in the public sphere. Shruti Narayan of the design firm Arup is the project manager on the sustainable design strategies for the new building of the California Academy of Sciences. They will be joined by Jerome Waag, a performance artist and chef at Chez Panisse restaurant who explores the urban environment as a site for the production of food in his latest project OPEN City at New Langton Arts.
The panel is moderated by Berin Golonu, YBCA's Associate Visual Arts Curator and co-curator of YBCA's upcoming exhibition The Gatherers: Greening our Urban Spheres. 6 - 8:30 pm / Conversation: 7 - 8 p.m. Limited seating. FREE. RSVP required to 415.373.0185. You must be over the age of 21 to attend.
Contact: 415.373.0185
Aug. 20 - 24, 2008
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Transitopia Public Art Project, Naas (Kildare)
Location: Devoy Park, Newbridge Road, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Notes: Transitopia is a contemporary public art event created specifically for Naas town Co. Kildare, to take place during August 20th - 24th 2008. Four artists; Michelle Browne, Joanne Butler, Elaine Reylnolds and Dominick Thorpe, have been commissioned to make new site-specific artwork in response to Naas and its changing form and identity. Two artists; Daragh McGrath and Carl Giffney will be undertaking research in relation to the Transitopia project.
Contact: parkingmeterarts@gmail.com, T: 045-448318
Aug. 17 - Feb. 1, 2008
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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. 17 - 18, 2008
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SALSA SALSA
Location: Farmlab, 1745 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Notes: Come to SALSA SALSA, a harvest festival for the citizens of Los
Angeles - come make and taste tomato salsas while listening and
dancing to salsa music. SALSA SALSA is a celebration of public space
and the culmination of the LOVE APPLES project in which 72 tomato
plants were installed on 12 traffic islands in LA and carefully
tracked to see which thrive and which perish, à la Survivor.
LOVE APPLES is an experiment in public space in the city of Los
Angeles, imagining new ways in which such spaces could be utilized to
make our communities more livable and engaged. It promotes community
awareness, sharing, food safety, public resources, and organic
gardening. LOVE APPLES is a collaboration between the art collective
Fallen Fruit (www.fallenfruit.org) and Islands of LA
(www.islandsofla.org). The artists of Fallen Fruit investigate urban
space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and
community all through the lens of fruit. Islands of LA is an art
project that is turning traffic islands into territories of art to
create community, foster discussion and explore the use and
availability of public space.
PLEASE JOIN US from 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday August 17th at Farmlab (1745
N. Spring Street) to make salsa and dance together. There will be
music from Mestizo L.A., a local salsa band, and a free Salsa dance
class taught by Miguel Candela, a local Salsa teacher. Meet new people
and talk about the future shape and texture of life in this city,
including the artists and organizers listed above. Bring your
homegrown or street-picked tomatoes (or chiles!) and collaborate with
your neighbors on new and remarkable salsas. Bring a friend – this
event is free to the public.
Contact: 323-226-1158, info@farmlab.org
Aug. 16 - Oct. 12, 2008
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Dead Horse Bay
Location: Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn, NY.
Notes: iLAND - interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance invites you to public engagements for the iLAB 2008 Artist in Residence Program: Dead Horse Bay. Collaborators: Sarah White, Choreographer, Angel Ayón, Architect, Gerald Marks, Visual Artist. Dates, Times, Location: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 2:00 PM to 8:30 PM, Sunday, September 14, 2008, 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:30 PM to 7:00 PM.
Events are FREE and open to the general public and will happen rain or shine. Light refreshments will be served. Details on Saturday, August 16 Event: "The experience will begin at low tide, around 2:15 PM. There will be dance performance on the tidal flat and a very remarkable bay beach to explore. Sunset, moonrise, and high tide all happen right around 8:00 PM. The alignment of sun, moon & earth is special this month and the full moon will rise in a state of partial eclipse. Our location was chosen as a perfect spot to view the sunset behind Coney Island and the NY skyline and the moonrise/eclipse out of Jamaica Bay."
Contact: info@ilandart.org or 212-375-8283
Aug. 16, 2008
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Sustainable Living Roadshow's Be the Change Launch Event
Location: Victory Gardens, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Join the Sustainable Living Roadshow in collaboration with the Neighborhood Empowerment Network, Gardens for the Environment and Slow Food Nation to launch the SLR and bring attention to the SF Victory Gardens. We will be set up in front of City Hall to showcase a glimpse of what we are working to create across the country. Come out to support the SLR, our partners and this important milestone for the city of San Francisco!
Victory Gardens 2008+ is a project of Gardens for the Environment to support the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops, and unused land into organic food production areas. The SF Victory Garden program builds on the successful Victory Garden programs of WWI and WWII but redefines "Victory" in the pressing context of urban sustainability. "Victory" is growing food at home for increased local food security and reducing the food miles associated with the average American meal. Time: 10am - 4pm .
Aug. 11 - Sept. 28, 2008
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4th International Darmstadt Forest-Art-Path Kreislaufe und Systeme / Cycles and Systems
Location: Darmstadt, Germany.
Notes: A Symposium, Conference and Exhibition from August 11th to Sept. 28th, 2008. Boreal ArtNature is invited to participate in this international interdisciplinary event in Darmstadt, Germany. Panels composed of artists, scientists and forestry workers are to discuss "Kreislaufe und Systeme / Cycles and Systems" in relation to art, ecology and social interaction. Jeane Fabb will present Boreal's 300 acre forested territory in the context of its unique program of artist-led research, projects and activities that reach across art forms and other disciplines to address the urgent social, environmental and scientific issues concerning society's relationship to nature.
Aug. 9 - Oct. 5, 2008
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Mushrooms | Clouds
Location: Nevada Museum of Art Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts E. L. Wiegand Gallery 160 West Liberty Street Reno, NV 89501.
Notes: The NMA will present Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds -the first major museum exhibition in the United States by British artist Chris Drury. The feature exhibition includes paintings, prints, sculpture and video drawn from two of Drury's most notable ongoing series: Mushrooms and Clouds. The exhibition also includes new works produced in partnership with the For-Site Foundation in Nevada City, CA and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, NV. The new work created for Mushrooms | Clouds also refers to the complex legacy-and continued presence-of nuclear activity in the American West.
Opening Talk: Chris Drury on Mushrooms | Clouds
Saturday, August 9, 5 pm: Chris Drury will discuss the paintings, prints, sculpture and video comprising the feature exhibition Mushrooms | Clouds, and the interplay of nature, culture, and science in his work. $10 / $8 NMA members. Purchase tickets online at www.nevadaart.org/tickets or at the NMA admissions desk.
Meet the Artist: Exhibition Walkthrough with Chris Drury. Wednesday, August 13, noon $5 / $4 NMA members in addition to paid admission. Purchase tickets online at www.nevadaart.org/tickets or at the NMA admissions desk.
Contact: 775.329.3333, art@nevadaart.org
Aug. 8 - 24, 2008
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Out There - Works and Documentation by Monti Lai Wai-yi (2003 - 2008)
Location: White Tube, The gallery of Hong Kong Art School, 10/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, HK.
Notes: In this first solo show, Lai will round up her study and research about environmental issues in the past five years as a mid-term review. Her new installation works, as well as images and text documentation about her working process, will be shown. The audience will have a chance to again walk with the artist on her road of art pursuit, and read her reflection on nature and man. Free admission.
Contact: info@whitetube.org
Aug. 7 - 21, 2008
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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
Aug. 2 - 28, 2008
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Marlene Tseng Yu: Forces of Nature
Location: Crossing Art Gallery, 136-20 38th Ave., 4th Floor, Flushing, NY 11354.
Notes: Crossing Art Gallery is honored to present Marlene Tseng Yu: Forces of Nature. Tseng Yu's paintings fuse traditional Chinese painting techniques with tempestuous fields of color resulting in harmonious abstractions. Influenced by the temperaments and moods of the natural world Tseng Yu's visions manifest themselves on larger than life canvases enveloping the viewer and overwhelming the soul.
Contact: 212-359-4333, info@crossingart.com
Aug. 2 - Sept. 20, 2008
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Elemental/Environmental: SPACE
Location: The New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, 1111 St. Mary St., New Orleans, LA.
Notes: The New Orleans Photo Alliance presents a national juried exhibition "Elemental/Environmental: SPACE". This is a photographic exploration of the art and meaning of space as it relates to the world we live in.
Contact: photoalliance@gmail.com, 504-610-4899
Jul. 27 - Aug. 17, 2008
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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. 25 - Aug. 2, 2008
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A Landscape
Location: FoldGallery, 3 Walton's Yard, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, UK CA17 4QT.
Notes: A Landscape seeks to challenge traditional landscape painting. Representations of the rural landscape are often bound up with notions of an homogenous 'national identity'. In particular to the artist, the Irish landscape is often gendered as female - in relation to ideas of "Mother Ireland". The rural landscape is seen as 'pure' and 'timeless' - evoking a sense of a certain unchanging, essential 'national character'. In response to this, A Landscape is one of conflict and contradiction, where marginal narratives are unearthed and represented and where the border between the rural and the urban is permeable.
Contact: Tel: +44 (0)17683 71561, info@foldgallery.co.uk
Jul. 23 - Aug. 19, 2008
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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. 21 - 25, 2008
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Kids Summer Art Camps: Eco-friendly Art Week
Location: Redux Contemporary Art Center 136 St. Philip St. Charleston SC 29403.
Notes: Come learn how to make everything yourself! During this week, students will learn eco-friendly art skills such as make and name your own color crayon, outside chalk, found object sculptures and much more! Local and organic snacks will be provided. This week is perfect for children ages 6-10.
Contact: 843.722.0697, info@reduxstudios.org
Jul. 20 - Sept. 7, 2008
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TRAIL 2008
Location: Teignbridge, South Devon, UK.
Notes: T.R.A.I.L. is an Artists led organisation exploring the themes of recycling and the environment through an annual free gallery exhibition and sculpture trail in the popular coastal region of Teignbridge in South Devon, UK. Sculpture Trail 20th July - September 7th; gallery exhibitions 10th August - September 7th.
Jul. 19 - 20, 2008
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22nd Annual Audubon Art & Craft Festival
Location: Wallenpaupack School Complex, US RT 6, Hawley, PA.
Notes: This annual event features thirty of the finest wildlife and nature artists, as well as over ninety fine craftsmen from 16 different states. Many of the artists and craftsmen will be demonstrating how they make their creations, as well as offering them for sale. The Festival provides an educational, fun-filled opportunity for young people to learn about and actually experience first hand some of nature's mysteries.
The Delaware Valley Raptor Center, formed to care for injured birds of prey, will have live raptors on display as well as continuous lectures about hawks, owls and falcons. There will also be free conservation literature, hand-crafted Door Prizes, a Nature Film Festival, Nature Center Exhibits, puppet-making and plenty of home-made delicious food! Funds raised at the Festival help to provide environmental scholarships to students in the area, conservation programs to schools and community organizations, nature books to schools and libraries, grants to local and international environmental groups and maintain two wetlands in Wayne County. The Audubon Art & Craft Festival, Wallenpaupack School Complex US RT 6, 2 miles South of Hawley, PA, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Admission: Donation of $4, children 12 and under enter free. For more information, give us a call. Don't forget, this is an indoor air-conditioned event with plenty of free parking.
Contact: 484-256-4485, dave@audubonfestival.com
Jul. 18 - Oct. 13, 2008
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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. 18, 2008
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Parked Art: Designing Art for Common Space
Location: Greater London Authority, City Hall, The Queen's Walk, More London, London, SE1 2AA.
Notes: Parked Art is a one day discussion forum exploring the possibilities for temporary public art projects, the relationship between art and architecture, and the social and environmental value that art can create for public spaces. It will generate inclusive dialogue and discussion from an interdisciplinary audience who share the responsibilities for shaping our public realm as physical and social spaces. Speakers and audience will include artists; curators and commissioners; local authority officers from parks & green spaces, culture & arts, and planning & regeneration; biodiversity specialists and ecologists; anthropologists; students; funders; the press & media. Tickets £10 (£5 concession) lunch not included. Tickets include entry to the Design Museum.
Contact: 020 7940 8783
Jul. 17, 2008
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Artist Talk: Fritz Haeg on Animal Estates 5.0: San Francisco
Location: SFMOMA Koret Visitor Education Center, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Notes: Join Fritz Haeg, architect and artist and Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA at 6:30 p.m. for a talk on Animal Estates 5.0: San Francisco. Engaging utopian and experimental practices in architecture and art, Haeg reimagines everyday space and its uses. In his Sundown Salons, his own home became the stage for classes, workshops, and performances. His Sundown Schoolhouse placed drop-in dance clinics in a corporate atrium and expression-training sessions in art galleries. Via his Edible Estates, suburban front lawns become foodbearing gardens. In this program, Haeg discusses the development of these diverse endeavors and his latest project, Animal Estates. A signing of Haeg's book Edible Estates follows.
Contact: 415.538.2693, edu@sfmoma.org
Jul. 11 - Nov. 1, 2008
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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. 10 - 31, 2008
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iLAB: Human Geography and the Practice of Presence
Location: Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.
Notes: iLAND- interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance, invites you to public engagements for the iLAB 2008 Artist in Residence Program: Human Geography and the Practice of Presence. Collaborators: Karl Cronin, Choreographer, NYC, Sasha Cuerda, Geographer, Chicago, with Dancer Maggie Bennett. The collaborators will conduct movement research based on two leading theories from the field of Human Geography: Action Network Theory (ANT) and Non-Representational Theory. These two theories have been widely debated within the field of geography, and in their own ways postulate a manner of being in space that involves interacting directly with one's environment-moving beyond layers of semiotics and abstracted representations.
During the iLAB residency, the collaborators will create movement practices that begin to address some of the fundamental elements of these two theories, and will offer opportunities for participants to engage in the movement practices firsthand. Scores will be developed and tested and presented on-site at Brooklyn Bridge Park as well, as two locations yet to be determined in the Brooklyn littoral zone.
Dates, Times: 6-8 pm Thursday, July 10: The Choreography of Agency, an evening of movement and experiences and experiments - through a series of guided practices led by the collaborators, participants will have the opportunity to explore different ways of relating to space using their kinetic experience as a starting point. And - 6-8pm Thursday, July 31: Summer highlights and discoveries, an evening presentation which explores research highlights as well as the struggles and possibilities inherent in art-science collaboration. Events are FREE and open to the general public and will happen rain or shine. Light refreshments will be served.
Contact: info@ilandart.org, 212-375-8283
Jul. 9 - 12, 2008
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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
Jul. 6 - 27, 2008
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ANIMAL ESTATE regional model home 4.0: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Location: SFMOMA Koret Visitor Education Center, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Notes: Fritz Haeg brings his Animal Estate exhibit to the SFMOMA. Weekly events (four Sundays in July) will include a series of presentations by local experts on each of the four animal clients, and the Estates that can be made for them. This will be followed by animal related activities/workshops involving sound, movement, garments, and a book readings. A geodesic tent in the museum will serve as the local Animal Estates headquarters, containing information on the project and serve as the site for the weekly events.
Printed materials about the project including a local animal guide, a poster announcing the project, and a series of postcards on each animal will be produced. Instructions on how to build the estates will be made public to encourage local residents to make their own version of the model homes on their own private property. For the San Francisco edition of the project, four local animal clients have been selected:
July 7: 4.1: California Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus)
July 13: 4.2: California Quail (Callipepla californica)
July 20: 4.3: Peregrine Falcon (Falco Peregrinus)
July 27: 4.4: California Sea-Lion (Zalophus californianus).
11am - 3pm. See website for more info.
Contact: 415.538.2693, edu@sfmoma.org
Jul. 5 - Aug. 31, 2008
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Outside: Insight - Sculpture in the Gardens 2008
Location: Brigits Garden, Pollagh, Roscahill, Co.Galway, Ireland.
Notes: This summer Brigit's Gardens hosts our first Contemporary Arts Sculpture in the Gardens Exhibition from 5th July to 31st August 2008, running in parallel with the Galway Arts Festival (14th to 27th July). The adjudicated exhibition will feature sculpture by artists specifically designed for the natural and architectural landscape of the Garden and its themes. Visitors will be able to enjoy the exhibit with the price of their admission.
Brigit's Garden is a not-for-profit organisation on an 11-acre site near Moycullen, Co. Galway. The project is a unique combination of old wisdom and contemporary design. The theme of the gardens is the Celtic calendar and the four seasonal festivals, which are interpreted through contemporary landscape architecture, sculpture and craftwork. The result is a beautiful, tranquil place with a very special atmosphere. Brigit's Garden is open to the public from February to October.
Contact: Ph: +353(0)91 550905, Fx: +353 (0)91 550491
Jul. 5, 2008
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Austin's 2nd Annual Green 4th of July Celebration!
Location: Austin Farmers Market, 4th and Guadalupe Streets, Austin, TX.
Notes: What: Austin's 2nd Annual Green 4th of July Celebration!
Where: Austin Farmers Market
When: Saturday, July 5th 2008, 9am to 1pm
Cost: FREE
Theme: "Renewing our commitment to America, as world citizens."
Featuring: Green gurus, interactive discussions, local food, live music, sustainable kid's activities & entertainment.
Contact: coremediamail@gmail.com
Jul. 5, 2008
Dance of Great White Egret with Patricia Bulitt
Location: Audubon Canyon Ranch, Across from Bolinas Lagoon, near to Stinson Beach, Stinson, CA.
Notes: 2pm, Dance of Great White Egret, Dancer: Patricia Bulitt. Free. The Egrets return to the ranch's trees for their nesting ceremony, teaching young to fly.
Contact: 510-841-6612
Jul. 4 - Aug. 4, 2008
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Maeve Collins: Temporary Public Art Works
Location: Liscannor Bay Pier, Enistymon Square, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Notes: 'I thought I saw the Tuath De Danann, but it was me I was looking at'. . . is the title for the project that consists of three temporary public art works by Maeve Collins. In the sea at Liscannor Bay Pier, Co. Clare and on the Tranquillity and Jack B ferries from Doolen and Liscannor Co. Clare to the Aran Islands Co. Galway from July 4th to August 4th (between spring tides). And in the Square in Enistymon for the 2nd and 3rd weeks in July, linked with the Trading Space Festival, Enistymon Co. Clare. Opening 12th July at 8pm Liscannor Pier, Liscannor Bay, Co. Clare. A website www.hybrasil.ie to support the project and allow for discussion will be launched on July 12th.
Contact: www.hybrasil.ie
Jul. 4 - 26, 2008
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Joe Hogan at Linenhall Arts Centre
Location: Ireland.
Notes: A exhibition of innovative contemporary works based on traditional basket-making techniques by Joe Hogan which is entitled Wood meets Willow will take place at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo from 4 July to 26 July 2008.
Jul. 2 - 12, 2008
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EKOSUSAK 2008
Location: Susak, Croatia.
Notes: EKOSUSAK 2008 is the first International festival of Ecoculture, held on the Island of Susak, Croatia this summer. Susak is being transformed into one big international workshop, offering ideal conditions to attempt an experiment in lasting sustainable development via multidisciplinary collaboration of various domains such as arts, architecture and ecology. In this manner, Susak becomes a starting point of observation, defining, establishing and researching various new and old values in a "battle" to preserve the environment.
Jul. 2, 2008
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Artist talk by Rebecca Sakoun & Florian Göttke - Lecture by Simon Faithfull
Location: Cinema 1, Lower level, Smart Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, NL-1054 PD Amsterdam.
Notes: In Spring this year, Florian Göttke and Rebecca Sakoun traveled to Iqaluit and Pangnirtung in Nunavut, Inuit communities in high arctic Canada. Over the past few generations, rapid and profound changes have taken place with regards to lifestyle, political and social organization, cosmology/world view, the local economy, education, child rearing, diet, land use, wildlife management, infrastructure, housing and language; a few of the areas profoundly transformed by colonialization, capitalism, and modernity.
It became apparent that most inhabitants are actively engaged as both researcher and cultural mediator. There is an urgency and necessity to salvage all the fragments of traditional knowledge and cultural practice in order to reassemble the Inuit's disturbed identity, to carefully preserve these remnants and connect them to the modern media society. In the framework of these topics the artists will present a selection of the abundant visual material the have gathered and will present an account of their experiences. Artist talk 7:30 p.m., Lecture 8:30 p.m.
Contact: phone: +31 20 42 75951, fax +31 20 247 59 53
Jun. 30 - Sept. 15, 2008
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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. 28 - 29, 2008
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Killruddery Gardens Family Festival
Location: Killruddery House & Gardens, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Notes: For seven weeks prior to the festival, artists are working for one week each in the studio here at Killruddery to make site specific, interactive art, specifically for the The Enchanted Garden. This is the first year of this type of interaction here at Killruddery and it is already proving an exciting and productive process.
The Enchanted Garden will be filled with walk about theatrical performances, interactive art installations and a host of other fantastic activities. You are invited to bring your own picnics, rugs and favourite teddy bears, for the Teddy Bears Picnic and we encourage you to get theatrical yourselves by arriving in fancy dress!
Contact: 00 353 (0) 404 46024, info@killruddery.com
Jun. 26 - Jul. 26, 2008
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Disintegration Disintegration
Location: The DeLeon White Gallery, 1139 College St., 1139 College St, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Notes: Disintegration Disintegration is an art exhibition presented by Ecotecture Canada featuring work by ten Toronto-based artists. In the group exhibition ten local artists engage critically with environmental questions that are normally left to the realms of science, politics and nostalgia. "Disintegration" refers not only to environmental degradation, but to the dissolution of boundaries between categories, ideas, and objects. Bulging gallery walls, hybrid skeletons, static icebergs, a plastic island, a rotting organic installation and other works mine the complexity of this condition.
Contact: info@ecotecturecanada.org, (416) 597-9466
Jun. 22 - Aug. 1, 2008
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Kiwi Sculpture Garden Project
Location: Kiwi Gardens, 687 Harper Road, Perth, Ontario K7H 3C9 Canada.
Notes: The 2008 summer edition of the annual Kiwi Sculpture Garden Project marks the 7th anniversary of the Perth based site-specific sculpture project. For the past six years artists have been invited by Edward Day Gallery owner, Mary Sue Rankin to create sculptural installations with the assistance and support of Paul Loiselle, owner of Kiwi Gardens.
The ongoing theme expressed by the artists for the 2008 Kiwi Project relates specifically to the natural environment within which they are created, but also speak to global concerns of the alteration of the earth's natural condition. Reinhard Reitzenstein states that his use of tree imagery through his work "has become a marker of the ravages upon, and attempts at, reconciliation with the natural world." His installation of two conjoined bronze trees, "Curl," represents the simple gesture of reaching for light and its sustaining energy.
Contact: 416 921-6540
Jun. 22 - Jul. 6, 2008
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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. 21 - Sept. 21, 2008
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Fluide parcours d' art actuel Thuin
Location: Thuin, Belgium.
Notes: With Collectif Art & Nectarine, Carlotta Brunetti, Joseph Chatelain, Philippe Decressac, Andre Fournelle, Frederic Gaillard, Paul Gees, Sebastien Hutse, Laurent Jourquin, Collectif Les Laids Bidules, Veronique Matteudi, Leopoldine Roux. Please see website for more information.
Contact: info@centrecultureldethuin.be, 071 59 60 35
Jun. 21 - Nov. 30, 2008
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Into the Trees
Location: The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center, 1405 County Rt.22, Ghent, NY 12075.
Notes: Katie Holten will be installing her large sculpture "Excavated Tree" in the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery at The Fields Sculpture Park "Into the Trees" with Polly Apfelbaum, Sanford Biggers, Shinique Smith and others. The Fields Sculpture Park, located on the Omi International Arts Center campus, encompasses approximately 300 acres of farmland of which 90 acres are dotted with internationally recognized contemporary sculpture. The fields are free of charge and open to the public on a daily basis year-round from sunrise to sunset.
Contact: 518 392 4747
Jun. 21, 2008
Environmental Art: A Ceremony to Our Planet
Location: St. Thomas University, 16401 NW 37 Ave. Miami Gardens, FL 33054.
Notes: The Piag Museum and St. Thomas University's School of Leadership Studies present a unique art exhibition in the form of Floating Cubes. Under an environmental theme, this exhibit now has forty cubes designed by various artists and continues to grow open to all. Each cube will have a unique message related to the conservation of our planet.
On June 21, 2008, at 11:30 a.m., participating artists will simultaneously place their artwork in the University pond as part of a ceremony dedicated to our planet. After the St. Thomas University pond ceremony, this exhibit will travel to over 30 cities and artists will be recognized for their efforts. The event is free of cost and includes a complementary "mimosa" brunch and music by Emilio Antonio. The Mobile Gallery of The Piag Museum, a bus which carries art work inside and travels throughout Miami-Dade County, will also be at the event free of charge.
Jun. 21, 2008
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Nature Sculpture Arena at the Big One
Location: Sharon Meadows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Using materials from nature, Zach Pine creates ephemeral abstract sculptures. His work is inspired by his desire to understand and heal the environment.
9am-3pm: Bamboo, leaves, branches, flowers, pods and other wonders of nature are the inspiration and the materials for this spontaneous collaborative artistic expression. Join in, get creative, learn, and have a blast while appreciating and honoring nature in a new way.
3pm: Environmental and Social Engagement and Education Through Art-Making in and With Nature. A hands-on workshop for participants of all ages. Using natural materials, we'll create temporary and evolving sculptures individually and in collaboration, in a spirit of playful discovery. There will also be a series of short exercises to illustrate different methods and approaches for using nature sculpture as a means to engage people of all ages in art-making as a means for imparting a sense of discovered knowledge, releasing creative energy, arousing a sense of delight in nature, and inspiring collective action.
Jun. 21, 2008
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EcoArt Challenge and Sustainable Frederick Festival
Location: Carroll Creek Linear Park, downtown Frederick, MD.
Notes: The environment will be front and center at this all-day event along Carroll Creek. An art show and contest featuring recycled materials will take place, along with music, demonstrations, food, and displays from environmental organizations encouraging a "green" Frederick. The purpose of this event is to hold a grassroots community wide celebration that will educate and promote environmental awareness, both locally and globally, and offer practical solutions and resources for taking action. The event is sponsored by the Frederick Arts Council, My Organic Market and BP Solar. The festival runs from 12:00-8:30 p.m.
Contact: 301-662-4190
Jun. 20 - Sept. 1, 2008
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Mining the Landscape: Student Environmental Art
Location: Everhart Museum, 1901 Mulberry Street, Scranton PA 18510-2390.
Notes: Inspired by John Willard Raught's coal breaker paintings, area fourth-grade students explored both the beauty and the scarring caused by coal mining in the Northeast Pennsylvania landscape. Led by photographer and teacher Ward Roe, the students created landscape imagery using photography and collage. Environmental conservation and site scarring, mine reclamation, and pollution are a few of the themes explored in the students' work.
Contact: Ph: 570.346.7186
Jun. 20 - Sept. 1, 2008
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Interactive: Isaiah's Corner: Everhart Goes Evergreen!
Location: Everhart Museum, 1901 Mulberry Street, Scranton PA 18510-2390.
Notes: Gain a sense of place as you explore the landscape through artistic expression and environmental concepts. Isaiah's Corner will provide children with a unique opportunity to learn about landscapes through themes of recycling, fuel sources around the world, materials and garbage, environmental conservation and community activism. Touch, play, create, and discover things about going green and becoming eco-conscious! Please note that adult guidance is required at all times.
So come to the museum and stop by Isaiah's Corner to learn about conserving our natural landscapes with your children. Then go visit our galleries where you and your children can apply your new knowledge of conservation in our temporary exhibits, Art of the Land: John Willard Raught and the NEPA Landscape Tradition, and Mining the Landscape: Student Environmental Art.
Contact: Ph: 570.346.7186
Jun. 20 - Aug. 30, 2008
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Polluted Wellspring : 17th Environmental Art Festival in Iran
Location: Paradise Art Center, Polour, Iran.
Notes: During the first week of summer 2008 Paradise began its 17th environmental festival in nature. Young artists from different parts of Iran traveled to Polour to participate and be involved in the environmental art projects. This time, the event focuses on the water crisis and water pollution. It will last through the end of the summer.
Contact: +(98) 9121482177, paradise@riverart.net
Jun. 19 - Aug. 8, 2008
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The WATER PROJECT at Thoreau Gallery
Location: Thoreau Center for Sustainability, The Presidio of SF, 1014 Torney Ave. at Lincoln Blvd., San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Please join us in celebrating our new exhibit at Thoreau Gallery. The "Water Project" visually explores one of our most precious resources and one of the most overwhelming forces of nature. Inspired by water's depth, colors, energy, mystery and physical properties, the artists have created work using a range of media from film and photographs to wood, canvas and paper. Curated by Catherine Haley Epstein.
Contact: 415-561-7823, bruce@thoreau.org
Jun. 19 - Oct. 15, 2008
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Salvaged Materials Transformed into Art Displayed
Location: EnviroHouse (Tacoma Landfill), 3510 S. Mullen St, Tacoma, WA.
Notes: Everything from street litter and beach debris to a Buddha head and wedding cake topper have been salvaged and transformed into 14 professional works of art on display June 19 through mid-October at the EnviroHouse, the City of Tacoma's green building and natural landscape exhibit. Work from local artists Karen BenVeniste, Karen Fabiano and Ellen Miffitt make up the fourth recycled-content art installation at the EnviroHouse, where artwork made from at least 95 percent salvaged material is showcased.
Contact: (253) 573-2426, EHouse@cityoftacoma.org
Jun. 17 - 21, 2008
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Plight of the Urban Stream
Location: The Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street South Bank.
Notes: An exhibition to fund Ithaca Intact, presented by the Environmental Art Collective in Brisbane, Australia. All proceeds from the event will go directly to local community group SOWN (Save Our Waterways Now) to fund their Ithaca Creek re-vegetation project.
Contact: 0421 501 520
Jun. 15 - 27, 2008
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Impacted Nations
Location: Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts, Main Gallery, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.
Notes: This touring exhibition is a project of the national organization, Honor the Earth, which was established in 1993 to create awareness of and support for Native environmental issues. Using the arts, the media and Indigenous wisdom, Honor the Earth asks people to recognize the interdependency of people and the Earth.
The exhibit contains works by more than 40 noted Native American contemporary artists working in a variety of media, including Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, South Dakota artist Donald Montileaux and Buncky Echo-Hawk. Together, the artists offer varied interpretations of the dams, oil explorations, coal mining and nuclear projects which have impacted Native lands and communities. At the same time, some of the work offers an alternative vision for the future, revelations that include the sun and the wind.
Impacted Nations will be the featured exhibition of the 18th annual Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute at University of South Dakota (USD). The Institute brings together young Native American artists with a team of professional artists for intensive workshops in painting, printmaking and cultural studies. Based in the USD Department of Art, the Institute concludes on Friday, June 27 with a public reception and art sale from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Contact: (605) 677-3177 or jday@usd.edu
Jun. 15 - 20, 2008
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New Writing Worlds 08, HUMAN:NATURE
Location: Norwich, UK.
Notes: New Writing Worlds 08, Human:Nature brings together some of the world's best writers on nature in a series of events and readings in Norwich from June 15-20, and in Reads and Writes sessions across Norfolk throughout May and June.
Is our relationship with the natural world past the point of no return, or can we write a new ending to the story? Featuring the Nobel Laureate novelist J.M. Coetzee, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams, acclaimed nature writers Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey, US wilderness writer Gretel Ehrlich, the first Welsh National poet Gwyneth Lewis and many more, Human:Nature brings together Norfolk's two areas of expertise - Creative Writing and Environmental Studies - to see what they have to offer at a time when the world's environmental questions have never been more urgent.
Contact: +01603 877177
Jun. 14 - 20, 2008
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Create - Participate In "Huntington Columns"
Location: Corner of Park Ave and Pulaski Road, Huntington, NY.
Notes: The Public is invited to join Thea Lanzisero, with guest artists including Sydra Nightingale in the creation of this innovative environmental art piece! This project, inspired by the Egyptian colonnade at the temple of Aman-Ra in Karnak, will be created entirely out of bamboo, jute rope and solar lighting. These sustainable local materials represent 'eco-friendly' elevated to an art form.
IMAGINE - CREATE - INSPIRE - yourself and others, as you become part of this innovative and fun, sculpture installation. Sat June 14-Friday June 20th
Sat/Sun: 1pm-4pm. Mon-Friday: 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm. (Wed June 18th no afternoon session). Reception to be held on Friday Night June 20th 7pm, look for the white tent at the corner of Park Ave and Pulaski Road.
The whole project will have a footprint of approximately 100 square feet, containing 25 bamboo columns in rows of 5, each standing about 12 feet tall and 15 feet apart. Each column will be topped with individually designed capitals, which will house the solar panels and lights. As the sun sets the bamboo columns will illuminate and shine well into the night. The installation will be visible day and night from passers by at this main intersection of Pulaski Road and Park Avenue, Huntington NY. This sculptural statement on environmental sustainability will be on view through September 2008. If you would like to reserve a time for your group or organization to participate please contact thealanzisero@yahoo.com. For more details see website. Sponsored by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative and a JPMorgan Chase Individual Artist Grant, administered by the Huntington Arts Council.
Contact: thealanzisero@yahoo.com, 631-988-8373
Jun. 12 - Jul. 31, 2008
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The Idea of Nature
Location: 33 Bond Gallery, 33 Bond Street, #1, New York, NY 10012.
Notes: The show will feature seven prominent NYC painters including Elisa D'Arrigo, Heather Hutchison, Andrew Masullo, Leslie Wayne, Bill Weiss, Stephen Westfall and one sculptor Michael Pribich, working with eyes and mind attuned to the natural order as idea. Several mid career artists are represented, such as Stephen Westfall and Leslie Wayne. An added treat is a work from the estate of pioneering Minimalist painter Ralph Humphrey.
For the artists in this show, nature figures prominently as both a distilled and refracted presence. They perceive the natural world to be saturated with what the Greeks called menos or mind. Nature's epic order, both visible and hidden, seems mysteriously balanced from within, and is the essence of what we call beauty. In the Chinese Tao tradition, the natural world is spoken of as being of itself, so. In attempting to recollect and convey this intrinsic and essential aspect of nature, these artists have chosen abstraction as their means. The natural world is not literally depicted in the paintings and drawings in this show, but rather evoked. It is the idea of nature that infuses each work.
Contact: info@33bond.com, 212.845.9257
Jun. 12 - Sept. 28, 2008
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Nature as Artifice: new Dutch landscape in photography and video art
Location: Kroller-Muller Museum, Houtkampweg 6 6731 AW Otterlo, Netherlands.
Notes: The archetypal Dutch landscape we know from paintings was a pastoral idyll of virgin nature, meadows, windmills and cows. As farmers or shepherds, man lived within this landscape in order to serve nature. Through photography and video - our contemporary visual culture's pre-eminent media - the exhibition Nature as Artifice provides a new image of the Dutch landscape. As in other countries, the globalisation of the economy has replaced this bucolic idyll with motorways, airport expansions, suburbs, industrial estates, recreational facilities and new landscaping.
In its battle against the water, the landscape of the Netherlands has always been controlled by people. The nation's pioneering civil engineering technology developed to create land where there was once water, computer-driven horticulture and biotechnological agriculture have extended the Dutch desire for order to nature as a whole. The Netherlands is now known as the most artificial landscape in the world.
The artists in Nature as Artifice have taken this urbanised and artificial aspect of the Dutch landscape as their starting point. They do not make a negative judgement of these developments, but regard this reality with open eyes and seek new forms of beauty. Man's control of the landscape and the environment is a topic of international discussion with a relevance far beyond the Netherlands' borders.
Contact: info@kmm.nl, Tel: +31 (0) 318 59 12 41, Fax: +31 (0) 318 59 15 15
Jun. 12 - Aug. 28, 2008
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The Natural Eye
Location: The Holland Area Arts Council, 150 W. Eighth St., Holland, MI.
Notes: The Natural Eye, an exhibit showing at the Holland Area Arts Council galleries, has works from six different artists focusing on the beauty of our environment, practices of sustainability, recycling and energy conservation. Jim Lutke weaves driftwood, willow and moss into figures from nature. Lutke's Stag was created right in the HAAC gallery. Gale Nobes presents luminous black and white nature photography using infrared light. Rick Pas displays highly detailed acrylic paintings of striking combinations directly from nature. John Guertin reclaims barn wood to create birdhouses and bat houses. Roger Smith casts wildlife figures in bronze. Michael Van Houzen carves songbirds from wood. HAAC is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
Contact: 616-396-3278
Jun. 11, 2008
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The Creative Footprint: a discussion on environmental concerns in art
Location: Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 Johns Street, Stroud, Glos. GL6 8DP UK.
Notes: This symposium aims to develop artistic and public awareness of the diversity of
debates and practice within the visual arts as well as a networking opportunity. Panel discussion members will be Shelly Sacks (Social Sculpture Research Unit) and Neville Gabie (Artist in Residence British Antarctic Survey 2008/09) with Leading
arts consultant Lesley Greene (Trustee, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust) be chairing the discussion (more panelists to be announced). Lesley Greene and artists
Simon Ryder (Elixir, Art Nucleus), Tara Downs (Roving Studio) and Gavin McClafferty (Last Gallery) will also be giving presentations. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. free (£10 returnable deposit).
Contact: tel: 01453 751440, office@sva.org.uk
Jun. 10, 2008
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Freshwater Reception & Brief Presentation for Greenhouse Britain
Location: City Hall, More London, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA UK.
Notes: You are warmly invited to a FRESHWATER RECEPTION & BRIEF PRESENTATION to celebrate the closing of this 'radical artwork, expressing controversial views of climate change'. 6.30 - 8.00 PM. GREENHOUSE BRITAIN Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom, with Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Harrison Studio and Associates (Britain), David Haley (Associate Artist), Gabriel Harrison (Designer), Christopher Fremantle (Producer). Places are limited and available on a first come, first serve basis. RSVP to David Haley by 5 June. All guests will need to pass through Security on arrival.
Contact: Ph: 0161 247 1093, d.haley@mmu.ac.uk
Jun. 8 - Aug. 3, 2008
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Katie Holten: at Villa Merkel
Location: Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Pulverwiesen 25, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.
Notes: Katie Holten studies ways in which we can understand nature and represent nature, using the resources of fine art. In doing this, she identifies breaches between ideal and reality with unmistakable clarity. Her artistic work is based on studies of physics, botany, architecture, urbanity and sociology. Holten is interested in realizing works that contribute something to an awareness of places and the environment, and also reflect the vulnerability that is an inevitable part of everyday life. She uses media that are best suited to the situation, including drawing, installation, works in public places for a designated period or living plants. A large number of works in this one-woman show, which is conceived as an insert for the 5000 Years of Modern Art exhibition, are being realized specially for the Villa Merkel. Opening hours VILLA MERKEL Tue 11a.m. - 8 p.m., Wed-Su 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Guided tours Tue 6 p.m. / Su 3 p.m.
Contact: +49 (0) 711 3512-2640,
Jun. 6 - Jul. 5, 2008
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ELAINE BLATT: Natural Phenomena
Location: Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Blvd., (in Grand Center) St. Louis, MO 63108.
Notes: As a photographer working for 25 years, Elaine Blatt has explored the globe while documenting sights seen by few people. From crawling through tiny spaces barely able to fit her small frame, to standing hours in the freezing cold, she has been able to return with truly remarkable photographs.
In this latest show, Blatt is presenting a series of work depicting the dazzling natural light show, aurora borealis (the northern lights) from Reykjavik, Iceland. Also included are the incredible rock formations of the Antelope Canyon in Arizona and the sandstone Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon in Utah. A short video by Elaine Blatt titled "Corkscrew Canyon" will be showing In the New Media Room. Elaine Blatt, a native St. Louisan, studied under Ansel Adams, Mary Ellen Mark and Lisl Dennis and received two Master Degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world and is displayed in institutions from St. Louis to Paris.
Contact: 314.531.3030
Jun. 6 - 30, 2008
GreenCraft - Artistic Expressions Using Found, Recycled and Eco-Friendly Materials
Location: Newbill Collection by the Sea, 309 Ruskin Place, Seaside, FL.
Notes: Artists from all over the United States create an exhibit of environmentally "green" artwork. Items such as recycled copper, old 45s and 33 rpm records, inner tube truck tires, garden hoses, computer parts and bicycle parts have been rescued from the dump and given new life as jewelry, bowls, clocks, sketch books, purses or photo frames. Newbill is open daily from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Contact: (850) 231-4500
Jun. 5 - 6, 2008
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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
Jun. 5 - Sept. 7, 2008
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Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit
Location: Te Papa, Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
Notes: As part of World Environment Day celebrations the Ministry for the Environment in partnership with the Natural World Museum, the United Nations Environment programme and Te Papa will present Art for the Environment: Moving Towards a Balanced Earth, an art exhibition featuring works of art from 25 artists representing 17 countries.
The free exhibition will be housed at Te Papa and will be open to all members of the public. The exhibition will open on World Environment Day, 5 June, and run until 7 September. The exhibition is designed to utilise the universal language of art as a catalyst to unite people in action and thought, and to empower individuals, communities, and leaders to focus on environmental values across social, economic and political realms. The exhibited art will have an over-arching climate change theme.
The World Environment Day international slogan for 2008 is Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy in recognition that climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era.
Contact: info@naturalworldmuseum.org
Jun. 5, 2008
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Eduardo Calderón: Photographs from Brightwater
Location: King Street Center, 201 S Jackson St., Seattle, WA 98104.
Notes: 4Culture and the Brightwater project team invite you to a new installation of photographs from Eduardo Calderón. The installation is in the King Street Center on the 2nd floor walkway between the elevators and the public plaza. The installation of black & white photography will be on display from June 2008 to June 2009.
In 2004, Calderón was commissioned to poetically document the evolution of Brightwater, a new King County regional wastewater treatment plant, associated conveyance and marine outfall. The images in this exhibition span a three-year time frame, depicting the area before the site development began, some of the individuals that are helping to build the project and the beginning stages of construction including the tunnel conveyance structures.
Jun. 5 - 6, 2008
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Chicago Botanic Garden hosts World Environment Day
Location: Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL 60022.
Notes: The Chicago Botanic Garden has been chosen by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the sole North American host for World Environment Day 2008. At the Garden and at venues around the world, events will highlight resources and initiatives that promote low carbon economies and lifestyles, such as improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation, and eco-friendly consumption.
Experience activities for everyone in the family along with presentations by local and national organizations in the areas of food, shelter, energy, education, transportation, and public awareness, among others. The day-long celebration, with the theme of "CO2-Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy," features ideas, green expertise, and fun ways to lower your carbon footprint. In addition, visitors may view presentations by international experts on global warming and enjoy an amazing children's painting competition on the theme of global warming, sponsored by Bayer Corporation. Thursday, June 5, free, all day. Visit website for details.
Contact: 847.835.5440
Jun. 4 - 15, 2008
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Flight of the Mechanical Bumble Bee
Location: WCO, Chelsea 19 West 26th Street, 5th floor, New York, NY.
Notes: Flight of the Mechanical Bumble Bee is part of an annual exhibition program sponsored by the AHL Foundation. This year's exhibition is organized around works that are inspired by nature. The show brings together twenty exciting emerging artists whose works deal with the complex relationship between nature and artifice. Some view nature as an extension of the self while others take a more methodical approach to controlling nature through pseudoscientific inventions. Natural space is transformed into an idiosyncratic architectonic space while natural forms converge to create new hybrid creations.
The exhibition as a whole explores the in-between states of abstraction and realism, fantasy and reality, chaos and beauty, the organic and the mechanical, the deliberately staged and the authentic, the genuine fake and the pseudo-natural. From dream-like scenes to the realistically staged, the show includes a wide range of media including paintings, drawings, ceramics, video, and photography.
Participating Artists:
Amy Talluto, Boyce Cummings, Choi Sung-Hun + Park Sun-Min, Christopher Reiger, Diane Carr, Dooeol Lee, Eliza Fernand, Eric Graham, Eunjung Hwang, Felix Esquivel, Geujin Han, Hyungsub Shin, Jaye Rhee, Jena H. Kim, Jennifer Viola, Miyeon Lee, Si Yeon Kim, SunTek Chung, Tony Luib, Tricia Mclaughlin.
Contact: 212-679-2055
Jun. 2 - 8, 2008
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World Environment Day 2008 Events in New Zealand
Location: Around New Zealand.
Notes: In honor of World Environment Day, New Zealand will host many events including, but not limited to: an Action for Climate Change Programme in Auckland and Upper Hutt; Green Ribbon Awards, Junk to Green Funk Art Auction, International Children's Painting Competition Exhibition and a Weed Swap at Civic Square in Wellington; "Step Up Canterbury" and Future Proof Energy Expo in Canterbury; Carbon Wise Whaingaroa in Waikato; and lastly, Nelson / Tasman 'Less-Cars' Day in Nelson. Please see website for details on these events!
May 31 - Jun. 30, 2008
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POST CONSUMED: The Landscape of Waste in Los Angeles
Location: CLUI - Los Angeles, 9331 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232.
Notes: Garbage is the effluent of our consumption, and it flows backwards through the landscape of Los Angeles. Unlike liquid wastes, which drain downslope to the sea, the tiny tributaries of trash, from millions of homesteads, collected by a fleet of thousands of trucks circulating in constant motion, hauling to nodes of sorting, distribution, reuse, and, finally disposal, flow up the canyons and crevices to the edge of the basin. The CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall is open noon to five PM,
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, or by appointment. Admission is free.
Contact: support (at) clui (dot) org , 310.839.5722
May 31 - Jul. 12, 2008
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Field Work - part 2
Location: Smart Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 101-111, 1054 PD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Notes: Amy Balkin - Roderick Hietbrink - Juneau Projects - Fritz Haeg - Servet Kocyigit - Mikael Levin - Rebecca Sakoun - Ingo Vetter & Annette Weisser.
As a two-part exhibition and an ongoing discussion, 'Field Work' conjectures two parallel, interconnected, and yet differently orientated trajectories that encompass art, nature and ecology. The exhibitions 'Field Work - part 1' and 'Field Work - part 2' address contemporary perceptions and understandings of nature.
'Field Work - part 1' looked at contemporary perceptions and understandings of landscape, at how ones perception of landscape may be informed by human transformations of the environment, and by their mediation through artistic depictions and cultural representations - which are often partial and politically inflected. 'Field Work - part 2' is a gentle invitation to rethink the distinction most of us make between nature and culture. Each work in the show in its own way deals with the relationship between nature and a man-made environment.
Contact: info@smartprojectspace.net, Ph: +31 (0)20 4275951, Fx: +31 (0)20 4275953
May 31 - Jul. 1, 2008
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Eco-Feminism: Eve Defends Her Garden
Location: Floyd Memorial Library, 539 First St., Greenport, NY 11944.
Notes: An exhibition of works and a talk by artist Janet Culbertson informs us about this contemporary art genre that intersects the worlds of art, nature and women. Dealing with the violations of nature, many women artists like Ms. Culbertson have invented and reinvented numerous contemporary art forms to express their concern about the destruction of nature. Culbertson will give a brief talk and display works from her Billboard series. All are welcome. Open every day through library hours until July 1.
Contact: 631-477-0660
May 31, 2008
Celebrate Homestead's Cultural and Natural Heritage Along the Steel Valley Trail
Location: The Pump House, far east end of Waterfront Drive in the Waterfront.
Notes: When: Saturday, May 31, 11am - 3pm
Where: The Pump House, far east end of Waterfront Drive in the Waterfront (look for signs and balloons)
What: Cookie Tasting, Trail Art Banners, Trail Guides and Heritage Cookbooks
The Community Trail Art Initiative (CTAI) has partnered with Propel Schools, an independent public school, and Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (ROS) to celebrate the historic and natural features of the Steel Valley Trail (SVT). On Saturday, May 31, 11am-3pm at the Pump House in the Waterfront (far east end of Waterfront Drive) two semester-long collaborations among local artists, historians and students will be presented to the public. Hand-painted trail banners, a trail guide, and a heritage cookie cookbook created by the Homestead Propel students will be highlighted, with a continuous PowerPoint presentation demonstrating the students' process.
The event is free and open to all. The Steel Valley Trail Council (SVTC) was incorporated in 2000 to assure quality construction and long-term stewardship of the Steel Valley Trail. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (ROS) preserves, interprets, and manages the historic, cultural, and natural resources related to Big Steel and its related industries.
Contact: 412-688-0417, ecoart@accad.ohio-state.edu
May 28 - Jun. 1, 2008
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World Science Festival
Location: New York, NY.
Notes: The World Science Festival in New York City attempts to put science into context for everyone: poets, accountants, kids, using "art, music, dance, literature, dialogue and debate." The conference has a long list of speakers, including novelist Alan Lightman, journalist Charlie Rose, dancers, artists, business owners and many, many scientists. Events at the festival include talks on green building, sustainable cities and even green consumerism. Check out the website for complete details.
May 26 - Jun. 14, 2008
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Meet Patrick Dougherty at Sculpture in the Parklands
Location: Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly, Ireland.
Notes: For three weeks this summer internationally renowned environmental artist Patrick Dougherty and his helpers will twist, weave and entangle hundreds of willow saplings to create a monumental work of art for Sculpture in the Parklands. The project will be launched at 3pm on 31 May at Sculpture in the Parklands. The public has the opportunity to meet Patrick Dougherty at reception hosted by Visual Artists Ireland at 5.30pm in Belmont Mills Artists Studios. For further information on the programme please visit the website.
Contact: Info@sculptureintheparklands.com
May 26 - Jun. 6, 2008
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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 25 - Mar. 31, 2008
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Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
Location: MASS MoCA, 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247.
Notes: The tradition of portraying the landscape has threaded together movements as varied as the mid-19th century Hudson River School and the Earth Art of the 1960s and '70s. Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, opening Sunday, May 25, 2008, at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams opens the next chapter in the landscape tradition, addressing contemporary ideas of exploration, population of the wilderness, land usage, environmental politics and the relativity of aesthetic beauty. Badlands comes at this critical time, an era when the world is more ecologically aware yet more desperately in need of solutions than ever before. The artists in this exhibition share this collective anxiety some turn to the past to see how their predecessors negotiated the terrain of the landscape while some propose entirely new ideas. While deeply aware of the legacy of the landscape, each of these artist reinvents the genre to produce works that look beyond vast beauty to address current environmental issues.
The exhibition will include five new commissions including work from Vaughn Bell, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Joe Smolinski, Nina Katchadourian and Mary Temple. Several artists contribute new works never before exhibited, including Alexis Rockman, Paul Jacobsen, and Jane D. Marsching and Mitchell Joachim/Terreform. Other artists featured are: Robert Adams, Boyle Family, Melissa Brown, Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide, J. Henry Fair, Anthony Goicolea, Mike Glier, Marine Hugonnier, Jane D. Marsching and Mitchell Joachim/Terreform, Ed Ruscha, Yutaka Sone and Jennifer Steinkamp. Please see website for more information.
Contact: info@massmoca.org, 413.662.2111
May 24 - Jul. 12, 2008
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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 24 - Jun. 21, 2008
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"Lament" Exhibition in Toronto
Location: Gallery 260 (Second Floor) at 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Notes: Canadian landscape painting confronts 21st century climate change in this exhibition by award winning Ontario College of Art & Design graduate Gareth Bate. The painting series "Lament" is a reinvigoration of Canadian landscape painting in the face of 21st century climate change and environmental destruction. It is a song of sorrow and loss, an existential contemplation on our place within nature and our effect on the world. Out of Gareth's desire to paint the beauty he sees in nature comes something dark, haunted and lonely. A strange melancholy permeates each painting, of human presence felt but never seen. Gareth is the winner of the 2007 401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize, a 500 square foot studio given to one Ontario College of Art & Design graduate for one year.
May 24 - 25, 2008
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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 23 - 24, 2008
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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 23, 2008
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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 22, 2008
Light Wind Park at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Location: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Kennedy Building, 621 Huntington Ave. 4th Floor, Room 406, at the corner of Huntington and Longwood Avenues, Boston, MA.
Notes: 7 p.m. Thomas Whittlesey and his design team will present Light Wind Park, the final proposal for a sustainable design sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The design of this new, highly visible public sculpture along Huntington Avenue was developed in tandem with the students of the Sustainable Sculpture seminar taught by Prof. Patricia Seitz of the MassArt Architecture Department in spring 2008.
The goal of this art installation is to inspire viewers on the principles and practice of sustainable design. The sculpture will consist of an installation that will generate energy and allow people to envision a more sustainable way of living on the planet. Project planning is funded by the Fund for the Arts, a restricted fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts. The UrbanArts Institute at MassArt is facilitating the planning process. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Contact: 617-879-7973, christina.lanzl@massart.edu
May 22 - Jul. 5, 2008
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The Promised Land: A Video Art Exhibition on the Consequences of Globalization
Location: Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011.
Notes: The Promised Land presents a cycle of projections and video installations by several prominent artists. The feature installations will rotate and each one will be on display for one week. Additionally, in conjunction with the feature installations, a video program conceived especially for the occasion will run throughout the duration of the exhibition. Participating artists will also hold talks at Chelsea Art Museum to introduce their work and explain their artistic practices to the public.
The Promised Land highlights the ironic consequences of globalization. It is conceived around a central question: Has globalization advanced or hindered society? Conventional wisdom holds that globalization is synonymous with progress and produces tangible benefits. The artists in this exhibition explore whether those perceived benefits are real or imagined. The Promised Land juxtaposes the ideals of co-existence, acceptance, and cultural diversity with the reality of prejudice, alienation, censorship and nationalism. Visit website for details.
Contact: contact@chelseaartmuseum.org, 212.255.0719
May 17 - Aug. 10, 2008
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Manifest Destiny/Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape
Location: Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL.
Notes: In this moment of increasing environmental awareness, Manifest Destiny/Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape explores America's longstanding relationship to the land traditionally considered its national birthright. Viewers of this exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art will contemplate the cultural, spiritual and ecological ramifications of their environmental "footprints."
Contact: (312) 915-7500
May 17, 2008
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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, 2008
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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, 2008
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Axel Antas: Structures for the Unseen
Location: SPACEX 45 Preston Street, Exeter EX1 1DF, England.
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, 2008
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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, 2008
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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 12 - 27, 2008
Matters of Fact: An exhibit of art addressing important environmental and social justice issues
Location: Laney College of Art Center Hall Gallery, E 10th Street, across from Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA.
Notes: Matters of Fact: An exhibit of art addressing important environmental and social justice issues, includes art by students from the Laney College EcoArt Matters class: Jess Arnett, Kelly Barrett, Christina Bertea, Alexa Calos, KhanKham Chaiyasane, Bequi Craig, Fred Kazar Evans, Paul Ferguson, Chris Hawkins, Rebecca Haseltine, Leonie Holzman, Chelsea Myslik, Billy Trice, Patti Trimble, Sally Weare. Guest Artist/Curator: Mary White; Instructor: Andree Thompson.
May 10 - 11, 2008
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New Work by Linda Gass
Location: Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Studio F-2, Palo Alto, CA.
Notes: As part of Silicone Valley Open Studios, artist Linda Gass opens her studio, showing new works exploring water issues in the San Francisco Bay. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Contact: info@lindagass.com, 650.948.1752
May 9 - Jun. 14, 2008
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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, 2008
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 8, 2008
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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
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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 7 - 31, 2008
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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 7 - 18, 2008
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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 5 - 30, 2008
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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 5 - Sept. 1, 2008
Dreaming Before Daylight
Location: San Rafael Public Library, 1100 E Street, San Rafael, CA 94901.
Notes: "Dreaming Before Daylight" is an environmental sculpture installation created by Marlene Aron of San Francisco, and commissioned by ArtWorks/ArtReach and the City of San Rafael, CA. The work sits on the site of the San Rafael Public Library, at 5th and E Streets. The site is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The work is a circular mound, 14 1/2 feet in diameter and 12" high. It is composed of glacial, moss and lichen-covered rocks; oak galls, soil, dolomite, sawdust, mulch, bark, cocoa bean hulls, lava and garden rocks, and pit-fired ceramic spheres and shards.
Contact: maronart@yahoo.com
May 4 - Jul. 28, 2008
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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 3 - 4, 2008
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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
May 2 - 25, 2008
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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, 2008
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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, 2008
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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 2 - 24, 2008
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Foreign Object with Kat Ostlundh & Hannah Stewart
Location: FoldGallery, 3 Walton's Yard, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, UK.
Notes: Foreign Object is a curated collection of work by Kat Ostlundh and Hannah Stewart. Ostlundh, having been born and brought up in Sweden, has spent the past four years in Carlisle as a 'foreigner,' and inherently has a more objective viewpoint on English culture. Hannah is English, married to an American, time spent away from the UK has led her to work with idiosyncratically English icons, visually examining how certain aspects of society have been unnaturally preserved and then become anachronistic but remain. This show brings together contrasting and corresponding pieces from each artists recent practice, presenting a distilled collection of foreign objects.
Contact: info@foldgallery.co.uk, tel: +44(0)17683 71561
May 2 - 11, 2008
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Margate Rocks Festival 08
Location: Margate Media Centre, 11-13 King Street, Margate, Kent CT9 1DA, UK.
Notes: The 6th Margate Rocks Festival of Contemporary Visual Art will take place between 2-11 May 2008. Sited in and around the budding seaside town of Margate, this year's festival explores the relationship between Art & Ecology. Showcasing cutting edge work by emerging and established artists, the festival will highlight areas of social, environmental and cultural fact and fiction. The programme aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue that audiences of all ages can access through a variety of exciting commissions, exhibitions, talks, events, films and workshops.
Participants include Franny Armstrong, Billy Childish, Rosie Cooper, Sarah Craske & Stacy Keeler, Michaela Crimmin, Andrew Kotting, Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema, Mark McGowan, Stephen Melton, Dr Mark Miodownik, Heather & Ivan Morison and Simon Welsford.
Contact: hello@margaterocks.com
May 1 - 21, 2008
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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, 2008
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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
May 1 - Jun. 2, 2008
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Destiny Manifested
Location: 2CarGarage Contemporary Art Gallery, 30 West Broughton St., Suite 205, Savannah, GA 31401.
Notes: Featuring landscape paintings by Alexandro Santana, Daniel E. Smith, Veronica Varner. Monday - Saturday, 12-6 p.m. (or by appointment).
Contact: 912-236-0221, wcooper@2cargallery.com
Apr. 27 - Oct. 26, 2008
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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. 27, 2008
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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
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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
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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. 22 - May 21, 2008
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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. 20, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 - Sept. 1, 2008
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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. 18 - 20, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 10 - Jun. 30, 2008
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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 - 28, 2008
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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 - May 11, 2008
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Market Forces / Part I: Consuming Territories
Location: carriage trade, 94 Prince St. 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012.
Notes: Market Forces addresses the euphoric consumer culture of the last decade that manifested itself in a seeming overflow of goods and services and an explosion of luxury housing development that now dominates the urban landscape. This two-part exhibition is intended to be as inclusive as the market is pervasive, with work that addresses the influence of consumerism on personality, labor, politics and the built environment. Market Forces / Part 1: Consuming Territories will examine the profound effects of unregulated markets on the built environment and the psychology of the individual through their relentless quest to consume ever more territory and "claim" space.
Much of the artwork in this exhibition reflects on the rapidly changing conditions an individual encounters in everyday experience, conveying a sense of place that is constantly in flux. Ranging in scale from an installation to an ipod video, and in technique from a hand made tapestry to photography, the work in this exhibition addresses the currently unpredictable nature of the physical spaces around us, which, largely due to their shifting values in the global marketplace, seem to be in perpetual transition.
Contact: 718.483.0815
Apr. 5 - May 28, 2008
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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. 5 - 6, 2008
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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
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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
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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 - Sept. 30, 2008
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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
Apr. 1 - 30, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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 - May 17, 2008
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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. 29 - 30, 2008
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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
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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. 23 - Jun. 30, 2008
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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. 22, 2008
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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
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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
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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 - May 16, 2008
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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. 20, 2008
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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
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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
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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. 15 - Aug. 2, 2008
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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. 14 - 17, 2008
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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
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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 art's medium. Vapor proposes new ways of modeling, testing and finding solutions to the problems of air quality and greenhouse gas emissions.
Contact: t: 415-863-2141, soex@soex.org
Mar. 14 - May 10, 2008
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Grounded
Location: Ellen Curlee Gallery, 1308-A Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103.
Notes: Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment is an exhibition bringing together international photography and video art focusing on the complex and dynamic interrelationship between humans and the earth while addressing the environmental troubles currently confronting us. The theme of the exhibition was developed in partnership with the St. Louis Earth Day organization, as a result of their expressed interest in adding a collaborative and artistic component directly involving the community. The photographers represented in Grounded are among a growing movement of global artists who are critically addressing environmental issues such as climate change, extinction and conservation. These artists believe that art can play a critical role in providing creative insight into these challenges. Grounded proposes art as a way of creating a better understanding of our relationship with our environment as well as a way to explore the renewed role of contemporary art as a leading force in the global debate about the future of our planet.
With Chase Browder - Isabelle Hayeur - Jenny Kendler - David Maisel - Maslen & Mehra - John Pfahl - Brian Ulrich - Nichole Van Beek - Caroline Voagen Nelson - Voshardt/Humphrey - Scott Wolniak. Curated by Dana Turkovic.
Contact: (314) 241-1299
Mar. 13 - Apr. 19, 2008
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Feedback
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues), New York, NY 10011.
Notes: What does it mean to think "green"? Eyebeam's expansive new exhibition, FEEDBACK, surveys artists, designers, architects and engineers on the topic of sustainability, and presents their responses-19 projects varying from public art projects and industrial design to DIY energy solutions and software tools-to inspire discussion and action on this pervasive (and increasingly commodified) subject.
As the culmination of Eyebeam's Beyond Light Bulbs programming series, the show highlights the concerns, interests and work of Eyebeam's Sustainability Research Group, with work by individuals, collectives, students, local community groups and the Eco-Vis Challenge winners. Free, artist-run workshops are integral to the exhibition's design and are scheduled Saturdays throughout the show's duration.
The exhibition's title, FEEDBACK, refers to the self-correcting mechanisms by which systems-in this case, ecological-respond to the influence they exert on their environments. The works on display echo this recursive dynamic, from Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley's DrinkPeeDrinkDrinkPee sewage processing organ, to Natalie Jeremijenko's tadpole-dispensing prescription from the walk-in Environmental Health Clinic for the ecologically unwell. In direct response to the world's loss of crop biodiversity-as much as 70 percent in the 20th century-Leah Gauthier's Sow-In will engage the public, in partnership with local community gardening groups, to sow the seeds of those food plants most in danger of extinction. See website for more!
Contact: Tel. 212.937.6580 Fax: 212.937.6582, info@eyebeam.org
Mar. 13 - May 1, 2008
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Zach Pine: Nature Sculpture Photo Exhibit
Location: Marin Ayurveda, 85 Bolinas Road #8, Fairfax, CA 94930.
Notes: Public event (all ages): Join in and make nature sculpture with Zach Pine at the opening reception for his nature sculpture photo exhibit at Marin Ayurveda in Fairfax, CA. Refreshments will be served. You're welcome to donate something from nature to the collection of art materials from nature that will be provided. Exhibit will be on display till May 1.
Contact: zpine@aol.com
Mar. 11 - 31, 2008
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Shape Up
Location: Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd Street 8th floor, New York, NY 10019.
Notes: Gallery MC and LMAKprojects are pleased to announce their second collaboration: "Shape Up", a project by Tamara Gayer. For the exhibition, the artist will transform the project space into in urban landscape of bold colors and geometrical shapes, expressing the artist personal experiences amongst these buildings and intersections. By bridging notions of mental and public space, Gayer enables viewers to position themselves within the reconstructed site.
Shape Up - the show - reflects multiple meanings of the phrase. The title is not only a 'wink' to getting in shape, but a reference to the current situation in the city; large scale construction abounds, buildings are being renovated, deconstructed or destroyed, while new ones rise from the ground like mushrooms. This seemingly never-ending reconfiguration is changing the physical shape of the city all the while mutating its character. Gayer works in the vein of a romantic ecologist: she is interested in the ebb and flow of the urban landscape, which etches its form on our behavior, wearing into our comprehension. Her images combine spatial representations of urban landscape with abstract pattering. In Shape Up she will use the windows and floor to reconfigure the office area. Her images, suspended between two and three dimensions, are created from adaptations of large-scale drawings (simultaneously handmade and computer generated) morphed into appliqués of self-adhesive vinyl, wall paintings and other advertising 'mediums'.
Contact: info@gallerymc.org
Mar. 8, 2008
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Tea House Productions
Location: Brenda Taylor Gallery, 511 West 25th Street. #401, New York, NY.
Notes: Come and stop by for a Tea Break during the next installment of TEA HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
at the Brenda Taylor Gallery. Saturday, March 8, 2008 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Tea House Productions is an interactive tea ceremony set in a Tea House built out of copper pipe and recycled tea bags.
Artist Michele Brody will be inviting gallery viewers to enter into a traditional-based Tea House to sit for awhile and share a cup of tea with her. Each participant will be asked to choose from an array of loose teas donated by Divinitea, Sympathy for the Kettle and Alice's Tea Cup that will be spooned into special paper bags. While waiting for their pot of tea to brew, Ms. Brody will engage each participant in conversation, which will be recorded and saved in preparation for being transcribed onto the tea bag after it has been set out to dry, and eventually be incorporated into a Tea Quilt mural. The project aims to set up at various sites throughout New York and other cities as an opportunity for the community to cross over boundaries between what is private and public.
Contact: 212-463-7166
Mar. 8 - Jun. 1, 2008
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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, 2008
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 - 15, 2008
2008 Palmer Sculpture Biennial
Location: 31 - 33 North Street Adelaide West End Adelaide South Australia 5000.
Notes: The site at Palmer is a magnificent stage for this third
biennial of sculpture. Big skies, large horizons, open
areas and dramatic escarpments. It is a place with
significant Aboriginal and European history. Those who
make the effort (wearing comfortable shoes) to come and
experience this exhibition will be richly rewarded. With Ted Jonsson, Tis Milner-Nichols, Jamie Willis, Craig Andrae, Peter Blizzard, Sonia
Dennellan, Sandy Elverd, Bert Flugelman, Sasha Grbish,
Ian Hamilton, Matthew Harding, Greg Johns, Gerry King, Sue Kneebone,
Pamela Kouwenhoven, Hans Kreiner, Max Lyle, Gavin Malone,
Stephen Newton, Chris Ormerod, Sue Rodwell and Trevor Rodwell,
Deb Sleeman, Nick Uhlmann. Opening by John Neylon, Author, Art Critic and Curator
12 noon Sunday 2 March 2008. Conditions: Moderate to difficult terrain - appropriate clothing and footwear required. It is wise to bring bottled water. It is not permitted to smoke anywhere on this property.
Contact: T +61 8 8231 4440
Mar. 2 - Aug. 8, 2008
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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
Mar. 2, 2008
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Constructing Art With Nature at the Bay Area Discovery Museum
Location: Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA.
Notes: Environmental artist Zach Pine will lead this outdoor public all-ages art-making event using natural materials from in and around the 7-acre museum grounds in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. 3-4 p.m. at Lookout Cove. See the event website for details and directions.
Contact: contact@badm.org
Feb. 29, 2008
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Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism?
Location: Central European University Auditorium, 1015 Budapest, Nador utca 9, Hungary.
Notes: The programme on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at Central European University is co-organised by Maja and Reuben Fowkes with Alan Watt of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Dessislava Gavrilova of the Centre for Arts and Culture, and co-ordinated by Lilla Foldi of the Centre for Arts and Culture.
This symposium investigates the current state of thinking about sustainability in the light of the continuing mutations of post-Fordist global capitalism and its devastating effects on the environment, society and the individual. The axis of discussion will revolve around the strategic possibilities for resistance offered by tactical withdrawal versus relentless activism through contemporary art. On the one hand, the dilemma gives rise to a conscious decision to slow down, decline to participate, to seek a way out, or 'exit' as envisioned by Paulo Virno, or on the other, there is a passion to overcome political exhaustion and confront head on rampant injustice, environmental degradation and lack of liberty. To book your place please down load the symposium booking form and send to Alan Watt, Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU, Nador utca 9, Budapest 1051, Hungary. Please note that although there is no registration fee, reservation is required.
Contact: tel: (+36 1) 327 3000, booking: watt@ceu.hu
Feb. 28 - May 18, 2008
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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. 27 - 28, 2008
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Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour
Location: Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA.
Notes: Mountainfilm on Tour is the traveling branch of Mountainfilm in Telluride, the "annual celebration of indomitable spirit" held in Telluride, Colorado every Memorial Day weekend. Mountainfilm focuses on outdoor subjects and, for 30 years, has been "dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining." A presenter from Mountainfilm staff will introduce and discuss both of these programs, which are produced for the Rafael by Kimberly Hughes and Kelli Petersen. Please see website for program details.
Contact: 415-454-1222
Feb. 26 - Mar. 22, 2008
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Dream Quest
Location: Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY.
Notes: Marian Osher's colorful buffalo wall hangings and dream catchers suspended over paintings explore environmental and spiritual connections. Gallery Hours Tues. through Sat 12 - 6 pm, Thurs. 12 - 8 pm.
Contact: 212-947-6100, art@ceresgallery.org
Feb. 26, 2008
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Greenhouse Britain
Location: Old Market Hall Film and Digital Media Centre, Shrewsbury, Shropshire UK.
Notes: Please join us at 7:30pm for this special presentation by the eminent American ecological artists, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison. The event has been organised to complement the exhibition Greenhouse Britain, showing at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery (Rowleys House) until Saturday 1st March. This is a new touring exhibition by the Harrisons and their British associates, which dramatically addresses the rising sea levels caused by climate change. The installation includes a multimedia video projection onto a giant topographic model of mainland Britain, showing the waters gradually redrawing the coastline. The Harrisons have exhibited worldwide since the 1960s and are widely acknowledged as pioneers of socially-engaged contemporary art practice.
The event will also introduce artists David Haley, Sheilagh Jevons and The Cloud Gallery Collective. The exhibition Greenhouse Shropshire '... like there's no tomorrow', at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, is co-curated by David Haley, Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University and Project Manager for the Harrison Studio in the UK, and Shropshire-based Sheilagh Jevons, who has established a reputation both in the UK and abroad for her work as an artist and activist. Their exhibition focuses on 'local', personal and sometimes unexpected responses to climate change and includes both their own work and items selected from the museum collections. Booking is strongly advised as places are limited!
Contact: Box Office: 01743 281281
Feb. 24 - Mar. 16, 2008
Homage to Nature: Planet Earth
Location: The Cedars, Heysen Road, Hahndorf 5245 Australia.
Notes: Installations and sculpture by 18 Adelaide & Hills artists. To be held in the grounds of The Cedars (Shady Pool area), home of landscape artist Sir Hans Heysen. The exhibition is being held in an open paddock, please wear appropriate footwear. Dates: 24 Feb at 6.30pm, 26-29 Feb, 1-2, 4-9, 11-16 Mar at 10am, DOOR $4.00 - entry fee includes admittance to the historic Cedars grounds. Smoke Free.
Contact: Tel: 61 8 8388 7277
Feb. 24 - Mar. 15, 2008
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Patrick Dougherty: Catawampus
Location: Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, CA, 91007.
Notes: This art installation titled "Catawampus"? is a whimsical journey through a natural woven willow structure that evokes the primitive and modern. Patrick Dougherty was inspired to learn about primitive building techniques as his career as an artist evolved. His work quickly went from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental scale installations and environments made of natural materials. During the last two decades, he has built over 150 works throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. 03-15This installation is part of the Art-in-the-Garden program, inspires appreciation of our natural world through the expression of artists in open green spaces.
Contact: 626-821-3222
Feb. 22 - Mar. 22, 2008
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Treasures of the Sierra Madre-Birds of West Mexico
Location: Electric Works, 130 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Notes: Electric Works presents artworks by David Tomb in a re-creation of the sights and sounds of the Sierra Madre region. Large-scale drawings of birds will be installed with native vegetation from Flora Grubb Gardens. Taxidermied birds and recorded birdcalls from western Mexico will add to this artistic and educational experience.
Contact: 415.626.5496
Feb. 22 - 23, 2008
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Garden Symposium 2008: Making Your Garden a Work of Art
Location: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kauffman Foundation, Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center, Kansas City, MO.
Notes: Join garden enthusiasts from around the region for an inspirational symposium that will encourage you to make your own artistic statement in the garden. Featured Speakers:
Rosemary Alexander, Jennifer Bartley, Dan Benarcik and Richard Reames. Don't miss out; get your tickets as soon as possible. Call Powell Gardens at 816-697-2600 ext. 225 to make your reservations. For complete details, please visit website.
Contact: 816-697-2600 ext. 225
Feb. 20 - Mar. 16, 2008
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Inhabited
Location: Higher Ground, 5-19 Light Square, Adelaide, Australia.
Notes: Friends of the Earth Adelaide, Australia, invites you to the opening of Inhabited: an exhibition by Jessie Boylan and Bilbo Taylor. Inhabited is a collection of photographic and audio portraits of the people impacted by Australia's nuclear industry, featuring Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott, Yankunytjatjara man Yami Lester, Kokatha elder Eileen Wingfield, Maralinga veteran Avon Hudson, activist Mitch and many more. Inhabited will be open 10.00am-9.00pm, 21 February - 16 March.
Contact: joel.catchlove@foe.org.au
Feb. 18 - May 18, 2008
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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 - May 10, 2008
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Life Frames, Inc. at MOMA/P.S.1, NYC
Location: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101.
Notes: Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library cordially invite you to attend a special international art opening, Sunday, February 17 (12 - 6 PM) to May 10, 2008 at the Museum Of Modern Art / PS1, in which an early "Life Frame" work is being featured: An art installation by Bonnie Ora Sherk, on Crossroads Community (the farm), an ecological transformation of 7 acres of formerly derelict land adjacent to, and incorporating, a major freeway interchange, into an Urban Farm, Art, and Environmental Education Center. This resulted in a new City Farm Park in San Francisco, CA, one of the first alternative art spaces in the country.
The installation on The Farm is included in the international traveling exhibit, WACK! Art And The Feminist Revolution, curated by the chief curator of drawings at MOMA, Cornelia Butler. We encourage you to view this exhibition and the installation on The Farm, as it shows vividly how the "Life Frame" can transform and add incredible vitality, beauty, and life to a community. All are invited!
Contact: bonnieora@alivinglibrary.org, 415.206.9710
Feb. 17 - Aug. 17, 2008
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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
Feb. 16 - Apr. 11, 2008
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Lines, Patterns and Textures
Location: Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave. Berkeley, CA 94703.
Notes: Mark Fischer's sonic mandalas from the sounds of birds, whales and dolphins will be among the works exhibited at the Lines, Patterns and Textures show at Expressions Gallery, from February 16th through April 11th, 2008. Join us for the opening night reception from 6pm until 8:30pm.
Contact: 510.644.4930, expressionsgallery@msn.com
Feb. 15 - Mar. 23, 2008
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RePose
Location: Gallery Route One, 11101 Highway One, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956.
Notes: RePose is a site-specific collaborative installation created by Bolinas artists Jacqueline Mallegni, Waldemar Mitrowski and Martin Butt. The installation is inspired by the theme "geography of hope", a phrase used by Wallace Stegner in his wilderness letter written in 1960 to the Wildland Research Center. A sentence from that letter "...Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed..." resonated with Jacqueline Mallegni in a metaphysical way relative to her interrelationship with nature. As an intuitive artist, Mallegni's work involves using natural materials and handmade paper to create sculpture.
Martin Butt is an ecological landscaper specializing in garden ponds and sculptural water features. Waldemar Mitrowski is well-known for his figurative painting and book sculpture, and has recently become impassioned with digital imagery. Mitrowski's digital photography of nature's textures will be integrated with Butt's water feature and Mallegni's organic sculpture offering visitors an opportunity to interface with an environment reminiscent of the preciousness of wilderness, of the land on which we so deeply depend. Together, by creating a visual and tactile interpretation of a 'geography of hope' our intention is to stimulate responsible action toward the preservation of our planet.
Contact: info@mallegni.com
Feb. 14 - 15, 2008
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InTransition: Sustainable Architecture and Design for Cornwall
Notes: University College Falmouth's RANE research cluster and The Design Centre, Tremough in association with Transition Falmouth and Transition Truro, invite you to engage in dialogue and collaboration on the subject of sustainable architecture and design for Cornwall. Our Woodlane Campus and Tremough Campus will each host a day of free events, open to all. Space is limited at some venues. To be sure of your place please email:georg.dietzler@falmouth.ac.uk leaving your name, and the number of places you wish to reserve. NB: Speakers and timetable may be subject to alteration.
Architecture: Thursday 14 February, 11am – 7pm, Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, University College Falmouth, Falmouth TR11 4RH.
Design: Friday, 15 February, 9.30am – 4pm, The Design Centre, Tremough Campus, University College Falmouth, Penryn TR10 9EZ. Please see website for further details.
Contact: georg.dietzler@falmouth.ac.uk, Tel: 01326 214 391
Feb. 13 - Mar. 30, 2008
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Chomskian Abstract by Cornelia Parker at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
Location: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX.
Notes: Cornelia Parker screens her filmed interview with Noam Chomsky, where he talks with clarity about our future, consumerism and our relationship to the environment. Open Wed - Fri, 11 - 6. The Whitechapel is expanding and during this time the entrance to the Whitechapel Laboratory is via Angel Alley, which is the first passage on the left when facing the building.
Contact: Tel: +44 (0)20 7522 7888
Feb. 8 - 9, 2008
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Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures
Location: Little Hall, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.
Notes: Hosted by Colgate University Department of Art & Art History, Film & Media Studies, and Environmental Studies Programs at Colgate University, Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures explores environmental issues including global warming and sustainability across natural, built, and digital environments. Creative Solutions for Sustainable Futures emphasizes interdisciplinary, digital, networked art and research that draws upon environmental science, computer science, design, hacking, gameplay, engineering and eco-criticism. Talks, panels, performances and presentations by Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Joline Blais, Tom Sherman, Jane Marsching, Don Miller (aka no carrier), Colin Ives, Alex Galloway, Amy Franceschini and Andrea Polli.
Contact: cpeppermint@colgate.edu
Feb. 8 - Mar. 10, 2008
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Ecofuturist Exhibition
Location: Monaco, Gardens of the Casino.
Notes: SUBJECT: Ecofuturist Exhibition dedicated to the environment.
DATES: From February 8 to March 10, 2008, during the United Nations Plan for the Environment (PNUE) event.
ORGANIZATION: Under the high Patronage of SAS the Prince Albert II, association "Arty-Ecology", in collaboration with Sotheby's and the support of the Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco, organizes this event in order to help the creators whose work and works, help us to become aware of our environmental responsibility. OPENING EVENT will take place on February 19, in the presence of SAS the Prince Albert II of Monaco, in the "Beautiful Time" Room of the Hermitage Hotel. An auction sale directed by Sotheby's will also take place.
Contact: info@arty-ecology.com, +33 06 80 86 88 62
Feb. 7 - Mar. 1, 2008
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Matthew Moore: Cultivating the Oasis
Location: Lisa Sette Gallery, 4142 N Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.
Notes: Matthew Moore has created his own fast-growing neighborhoods, down to the winding storybook streets, houses of eerily similar sizes and shapes, and immaculate patches of yard. His building materials are wheat and sorghum, and the "developments" take place on the land that Moore's family has farmed for four generations - much of which he still cultivates for crops, even as it is gradually parceled out to other commercial interests.
In the aerial photographs Moore makes to document these works, one can observe suburban growth advancing on the periphery - new freeways, razed desert ground, and red trenches encroaching by acres and sometimes square miles on the edges of agricultural parcels. At the disorienting center of these landscapes, Moore's crop neighborhoods are strangely beautiful, mimicking the prefab communities that spring up around them, but in bucolic hues of ocher and green. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Thursday evening 7 - 9pm, Saturday 12 - 5pm, closed Sunday and Monday.
Contact: 480-990-7342
Feb. 6 - 28, 2008
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Niche: Nature Morte in the Simulated Garden
Location: The Commons, Spooner Hall, 1340 Jayhawk Boulevard, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Notes: "Niche: Nature morte in the simulated garden" is where biology meets the consumer ecosystem. Currently on view in The Commons at Spooner Hall, Univerisity of Kansas, Niche was created by artists Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting in collaboration with Betsy Knabe Roe. Much of the imagery in this site-specific installation is drawn from the research collections of the KU Biodiversity Center. Other works explore the role of plastics in the environment. Open Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-4PM. Free.
Contact: 1.785.864.2343, thecommons@ku.edu
Feb. 3, 2008
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Talk/Family workshop: Faces of Gaia
Location: CCANW, Haldon Forest Park, Kennford, Exeter, EX6 7XR.
Notes: Ana Flores is a Cuban-born sculptor whose work focuses on the ecological and cultural narratives of place. She is artist in residence for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, based in Rhode Island. The talk will trace her work as an environmental artist and the mask-creating workshop will explore the 'landscapes' we carry inside ourselves. 11am-12noon talk; 1.30-3.30pm workshop. Free admission to the talk. Workshop: £10 (£8 conc), includes materials. Booking essential, limited to 12 places.
Contact: info@ccanw.co.uk, +01392 832277
Feb. 3, 2008
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Malibu Public Beaches Safari
Notes: In conjunction with KCET's recently released Web Stories, "Sustaining
LA", the Los Angeles Urban Rangers announce: "MALIBU PUBLIC BEACHES" SAFARI
Sunday, Feb. 3, 1-4:30pm. Tired of Zuma and Surfrider? Want to find and use the other beaches in Malibu? The twenty miles that are lined with private development? The "Malibu Public Beaches" safaris show you how to find, park, walk,
picnic, and sunbathe on a Malibu beach legally and safely. The safari
visits two different beaches. Skills-enhancing activities include a
public-private boundary hike, sign watching, a no-kill hunt for
accessways, and a public easement potluck.
The Rangers are happy to offer this safari in conjunction with KCET's
"Sustaining LA", on public-art groups who explore the L.A. environment.
To view the KCET program about the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Fallen
Fruit, Farmlab and Edible Estates, please visit:
http://kcet.org/explore-ca/web-stories/sustaining/. Safaris are free. Spaces are limited. To sign up, send an e-mail with name and # of people. For further information on the safaris and the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, please visit
our website. Hope to see you at the beach!
Contact: info@laurbanrangers.org
Feb. 2 - 24, 2008
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West Marin Color and Light by Judy Molyneux
Location: Claudia Chapline Gallery, 3445 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, CA 94960.
Notes: Judy Molyneux, Bolinas, California artist, shows recent impasto oil paintings at the Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach, CA, February 2-24. Molyneux's plein air paintings are heavily textured and intensely colored. Her work is a superb example of direct painting with palette knife. West Marin Color and Light, captures the brilliance and ever changing atmosphere of this magical place at the edge of the continent. Molyneux's new works push landscape painting to the edge of image with their richly painted surfaces.
Molyneux is a versatile artist who has documented the life of Coastal Marin County and its landscapes for many years. She has shown her recent landscapes at Alan Stone Gallery in New York City and in Bay area exhibitions with the plein air painting group, The Outsiders, and at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. Open Noon to 5 on Saturday and Sunday. During the week it is open by appointment.
Contact: 415.868.2308, info@cchapline.com
Jan. 31, 2008
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Manifesto of Possibilities - Join the London Launch
Location: Welcome Collection, Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
Notes: 6pm - 8.30pm
An evening event to 'test-drive' the Manifesto of Possibilities - a manifesto relating to commissioning public art in the urban environment. Over the past year, Birkbeck, University of London and LCACE have been running a series of seminars and action workshops to develop this discussion document in response to the uncertainties of commissioning art in areas of urban change. This evening event is a chance for you to engage in active dialogue with commissioners, artists, architects and developers using the Manifesto as a starting point.
Who Should attend? Individuals working with art and urban change: Artists, urban planners, arts officers, curators, architects, academics and educators, developers, politicians, voluntary sector managers, residents, activists and those working in the public realm. Purpose of the events: Using the Manifesto as a guide and case studies from the field, participants will uncover the conflicting aspects of the commissioning process, identify key factors for engaging artists on the design team, share effective means of evaluation, explore alternative ways of working with the community, examine the role of the curator in developing public art projects, challenge the trend of compromised art in the public realm. Costs, £35 including drinks, light refreshments and a copy of the Manifesto, £25 Artists & self-employed
£15 Students and unemployed. Space is limited.
Contact: Isabel Lamacraft, University of London, 020 7079 0736
Jan. 29 - Mar. 1, 2008
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Inlandia
Location: Wignall Museum at Chaffey College, 5885 Haven Ave., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737.
Notes: "Indefiniteness in form, size and number is the character of the plant, although a law lies at the basis of all this." Lorenz Oken, 1824. The Wignall Museum at Chaffey College presents the exhibition Inlandia, a group show that explores the unique cultural landscape of the LA-area hinterland, the Inland Empire.
The Institute For Figuring is proud to be part of this exhibition where our Crochet Cactus Garden will be on display. Works in the Inlandia show have been selected because of their relevance to the social, political and environmental conditions of the Inland Empire, Southern California's fastest growing region. The Crochet Cactus Garden is itself a group work, curated by IFF Directors Margaret and Christine Wertheim, incorporating pieces by 10 collaborators from around the world. The Garden was inspired by the desert landscapes of California. Inlandia is curated for the Wignall Museum by Rebecca Trawick. The impetus for this project was to evoke in wool the delicate wonder of living cactii. The forms on show here were inspired by real desert ecologies, and by the techniques of hyperbolic crochet developed by mathematician Dr Daina Taimina at Cornell University.
Inlandia features work by Edith Abeyta (CA), Adam Belt (CA), Sasha Bezzubov (NY), Margarita Cabrera (TX), Misty Cervantes(CA), Samantha Fields (CA), The Institute for Figuring (CA), Roman Jaster (CA), Sant Khalsa (CA), Kimberly Kolba (OR), Amy Maloof (CA), Michelle Mayer (CA), Thomas McGovern (CA), Jessica Newman-Skrentny (CA), David Rathman (MN), Alex Slade(CA), Jessica Swanson (CA), and Roger Tilton (CA).
Contact: wignall.staff@chaffey.edu
Jan. 26 - Apr. 20, 2008
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ECOCENTRIC: Video Lounge
Location: Sonoma County Museum Contemporary Project Space, 425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
Notes: ECOCENTRIC is an international representation of video shorts, ranging from
poetic to humorous to narrative, addressing environmental issues such as
climate change, over consumption and survival as well as many other
eco-related topics. Video is an affordable tool for artists to document and
feature performance related activities that typically engage a limited
audience. This exhibition explores how artists are employing technology to
communicate, on a broader scale, ecological concepts that inspire and
provoke new ways of seeing. Cost: $5 general; $2 students & seniors; free for Members & children under 12.
Contact: 707-579-1500
Jan. 26 - Apr. 20, 2008
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FOLLOWING NATURE: Ruth Asawa in Sonoma County
Location: Sonoma County Museum Main Gallery, 425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
Notes: The Sonoma County Museum is honored to present Following Nature: Ruth Asawa
in Sonoma County. This family legacy exhibition includes twenty-four modern
artworks created by internationally known Bay Area artist, Ruth Asawa. Her
organic forms in sculpture, drawing, and painting were influenced by years
spent observing nature in Sonoma County.
Ruth Asawa was schooled at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the
late 1940s where her teachers included Bauhaus trained painter Josef Albers,
dancer Merce Cunningham, and architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller. At Black
Mountain, Asawa met guest lecturer Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus trained
master potter who later invited Asawa to visit her home and studio in Sonoma
County. Along the Russian River, near Armstrong Woods, they were eventually
both immersed in a rich natural environment that influenced their art. The inspiration of nature-forms, combined with crocheting techniques learned
on trips to Mexico, led Asawa to create over several years, even decades,
looped wire sculptures that have become her trademark. Included in the
exhibition are hanging, standing and wall sculpture, paintings and
drawings.
Contact: 707-579-1500
Jan. 26 - Mar. 30, 2008
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Wood Works: 13 Years of the Wood Studio, Helsinki
Location: CCANW, Haldon Forest Park, Kennford, Exeter, EX6 7XR UK.
Notes: Last year, CCANW launched Wood Culture - a year-long festival celebrating the beauty, usefulness and sustainability of wood and exploring its many uses in contemporary architecture and design. Wood Works features models, photographs and plans of 19 wooden buildings, ranging from a sauna to a cafe. All have been produced over the past 13 years by students of Wood Studio from the Department of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology. In Finland, wood is an abundant natural and sustainable building resource. In the 1990s, however, it was realized that important wood-working skills had been lost and an entirely new generation of designers of timber buildings needed to be trained.
The Wood Studio at HUT was launched in 1994 with the support of the Finnish Timber Council (and the City of Helsinki), the idea being to learn about wood by practical experimentation and by focusing on future needs. In 2001, the English language Wood Program for international students was added. The course is underpinned by a spirit of enquiry and collaboration. It starts by studying trees in the forest and exploring the principles of timber architecture, using both traditional skills and the latest technology. It ends with a competition from which one wooden building, to be constructed together, is made.
Contact: info@ccanw.co.uk, +01392 832277
Jan. 26 - 27, 2008
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15th Environmental Art Festival in Iran
Location: Hormuz Island, southern Iran.
Notes: Iran is slated to hold the 15th Environmental Art Festival in a bid to protest war in the Persian Gulf and regional militarization. Many celebrated artists from around the world including the American poetess and environmental artist, Barbara Roux will create their artworks on the beautiful red soil of Hormuz Island.
The prominent Iranian artist and 'environmental artist of the year' Ahmad Nadalian is in charge of the festival, which will kick off on Jan. 26th, 2008. Nadalian believes modern art can help remind the international community of the devastating effects of war in the Persian Gulf region in the past three decades. Hormuz Island has been chosen as the festival's venue in honor of the passengers on board Iran Air's Flight 655 who lost their lives when their plane was shot down by a US missile cruiser south of the Island.
Jan. 25 - 26, 2008
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Art at the Dump
Location: SF Recycling & Disposal, 503 Tunnel Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.
Notes: On January 25th and 26th there will be an art reception for SF Recycling and Disposal's current artists-in-residence. Philip Bonner's show entitled "The Circle of Acknowledgement" is composed of two short, experimental video projects. Sculptor and conceptual artist Scott Oliver created pieces for his show aptly named, "Want Not"?.
Contact: dmunk@norcalwaste.com, (415) 330-1414
Jan. 21 - Feb. 16, 2008
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Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism
Location: Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, 101 Little Hall, Hamilton, NY.
Notes: Nature Version 2.0 is a survey of artists who reinvent environmentalism for a digital age in a number of ways: by examining how digital technologies can make ecological problems more salient, by reusing and recycling obsolete technologies for new uses, and by exploring how digital spaces and the public domain may require environmental protection much like nature. Re-imagining the relationship between nature and technology, Nature Version 2.0 suggests an ethics of the network and an environmentalism of natural, built, and digital spaces. Works will be exhibited by Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Joline Blais, Tom Sherman, Jane Marsching, Don Miller (aka no carrier), Colin Ives, Alex Galloway, Amy Franceschini, Michael Alstad and Andrea Polli.
This exhibition is in conjunction with Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures, a two-day symposium on interdisciplinary, digital and networked art and research that draws upon environmental science, computer science, design, hacking, gameplay, engineering and ecocriticism. Following the Nature Version 2.0 artists' reception on February 8, keynote speaker Natalie Jeremijenko will launch the two-day symposium Environmental Art and New Media Technologies in Golden Auditorium, Little Hall, at 7pm. "90 Degrees South," a multimedia performance by Andrea Polli will follow at 9pm in the Clifford Gallery. The symposium will resume in Golden Auditorium on February 9 for a day of talks and presentations by critics and exhibiting artists, 9am-5pm. Nature Version 2.0 was curated by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir (aka EcoArtTech.net). Please visit the website for more information.
Contact: Fax: 315-228-7787
Jan. 19 - Mar. 2, 2008
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Daniel McCormick: Sculpting the Land
Location: Bolinas Museum, 48 Wharf Road, Box 450, Bolinas, CA 94924.
Notes: In the main gallery. Curated by Lucy Van Sands Seeburg.
Jan. 18 - Feb. 18, 2008
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BIRDFOOT: Where America's River Dissolves into the Sea
Location: CLUI - Los Angeles, 9331 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232.
Notes: The end of the Mississippi River Delta - the Birdfoot - is a national landscape of disintegration, a fractal labyrinth of dendritic channels, a blend of water and earth, bisected and rerouted by linear, engineered forms of pipeline canals and levees. The people who live and work here, beyond the reach of roads, do so tenuously, in a delicate, disappearing place that is battered by hurricanes, and eroding into the sea. This is a Photoscape Presentation (duration: 30 minutes). The CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall is open noon to five PM, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, or by appointment. Admission is free.
Contact: 310 839-5722
Jan. 15 - Feb. 23, 2008
Heart of the Matter
Location: Addison Street Windows Gallery, between Milvia and Shattuck, Berkeley, CA.
Notes: The City of Berkeley is proud to present Heart of the Matter, an exhibition of work created by students in Laney College's EcoArt Matters class, with instructor Andree Singer Thompson. At a time when our environment is in crisis, it is imperative that we all become better informed about the conditions that threaten life on this planet and survival of the many species with whom we co-exist.
This provocative, innovative and educational show helps us do just that. The pieces in it were created in response to urgent environmental and community issues. Among the many interesting works exhibited: a mural incorporating ceramic figures which address the problem of air pollution in Oakland's poorer communities; several pieces addressing disappearing wildlife and habitat; a performance video about the importance of recycling; a solar-powered bird habitat; an innovative ceramic toilet seat with a urine funnel designed to provide nitrogen for the garden; and an exercise bicycle that powers lights, a fountain and a fan. All the works are accompanied by research data and information about how we can take individual responsibility for making our world a better place to live for us all.
Contact: 510.841.0588, andreest@yahoo.com
Jan. 12 - Feb. 1, 2008
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ReVisions
Location: Eco-LogicalART, 4829 West Pico Blvd, (just east of La Brea) LA, CA, 90019.
Notes: Peter Schulberg, founder of the non-profit Eco-LogicalART Gallery brings us "ReVisions", his recycled billboard art event slated for Los Angeles and San Francisco. Schulberg's "drive-by" art exhibit will be seen over 40 million times in the New Year. The gallery and "street" premiere of ReVisions will be on January 12, 2008 at 6pm. The project, made possible with a grant from the Vinyl Institute, features 15 original art on recycled billboards that will go on exhibit across the city of Los Angeles.
Contact: Peter Schulberg or Beth George, eco-la@sbcglobal.net, (310) 525-0676
Jan. 11 - Feb. 20, 2008
Patterns and Portraits
Location: K Gallery, 2515 Blanding Ave., Alameda, CA 94501.
Notes: K Gallery presents "Patterns and Portraits" featuring artists Joy Broom, Carrie Lederer and Jerry Leisure.
Contact: 510-865-5062
Jan. 10 - Mar. 7, 2008
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Over the Elwha: A Photographic Essay by Robert Lundahl
Location: The Seed Gallery of Photographic Art, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, The Presidio of San Francisco, 1014 Torney Ave. at Lincoln Blvd..
Notes: Robert Lundahl's aerial images of the Elwha River watershed provide a glimpse of an altered ecosystem in advance of dam removal and ecosystem restoration.
Contact: Bruce DeMartini, 415-561-7823, bruce@thoreau.org
Jan. 10 - Feb. 9, 2008
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Dress Code
Location: LMAKprojects (Chelsea), 526 West 26th Street, # 310, New York, NY 10001.
Notes: Dress Code is an exhibition curated by Liselot van der Heijden, presenting the works of Robert Boyd, Elke Lehmann, Jillian McDonald and Momoyo Torimitsu. Dress Code emphasizes the social and emotional impact of clothing. Since the relationship between the body and the public sphere is mediated by clothes, the art projects in this exhibition understand clothing as a vehicle for generating meaning, situating the body as part of a larger social construction.
The projects in Dress Code use clothing to examine the construction of identity within specific cultural frameworks like consumer and corporate culture, fashion, gender stereotypes, and a location where fears and anxieties are both a personal and a collective experience. The artists use humor and irony to communicate these complex social issues to audiences often unaware that they are part of an artistic project. The projects use various strategies such as performance, public intervention, displacement, ready-made objects, as well as subversion and appropriation of mainstream media, commercial exchange, commodity objects and advertising.
Contact: 212 255 9707, info@lmakprojects.com
Jan. 10 - 11, 2008
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Denise King - Aesthetics of Bacteria
Location: Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Notes: Denise King visits us from San Francisco's exploratorium to discuss the aesthetic cultivation of bacteria. She will be presenting an introduction to identifying bacteria in the field, focusing on environments that are accessible from the Los Angeles area. Along the way she will discuss Winogradsky columns - simple containers that are filled with mud, pond water and plant material that allow the culturing of microbial communities in the laboratory, or in your own living room.
Sample columns filled with lovely multihued stuff with be available for show and tell purposes, and willing participants will be able to make their own bacterial terrarium on site. We suggest wearing casual clothes or disposable hazmat suit if you plan on participating, as it may get slightly messy. For those who plan on just observing, standard formal wear should be fine. Starts at 8 p.m. Event is free.
Contact: 213-483-8761
Jan. 9 - 26, 2008
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BIOPHILIA
Location: Root Division, 3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness), San Francisco, CA 94110.
Notes: Join us for a multi-media exploration of the wonders & intricacies of the natural world. BIOPHILIA will be on view at the Root Division gallery from January 9th through 26th 2008. This exhibition is rooted in the "biophilia" hypothesis of inherent human hunger for nature and our attraction toward all that is living, growing, and vital.
It is also an effort to explore the zeitgeist of the "green" mania in a way that is based more on a sense of wonder & biological instincts rather than criticism, trendiness, or "saving the earth." BIOPHILIA features interior landscapes, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, drawing and other media by artists examining our reactions to and interactions with the world around us. Their work reveals a fascination with the beauty and strangeness of living organisms and considers the interdependence of species, the delights of biodiversity and the tension and joy of the relationship between humans and their environment.
Contact: 415.863.7668, events@rootdivision.org
Jan. 9 - Mar. 16, 2008
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Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art
Location: Ivey Galleries, Museum London, 421 Ridout St. North, London, Ontario Canada N6A 5H4.
Notes: Sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life through an approach that balances environmental, social and aesthetic concerns. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art examines some of the ways in which contemporary artists are exploring a socially and environmentally conscientious-in other words, sustainable-way of living and working. Ranging from the practical to the rhetorical, the projects in Beyond Green seek to transform the ways we make, use, and dispose of the stuff of everyday life through attention to objects such as tools, books, clothes and cars; to structures such as offices, housing and temporary shelters; and to processes and networks such as recycling systems.
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York, and circulated by iCI. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Smith.
Contact: 519.661.0333
Jan. 8 - Feb. 2, 2008
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Barbara Roux: Under Cover of Trees
Location: A.I.R. Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001.
Notes: A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce, Under Cover of Trees, a solo exhibition of new work by combined-media artist Barbara Roux. Under Cover of Trees is an installation based on Roux's work as an ecology-based artist and conservationist. The exhibition contains photographic images of temporary site-specific projects she creates in the woods, combined with sculptural elements made up of forest materials and narrative texts by the artist.
Contact: 212-255-6651, kgriefen@airgallery.org
Jan. 4 - Feb. 1, 2008
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Mapping California Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis Workshop
Location: Various locations.
Notes: This unique, hands-on, one day workshop teaches the fundamentals of how to use a Geographic Information System (GIS) in a way that is particularly relevant to social service providers, planners and researchers. Participants learn to make thematic maps of their community, geocode addresses and perform spatial queries and analysis. Participants also learn to extract and map Census variables such as race, poverty, language, education, health and many other demographic variables. Exercises are designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required. Each students is assigned a computer on which to work for the day. Upcoming Schedule (Please note: Workshops are one day only from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Participants choose only one day on which to attend.) Each workshop is customized for the city in which it is taught.
San Diego: January 4, 2008
Sacramento: January 10 & 11, 2008
Los Angeles: January 16 & 17, 2008
San Jose: January 23, 2008
Fresno: January 25, 2008
San Francisco: January 31, February 1, 2008
Fee: $399 Checks, Credit Cards and Purchase Orders Accepted
Contact: 877.241.6576
Jan. 2 - 30, 2008
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Roger Rigorth: Personal Geography
Location: LA Artcore Brewery Annex, 650A South Avenue 21, Los Angeles, CA 90031.
Notes: Reception January 13, reading by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes on Personal Geography. Conversation with the artist at 2pm. Gallery hours Thursday - Sunday 12 - 4pm, Wednesday by appointment only.
Contact: 323.276.9320
Dec. 30 - Jan. 6, 2007
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Rousseau's Garden
Location: "Arbres et Lumieres" Festival, Rousseau's Island, Geneva, Switzerland.
Notes: Dimitri Xenakis and Maro Avrabou are pleased to present their environmental light-installation "Rousseau's Garden". This environmental installation makes reference to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's passion for botany and nature. Xenakis and Avrabou deliberately combine artificial materials and flowers with the existing vegetation.
Fourteen luminous volumes are wrapped in transparent and coloured fabrics, filled with synthetic plants in plastic flowerpots. The particular light-design gives an impression of industrial greenhouses as well as an aspect of a laboratory. This artwork explores the relative limits between industry, science and nature.
Dec. 27, 2007
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Belly of the Whale on Dutch National Radio
Location: Online.
Notes: Interspecies.com and greenmuseum.org have produced an international project involving eighteen composers from ten different countries. Each participant created a piece of music of less than six minutes in length, that evokes the underwater environment. Our Belly composers have all used the same source CD, comprised of 300 samples of whales, dolphins, walrus, seal, fish, lobster, shrimp, ice cracking, waves, etc. Contributors include some of the most distinguished names in digital composition.
Michael Fahres, music editor for the radio program 4FM for Dutch National Radio (NPS), has created a radio program highlighting the music on Belly of the Whale. If you want to hear the program by internet within a week, please go to "Nu luisteren", "Luister naar laatste Supplement". If you want to hear the program by internet in real time, please go to "Nu luisteren", "Luister online naar Radio 6" between 3 and 4pm on December 27.
Dec. 23, 2007
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Gaia's Ring: Winter Solstice Gathering
Location: Green Oasis Community Garden, East 8th Street between Avenues C and D, Lower East Side, New York, NY.
Notes: On the first day of the season when nature takes its rest, lights will surround the ring of volunteer plants, now entering dormancy, which has sprouted of its own accord from bare ground, grown and set seed since the soil was turned at the initial gathering on the Spring Equinox. Candle flames, like the other lights of the solstice season, will glow as a reminder that for a few months nature's energy will remain in suspension waiting for spring to return. This will be the fourth seasonal gathering at Gaia's Ring since it began in March. So begins another season of a year-long environmental installation by Noah Baen. 2 - 4 p.m.
Contact: noahbaen@yahoo.com, 718-522-2558
Dec. 14 - Mar. 28, 2007
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Conrad Bakker: Objects & Economies [Untitled Projects 1997-2007]
Location: Des Moines Art Center Downtown, 4700 Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50312-2099.
Notes: This ten-year survey exhibition features Conrad Bakker's ongoing series of Untitled Projects-thematically organized bodies of work that explore objects and their economies through a variety of social, institutional, and consumer contexts utilizing humor, situational awareness, formal play, and interventionist strategies. Interested in operating outside of traditional art-world spaces, Bakker often distributes his roughly carved and awkwardly painted facsimiles of everyday objects and known consumer products through alternative markets-in auctions on eBay, for barter on craigslist, dropped onto store shelves, and grouped into his own functional mail-order catalog. Whether snatched, exchanged, or purchased (often times at the real object's going rate), the unwieldy trafficking of these faux objects through a real economy is a key component of these projects.
Contact: 515.277.4405
Dec. 7 - Jan. 18, 2007
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Dystopia for Daydreamers
Location: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE, Grand Rapids MI 49503-4227.
Notes: In an attempt to utilize metaphor, memory, iconography and narratives, Lora Fosberg's work transforms objects and events of everyday life into symbols of the universal. Using india ink on antique paper, Fosberg helps direct the narrative by employing text such as, "whatever," "never mind," "you can keep kneeling, but I'm standing up." The text has a way of disarming the viewer, which allows them to regress back to a particular memory. Fosberg is a working and exhibiting artist from Chicago, and is represented by Linda Warren Gallery.
Contact: 616-454-7000
Dec. 6, 2007
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Ecoart, Ecoservices: Creative Collaborations in and for the Environment
Location: 777 North Capitol Street, N.E., Suite 300 Washington, D.C..
Notes: On Thursday December 6, 2007 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 p.m. there will be a Green Infrastructure Forum featuring internationally recognized environmental artists Lynne Hull and Dr. T. Allan Comp on ways to help government and private sector leaders engage the art community to more evocatively communicate to the public both the importance of protecting parks and open space and the impact of the land use decisions on these green spaces. The forum, which is sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's (COG) Community Forestry Network and the Greater Washington National Parks of the National Park Service (NPS), will be held in the Council Board Room. For directions see: http://www.mwcog.org/contact/directions/ .
The forum will include presentations and discussions on: How can infrastructure assist in understanding ourselves as a community, as a link between past and future, urban and natural? What can we as artists, scientists, engineers and architects, designers, offer each other to expand our boundaries and connect to our neighborhoods, watersheds, ecosystems and regions? How can art and science work together to play a role in interpreting environmental issues for the public understanding of these cycles? This event, one in an ongoing series of Green Infrastructure Forums and Workshops since 2002, is to discuss park, forest cover, open space and recreation land approaches within the metropolitan Washington region.
Contact: (202) 619-7492 or (202) 962-3393, glenn_eugster@nps.gov or blecouteur@mwcog.org
Dec. 4 - Jan. 30, 2007
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Art in Antarctica: South Pole Installations by Xavier Cortada
Location: Centre Gallery, Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus (Downtown), 300 N.E. 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL.
Notes: Miami artist Xavier Cortada, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Artists and Writers Program recipient, traveled to Antarctica during December 2006 - January 2007 to create new works and implement various art projects. View examples of this expedition as part of Miami Dade College Art Gallery System program exhibition during Art Basel Miami Beach 2007.
Contact: xavier@cortada.com
Dec. 4, 2007
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Mary Miss Lecture
Location: NCMA, 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC.
Notes: Environmental artist Mary Miss will speak at the North Carolina Museum of Art on December 4, at 7 p.m. She is currently re-designing a pond into a storm water management demonstration and work of art. She will address this project and her other works that focus on an artists role in environmental issues. For additional information, please contact the NCMA education department, or visit the website
Contact: dan.gottlieb@ncmamail.net
Dec. 3, 2007
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December is Green: Global Green USA's "Designing a Sustainable & Secure World Awards"
Location: Ritz Carlton Battery Park, New York.
Notes: Through the 8th annual "Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards", Global Green USA recognizes specific, exceptional 'designs' and individual advancements in industry, building, media, organizations and public policy that move us toward a sustainable and secure future. 5:00 PM VIP Reception; 6:00 PM Reception; 7:00 PM Dinner.
Contact: 310-581-2700
Dec. 1 - 31, 2007
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Green Actions: Art by Laney College Eco Art Matters Students
Location: Green City Gallery, 1950 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704.
Notes: Artists include Phoebe Ackley, Daren Arndt, Lane Barringer, Christina Bertea, Akila Binhajji, Rita Bland, Sally Brook, James Cline, Nataliya Connolly, Rita Duclos, Corinne Gobet, Wallace Gorell, Anthony Grimes, Sara Kravin, Alida Line, Helen Poole Newman, Kin Kwok, Nzinga Pace, Nathan Pundt, Dana Rosenfeld, Sara Sandberg, Tammy Segall, Jody Stegman, Amber Straus, Billy Trice, Anna Vaughan, Margo Wallston and Mary White. With instructor Andree Singer Thompson.
Contact: 510.981.9948
Dec. 1 - 15, 2007
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art at 46:
Location: 46 NW 36 Street Wynwood Art District Miami FL 33127.
Notes: "art at 46" is an eco-art community created to showcase galleries and artists who want to present eco-solutions and art works using green techniques. During the exhibition time (December 1st to 15th) "art at 46" will boost a green Fashion Show, Kids and parents work shops, art installations with sustainable materials and containers which will act as an exhibition rooms for artists, greenies. "art at 46" green space for art / Kids and Parents Workshops Art from recycled materials... Re-using what we have... "to become a green artist, spend time with the greenies".
A great opportunity for kids to create an art piece made from recycled materials and enjoy a green moment with their parents and the artists.
December 1st, Opening night with a special kick-off celebration. December 8th, special reception with performances and Eco- Fashion Show, coinciding with Art Basel's huge party, in the Wynwood Art District. December 15th, closing event scheduled to wind down Art Basel with a celebration. http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/
Contact: email@domain_name_here.com
Dec. 1, 2007
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NEURÓTICA : habitat
Location: CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona, Spain.
Notes: Neurótica: Habitat. The contemporary Habitat Faced by Climate Chaos. By 2008 it is predicted that, for the first time in human history, most of the world's population will live in the cities. The objective of the second phase of the Neurotica project is to study the metabolism of urban habitats and the possibilities that ecological innovation can improve the quality of life in the mega-cities and surrounding rural areas. The challenge is to find solutions in preventing the countryside from being turned into a controlled market garden devoted to producing food and energy products for the city, and to slow down trends toward hyper-consumerism.
Is technical and scientific development the environmental solution or the cause behind unsustainability? What is society's view of our advance towards climate chaos?
Alex Steffen, promoter of ecological innovation and co-founder of worldchanging.com, talks to Václav Cilek , geologist, philosopher and Head of the Geology Institute at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Joan Rieradevall, researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona's Institute of Environmental Science and Technology. The session will begin with the first-ever showing of an interview with Vandana Shiva, physicist and environmental activist. Coordinated by Capsula. Saturday, December 1 at 7.30 pm, Hall. Free entrance, limited seats.
Contact: info@capsula.org.es
Nov. 28, 2007
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Food Security & Urban Agriculture
Location: CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street (at 9th), San Francisco, CA.
Notes: CounterPULSE and City Lights Foundation present SHAPING San Francisco's
FALL/WINTER TALKS 2007-08. All events are on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
Our food system is being refashioned by new urban farmers, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture, and importantly, by savvy shoppers who demand local, organic and safe food. Still, food security is tenuous for too many of our neighbors. With artist Amy Franceschini (Victory Gardens, past and present), Willow Rosenthal (City Slicker Farms), Jason Mark (Alemany Farm, and editor of Earth Island Journal). ALL EVENTS ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC (donations are welcome to help defray costs).
Contact: 415.626.2060
Nov. 23 - Dec. 31, 2007
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Landscapes by Ulrike Arnold
Location: William Siegal Gallery, 540 South Gudalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
Notes: German artist Ulrike Arnold is an "Earth artist". Her works on canvas are quite literally "landscapes" painted with rich raw Earth pigments. Arnold has traveled around the world in search of new, often very remote, places to "paint", relishing each new location's distinct textures, colors, soils and stones. Her materials are the stones and earth she finds there. Once situated in a location that she finds appealing or calling, Arnold engages in what can only be called a meditative direct art-making process. These works are hung in William Siegal Gallery quite simply.
Contact: 505.820.3300
Nov. 22 - Jan. 12, 2007
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"Altered Elements," Photography by Jonathan Daisy
Location: Dunia Gallery, 43 Nason St., Maynard, MA 01754.
Notes: The Gallery at Dunia presents "Altered Elements," an exhibit of surrealist photography by Stow-based photographer Jonathan Daisy. Using a variety of techniques, Daisy manipulates subjects and surroundings to conjure up lyrical -- at times, hallucinatory -- worlds. Daisy's images pose visual and existential riddles, bemusing viewers and eliciting double-takes. Altered Elements runs from November 20 through January 12. Ten percent of the proceeds from the sale of Daisy's photographs will benefit the Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org) the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Says Daisy, "Although I enjoy manipulating environments and 'changing reality' in my pictures, the outcomes still somehow draw attention to nature and the world around us."
Contact: 978-897-8850, inquiries@dunia-ecostore.com
Nov. 19 - 20, 2007
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Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever
Location: The British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road London NW1 2DB.
Notes: An interdisciplinary symposium focusing
on the curation and production of
climate change knowledge and the
polar regions. This will bring together
scientists, writers, artists, historians and
social scientists with interests in knowledge
about polar landscapes and the
broader implications of this knowledge
for global climate and society. Price £25 (including refreshments).
Keynote Speakers: Professor Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles,
editor of High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice (2008); Professor Sverker Sorlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, co-editor of Narrating the Arctic (2002); Professor Rachel Weiss, Art Institute of Chicago, curator and author of Imagining Antarctica (1986); and Simon Faithfull, artist and author of Ice Blink (2006).
Contact: To register: Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter, k.yusoff@exeter.ac.uk
Nov. 17 - Feb. 10, 2007
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Green Dreams
Location: Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Notes: The exhibition Green Dreams aims to shed light on the development of more than 30 years of environmentalism on the basis of artistic contributions. The retrospective view contains the implicit question of how environmentally sound action can be realised in the future in an increasingly globalised world. Artistic production relating to the issue lends itself for such a retrospective, since it does not merely remain as a commentary but in some cases also has a practical influence.
Artists: Peter Fend (USA/D), Julika Gittner (D/UK), Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (CH), Ulrike Ludwig (D), Jason Middlebrook (USA), Rene Luck (D), Claudia Mucha (D), Nana Petzet (D), Lisi Raskin (USA), Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA). Posters by Joseph Beuys (D), Arno Krause (D), Andy Warhol (USA). Curated by Christine Heidemann and Anne Kersten.
Contact: christine.heidemann@web.de
Nov. 17 - Dec. 23, 2007
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Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground: Gaining Wisdom
Location: Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, Devon EX6 7XR UK.
Notes: Estimates of the predicted rise in sea levels this century due to the effect of climate change on the earth's ice caps range from one to five meters. In Britain, a rise of five meters would displace over 2 million people and flood 10,000 square kilometres of land. Greenhouse Britain is a new exhibition by the eminent American ecological artists Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison and their British associates.
This exhibition dramatically addresses the environmental, political and economic challenges of rising sea levels caused by climate change. The central feature will be a multimedia video projection onto a giant relief model of mainland Britain. We will see the waters gradually redraw the coastline. The exhibition will tour across England from November 2007 to March 2008 including venues in Devon, London, Shrewsbury, Manchester, Bristol and Lancaster (see below for details). A rolling programme of events will coincide with the tour. Taking three key river watersheds, the Avon, the Mersey and the Lee in East London, the artists imagine the challenges of defending the land and withdrawing from the rising waters.
Contact: T: 01392 832277
Nov. 17 - Dec. 8, 2007
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Green-er Sessions Art Exhibition: Sketching Solutions for Climate Changes
Location: 1511 S. Abbott Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA 90291.
Notes: This show will present sketches by artists, architects and scientists that propose a solution to global warming. The event is a benefit for the youth-based group Green Ambassadors. The reception will feature a discussion with environmental lawyer Ian Forrest and astrophysicist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi. Radio personalities Tom Schnabel, Derek Rath and David Loomstein will DJ the event. Green-er Sessions will be hosted in Glen Irani's new building in Venice, California. Admission to the event is free. For more information, visit our website.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." --Mahatma Gandhi
Contact: tempostudio@sbcglobal.net, 310-822-1802
Nov. 17 - Dec. 2, 2007
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Buffalo Bayou Trail Show: Houston Artists install work along the trails
Location: Buffalo Bayou, located east and west of the Sabine Street Bridge. 100 Sabine Street, 77007.
Notes: Buffalo Bayou ArtPark (BBAP) is pleased to present The Buffalo Bayou Trail Show. Local Houston artists will be showing new temporary sculpture along the trails of Buffalo Bayou, located east and west of the Sabine Street Bridge. Printed maps will be distributed to lead visitors to the pieces along the trail and give more information about the artists and their work. Seven artists are creating work for the Trail Show. They include Elaine Bradford, DePose, Aram Nagle, Richard Nix, Whitney Riley, Emily Sloan and collective Abby Normal Arts. Projects include large-scale lampshades installed on the existing lampposts, a graffiti tag mowed into the grass, and a giant installation of concrete posts that spell out "Art Ruined My Life" in Braille. Also on view will be other temporary works in the ArtPark, including new sculpture installations by Marty Joyce and Cory Wagner.
The opening of the show coincides with Art Crawl on November 17th. Participating artists and members of the BBAP organization will be on hand at the Sabine Street ArtPark from 2 to 9pm to answer questions and hand out maps. The printed maps will also be distributed at various locations throughout town, and can be picked up during Art Crawl at Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Studio Q. BBAP is an artist run, non-profit organization that places temporary art in public spaces across Houston and Harris County. BBAP is partially funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. They are also supported by grants from the Wortham Foundation, the Brown Foundation and Houston Endowment, along with many friends and neighbors.
Contact: bbap@bbap-houston.org, 713-502-9454
Nov. 17 - Dec. 30, 2007
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A Peculiar Nature: Mixed Media Installations by Susan Benarcik
Location: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 900 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225.
Notes: The Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery presents mixed media installations by New York based artist, Susan Benarcik. Taking center stage in the gallery is a large scale, site-specific installation created while working on the grounds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The artist's work is influenced by many generations of gardeners, utilizing objects from the garden, greenhouse, and materials considered invasive, exhausted or abundant by nature. The artist emphasizes the inextricable link between herself and the environment by manipulating and re-contextualizing these materials to create hybrid forms. She states, "These are my interpretations of shared dialogue between man and nature in a respectful attempt to adapt in a changing climate."
Contact: 718 623 7241, blumm@bbg.org
Nov. 17 - Jan. 5, 2007
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Living Room: Conscious Art and Design
Location: Metro Gallery, 1835 Hyperion Ave., Silver Lake, CA.
Notes: The exhibition, which reflects a group of eight artists' sensitivity to the environment, includes pottery, various forms of landscape paintings, drawings and photographs, as well as stone and carbonized apple sculptures. Also included are limited-edition prints and handmade items created from salvaged materials such as landscape designer Stephanie Rubin's sustainable pet homes. Each of Rubin's pet designs is made of certified forest-sustainable red cedar, beeswax, organic soil, California native plants and copper or bamboo drainpipes.
Contact: (323) 663-2787
Nov. 17, 2007
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Junk to Funk: a recycled fashion show
Location: Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell Street, Portland, OR.
Notes: Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8:30, 21+. Tickets: $16 in advance/$20 at the door/$65 VIP - VIP is from 6:30 to 8:00 (VIP is advance purchase only). Audience costumes are encouraged. Hosted by commissioner Sam Adams. MC's include your favorite art director of The Bear Deluxe, Kristin Rogers Brown. Musical performances by: Golden Greats, DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. "Half time" performance by: Do Jump! Junk to Funk is a benefit for Orlo, a non-profit foundation that publishes The Bear Deluxe Magazine and serves as a leader exploring environmental issues through the arts.
Contact: 503.789.2018
Nov. 16, 2007
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Austin Green Art's Third Birthday Party
Location: IF+D Gallery, 208 Colorado, Austin, TX.
Notes: Please join us Friday, November 16 at IF+D Gallery, 6pm to 8pm. INSTALLATION BY AUSTIN GREEN ART VISITING ARTIST: SHAN WELLS. DJ Chicken George, AGA slide review/preview, green art, food, drink! In lieu of a present -- become an AGA member for $30! (Come by and pick up your t-shirt, Alamo movie pass and Eco-wise soap).
Contact: randy@austingreenart.org
Nov. 16 - Jan. 19, 2007
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Green is the New Black
Location: Melanee Cooper Gallery, 740 N. Franklin, Chicago, IL. 60610.
Notes: Melanee Cooper Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition- "Green is the New Black," Joining together with the Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, Melanee Cooper Gallery curates a thematic group show of emerging and established artists in paintings, photography and mini-globes. This environmental exhibition is to inspire individuals and organizations to take personal and corporate action by implementing simple solutions to help address global warming.
Select works by: Brandon Ballengee, Deborah Brown, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Michael Cutlip, Matthew Dennison, Melissa Doherty, Terry Evans (courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery), Samantha Fields, Julie Gross, Jeremiah Ketner, Alicia La Chance, Miranda Lake, Carrie Lederer, Amy Lowry (courtesy of Ann Nathan Gallery), Peter Mars, Richard Misrach (courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery), Chen Nong (courtesy of Marta Schneider Gallery), Mike and Doug Starn, Jill Sutton, Vicky Tesmer, Lee Tracy, Angelina Villanueva, Ann Wiens, (courtesy of Byron Roche Gallery) and David Weinberg. A percentage of the works sold will be donated to Cool Globes, and will go toward funding environmental education programs.
Contact: 312-202-9305
Nov. 16, 2007
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Norcal Waste Systems Presents: Music and Videos from the Dump
Location: Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Celebrate the art of recycling with Norcal's Artist In Residence Program at our first large audience event. The evening will begin with short videos created by five of the program's artists; Banker White, Robin Lasser, Nomi Talisman, Don Ross and Reddy Lieb. Following the videos, San Francisco Symphony Resident Conductor Benjamin Schwartz and the percussionist section from the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra perform local composer Nathaniel Stookey's "Junkestra", an original symphony in three movements. Tickets $10-15.
Contact: art@norcalwaste.com, (415) 330-1414
Nov. 16, 2007
Sound, Space and Vision at the RIBA
Location: Florence Hall, Royal Institute of British Architects, Portland Place, W1.
Notes: Manning Camerata in association with RSA Arts & Ecology is holding an evening of debate and music inspired by different environmental and architectural realities, followed by a post-concert reception. Dai Fujikura: Banitza Groove! (World premiere revised version). Sean Rafferty, Presenter BBC Radio 3, in conversation with: Eddie Berg, Artistic Director, British Film Institute; Sir Jeremy Dixon, Partner, Dixon Jones; Peter Manning, Artistic Director, Manning Camerata; Serge Prokofieff: Classical Symphony; Anton Bruckner: Fourth Symphony. 19:30 - 22:45. Please send an email for further information and tickets. Standard e-tickets: £42.
Contact: tickets@manningcamerata.com
Nov. 16 - 18, 2007
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Recycle Santa Fe
Location: El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe, 1615 Paseo De Peralta # B, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
Notes: Ninth Annual weekend at El Museo Cultural in cooperation with Keep Santa Fe Beautiful and their recycling efforts surrounding America Recycles 2007 and New Mexico Recycling Awareness Month. Features an Art Market, Juried Art Show, Trash Fashion Contest and activities for children. Please visit website for information.
Contact: artist@schimmelart.com
Nov. 13 - 24, 2007
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Plastic Plankton
Location: 3,14 Art Gallery, Lembesi 3 & Makrigianni st., Acropolis, Greece.
Notes: "Plastic Plankton", the newest work by Tia Bley, is a recycling art installation that aims to underline the visible probability of oxygen shortage due to plankton contamination by plastic debris. Bley was inspired by the striking resemblance of plastic pellets and plankton which tricks even fish, seabirds, turtles and marine mammals leading such animals to feed on it.
Contact: info@ecoart.gr, tel: +210 9217588
Nov. 13 - 20, 2007
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TRÁNSITOry PÚBLICO / PUBLIC TRANSITorio: Political art that is refreshingly amoral
Location: Various locations around Los Angeles, CA, and on the way to Tijuana.
Notes: A migratory installation of artists, activists, and militant
researchers: in art spaces, parks, and a museum; around a university,
under a bridge, and on the train. These events will bring together artists and activists from throughout Latin America and Los Angeles to create public discussions and performances in Santa Monica, Westwood, Hollywood, Downtown, and on
the way to Tijuana.
Events take place November 13th-20th. They are free and open to all
publics. TRÁNSITOry PÚBLICO will be held in English, Spanish, and
Portuguese with English and Spanish translation available at all
events. For the full schedule of events and information about the participants
(from photos to manifestos) please see the website.
Contact: jf@post.harvard.edu
Nov. 10 - Dec. 22, 2007
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Mission Greenbelt Campaign Headquarters
Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102.
Notes: The Mission Greenbelt project hopes to inspire and enable San Francisco's community to begin growing an urban earth artwork in the Mission District. The goal of the Mission Greenbelt project is to plant adjoining sidewalk gardens in front of homes, apartment buildings, storefronts and schoolyard gardens between Franklin Square Park and Dolores Park. The Mission Greenbelt will improve our environment and create a habitat for birds, insects, reptiles and small mammals. When we work together on this project to improve the environment, we strengthen our community.
This stage of the Mission Greenbelt project is the first installment of the SFAC Gallery's annual Winter Workshop series. During Winter Workshop, the Gallery will transform into Mission Greenbelt Campaign Headquarters where visitors will be invited to join in developing the Mission Greenbelt public awareness Campaign. The Headquarters will also host public events, hands-on workshops and will be the meeting place for research and campaigning that takes place in and outside the Gallery.
December 1 - Bus Tour & Youth Planting Day12:00 p.m. Meet at Headquarters, and climb onboard the bus with Jens-Peter Jungclaussen, www.teacherwiththebus.com and Amber Hasselbring, the artist behind the Mission
Greenbelt project. San Francisco residents and youth will be treated to a free, guided tour of the proposed Mission Greenbelt. If you're under 18, be sure to bring
an adult. One stop along the route will be for a taco lunch. Then we'll park the bus
and get out to build the first native plant garden along the Mission Greenbelt! We'll go on this tour rain or shine, so bring appropriate weather gear. Also bring money for lunch, work gloves and water. For more information,
call 415.786.4957.
Contact: 415 554 6080
Nov. 10 - Jan. 31, 2007
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Tip of the Iceberg
Location: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, Philadelphia, PA.
Notes: Still have your air conditioning running in October? Thinking you might not need a new winter coat? If you are feeling the urgency of global warming issues, you are not alone. In partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors, The Schuylkill Center is presenting an exhibition of small sculptures by five artists whose work addresses the impact of climate change on our environment. Artists in "Tip of the Iceberg" have created small-scale work as an allegory for the potential change one individual can affect--positive or negative. Artists include: Deb Hoy, Carla Ligouri, Keiko Miyamori, Emily Sullivan and Austin Tremellen.
Contact: (215) 482-8217
Nov. 9 - Dec. 14, 2007
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SELF PORTRAIT AS REVEALED BY TRASH: 365 days of photographing everything I threw out
Location: CIIS Minna Street Center, 695 Minna Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Tim Gaudreau is a native New Hampshire artist who is passionate about the natural world and the preservation of the environment. In Self Portrait as Revealed by Trash, Gaudreau collaged 5,000 images generated over a yearlong daily documentation of his trash. By confronting his contribution to the waste stream, Gaudreau exposes his own habits to public scrutiny as a way to encourage dialogue about consumer culture, packaging, and recycling.
Contact: 415.575.6242, amarchione@ciis.edu
Nov. 9 - 24, 2007
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Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project
Location: L.A. Contemporary, 2634 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034.
Notes: With some 77 million pieces of junk mail circulating annually, it was only a matter of time before this ubiquitous material became the stuff of art. With Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project, artists Barbara Hashimoto and Nancy Spiller have transformed their unsolicited mail into installation, painting, sculpture, new media and performance art. Opening November 9 and on view through November 24, 2007 at L.A. Contemporary, The Junk Mail Project creates surprising beauty from trash, even as it challenges our consumerist society.
Los Angeles artist/writer/environmentalist Nancy Spiller began The Junk Mail Project on January 1, 2006. Dismayed to learn that potential identity theft prevented her merely tossing her junk mail, but rather required shredding, she determined to see just how much junk mail she actually received in a year. At the end of the year, she hauled 157 pounds of unwanted mail to a professional shredder. In Spring 2007, Spiller joined forces with international fine artist Barbara Hashimoto. Together they reshaped their piles of junk mail into a two-city multi-media "shredded conversation". Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Contact: 310.559.6200
Nov. 9, 2007
AFTER GREEN: Celebrating Art
Location: Mars Bar, 798 Brannan@7th, San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Join Artsfest and a host of inspired partners including greenmuseum.org, for a Green Festival After-Party from 8 p.m. to Midnight to celebrate Environmental Art and encourage networking with other festival participants. As Culture Catalysts, artists, musicians, performers and authors can engage, educate, uplift and inspire the evolutionary process of greening our society.
AFTER GREEN will showcase organizations who are empowering artists working to evolve the environmental movement. Join us for Social Networking; Environmental Art: greenuseum.org Calendar, NWM's Art Into Action Book, Burning Green Documentary; Live/DJ Music; Cash Bar (drink specials - 360° vodka); Food service available (special menu). $5 (at the door), proceeds benefit Artsfest: Culture Catalyst.
Contact: 415-561-7802
Nov. 8 - Dec. 21, 2007
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Michelle Stitzlein
Location: Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, 15213-3890.
Notes: Michelle Stitzlein creates large-scale sculptures that stand out through their bold and graphically distinct imagery and larger-than-life impact. At second glance, the viewer begins to discover hundreds of discarded objects, cast aside by a society where 'shiny and new' merchandising rules. By transforming cast-offs into glorious moths, Stitzlein not only mirrors the magical process of metamorphosis, changing caterpillars into beautiful winged creatures, but also underscores the importance and joy of recycling materials.
Contact: (412) 268-3618
Nov. 8 - Dec. 3, 2007
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It Came from Under the Dock: Sculpture in Fabric and Drawings
Location: Partners Gallery at Glendeven Inn, 8205 North Highway One, Little River, CA, (near Mendocino).
Notes: Mixed media ecological artist Virginia Stearns is presenting an
exhibition of works that explore and showcase marine invertebrates living on
the floats and boats of the houseboat harbor in San Francisco where she
lives. Pieces crafted in sumptuous fabrics include a 3-foot-in-diameter sea
anemone in plush and velvet and a barnacle in satin, as well as a Pacific
Mussel and stalked sea quirt. The exhibition also features a group of
pencil drawings of these remarkable animals. The works present these little
noticed creatures from a unique perspective both intriguing and educational.
Contact: 707 937-3525
Nov. 8 - 10, 2007
(event web site)
Peter Cusack: Sounds from Dangerous Places
Location: Prague, Czech Republic.
Notes: MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences is an international conference organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER festival. The conference will explore the major mutations that are affecting the future of our world. Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest
in acoustic ecology. He will be presenting "Sounds from Dangerous Places", his work in very contaminated and polluted places such as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine; the Caspian Oil Fields near Baku, Azerbaijan; the Munzur River (a Euphrates tributary) valley in Kurdish Turkey where 19 very controversial dams are planned; Thetford Forest beside USAF air bases in the UK; North Wales in the areas where Chernobyl fallout will effect farming practice for years to come.
Contact: mutamorphosis @ ciant.cz
Nov. 7 - Dec. 8, 2007
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Bocor # 3
Location: Cemeti Art House, Jl. D.I. Panjaitan No.41 Yogyakarta 55143, Indonesia.
Notes: Issues about environment have often been perceived in a narrow sense: the survival of the ecosystem (related to protection of endangered species or natural resources), protection and improvement of the environment in which we live (issues of pollution, waste, etc.) or the continuity of the diversity of life. In reality, it is far more complex than this. Many cases related to environmental issues can actually accompany us through the history of civilization. When explored further, these environmental issues indicate a close relationship with the gap between rich and poor nations, respect towards societies and local wisdom, neo-colonialism/imperialism, natural resources, use of technology, etc.
Recent disasters indicate how environmental problems have become increasingly crucial in human civilization. Floods, landslides, worsening pollution, unhealthy food, all increase the danger to human life and the lives of the future generations. This exhibit is an attempt at self-criticism of our practices towards the environment. With Andita Purnama, Anusapati, Eko Didyk Sukawati, Eko Prawoto, Iwan Effendy, Samsul Arifin, Setu Legi.
Contact: Tel/Fax: +62 274 371015, cemetiah@indosat.net.id
Nov. 6 - 29, 2007
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No Goodbyes: re-imagining trash
Location: O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 US.
Notes: "No Goodbyes: Re-imagining Trash," a group show juried by Kathryn Kenworth, will feature multi-media artwork from Bay Area artists and O'Hanlon Center Members that may be entirely, or primarily, composed of waste or recycled material(s) (diverted from waste streams for the purposes of art that is different from its intended original use) or may address current environmental politics such as issues about recycling, reducing or reuse. O'Hanlon Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tues. through Sat., or by appointment. Artwork on display is available for purchase.
Contact: 415.388.4331, office@ohanloncenter.org
Nov. 6 - Dec. 9, 2007
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Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Presents Florestania, Marjetica Potrč
Location: Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, 5 - 9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Notes: Florestania, an exhibition of large scale wall drawings, video, and framed drawings by Ljubljana-based artist Marjetica Potrč, opens on November 6th in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin 2. Florestania explores themes and subjects related to grass roots political, economic and social crises within globalised economies and corporate politics. Potrč moves beyond utopian and post-utopian rhetoric, and looks at the very practical considerations facing localized societal development. Potrč's observations become empirical building blocks for a worldwide approach.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a roundtable discussion, "Rural Evolution", with Marjetica Potrč, Andreas Lang (Architect/Public Works, UK), Wapka Feenstra (Artist/NL), Dominic Stevens (Architect/IRL), and Sheila Gallagher (The Green Sod Land Trust/IRL) at 2pm on Wednesday, 7th November. The Roundtable will be chaired by Nathalie Weadick, (Director, The Irish Architecture Foundation). "Rural Evolution" is organised in partnership with The Irish Architecture Foundation.
Contact: T. +353 (0)1 671 0073, E: press@templebargallery.com
Nov. 5 - Dec. 21, 2007
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Brush with Nature: Installation Art by Barbara Roux
Location: CUNY, Queens College Art Center, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Level 6, Flushing, NY.
Notes: Barbara Roux's installations are influenced by her efforts to protect habitats and record incidents in natural history. Inspired by her father (a pharmacologist who did research in the Amazon Delta), her own stays in wilderness areas around the world, and by natural history and contemporary art, she focuses on habitat change in new York's remaining wild landscapes. Roux employs symbolism and anthropomorphism to evoke a sense of mystery, freshness and recognition, and draws the viewer in by metaphor. This exhibition is co-sponsored by the Department of Biology and the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Queens College.
Contact: 718-997-3770
Nov. 5, 2007
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Climate Change & Human Rights
Location: The British Library, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB UK.
Notes: Speaker: Aqqualuk Lynge, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Greenland.
Discussant: Dr Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Group, University of Cambridge.
Inuit activists have been protesting that the right to be cold is part of their basic human rights, which is being diminished by global warming caused by pollution emanating from other parts of the world. This session will ask the question: What are our responsibilities to other people whose lives are being impacted on by our actions? The talk is part of POLAR: the art and science of climate change, a series of public lectures and an international symposium at the British Library. 6:30 - 8:30pm. Tickets £6 (concessions £4).
Contact: tel: 01937 546546
Nov. 2, 2007
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A&AJ Conference: Art in Public: Sculpture Parks & Land Art Commissions
Location: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield WF4 4LG UK.
Notes: The Art & Architecture Journal organizes Art in Public, an annual conference programme focusing on Public Art trends nationwide. With more than 120 dedicated sculpture parks, trails and gardens in the UK, this conference will examine the expanding phenomenon of private and public sculpture parks, along with rural and urban trails. The increasing popularity of 'open air galleries' offers a growing role for artists practice in the landscape and public, as well as private, bodies are developing new strategies and exciting programmes to enhance the visitor experience and generate new land use. The conference is a forum for dialogue between sculpture park managers, artists, collectors and commissioning organisations.
Contact: events@artandarchitecturejournal.com, +44 1924 832500
Nov. 1 - Dec. 8, 2007
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Dana Melamed: Into the Vortex
Location: Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, 547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001.
Notes: Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Into the Vortex, Dana Melamed's second solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new series of works on paper, Melamed employs a more aggressive and determined process to construct dark and tumultuous emotional landscapes that tear through the surface.
With multiple layers, Melamed assembles a fictitious urban environment that does not refer to a specific place, nor express a particular narrative-yet carries the weight and intensity of a mute history. Her process begins with sketching a landscape and overlaying it with transparencies of photographs of built structures. She then applies acrylic, various adhesives, and printing waste to the surface and takes a blow torch and a razor to it. As the different materials dissolve into each other—concept and technique coalesce, thus forming the overwhelming impressions of destruction and decay.
Contact: 212.244.4320, gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com
Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2007
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Forest Tunes - The Library, by Shai Zakai at Watec Israel 2007
Location: The Israel Trade Fairs & Convention Center , Hall 10 Booth 31, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Notes: EVENT DETAILS:
Oct. 30 - Opening 17.00-19.00, with Director General of the Ministry
for Environmental Protection, Mr. Shai Avital, Watec chairman,
Mr. Booky Oren, Board directors of the 'Israeli Forum for Ecological
Art', artist Shai Zakai, ecologists and artists.
Oct. 31 - Imagine Me and You and Nature, 15.00-16.00 Guided tour at
the Installation, with the participation of the Minister for Environmental
Protection, Mr. Gideon Ezra. Guided Tour at the installation - 17.00-17.45.
Nov. 1 - Global Warming, What Can We Do? 13.00-14.00, Conversation
with Parliament member, co-chairman of the environmental network's
Parliament, Mr. Dov Henin and ecoartist Shai Zakai. Also, Shai Zakai's Peep Show - 15.30-16.30, a journey through 16 countries, 120 boxes of leaves & seeds, collected for 10 years.
The Multi-Media installation is open to the public during Watec
opening hours, free of charge, including a 3 video-art projection
of Zakai's - 'stream reclamation as a work of art' - project "Concrete
Creek 1999-2002" and "Genius Loci" filmed in a dead forest.
Contact: shai-stu@zahav.net.il
Oct. 30, 2007
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book release: art in action: nature, creativity and our collective future
Location: Catharine Clark Gallery, 150 Minna St., San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Join the Natural World Museum in celebrating its landmark publication, Art in Action.
The curator and select artists will be available to sign copies of the book. 6:00 - 7:30 pm.
About Art in Action: In the environmental realm, science and art are inextricably linked. While science determines how we measure the health of our planet, art allows us to visualize our relationship to the natural world. Art in Action collects creative interpretations of the state of our planet in word and image by 79 artists. These varied pieces express a profound appreciation for all species and landscapes, explore our natural world lost, despaired and reconstructed and describe the fantasy of paradises anew and gone awry. Please RSVP at 415-402-0583 or events@naturalworldmuseum.org.
Oct. 29 - Dec. 14, 2007
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Sustaining Beauty: Contemporary Environmental Art
Location: CIIS, Main Building, 3rd Floor, 1453 Mission Street (between 10th and 11th Streets), San Francisco, CA.
Notes: Environmental art is at the forefront of contemporary art movements.
With roots in the Land and Earth Art movements in the 1960s and '70s,
environmental art celebrates our connection to nature through beauty,
science, metaphor, spirituality and ecological restoration. It can
encompass a surprising landscape of approaches, from ephemeral "art in
nature" sculpture designed to last only a few hours before returning to
the earth, to community-based "eco-art" installations that clean up
polluted watersheds and promote public understanding of local and global
environmental issues.
As a not-for-profit online museum (with a very
small office in Marin County, California), greenmuseum.org transcends
geography, highlighting a range of artworks and interconnecting the
diverse practitioners of this exciting movement. The highlighted
artworks in this exhibit are drawn from the global archives of
greenmuseum.org and will be featured in a 2008 wall calendar. Sustaining
Beauty provides a sampling of some of the latest developments in this
field to stimulate the imagination and promote the role of art in the
creation of a more sustainable world culture.
Contact: 415.575.6242, amarchione@ciis.edu
Oct. 29 - Jan. 13, 2007
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LAND, An Exhibition at USF Thacher Gallery
Location: Thacher Gallery, Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117 US.
Notes: Presented by Leyya Tawil's Dance Elixir, LAND studies the transformation of urban land and population through metaphor, image and contemporary dance. Looking at Downtown Oakland, Jack London Square and West Oakland, this exhibition will explore urban transformations and the ideas of home, history and hope. Tawil, artistic director of Dance Elixir and USF lecturer, teams up with composer Topher Keyes, media installation artist David Szlasa and writer Phill Weber to create windows to the past, future and the vital Now.
Contact: (415) 422-5178
Oct. 28, 2007
Dance Performance by Patricia Bulitt
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555.
Notes: Meet at the VISITOR CENTER for a performance of "The Cartographer's Whisper: A Contemporary Dance Movement Performance" and "My Landscape Journal" by dancer/artist, Patricia Bulitt. The dance movement performance is site specific, with musician David Miles. The dancer will be situated in the dried marshland. Poetic Text and dance express the mysterious notion of landscape expressed through original dance and sound composition. "My Landscape Journal" is a journal set in fabric with written text and photos from each visit made by Patricia Bulitt to the park and site prior to the performance. Journal will be on display at the Regional Park. Starts at 3:30 p.m. Free.
Contact: (510) 795-9385
Oct. 27 - Dec. 15, 2007
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Paradise Regained: Visionary Ecology and the Terrain of Ideals
Location: Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041.
Notes: Paradise Regained: Visionary Ecology and the Terrain of Ideals, an exhibition featuring the work of artists Deena Caparelli, Andreas Hessing, Deborah Lawrence, Kathryn Miller, Marc Pally and Kim Stringfellow. Curated by Helen Lessick.
Contact: info@centerartseaglerock.org, 323.226.1617
Oct. 27 - Jan. 8, 2007
MASLEN & MEHRA - Solo Exhibition Rome
Location: First Gallery – Via Margutta, 14 (centro) – 00186 – Roma, Italy.
Notes: First Gallery Rome and Galerie Caprice Horn/Berlin are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Maslen & Mehra curated by Gianluca Marziani. First Gallery is a new 250 sqm gallery space in the heart of Rome which was launched in July with a solo exhibition by renowned artist, Miltos Manetas.
Contact: info@firstgallery.it, ph: 393/9863271
Oct. 27 - 28, 2007
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ReVision - The Art of Recycling
Location: Quarterdeck Room, Granville Island Hotel, 1252 Johnston Street, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
Notes: ReVision - The Art of Recycling is a two day juried show featuring recycled artwork by 16 British Columbia (Canada) artists: art made from anything reused, recycled, salvaged, scrounged or found - be it useful, beautiful, odd, playful, or thought provoking. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Contact: janet@revision-theartofrecycling.com
Oct. 27 - Jan. 10, 2007
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AROUND - Maslen & Mehra / Federico Guida
Location: First Gallery Rome - Via Margutta, 14 (centro) - 00186 - Roma, Italy.
Notes: This is the first of a series projects titled AROUND; two person exhibitions that bring together the work of an Italian artist and a foreign artist. The photography of Maslen & Mehra. The painting of Federico Guida. The body that becomes geography. The landscape that metabolizes the bodies. Curated by Gianluca Marziani.
Maslen & Mehra open their photographic lens in a wide field, on the territories of the world, finding a subject in things we take for granted. Cities like Paris and Berlin, woods and forests, desolate beaches: are situations in which they map out the geography of placement. Shimmering presences; the narrative field in which, the outline of the two sculptors becomes an anomalous protagonist in a silent invasion. Here soldiers in salute, animals of various species, people in civilian clothes and postures: They stand in real space but their bodies are pure mirror, destabilizing the spacial relations but also the typical way we look at social dynamics.
Federico Guida drives in his world of devastated flesh, uneasy noisy bodies, fears and ferocious intimacies. A decent into shadows in a theatrical light where flesh is consumed and celebrated in a mystery of instincts. Around the revealed bodies move inserted and geometric contaminations; That transform into a heterogeneous pattern, a linguistic reference to Greenway who seems to have met Lucien Freud in a cruel theatre.
Contact: 393/9863271, info@firstgallery.it
Oct. 26, 2007
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EcoBuzz Conference
Location: Stephen Lewis Secondary School, 3675 Thomas Street, Mississauga, ON L5M 7E6 Canada.
Notes: Mark your calendars! The Peel Environmental Youth Alliance (PEYA) is holding the fifth annual EcoBuzz Conference for high school students on Friday, October 26, 2007.
You can expect another exciting round of workshops again this year on topics such as: local food, drumming, yoga, schoolyard naturalization, student leadership, climate change policy, media literacy, nature artwork and photography!
As always, we emphasize ACTION - not just learning, but DOING! Use your hands in the workshops, then fire up your brain to create an action plan YOU and your student team will take on this year! You'll even have the opportunity to create your own webpage as part of PEYA's new Online Community project with TakingITglobal. You'll also eat some delicious student-made local food, visit with community environmental groups, have a chance to win great prizes and chat the night away at our evening social. Take this opportunity to get inspired, inspire others and have some fun! The registration deadline is October 12th. Register today!
Contact: Stephanie Crocker, 905-274-6222, info@peyalliance.com
Oct. 26 - Jan. 6, 2007
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BioTechnique
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Terrace Galleries, 701 Mission St. at Third, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Notes: Northern California hosts more life sciences companies than anywhere else in the world. BioTechnique showcases a visually rich assortment of organisms, semi-living objects, and intricate life support systems, shining light on the technologies that are changing the global economy and the earth itself. The product of biological techniques-the exhibition artworks have been "grown" rather than manufactured: Denise King's terrarium habitats constructed for her bacteria paintings; lab equipment used by the Tissue Culture and Art Project to grow chimerical cell clusters; hydroponic garden installations by Philip Ross.
Shown alongside these artworks are artifacts made by industrial technologists, ecological researchers and biological engineers. These hybrid objects, from sheltering vessels to semi-living diagnostic tools being developed in Silicon Valley, provide context for the artworks and further explore the increasingly fuzzy line between the technological and the natural.
Contact: 415.978.2700
Oct. 25 - Sept. 30, 2007
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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
Oct. 23 - 12, 2007
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Betty Bowen Memorial Award Ceremony at SAM
Location: Seattle Art Museum, Nordstrom Lecture Hall, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101.
Notes: Please join the Betty Bowen Committee and the Seattle Art Museum to celebrate the selection of Tacoma-based artist Oscar Tuazon as the winner of the 2007 Betty Bowen Award. This year's PONCHO special recognition award winners are Joseph Park, a Seattle painter, and Vanessa Renwick, a Portland filmmaker and installation artist. The event will include the presentation of the awards and discussions of each artist's work, followed by a reception in the Simons Board Room.
Oscar Tuazon's artistic practice is grounded in a commitment to sustainable economy, self-sufficiency and mobility. Often using recycled materials and found objects, Tuazon creates works that double as functional dwellings or appliances that suggest alternative approaches to living within contemporary society. 5:30-8 p.m. Free and open to the public. Please enter through the First Avenue and University Street entrance.
Contact: 206.654.3100
Oct. 22 - 28, 2007
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The Globesity Festival
Location: Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009.
Notes: FAST - CREATE - PERFORM - BUILD
Hunger Strike Theatre is a solutionists Laboratory. The Globesity Festival is art in action. Since the dawn of time people have recognized the potential of collaborative engagement, harnessing the transformative power of performance to explore the world and build a better future. Theater is a medium where new worlds and new possibilities are conceived and called into being, giving dreams their reality. Original performance pieces will premiere at the festival from Monday to Sunday. The festival will take place at Theater for The New City (TNC), October 22-28, 2007.
The Globestiy Festival is:
1. Original performances exploring consumption
2. Direct Action in the form of a hunger strike by artists and ANYONE who wants to participate
3. A convention bringing together people from across the city as well as the arts, activism and conscious entrepreneurial spectrum to share tactics, stories and energy.
The Globesity Festival is FREE to Everyone. JOIN US.
Contact: TheGlobesityFestival@gmail.com
Oct. 20, 2007
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neurótica: bio II
Location: Intermediae, Matadero Madrid, P° de la Chopera, 14, 28045 Madrid, Metro Legazpi L3.
Notes: Neurótica: bioII is the second public manifestation of an investigation project that examines the anxiety of the present society generated by the accelerated development in technoscience. Neurótica: bio II explores the social perception of the advances of the modern biotechnologies and the fears and expectations associated with "bio".
The Neurótica project began in 2006 by CAPSULA, a research platform created in 2005 by Mónica Bello and Ulla Taipale, with the objective of generating cultural products that explore the relationship between art, science and nature. It is a collaborative project that aims to build bridges for dialog among separate disciplines, and stimulate critical thought through the exchange of knowledge. Neurotic examines the state of tension and the anxiety generated by the accelerated technoscientific development in the present society. The project tries to construct platforms of investigation opened by means of the design and accomplishment of encounters between diverse cultural agents with the purpose of generating dialogue and stimulating the debate surrounding key events in the contemporary world.
Contact: info@capsula.org.es
Oct. 20 - Dec. 20, 2007
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Subliminal: Recognizing the Global Dilemma
Location: Thompson Family Gallery, Garthwaite Center for Science and Art, 45 Georgian Road, Weston, MA 02493.
Notes: The installation, "Subliminal: Recognizing the Global Dilemma," opens as part of the October 20 celebration and dedication of the new Garthwaite Center for Science and Art at Cambrige School of Weston (CSW) and continues through December 20.
Curated by Gallery Director Todd Bartel, "Subliminal," features works by Rachel B. Abrams, Beth Balliro, Eric Benson, Kathleen Cammarata, Susan Chen, Xavier Cortada, Jaime Gustavson, max Liboiron, Warren Mather, Nathalie Miebach, Jeroen Nelemans, Andrea Polli and Joe Gilmore, Nancy Selvage and Vivian Visser. A special exhibition by Sally Pakard, titled "Harbinger," runs simultaneously in the Installation Gallery, in the Garthwaite Center. The Thompson Gallery is intended to show rotating, traveling and national exhibits. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment.
Contact: 781.398.8364
Oct. 20, 2007
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Ragsdale Ranch Party with Installation by Shan Wells
Location: Ragsdale Ranch, near Dripping Springs, TX.
Notes: It's only natural to celebrate an event that will have a positive effect in the Austin area for generations to come. The EVENT: Because of the concerted conservation efforts of several groups, 500 acres of pristine Texas Hill Country is being preserved intact. Located on famous Onion Creek, this land will continue to provide a thriving habitat for native wildlife and plant life. Austin Green Art Visiting Artist Shan Wells will create a Natural Art Exhibit during the event. With Music performances by Woode Wood and Bill Oliver, a Falconer Exhibit/Performance, a GPS Scavenger Hunt, Face Painting and Bouncy Castle for the kids, as well as Hay Ride Tours. 11am - 3pm.
Contact: randy@austingreenart.org
Oct. 19 - Nov. 24, 2007
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Fabian Marcaccio: Draftants
Location: BravinLee Programs, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 211, New York, NY 10001.
Notes: BravinLee programs is pleased to present Draftants, the first exhibition dedicated solely to drawings by Fabian Marcaccio. Marcaccio is perhaps best known for his large-scale environmental paintings which fuse political, scientific and socio-economic content to hyper-materiality. In this exhibition, Marcaccio investigates the meaning of drawing, both its practical and conceptual aspects.
Despite being known for works of mural size and scope, the intimacy of drawing has been central for all of Marcaccio's work. It is a cornerstone for him on all levels.
Using drawing as a departure point, Marcaccio has developed the "draftant" as a space to make sense of this "multifunctional" practice. Just as the artist’s "paintants" create a platform for mutated and reanimated meanings and expressions in painting, Marcaccio's draftants exist simultaneously as analytic and compulsive. Executed on panels of sintra, a synthetic material that behaves like traditional paper-pulp like surface, he draws, scratches, applies elements, prints and carves the surface -- all in the service of investigating the potential of drawing to convey a complex view of the world. Marcaccio's work confronts the issues that mark this "gangster-Capitalist" era: permanent globalized wars, profound lack of social justice, and the abuse of human rights.
Contact: phone 212 462 4404, inquiry@bravinlee.com
Oct. 19 - 20, 2007
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Requiem for fossil Fuels
Location: Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York , NY.
Notes: O+A (Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger) will perform their composition, Requiem for fossil fuels, playing an 8-channel "Orchestra of Cities"? at Judson Church in New York City, on Friday and Saturday, October 19th and 20th, at 8:30 PM. Featured singers are Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo soprano; Martha Cluver, soprano; John Young, tenor; and Joshua South, bass.
Materials for Requiem for fossil fuels come from O+A's "alphabet of sounds"?. This collection of recordings is the result of an ongoing search for a "Hearing Perspective"? of the sounds we make as a culture. Each section of Requiem for fossil fuels uses a location recording and its real-time flow as a cantus firmus. Over this cantus firmus, or baseline song, come soloistic voices of helicopters, jets, traffic, busses, horns, train wheels, footsteps of commuters, sirens: the found "Voices" of a fossil fueled culture organized as music. O+A have constructed this playable digital orchestra of extraordinary sonic voices extracted from cities around the world. Against and sometimes with this "Orchestra of Cities" are human voices of the singers and the text of the Requiem Mass.
Contact: mgreanier@comcast.net
Oct. 19, 2007
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Eco-Art Strategies: Towards a Culture of Sustainability
Location: Marin Center,101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, California.
Notes: This panel, part of the 18th annual Bioneers Conference, highlights the work of three passionate eco-artists, and examines how each combines art with ecological awareness, activism and public engagement. Moderated by Sam Bower, executive director of greenmuseum.org; with Susan Leibovitz Steinman, editor/co-founder of the Women Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD); Anne-Katrin Spiess, an artist, founder and publisher of "LAND" (Landscape, Art and Design), an online journal for environmental art; and Daniel McCormick, an artist and designer working on environmental restoration projects throughout the United States.
Contact: 877.BIONEER (246.6337), conference@bioneers.org
Oct. 17 - Nov. 26, 2007
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The Art and Science of Climate Change
Location: The British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road London NW1 2DB.
Notes: The Art and Science of Climate Change is a series of four public lectures at the
British Library will address the broader cultural and policy-related themes
arising from the Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever symposium on November 19 & 20, 2007. All lectures: 18.30 - 20.00. Price £6 (concessions £4). Tickets can be purchased at the British Library box office http://boxoffice.bl.uk. or in person at the Information Desk in the British Library.
Wednesday 17 October, EVERYDAY DISASTERS, discussant: Dr Nigel Clark, Geography, Open University. Speakers include: Bob Spicer, Earth Sciences, Open
University. (climateprediction.net).
Monday 5 November, CLIMATE CHANGE & HUMAN RIGHTS, discussant: Dr Michael Bravo, Head of the Circumpolar History and Public Policy Research Group, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Speaker: Aqqaluk Lynge, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Greenland.
Monday 19th November, THE NEW ICONOGRAPHY OF CLIMATE CHANGE, discussant: Professor Denis Cosgrove, UCLA. Speakers: Dr Eric Wolff, Glacier Chemist, British Antarctic Survey, Stephan Harrison, Associate Professor of Quaternary Science, University of Exeter / Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Director of Climate Change Risk Management, and Marko Peljhan, artist and initiator of I-TASC (Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation), Director, Projekt Atol.
Monday 26 November, GEOPOLITICS OF COLD, discussant: Christine McGourty (BBC / polar correspondent). Speakers: Professor Doreen Massey, FRSA, FBA, Geography, Open University, author of For Space (2005), and World City (2007), Winner of the Prix Vautrin Lud (the 'Nobel de Geographie') in 1998. Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London, author of Geopolitics in a Changing World (1999) and Pink Ice (2002).
Contact: Box office: T +44 (0)1937 546546
Oct. 14, 2007
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Make Art with Nature at the 5th Annual North Berkeley Spice of Life Festival
Location: North Shattuck Avenue, from Virginia to Rose, Berkeley, CA.
Notes: At the invitation of the North Shattuck Association, artist Zach Pine will create a Participatory Nature Sculpture Arena at the Spice of Life Festival - bringing a van-full of natural treasures with which to create spontaneous sculpture with you and other festival-goers. Spice of Life is a street festival on Shattuck Avenue in North Berkeley, CA (all "green" this year) featuring music (2 stages), artisans, artists, lots of food and kids activities.
Contact: zpine@aol.com
Oct. 14, 2007
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Eco Art Fest
Location: Abington Art Center, 515 Meetinghouse Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046.
Notes: Fall is a great time to be outdoors in Abington Art Center's Sculpture Park and EcoArtFest provides an afternoon of programs focused on art and the environment. Painter Steven Kenny will give a tour of his paintings in the gallery at 2 p.m. and artist Mel Chin will give a presentation at 4:30 of his NEA funded proposal for the Sculpture Park. Join Amy Lipton for a tour of the Sculpture Park where you can taste an herbal potion for relaxation in the G.R.E.E.N.H.O.U.S.E. by artist Anne Katrin Spiess. Other great eco events will go on all day. 1 - 5 p.m. Held Rain or Shine. FREE.
Contact: Heather Rutledge, 215-887-4882 x207, hrutledge@abingtonartcenter.org
Oct. 13, 2007
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EcoNouveau
Location: Vibiana, 210 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Notes: EcoNouveau is a fashion, music and art show held in downtown Los Angeles. It will feature the Spring/Summer '08 collection of the most innovative eco-fashion designers in a non-traditional runway show crafted for an audience of 1,500 international press, buyers and eco-conscious celebrities and influencers. The event premieres at restored cathedral Vibiana in Downtown LA.
Londoner Gary Harvey, New Yorker Bahar Shahpar, and LA local Amanda Shi (Avita) will feature innovative uses of organic and recycled materials and processes in their upcoming collections. Music will be curated by Dublab with musical guests Mia Doi Todd, DJ Nobody, DJ Frosty, Daedalus, Carlos, Gaby and Andres. Attendees will experience artwork by award-winning photographer Sebastian Copeland, Seattle-based photographic artist Chris Jordan, LA underground legend Geza X, LA-based outdoor photographer Ian Shive, Brazilian graffiti artist and photographer Alexandre Orion and fashion photographer Erik Lang. See website for more details.
Contact: info@econouveau.com
Oct. 13, 2007
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Celebrating Cerrito Creek Through Art
Location: San Pablo Avenue & Fairmount Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530.
Notes: In collaboration with Friends of Five Creeks, artist Zach Pine will be leading an art-in-nature and with nature event on the banks of Cerrito Creek, which runs along the south edge of El Cerrito Plaza in El Cerrito, California. We'll use natural materials on site - and some special bonus materials too. No predetermined plans for art-making, except that we want to have fun expressing ourselves creatively and honor the creek, which has been restored in that area. The event coincides with the weekly farmers market (9AM-1PM), and he'll invite shoppers to join in on the art-making.
Contact: zpine@aol.com
Oct. 12 - 13, 2007
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Can Art Matter?
Location: Online.
Notes: In a world of social crisis and looming ecological collapse, can art be anything more than a frill? What is your creative work? Does it matter? Does it express and achieve what you want? Do you sense there could be more? Could you accomplish more if you had the right partners, if you could find the right people, if you had all the creative tools you need to become a catalyst for change? Please join us as we open an online space for engaged art practices to flourish. Come make new connections with other artists and give others the chance to learn from your own efforts and projects. Register now for a free, 24-hour online conference on engaged art. The purpose is simple and important: to open an online space where we can meet to foment a creative stew. We can co-create a space to argue and learn how to make art that matters, art that connects with communities, art that can change the world.
This online conference will occur in concert with the Vancouver, BC conference Live in Public: The Art of Engagement. We will have access to information, images and conversation from the face-to-face gathering of artists working in the public realm. Participants in the Vancouver conference will engage in dialogue with us, posting and developing their ideas online. There will also be a link with the Open Engagement Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Contact: director@islandsinstitute.com
Oct. 12 - Feb. 25, 2007
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Barbara Roux: Evidence From Nature
Location: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320.
Notes: This is a solo exhibition of new work by ecology-based artist Barbara Roux at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT. The show includes hand made, sealed "evidence bags" of natural elements, a note and a photo taken by the artist from a threatened habitat niche. These "evidence bags" may contain tree bark and dirt or plant materials from a dying forest or water from a neglected pond. Whatever the contents, the resulting artform raises the awareness of the viewer about that piece of Nature.
Contact: info@lymanallyn.org, 860.443.2545
Oct. 12 - Nov. 10, 2007
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Making Traces
Location: LMAKprojects (Chelsea), 526 West 26th Street, # 310, New York, NY 10001.
Notes: Making Traces is a two-person show by Lieven De Boeck and Elana Herzog. Lieven de Boeck and Elana Herzog examine the relation between the expectation and the experience of a site and space. Their practices focus on the layering of time, place, absence, presence and process. Making Traces reflects on the interpretation of space and memory by confronting Herzog's two monumental sculptures made from utilitarian textiles and staples with De Boeck's light-boxes, neon sculpture and several smaller sculptures like a calendar and a book.
Contact: info@lmakprojects.com, 212 255 9707 (p)
Oct. 12 - Nov. 11, 2007
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Alles im Grünen Bereich - A Group Exhibition
Location: Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Sunderweg 1, 44147 Dortmund, Germany.
Notes: The selected artists in this exhibition examine the relationship of humans - nature from the most diverse points of view. They analyze the points of fusion between nature and culture, natural and artificial. With Harald Finke, Hamburg; Jennifer Halfpap, Hamburg; Karin Hilmar, Gelsenkirchen; Astrid Korntheuer, Offenbach; Katerina Kuznetcowa, Münster; Ilka Meyer, Berlin; Stephan Reusse, Köln; Stephanie Senge, München; Sandra Voets, Düsseldorf.
Contact: Fon +49 231 82 03 04/Fax +49 231 82 68 47, office@kuenstlerhaus-dortmund.de
Oct. 12 - 20, 2007
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EAR TO THE EARTH 2007: A Festival of Sound, Music and Ecology
Location: Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South and New York Friends Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY.
Notes: Electronic Music Foundation is pleased to present the second installment of Ear to the Earth. This year's festival celebrates the creation of the Ear to the Earth Network with concerts, sonic/visual events, sound walks and a forum, all exploring sound as a tool to expand our awareness of place and better understand our relationship to an endangered world.
The festival brings together composers, sound artists, ecologists and explorers from around the world, and includes the New York premiere of John Cage's A Dip In the Lake and the world premiere of Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger's Requiem for Fossil Fuels, for four voices and an electronic, 8-channel "orchestra of cities". Other artists and scientists presenting their work include Mark Moffett, Madeleine Shapiro, Bernie Krause, Andrea Juan, Walter Branchi and many others. Please visit website for complete information and to purchase tickets.
Contact: e2e@emf.org
Oct. 11 - Jan. 13, 2007
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Ecomedia: Ecological Strategies in Today's Art
Location: Edith Russ Site for Media Art, KatharinenstraBe 23, D-26121 Oldenburg.< |