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Friday, May 31, 2013
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This groundbreaking conference will bring environmental artists and arts professionals from around the country to Philadelphia to discuss ways in which art can create environmental awareness and restore ecological systems. Funded in part by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and The National Endowment of the Arts, the conference will provide a forum for professionals and students from arts and culture, design, environmental education, and the environmental sciences to discuss how environmental art can engage both the audience and the environment to increase environmental awareness and literacy.
The artists presenting at the conference have been working with these ideas for much of their careers. To call attention to climate change, for example, New York City-based artist Eve Mosher chalked a high-water line across Manhattan, giving people an immediate and visual understanding of what would happen if the sea level rises according to current projections. Artist and environmental activist Lillian Ball projected a shifting, multicolored map of the Arctic circle onto a sphere of ice, the ice melting even as the projected image showed a vanishing Arctic.
Also presenting at the conference are Sam Bower, executive director of greenmuseum.org; Amy Lipton, co-director of ecoartspace; Frances Whitehead, a professor of sculpture at the School of Art Institute of Chicago;and sculptor Stacy Levy, known locally for her Rain Wall and Garden for Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
Levy is currently working on a new permanent artwork for the Schuylkill Center, a rain garden to remediate storm water runoff, with interactive interpretive elements to engage and educate visitors. Conference attendees can preview the artwork, Rain Yard, at an outdoor evening reception at the close of the conference.
The artists presenting at the conference have been working with these ideas for much of their careers. To call attention to climate change, for example, New York City-based artist Eve Mosher chalked a high-water line across Manhattan, giving people an immediate and visual understanding of what would happen if the sea level rises according to current projections. Artist and environmental activist Lillian Ball projected a shifting, multicolored map of the Arctic circle onto a sphere of ice, the ice melting even as the projected image showed a vanishing Arctic.
Also presenting at the conference are Sam Bower, executive director of greenmuseum.org; Amy Lipton, co-director of ecoartspace; Frances Whitehead, a professor of sculpture at the School of Art Institute of Chicago;and sculptor Stacy Levy, known locally for her Rain Wall and Garden for Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
Levy is currently working on a new permanent artwork for the Schuylkill Center, a rain garden to remediate storm water runoff, with interactive interpretive elements to engage and educate visitors. Conference attendees can preview the artwork, Rain Yard, at an outdoor evening reception at the close of the conference.
