A few days ago I went to the Bay Area Arts & Ecology Summit, held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. There was a panel of people working in the eco-art field, and an audience composed largely of people also involved in eco-art. And just what is eco-art?
Lynne Hull, Raptor Roost L-2, a safe roosting sculpture for hawks and eagles, with perching hawk (WEAD)
Categories: art and environment
Tagged: clean water projects, collaborative action, cross-disciplinary action, eco-art, ecology, environmental action, Environmental art, environmental education, Israel, public art, water reclamation, women and environment, women artists
I’ve been thinking and writing lately about environments of different scales and temporalities, but I hadn’t thought beyond the confines of our planet and its atmosphere. Should I be looking farther out, to the whole cosmos? Lita Albuquerque is.
At a talk that was part of the University of California/Berkeley Extension’s Art of Sustainability series, Albuquerque–described as a pioneering member of the first generation of Earth artists–spoke about the large-scale art she has been creating for decades and about her current project, Stellar Axis: Antarctica.
Stellar Axis:Antarctica (Photo by Jean de Pomereu)
Categories: art and environment
Tagged: Antarctica, art and astronomy, art and ecology, Earth art, installation art, sustainability
