A Web of Exhibitions and Discussions Highlighting
Contemporary Practices in Environmental Art

which coincided with the policy summit

Women Assessing the State of the Environment (WASTE), Nov. 8-11, 2001

Bridging the Binaries: An Ecoart Symposium, Nov. 11, 2001

Chatham College, Pittsburgh PA

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Background

This site documents You Are Here, a web of exhibitions and an environmental art symposium, "Bridging the Binaries," presented at Chatham College on Nov. 11, 2001. The exhibitions and symposium were designed to coincide with the summit, "Women Assessing the State of the Environment (WASTE)," in Pittsburgh PA, sponsored by the Rachel Carson Institute (RCI) at Chatham College and the Womens Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).

The You Are Here exhibitions highlighted how local, national, and international artists motivate and inform the public on environmental issues, and they demonstrated how artists facilitate social and environmental health. In addition to the exhibitions, the "Bridging the Binaries" symposium held on the final day of WASTE brought together local and national artists to assess the field of environmental art.

For an overview of the Bridging the Binaries symposium, please see the article, "Bridging the Binaries: Assessing Ecoart Practices within the Context of Environmental Activism," first published in n.paradoxa Volume 9 (Eco) Logical January 2002.

Sponsorship

You Are Here is sponsored by Mon Valley Media and supported in part by the H.J.Heinz Endowments, the Three Rivers Community Fund, PA Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, and Sanford and Phyllis Bolton. The work displayed at the CCI Center is supported by The Dominion Foundation.

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