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This section provides some of the best links to web sites containing detailed information on individual artists, exhibitions and multiple-artist projects which focus on art and ecology and/or eco-activist art. All sites contain images of artists works or projects.

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  • The Arts and Healing Network

    Founded by Marion Weber. The site began in 1997 to inform and inspire artists, activists, environmentalists and health care professionals about the healing aspects of art. Includes articles, projects, resources, images and information links to artists support and funding.
  • Art Works for Change

    Non-profit partnering with educational and activist organizations to produce art exhibitions addressing social and environmental issues; operates under the fiscal umbrella of the Tides Center.

  • Black Earth Institute
    "...encourages awareness of the arts as a means of promoting a progressive, inclusive spirituality and an environmentally aware society. The organization brings together artists and audience members to further understanding of the historical role of the artist as bringing forth wisdom from beyond the self." (from BEI mission statement)
  • Community Arts Network
    A non-profit program based in North Carolina through Art in the Public Interest. A "portal to the field of community arts" including visual art, dance, theatre/performance, public art, music, media arts, literature/narrative. Provides news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information.
  • D.I.R.T. Studio (Julie Bargmann , Principal Designer)
    Founded in 1992; joins with architects, engineers, scientists, artists,historians, corporate clients and local communities in remediation and "regenerative" projects within post industrial and urban landscapes.
  • Ecoartnetwork.org

    A professionally active group of artists dedicated to ecological art practice. Collectively the mission is to "inspire caring and respect, stimulate dialogue, and encourage the long-term flourishing of the social and natural environments in which we live."
  • Ecoartspace

    Founded by Tricia Watts. A nonprofit organization "working internationally with individuals and organizations who are interested in creating radical approaches to restoring the earth. Using art as a tool, we aim to inspire communities into action when addressing environmental issues." Includes images and links for art education, exhibitions, artists and projects, publications and more.
  • green art
    The creators of this site, greenart.info, do not name themselves as of this writing, but have selectively created links of interest for printmakers, fibre artists, painters, sculptors, architects, designers, photographers and others concerned with social and environmental issues.
  • greenmuseum.org

    Founded by Sam Bower. An online museum and the "Art News" for artists concerned about the environment. Contains current news and calendar of events, exhibitions, artists sites, artist opportunities, an educators tool box, and other resources.
  • RSA Arts and Ecology Centre (U.K)

    Founded 2005. Goal is to "catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecendented environmental challenges of our era...aims to create positive discussion about the causes and human impact of climate change through commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile website."
  • UAE Land Art Generator Initiatve: Conversations about the Environment, Art and Clean Energy
    "The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is to design and construct Land Art / Environmental Art installations in the United Arab Emirates that have the added benefit of large scale clean energy generation."

  • SAW: Street Art Workers
    Formed in 2001, a U.S. based network of printmakers, stencil artists, graffiti writers and designers using the streets for art as a "creative tool for social change." Members pick a yearly theme and exchange and post work on the streets across the nation. Themes have included prisons, mass media and utopia. The 2005 theme is land and globalization.
  • South Florida Environmental Art Project, Inc.
    "SFEAP primary role is to educate the general public, and leaders of key environmental and cultural stakeholder organizations, in South Florida, regarding the significant role ecoart can play to enhance responsible stewardship of environmental resources in the region.."

  • Women Environmental Artists Directory

    A directory of women artists concerned with environmental issues.
    Includes artists sites, eco art links, and other related resources
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