CASE STUDIES and PROJECTS
Some of these programs artists can and may want to participate in.
Emscher Park, Ruhr Valley, Germany. Rehabilitation of failing industry region through sctructural rehabilitation, ecolological management and application of sustainability principles (Stephanie Flom telling of Edward Miller presentation at CCI Center, South Side, of German Brownfields/Parks Development, 6/00)
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth, Healing and the Arts Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
http://koop.dartmouth.edu/programs_arts.html
Founded in 1992 the Institute "leads innovative efforts to improve medical education and health care".
Healing and the Arts is an "innovative program exploring the ways in which the arts and humanities can support the process of healing."
Water and Well Being program
Manchester Metropolitan University and the Faculty of Art and Design
"Involves fine artists, ecological artists, sociologists, biologists, and others...
A core team led by Mel Chantry, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, has proposed a programme of
practical and theoretical research into the use of water and its
symbolism in public art and design, and its effects on the sens eof
individual and communal well being. The 3 year programme, will
involve several large scale projects working in partnership with NW
water and other public and private bodies."
Contact David Haley at
Check for web-site or call.
HEY, LISTEN UP! An Urban Eco-Literacy Project & Interactive CD-ROM
http://vipervertex.com/HLU_VV.html
"An Urban Eco-literacy Project of the Urban Habitat Program of the Earth Island Insititute" co-developed by JoaAnn Gillerman addressing environmental racism.
Green Map System
http://www.greenmap.org/about/aindex.html
Begun in 1995 the Green Map System was inspired by New York City’s Green Apple Map.
Charts and maps locally-created visual representations of green places, environmental initiatives, and socially significant resources in various cities. Hopes to provide practical and inspirational ideas for promoting 'lower impact lifestyle choices' and provide insight for visitors who would like to discover ways to get involved in urban ecology. Presently over 110 Green Map projects in 34 countries.
ARTISTS MATERIALS
Gamblin Artists Colors Co., Portland Oregon
Each April issues a limited edition of paint crated from recycled pigment dust. Sample tube available on request. P.O. Box 625, Portland, OR 97207 503-235-1945 fax: 503-235-1946 (Patricia Watts 2/10/00)
EDUCATION
Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin.
www.northland.edu
An environmental liberal arts college.
New College of California. North Bay Campus Center for Culture Ecology and Sustainable Community, Santa Rosa. Accredited B.A. Completion and M.A. Degrees in Humanities and Leadership with a Concentration in Environmental Arts and Education. (Beverly Naidus at Goddard, 6/00
Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship Program in the Humanities. Center for the Study of Women in Society, Univesity of Oregon. 1/00
http://econocon.uoregon.edu or http://csws.uoregon.edu
"A contemporary search for ecological wisdom"
Manchester Metropolitan University and the Faculty of Art and Design
Water and Well Being program
"Involves fine artists, ecological artists, sociologists, biologists, and others...
A core team led by Mel Chantry, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, has proposed a programme of
practical and theoretical research into the use of water and its
symbolism in public art and design, and its effects on the sens eof
individual and communal well being. The 3 year programme, will
involve several large scale projects working in partnership with NW
water and other public and private bodies."
Contact David Haley on
Check for web-site or call.
Goddard College: MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
http://www.goddard.edu/offcamp/mfaia/oldindex.htm
Focuses on the social responsibility of the artist as it relates to the creative process, such as community-based art, activist art, art as spiritual practice and art as a tool for healing.
Institute for Social Ecology (Plainfield, Vermont)
http://ise.rootmedia.org/
Established in 1974 at Goddard College the Institute incorporated in 1981 as an “independent institution of higher learning for the purposes of research, education, and outreach in the field of social ecology.” It’s mission is “the creation of educational experiences that enhance people’s understanding of their relationship to the natural world and to each other.”
* Take this out of Goddard College. They’re really independent, and they don’t even mention Goddard College on their front page anymore.
EE-Link: Environmental Education on the Internet
http://www.eelink.net/
A participant in the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP): http://www.eetap.org/ of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE): http://www.naaee.org/
Gateway to environmental education programs and projects, resources for professionals, publications, environmental information and data sorted by topic, and resources for grants, the classroom, students, and jobs.
EDUCATION: COURSES
Mapping the Terrain: Theory and Practice in Environmental Thinking and Art. Carnegie Mellon University, Ann Rosenthal.
"Draws upon multidisciplinary perspectives to understand our interaction with and impact upon non-human nature."
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Earth Art (theme). A program of artists' residencies in collaboration with Allenheads Contemporary Arts Center, Northumberland, England. TW 1/21/00
ORGANIZATIONS
Art in Nature International (Munich, Germany)
"Comprised of artists, curators and museum directors working internationally on conferences and exhibitions addressing environmental issues." Managed by Kultur Konzepte, Sprengel, Munich
(contact: Amy Lipton 5/17/00)
Orlo (Portland, Oregon)
http://www.orlo.org/
Non-profit organization including artists and activists. It’s stated mission is to “explore the environmental issues through the creative arts”. Produces exhibitions, performance work, publications and public awareness campaigns.
The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/
Established in 1974 and formerly the Charles A. Lindbergh Fund. It’s mission is to “further the balance between technological advancement and environmental preservation.” It pursues it mission by the presentation of Lindbergh Grants, Lindbergh Award, and by sponsoring educational programs and publications. Contains some links to environmental sites.
Earth Day Network
http://www.earthday.net/
Based in Seattle, Washington, Earth Day Network is the nonprofit coordinating body of worldwide Earth Day activities. Headed by the original organizers of the first “Earth Day”, Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes. Includes news, events, Grist Magazine, Teachers Corner and “Freebies and Fun.”
Creative Capital, NY, New York. www.crative-capital.org. National; funding to individual artists purwuing innovative approaches to form.
The Orion Sociey. Great Barrington, MA.
http://www.orionsociety.org/index.html
" an award-winning publisher, an environmental education organization, and a communications and support
network for grassroots environmental and community organizations across North America. It is a nonprofit membership organization..."covers a broad spectrum, including teacher training and model classroom programs that have pioneered "place-based" education, reading tours that have brought leading nature writers and poets to communities in over twenty-five states, conferences such as the historic Watershed
Conference held in 1996 at the Library of Congress and our recent millennium conference, Fire & Grit, and a variety of publications and online resources."
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH)
Founded in 1991 to promote the incorporation of the arts as an integral component of healthcare.
Phone: (503) 381-8017
e-mail:
Additional information is available from Gail Malsin, Program
Manager, Healing and the Arts, C. Everett Koop Institute, at
(603) 650-1419.
Sponsored Arts & Medicine: Restoring the Soul to Healthcare Conference (see conferences below)
EPA, Unites States Environmetal Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov
ARTcorps
"A newly formed organization which will help developing countries convey messages to their people concerning health, agriculture and protection of the environment through the universal language of art"--
Patricia Watts 1/20/00. 3 Hopkins Avenue, Beverly, MA 01915. Contacts: Helen Hawes 617-576-0442 or Carol Seitchik 978-927-5804, Co-directors.
BUSINESS
GreenMarketplace.com.
All products "are made in ways that are not harmful to the Environment
Josh Knauer, CEO (graduate of CMU)
Article: Kapsambelis, Niki. The Green Scened: Environmentalist Goes Commerical. Carnegie Mellon Magazine vol 18:4 Summer 2000, 28-30.
GATEWAYS
Ecological Feminism: http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ecofeminism/
Nice gateway to all that is ecofem. (Member of Ecofeminism web ring).
SOSIG: Environmental Sciences and Issues
(Institute for Learning and Research Technology, Bristol, UK)
http://www.esrc.bris.ac.uk/environmental_sciences_and_issues/
Part of the “Social Sciences Internet Gateway,” this section provides links about the environment
including topics of social ecology, adverse effects of human activity and protection of the environment.
Includes links to articles, papers and reports (some full-text), news, databases, books, bibliographies, educational material, data, companies, government, mailing lists and discussion groups, organizations,
research guides.
Human Rights Web (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library)
http://www.be-in.com/9/ten/rightslink.html
A huge gateway to human rights links, international in scope, including United Nations documents and information, country information, international law, international government information, government organizations, treaties, declarations, non-governmental sites, refugee aid agencies, reference resources, international criminal tribunals, Africa, human rights education and syllabi, women’s human rights, peace and activism.
NEWS
Environmental Data Exchange International (EDIE)
http://www.edie.net/indexv34.html
"A free, personalised, interactive news, information and comunications service for environmental professionals around the world." Sign up and get updates through e-mail.
JOURNALS
Earthlight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology. (Unity with Nature Committee of the Pacific Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends
Terra Nova: Nature and Culture
Ceased publication as a journal, and now a book series by MIT Press. Back issues can be requested via MIT Press http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/journal-ordering-options.tcl?issn=10810749
Ecumene
An academic cultural geography journal which publishes a section called Cultural Geographies in Practice. Invites all interested including arts people to submit material surrounding discussion on how the "cultural meanings of environment, space, place and nature are being engaged with intellectually and practically beyond narrowly defined academic institutions and genres," or " research and informed commentaries in which people imagine, interpret and transform their material and social worlds. ". (see Tracey Warr's e-mail 2/15/00)
Orion Afield
http://www.orionsociety.org/afield.html
"Contains stories and profiles of communities, organizations, and individuals whose efforts represent a local attempt at remaking communities --from the ground up. Highlighting grassroots efforts that explore, protect, and honor the land."
Orion Magazine: People and Nature
http://www.orionsociety.org/orion.html
Publishes the work of artists and writers "who are shaping a new relationship with nature."
Whole Terrain Environmental Journal
Published annually by the Environmental Studies Department of Antioch New England Graduate
School in Keene, New Hampshire http://www.antiochne.edu/news_events/WT/prospects/esm/wholterr/prospects/esm/wholterr/prospects/esm/wholterr/issues.html (link to the journal at this site not working 7/00)
"...dedicated to those who have chosen the environmental field as a basis of their professional lives. It
serves as a forum for people who care and work for the environment to share their work experience, philosophies, and reflections, providing a platform for the discussion of important and timely issues."
Grist Magazine
http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/
“A beacon in the smog” published by the Earth Day Nework Includes environmental articles, news, facts and figures, green buying hints and more.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Drukman, Steven. He's Sitting on Top of the, Well, Junk Heap of History. New
York Times, Jan 2, 2000; Late Edition (East Coast); pg. 2.5.
Brief article on peformance artist, Paul Zaloom and his 10th solo show, entitled ''Velvetville, at Performance Space 122 in the East Village who ''uses the detritus of our civilization against what it was created for --that is, makes junk into art.'' And, "wants to make people laugh at things that would inevitably kill us all."
BOOKS
Gaard, Greta Claire. Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.
Peacock, Doug. Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness. New York: H. Holt, 1996.
Heller, Chaia. Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature. Montreal: Black Rose Press, 1998.
Examines the historical causes of a romantic "desire for nature" and reconstructs the ideas of desire and nature through feminist, anarchist and social ecological theory. Links the desire
Bennett, Jane and Chaloupka, William. In the Nature of Things : Language, Politics, and the Environment. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
An anthology of essays on the philosophy of nature and human ecology and environmental ethics.
David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus (eds.) The New Earth Reader: The Best of Terra Nova. MIT Press, 1999. Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, a quarterly journal from 1996-1998 is now a book series. This is the first book in the series.
Warr, Tracey. Artists' Body (to be published by Phaidon soon).
"Artists from 1945 to now who have used their own bodies in their artwork." (TW 1/21)
Warr, Tracey. Earth Art and Consciousness. (PhD in progress)
Focus: Examination of metaphaphysical in environmental and ecological art.
Ray, Janisse. Ecology of A Cracker Childhood. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000.
"In a work that is part memoir and part environmental study, the author recalls her childhood in rural south Georgia" Review by Tony Horwitz in New York Times Book Review, January, 9, 2000, 16.
Korten, David C. When Corporations Rule the World. London : Earthscan, 1995.
SUBJECT: Corporations -- Political aspects. Industries -- Environmental aspects. Industrialization --
Social aspects. Big business. Power (Social sciences) Business and politics. International
business enterprises. International economic relations. Sustainable development.
(suggested by Beverly and Aviva 12/10/99)
Wilson, Peter Lamborn and Weinberg, Bill, eds. Avant Gardening : Ecological Struggle in the City & the World. Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, 1999.
Anthology of essays addressing ecological struggles taking place in New York City and citizen efforts to rescue the land and their communities.
Wilson, Edward Osborne. Biophilia. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Subjects: Nature conservation; biology--philosophy. Suggested: "Science and Poetics" chapter in which the author talks about defining art from artists and critics throughout history, as well as a scientist's view of what art is.
Kellert, Stephen R. and Wilson, Edward O, eds.. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1993.
Anthology of essays. .Subjects: Human ecology, philosphy --Philosophy of Nature--Nature Conservation, Philosophy --Bioblogical Diversity Conservation--Philosophy.
Smith, Gregory A. and Williams, Dilafruz R, eds. Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and the Environment. Albany, N.Y.: Sate University of New York Pres, 1999.
Anthology of essays addressing environmental education.
Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Dartington :
Green Books in association with The Gaia Foundation, 1997.
CONFERENCES
SER 2000: Reflections on the Past, Directions for the Future, 4th - 7th September 2000 Liverpool, England