Art For Good
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Art For The Environment
Edible Estates Attack on the front yard - full frontal gardening. Edible Estates is an attack on the front lawn and everything it has come to represent! Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture, climate, context and people! Edible Estates reconciles issues of global food production and urbanized land use with the modest gesture of a small domestic garden! Edible Estates is a provocation, a call to arms and a radical intervention on the banal, repressive streets of zombie lawn-lined monotony! Edible Estates is nothing new, growing our own food is the first thing we did when we stopped being nomadic and started being "civilized"!
Artists' Project Earth Check out APE's first album! RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO, Cuba Featuring: Coldplay, U2, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, Sting, Dido & Faithless, Franz Ferdinand, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, Buena Vista Social Club's Ibrahim Ferrer's last recording and much much more..."Through music and the arts, APE aims to achieve permanent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to levels that minimize further degradation of ecological systems and human livelihood." Check out APE's first album!
The Canary Project produces visual media, events, and artwork that builds public understanding of human-induced climate change and energize commitment to solutions.
Environmental Art -- portal at greenmuseum.org
Andy Goldsworthy creates amazing art using nature as his canvas.
Edward Burtynsky, winner of the 2005 TED prize, takes photos of "nature transformed by industry...these images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence...we are drawn by desire - a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success."
Margi Scharff's 'Road Collages'are made mostly of trash found on road sides around the world. The link takes you to an National Public Radio story on Margi's work and her battle with cancer.
While seeing trough a glass of water colors, structures and movements --- joy is blessing.
Veggie Van Gogh : is transportation, warehouse, and living quarters for Carol and Jan, gypsy artisans who criss-cross North America, peddling their wares at arts & crafts festivals, powered by waste vegetable oil. --Janemail 22:55, 15 April 2006 (PDT)
Community Art
Urban Forest Project Design Times Square: The Urban Forest Project brings 185 banners created by the world’s most celebrated designers, artists, photographers and illustrators to New York’s Times Square. Each banner uses the form of the tree, or a metaphor for the tree, to make a powerful visual statement. Together they create a forest of thought-provoking images at one of the world’s busiest, most energetic, and emphatically urban intersections. Following their display, (September 1–October 31, 2006) the banners will be recycled into tote bags and sold at auction, with proceeds going to scholarship and mentoring programs that benefit students of the visual arts. Some banners embody visceral responses to pressing environmental, political and social issues. Others use the evocative power of nature to develop rich patterns and abstract forms that delight the viewer. All contain passion, thought, and energy—qualities that only emerge when the world’s finest creative minds apply themselves to a brief they truly believe in.
The "flying carpet" installation on a pedestrian bridge at the Sacramento International Airport by artist Seyed Alavi is not to be missed. It's google earth meets the airport floor. The project consists of a detailed aerial view of the Sacramento River that is woven right into the carpet. I have a feeling we are going to see a lot more of this kind of installation.
Aboriginal Art -- witness the dreamworld of the Australian outback.
Got a secret you need to get off your chest? Want to read other peoples' secrets -- things they've never told anyone else before? Check out the PostSecret community art project. It'll make you laugh or cry or sigh, really.
The Village of Arts and Humanities turns vacant lots in Philadelphia into public art parks, gardens, green spaces. From 1986 - 2004, the Village has transformed over 160 vacant and trash strewn lots into art parks and gardens.
Japanese homeless personal shelters recognized as art via Tree Hugger (03.18.06).
Arts and Entertainment Resource for art.
Medicine and Art
Here are some surprising connections between art and medicine:
Why not invite artists to work in hospital waiting rooms (space permitting)? 94 year old mural artist Sol Levenson brought peace and joy to patients waiting for radiation treatments at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center...his studio was their waiting room. Here is an article about Sol from Time Magazine (Sep. 06, 2005). I had the pleasure to watch Sol paint and to speak with him, and he was an inspiration.
Art programs at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Inspirational Poetry
The People Yes (1936) by Carl Sandburg
