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Green Museum’s blog is now being syndicated here with the CSPA. You can now see the info coming from the bay area organizations feed, edited by Moe Beitiks. The online museum emerged from the creators experiences making environmental art and from seeing firsthand some of the challenges facing artists, community groups, nonprofit organizations and arts Joyous of all Environmental Aesthetic Nerdfests. While the dust of the Dow settling has sent some scrambling, and the rest of the world plugs on with their day to day, The Nevada Museum of Art has taken it upon themselves to host a gathering of minds in order to analyze Those of you who read the newsletter know that I’ve been subbing for Kate in the teeny greenmuseum.org office while she was away in the UK. During one of the many discussions with Mr. Sam Bower (ranging in topic from celebrity crushes to the meaning and purpose of art) he pulled up the above graphic. There’s a land artist local to greenmuseum.org, Zach Pine, who gave us the heads up about a nature sculpture workshop he did awhile ago with some children from the Ursula Sherman Village in Berkeley, California. We do a lot of writing about the glory of eco-art and artists, and it was fun to A grainy image for a grainy practice. Driving along Interstate 80 through Utah and the white-snowy-sparkled salt flats, you see blur after blur of rock-words: names, hearts, peace symbols, smiley faces. Couples, questions, signs. Some messages have dispersed into shattered versions of themselves. The other day I was at a party talking about greenmuseum.org, and The recently announced recipients of the 2008 Americans for the Arts Public Arts Network Awards include a work by Lorna Jordan called Terraced Cascade. It’s a xeriscaped park/abstraction of the human body. Can’t get much more direct than that. It’s a landscape of plants designed Here’s my long overdue field report on the National Summit on the Arts and Environment, held by Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Americans for the Arts, and the Aspen Institute on July 14th. Twenty “national thought leaders” in business, community development, the arts, and the environment gathered to lay the groundwork for arts In the theme of Words as Art, take a look at the project Flower Markers, by Norm Magnusson. On little tin strips and plastic garden tabs you expect to see words like “marjoram,” “marigold” or “mint.” Instead, Magnusson very simply and cleverly lists the names of places which have Since 2001, greenmuseum.org has been dedicated to spreading the word about environmental art. Just two of us in a room most of the time, plus kind folks like Moe and Tyler, our Board, donors and friends and of course, the growing number of artists and people out there making this stuff… and together we’ve THIS WEEK: AN IMAGE OF WORDS Hey folks. There are a lot of amazing writings on the greenmuseum.org site, and today we’re spotlighting one of the newer ones, by Chris Desser. It’s called Art and the Commons. Within it lies a detailed examination and |
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