I came across these resource websites today. They are North American sites that function virtually and/or internationally. I thought they’d be good to share.
Women Environmental Artist Directory (WEAD): weadartists.org
“MISSION STATEMENT
Focusing on women’s unique perspectives we collaborate internationally to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art.
PURPOSE
* To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others.
* To facilitate international networking among artists working with ecological and social justice issues.
* To further the fields of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art.
OPEN TO ALL WOMEN ARTS PROFESSIONALS, REGARDLESS OF MEDIA, WHOSE WORK EXPLORES, EDUCATES &/OR COMMENTS ON ECOLOGICAL & SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES.
WEAD is not juried. Our goal is to be inclusive of the broadest spectrum of women’s contemporary eco and social justice art. The Wead website provides a place for women arts professionals to define themselves and their work. Each writes her own entry, describing interests, intents, materials, philosophy, and aesthetics.”
HOW TO LIST ON THE WEAD WEBSITE
“WEAD accepts new listings and corrections on an on-going basis. Eligible women are encouraged to submit an entry.” weadartists.org/about-us/how-to-list
Sounds good to me. I also came across:
GreenMuseum.org: greenmuseum.org
“This online museum emerged from our own experiences making environmental art and from seeing firsthand some of the challenges facing artists, community groups, nonprofit organizations and arts institutions when it came to presenting and discussing environmental art.
More than a museum, we see greenmuseum.org as a giant collaborative art-making tool. We hope you find it useful, friendly and easy to navigate. “
HOW TO LIST ON THE GREEN MUSEUM WEBSITE
“At the moment we are adding new content intermittently and slowly as we work to resolve the internal logjam of content we have to process… We try to include work that fits our understanding of the term “environmental art”… We also hope to show a breadth of approaches and give some sense of the geographic range of this work.”
GreenMuseum is based out of Corte Madera, California
ecoartspace: creating opportunities for addressing environmental issues through the visual arts – ecoartspace.org
“ecoartspace is one of the leading international organizations in a growing community of artists, scientists, curators, writers, nonprofits and businesses who are developing creative and innovative strategies to address our global environmental issues. We promote a diverse range of artworks that are participatory, collaborative, interdisciplinary and uniquely educational. Our philosophy embodies a broader concept of art in its relationship to the world and seeks to connect human beings aesthetically with the awareness of larger ecological systems.
Founded in 1997 by Tricia Watts as an art and nature center in development, ecoartspace was one of the first websites online dedicated to art and environmental issues. New York City curator Amy Lipton joined Watts in 1999, and together they have curated numerous exhibitions, participated on panels, given lectures at universities, developed programs and curricula, ad written essays for publications from both the East and West Coasts. They advocate for international artists whose projects range from scientifically based ecological restoration to product based functional artworks, from temporal works created outdoors with nature to eco-social interventions in the urban public sphere, as well as more traditional art objects.
ecoartspace has been a project of the Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles since 1999.”
HOW TO LIST ON THE ECOARTSPACE WEBSPACE
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Wormfarm Institute: www.wormfarminstitute.org
“Dedicated to integrating culture and agriculture, the Wormfarm Institute is an evolving laboratory of the arts and ecology and fertile ground for creative work. Planting a seed, cultivating, reaping what you sow . . . both farmer and artist have these activities in common.”
“We look for artists, writers, musicians and composers with an interest in sustainable systems and our place in the natural world. The Wormfarm can host up to four visiting artists at a time, with residencies running from two weeks to six months or more (May to October).
Each artist is provided with accommodations, use of our growing facility and time and space to create. In exchange, we ask each to participate in farm operations for 15 hours per week and to share the results of their creative efforts with the local community.”
eatART: eatART is an artlab – www.eatart.org
“We make audacious and improbable large-scale kinetic, robotic, and mechanized sculptures that investigate our human relationship to energy use.”
What is eatART?
eatART fosters new media art research with a focus on large-scale, kinetic and robotic sculpture. Our projects use art to educate people about the role energy plays in our lives and to raise questions about the social and environmental impact of energy use.
eatART welcomes you to join us in our mission. Whether you want to learn specialised skills from our talented array of experts, lend your experience to educate others, or be a part of our many fun events; there’s something for everyone in this unique and successful charity.
For a longer list of arts and environment initiatives, see Community Arts Network, http://www.communityarts.net/links/archivefiles/environment_all/index.php
About the Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Headquartered at its Web site on the Internet, CAN is a program of Art in the Public Interest (API), a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina.
