Brookline, MAMy work is a synthesis of image and narrative-a melding of painting and sculpture . My palette is a myriad of found and reclaimed objects…
Los Angeles, CAToday, many species of animals on this planet are endangered, simply due to urbanization and human involvement in the environment. In my practice, I emphasize…
New York, NYAgnes Denes is an American artist/scholar of international renown. One of the originators of Conceptual art, Denes has investigated the physical and social sciences, philosophy,…
Santa Rosa, CAWorking almost entirely with an endless bounty of cast-off materials, salvage yard finds, and discoveries from the dumpster, I create artwork that is a direct…
Berkeley, CA"Everybody needs beauty," said the naturalist John Muir, and it is the natural beauty of California that inspires my artwork. My work honors this special…
Zoran, ILBorn in Uruguay, based in Israel for the last 30 years. My art is the culmination of a life experience, which began in early stages…
Los Angeles, CAI am committed to creating eco-conscious works that draw attention to the challenges facing the contemporary world in relation to environmental consciousness. The included images…
Los Angeles, CAAlli Miller (b. 1985, New York) is an artist and designer working between Los Angeles and NYC. Alli is a co-founder and member of DADDY,…
Philadelphia, PAI grew up on a mountain in 40 acres of forest, which was the critical start to my environmental awareness. As I grew, I watched…
Amalia Mesa-Bains is an artist and cultural critic. Her works, primarily interpretations of traditional Chicano altars, resonate both in contemporary formal terms and in their…
Amber Vilas is a New York-based curator and writer. She has organized shows at venues in New York, NY, Chicago, IL, and Portland, OR. She…
New York, NYAs a practitioner of sustainable design, I develop solar, water, and energy-efficient systems for products and site-specific installations. My recent work includes an interactive photovoltaic…
san angelo, TXMy current series of work deals with issue of plastic debris accumulation in the ocean; pre- and post-consumer plastic waste breaks down into small pieces…
New York , NYAmy Lipton began her career as a gallerist in New York City from 1986-1995. She has curated numerous exhibitions, organizes and participates on panel discussions,…
Seattle, WACurrently, I am learning about biomimicry and marine biology. I am interested in the connections of Art and Science. My work has no specific size…
Columbus, OHMy work engages viewers in a visual, tactile and auditory realm, to elicit a dialogue regarding the relationship between technology and our changing concept of…
Ana Mendieta (18 November 1948 – 8 September 1985) was a Cuban-American artist famous for her performance art and "earth-body" sculptural, photographic, and video work.…
Andi Sutton is an artist whose practice explores the ways that performance art methodology can create new models for community building and social engagement. She…
Berkeley, CAAndrée Singer Thompson is a longtime Bay Area artist and teacher who has exhibited internationally and nationally. Much of her sculpture, site-specific installations and performance…
Holloday, UTI am a post-consumer artifactist artist. I make art from my own post-consumer waste or "artifacts" and avoid using harmful, toxic art materials in accordance…
Quebec City, QCAngela holds an MA in Visual Arts from Université Laval (2019), an MA in Education (2004) and a BA in Art History and Environment and…
Loomis, CAToday, our planet faces an unprecedented environmental crisis caused by global warming, intensive farming, and habitat destruction. A sustainable future requires a balance between people,…
CAI am often attracted to the reclaiming of the environment by nature. Some of my pieces are drawn from water, reflection, wind, and messages. I…
San Francisco, CAAs an artist/architect, my light, water, and wind work strives to communicate environmental issues to effect positive community impact. I am currently extending my projects…
Ridgway, COAnn Cheeks in an internationally recognized artist who has been painting for 20 years. She grew up in Western Maryland and Central Virginia, where the…
Pittsburgh, PAAnn T. Rosenthal brings to the art community 20 years of experience as an environmental artist and arts activist. Her site and gallery-based installations juxtapose…
Kentfield, CAAnna Halprin's diverse career has spanned the field of dance since the late 1930s, creating revolutionary directions for the art form and inspiring fellow choreographers…
GöteborgI am a textile artist. Since my graduation in 1995 I have been working in my own studio and have had separate exhibitions as well…
Westford, VTEco-Artist Anne Cummings creates with her convictions to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Anne’s art is created using re-cycled, re-claimed, and re-purposed materials. The intent is…
New York , NYMy work can best be defined as Conceptual Land Art. I am interested in spaces, both physical and psychological, and how the two relate to…
Vilcabamba, LojaI woke up to environmental issues in the late 1980s which coincided with my exploration into art. Since then I have been involved in environmental…
Novato, CAEarth first, green artist Bebe wants to bring awareness to the earth’s fragile ecosystem. My work tells a story about the human impact on plants,…
Short Bio Ozkal is a Turkish born media artist and designer. She received her MFA from the Department of Visual Studies at University at Buffalo,…
Sausalito, CAI explore the meaning of restoration, generation, and regeneration through an experimental art making process. My paintings and writings spring from a lifelong experience with…
NW Washington DC, VAI have executed nearly forty public art commissions all over the U.S., such as Green Acres (1986, Dept. of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ), and some…
Vinalhaven Island, MEMy ideas evolved from activist performance work in the sixties, feminist art practice and an interest in city planning from a young age. Dreams, intuitive…
palo alto, CABarbara Boissevain teaches photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She uses her photo-based art to explore environmental and social justice issues…
El Cerrito, CABarbara Milman makes prints, artist books, and mixed media art. Her work currently addresses issues of climate change, in particular on what is happening to…
Forest Knolls, CABarbara Morris is an artist and writer based in Marin country. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Southern California, she received her MFA. degree…
Huntington, NYAs an artist dealing with issues of ecology, I am a hybrid. My installation projects are influenced by my conservation projects to protect habitats and…
Albuquerque, NMBasia Irland is a sculptor and installation artist, a poet and book artist, and an activist in water issues. She is Professor Emerita, Department of…
SAN MATEO, CAI am a Northern California mixed media artist working with environmental and social issues of our day. I am focused on the issue of climate…
Beth Carruthers is a Canadian artist-philosopher, independent curator and consultant in Arts, Environment & Sustainability. She also develops and teaches university curriculum specific to these. In 1997…
Brisbane, CABeth Grossman is a socio-political artist, who sees the visual as a way to create community dialog. Her art is a comfortable point of entry…
New York, NYOne of the early pioneers of environmental art, Betty Beaumont has helped define this movement as "a model of interdisciplinary problem solving". She has applied…
Berkeley, CAOne of my most important teachers has been Cuba and Cuban art with its identification with Santeria practices. That connection led me to Ifa, the…
GuatemalaBETTY PAIZ Alameda Jacarandas 18-00 Encinos Cayala I , zona 16 Casa 421 (502) 53062668 betty.paiz@gmail.com The works are born from my connection with organic…
Burton, WABeverly Naidus has been using art to dream, question, stir things up and find community for a few decades. She’s been teaching others to do…
Poinciana, FLBobbi Mastrangelo’s art incorporates manhole and water covers in simulated urban settings. The artist challenges the viewer: to observe the inherent artistry of the early…
San Francisco, CAThe Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library is Bonnie Ora Sherk who developed this systemic approach to environmental transformation and…
Houghton, MIArtist Statement I use embroidery to investigate cultural and environmental issues. Mixing a variety of source materials such as scientific data and early explorer’s journals,…
Prescott, AZMy work is based on direct experiences in nature. I am drawn to intimate places along a creek with tumbling water and lush undergrowth, reminders…
Narrowsburg, NYSix years ago, the gasmen came to my quiet upstate NY town looking to lease land in order to use a new method of gas…
San Bruno, CAI’m Breena Nuñez, a petite chapinaca (Guatemalan/Salvi mix) from the Bay Area of Califas and trying to hustle by creating and selling comic book-y illustrations.…
Berkeley, CAArt is a language I use to attempt to articulate the less rational and more mysterious realms of being human. An exploration of the inner…
D 82319 StarnbergWhen I select a space to work, whether it be in nature or an urban landscape, I try to find some immediate relation to its…
Anchorage, AKUsing intaglio printmaking, I show women relying on their physicality, strength, courage, and dignity to confront absurd or dangerous circumstances. These include physical, emotional, and…
Oakland, CAI have created large-scale installations using natural materials for several decades. The installations are often inspired by aspects of nature in their overall concept and…
Monterey, CAI make many forms of art – paintings in acrylics and in watercolor enhanced with pencil and Chinese white; carvings in balsa wood, sometimes painted;…
Maynard, MAI received a B.A. in art from Smith College, earned my M.A. in sculpture and environmental art from New York University, and now I live…
Maynard, MACarolyn Wirth’s sculpture explores how much gesture a figurative sculpture can shed and still retain emotional meaning. She documents the self, as it experiences spiritual…
LA"I am an artist who is inspired by nature and its ever changing and unpredictable perfection. I work with a variety of media to create works…
Santa Monica, CACassandra Tondro is an artist who has found a unique use for leftover house paint -- she uses it for her colorful abstract paintings. Cassandra…
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Atlanta, GAEach day I pick up the trash on the street outside my studio and at the end of the week, after sorting and cleaning, I…
Cecile Pineda was born in Harlem, the daughter of a scholarly Mexican father, and a Swiss-French mother. Her language of origin is French. After some…
Kenai, AKCelia Carl Anderson Many of my works are the result of a growing disquiet I have felt with world events, national politics and a global…
Burbank, CACharla Elizabeth is an artist who honors nature and its feminine essence. Early ecofeminists saw connections between the treatment of nature and women – both…
TorontoMultidisciplinary artist Charmaine Lurch incorporates diverse and distinct themes of social, environmental and political challenges that face those living in an urban multicultural society. Charmaine’s…
Leucadia, CATall portrays archetypal situations that can be used to explore the vagarities of domestic life. Inspiration is derived from personal experiences, travel to other countries…
Oakland, CASparking shifts in the collective’s consciousness is my passion. Perhaps it was the social psychology I studied at university, or my immersion in a plethora…
omaha, NEScientists and artists are distant cousins at the very least. Like a scientist my work is driven by curiosity that feels like what I imagine…
I approach my work through the combined perspective of art and the natural sciences. By placing myself in the role of the careful observer, I…
Berkeley, CAI sew paper as a way to reinterpret and explore the continuing value of handicraft traditions in our times. I start with blank printmaking paper…
New York City, NYThe earth is under assault by new high tech ways of extracting minerals. Natural substances like salts, ores, fossil fuel, and uranium are harmless if…
Woodstock, NYClaire Lambe is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Born in southern Ireland, she is a graduate of Ireland's National College of Art and Design…
Claudia Bernardi is an internationally known artist who works in the fields of human rights and social justice and who has exhibited her work in…
santa Monica, CAClaudia Borgna has been exhibiting internationally and has attended fellowship residencies in the USA, Canada and Europe. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell…
ManaguaI search inside myself the vestiges of ancient cultures that have inhabited our continent, and specifically my country, Nicaragua. The pre-Hispanic pottery was a product…
Climax, NYI was born in 1952 in rural N.J. but grew up in Winter Park Florida and Philadelphia’s Center City. I am a fine arts painter,…
McKeesport, PAMy artistic practice is a combination of personal studio works and multi- faceted community based projects. These 2 art processes are thematically united and function…
Lansdowne, PAWe see environmental degradation all around us. My prints and collages are a response to what I see and read about everyday. At the same…
Millville, PAI am seeking interesting projects/opportunities. Contact me for exhibitions, teaching, lectures and commissions.
Tiburon, CAMy work tells the story of the impact of civilization and industry on our environment. It's about the growing threat our industrial society poses to…
Berwyn, PAMy work strives to create a bridge between humanity and Nature; to evoke a felt sense that Nature is alive and has spirit. This knowing…
Los AngelesDanielle Eubank is a painter interested in exploring the relationship between abstraction and realism. She is making a statement about the unifying preciousness of water…
Oakland, CA Danielle Siembieda is an art service provider and creative entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her art is human centered applications of…
Oakland, CAI was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon. I received a BA in studio art from the University of California at Davis and a Master…
Sayville, NYI am an artist intrigued by the creation of two-dimensional imagery. Most of my artwork is derived at through techniques involving painting, drawing, and printmaking.…
Port Hadlock, WADeanna Pindell focuses on forest and water quality issues through sculpture, installation, and public art. She explores the complexity of these concerns and proposes functional,…
Laramie, WYMy passion lies at the intersection of the arts and social engagement, especially as it relates to biological, social and spiritual ecologies. I am inspired…
Richmond, CAMy interest is in creating works of art that allow the viewer to contemplate the reality of impermanence in all our lives. I look to…
Sebastopol, CAI make art with found objects. I find them, or they find me. Using animal bones and Barbie doll parts, in Spring 2004, I created…
San Jose, CAMy artwork begins with questions. "Can we create a new vision of our relationship with nature? Can we understand the complexities of the web of…
Berkeley, CADeborah O’Grady’s photography, spanning more than three decades, centers around the landscapes of the western United States. Many bodies of work represent an exploration of…
TRIBUTE "Deborah Thomas was a brilliant woman on so many levels. She will be deeply missed by countless people. I personally feel that Deborah fulfilled her…
Oakland, CAThrough my work, I explore the relationship between the body and nature, the process of time and personal history, and the cycle of growth and…
Mill Creek, WAAs a twenty-something young artist/designer trying to get my bearings in the world, I suddenly lost my life’s compass — my father. I was exactly…
My work endeavours to unite scientific knowledge with the mystery and wonder of the natural world. Each project is undertaken in a manner requiring attentiveness,…
Otis, ORMy work is based on concepts of "Place" and is influenced by Deep Ecology, Bioregionalism and a strong belief that the Sacred can be found…
Philadelphia, PAMy paintings and photographs have always registered an emotional response to geological discoveries. However, my present goal is to communicate more than visual beauty and…
Andover, NYAs the societal/world pace quickens, I fear we will become disenfranchised from our inner knowledge, and thus capable of actions without responsibility. My previous career…
San Francisco, CAMy work ranges from representational to abstraction while incorporating common parameters such as strong contrasts, e.g., light/shadow, inner/outer space, distortion/reality, and a vivid palette rooted…
I make political posters. My hand silkscreen printed art pieces reflect social and environmental issues throughout my community and nationwide. Being an Oakland native I…
Exotic Brooklyn, NYFor the past 30 years I have served as an urban shaman, celebration artist and "Unofficial Commissioner of Public Spirit of New York City." Over…
New York, NYDonna Marxer has been a painter for 55 years. Her work has gone through many phases, but the continuing thread pursues form in nature ranging…
Laytonville, CAThe salmon tent was created as a mobile educational exhibit. Completed in 2004, it won an international award for tent manufacturing. My current project is…
TXDORNITH DOHERTY is an artist whose work is concerned with our stewardship of the natural environment. Her photographic project Archiving Eden, is an extensive, dual-faceted…
Huntsville, TXArtist Statement I find value in the discarded and overlooked, and care deeply about human suffering, social justice issues and sustainability. I believe the arts…
Berkeley, CAThrough botanical forms I explore issues of change, aging, death and relationship between all living matter. All individual life forms, except bacteria, have a programmed…
Vienna, VAI love the concept of "place" and so my preferred subject matter is the landscape. My career in cartography has been useful in designing my…
Berkeley, CACreating art is a spiritual practice. When I paint or draw I feel connected with a deep soul river, flowing through me to manifest in…
Elina was born in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. She began as a self-taught artist, later studying painting, ceramics and sculpture. She now resides in Mazatlan,…
San Francisco, CAElisabeth Kohnke is captivated by the human point of view and the way in which we take for granted or forget the constructed environments around…
Berkeley, CAElizabeth Addison is a San Francisco Bay Area visual artist, curator, and educator whose widely exhibited works are included in The California Endowment’s permanent collection…
Missoula, MTElizabeth Claire Rose is an artist and photographer based in Missoula, Montana. She has a B.A. cum laude in fine arts from The University of…
My work as a sculptor focuses on the interface between the built and the natural environment. It often involves the concept of a biotope, which…
Oakland, CAElizabeth Dougherty, Ph.D. is a mixed bag multi media artist, engaged in “garbage collection and redistribution." When not educating Californians on the beauty of water…
San Anselmo, CAIn my paintings, I focus on the spiritual mysteries of the great cycle of life-death-rebirth, as well as the sacred female and sacred male archetypes.…
Reno, NVGrowing up in southern California, I have been drawn to the landscape since an early age as housing developments and strip malls replaced beach weeds…
Buffalo, NYTROUBLED WATERS The issue of our consumption and thoughtless disposal of products is now rising in human consciousness. We are beginning to understand that, in…
Berkeley, CAFor more than three decades post feminist artist and filmmaker Elizabeth Sher has been an active maker in the Bay Area. Starting in fine art…
Mosier, ORIdeas concerning the nature of “place” and questions about the relationships between our social and physical environments have been the basis of my work over…
Fond du Lac, WIHad you glimpsed inside my pocket? Did you see my charms and seeds? I am interested in that which is half-hidden and mysterious. I’m drawn…
Ferndale, CAARTIST STATEMENT My work embodies a fascination with how physical, psychological, atmospheric and spiritual experiences in land can translate into two dimensions through the breadth…
East Northport, NYErica Cirino is a freelance science writer and artist based in New York. Her writing appears in publications such as Scientific American, Audubon, Living Bird,…
Mendocino, CAIf you drink water from your tap, in just seven days that water will replace the fluids in your body. You become a tributary of…
Brisbane, Every year approximately 50 Billion land animals are slaughtered for food. These animals are crowded and packed in small spaces, drugged, mutilated, deprived of natural…
San Francisco, CAMy creative life began with my introduction to the fiber arts. Ever since, it has been a doorway to wonderful possibilities. Playing with established processes…
QuispamsisArtist Statement I am Saint John based artist born in Mexico with degree in architecture from the Institute Tecnológico de Querétaro. I am interested in…
Inverness, CAMy work is inspired by the ecology of the inner worlds and comes directly out of my deep relationship with my natural surroundings in the…
Covering within plastic, hard respirations, heat, sweat, hard mobility, perception of wizened shoots sense, the perception of captive animals within polluted waters, the earth which…
Chicago, ILArtist’s Statement My interest in science has always directed me to information about the environment. By recognizing how everything is interconnected, our society can avoid…
Berkeley, CAMy work with stone and ceramic tile began in the 1980's while I was working my way through graduate school for a Ph.D. in psychology.…
Berkeley, CAWith John Wilson as my grandfather, one could say the ability to create is in my blood. Since I was a young child, I have…
Obituary Gaza Bowen, an artist, shoemaker and teacher, died of cancer at her Santa Cruz home on May 27. She was 61. Mrs. Bowen, who…
Berkeley, CANature is a source of thrill and wonder for me. I am enthralled by its seemingly chaotic beauty, and I find as well a sense…
Bakersfield, CAWhile my heritage incorporates the Tesuque Pueblo and Costa Rica, my strongest affinity is to nature. While serving in Iraq, amid the devastation of combat,…
Port Townsend, WAMy work is a vehicle of exploration. A tool I use for locating, and connecting. I create temporary forms through interacting with nature, time, place…
Oakland, CAOil medium thinner formulae palette mixing texturing heady mixing. Dark layers repetitive, the meditative pattern, laden truth? Scratching the surface, oil paint, oil pastel, turpentine,…
I am an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research, and critical theory, all which have greatly influenced my…
GuatemalaThe volcanoes are a shared metaphor for the little we know about our giants, some asleep, most stratovolcanoes like the Santo Tomás volcano, which is…
Buenos AiresGuadalupe Urbina is President of the Voz Propia Foundation. Their central mission is to create, preserve and present socially relevant artistic and ecological projects which…
San Francisco, CAhttp://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/04/18/magazine/1194817116673/green-design.html (Video of New York Times Magazine commission 2008 - please be patient with the obligatory ad prior to viewing.) GYÖNGY LAKY 's sculptural forms…
Berkeley, CAI apply the technical precision and vigor of digital photography to the shamanic rituals of my daily life. I treat shamanism and photography as contiguous:…
San Mateo , CAAs a recycling evangelist I re-use post-consumer tin materials as the foundation of my art. My work focuses on a range of social issues in…
NYC, NYHelène Aylon is the author of Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist. You can find this…
TvedestrandVisual artist and author, working foremost in pastel and with landart. Through my work I aspire to help raise consciousness of our ecosystem, the web…
Hiroko Shimizu is writer and publisher, currently a special researcher at Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University. She received her Master degree of Public Art…
Hude, Germany, Since 1983 I have created sculptures about the connections of human beings and plants. I explore the relations between civilization and environment looking at how…
El Segundo, CAI am an artist and LEED AP (green/sustainability) California registered architect with degrees from MIT and Cornell University (studying interior design, architecture, & urban/landscape design).…
Although I am a born and bred New Yorker, since childhood I have been engrossed with Nature. I began my connection as a dauntless five…
Berkeley, CAI am an artist, educator, and activist working primarily with photography and motion pictures. My work is part of a long tradition in photography: to…
Ever since I was a little girl, I drew cartoons. I remember copying Hannah-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons by hand. Later, as I became a…
NYBelow is Jackie Brookner's old artist statement: In collaboration with ecologists, design professionals, communities, and policy makers, I create water remediation/public art projects for wetlands,…
Abiquiu, NMI create mixed media minimalist sculpture with a focus on the concept of 'the spaces between' exploring the perception of a landscape. What is it…
Los Angeles, CAThese paintings are light studies. Light assists us in understanding landscapes, by experiencing the magnitude and direction in which it allows our vision to flow.…
Palo Alto, CAJamila Rufaro creates mixed media assemblage, altered books and artists’ books. Her artwork is often about reuse of basic living elements sometimes in absurd ways.…
Berkeley, CAThe importance of personal choice as political action is at the core of my work. New large-scale color photographs incorporate my background in still-life and…
Oakland, CAYears ago I made a small doll out of scraps -- a doll which I recently I scanned and digitally edited into Western art historical…
Santa Rosa, CAThe making of art installations that change over time and benefit the environment has become my focus as an artist. When I began doing outdoor…
Kents Store, VAIn an attempt to deal with climate change I illustrate the changes that concern me, and to explore what I can do to create the…
Ridgewood, NYMy recent work is focused upon animal figuration and nature elements. This selection portrays animals that I have observed in life or encountered in dreams.…
WildernessJanet Botes is a visual artist from South Africa. Her work is inspired by the natural rhythms of the Earth and by taking into consideration…
Shelter Islands Hgts., NYI am an ecologically committed artist who goes to the wilderness for a time each year to paint, to look, to meditate, to be near…
Brunswick, MEI am a painter of narrative realism in acrylics. My colors are quite vivid, and I try to allow the viewer to "step into my…
New York, NYI am an artist whose work explores culture, identity and social justice working in various media: sculpture, photography, video, installation and writing. I consistently bridge…
Nevada City, CAMy images are a celebration of the interconnectedness of all things. I explore related natural forms at different scales of the microcosm and macrocosm: the…
sacramento, CAI have lived most of my life in Northern California and have always had a strong interest in the environment as well as social justice…
Elizabeth, COMy work is a series of moments along my artistic journey. Though every individual has their unique journey, there are common themes which connect all…
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Coral Gables, FLBas-relief Flora Mandalas On Canvas. Sculptural Wall Relief. Mask/vestments. Shields. Self-taught artist-poet. Work in renown Sacker Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry; private collections in…
San Francisco Bay Area, CAJeannette Kiel is an ecofeminist-activist-artist originally from San Diego and now living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kiel does a little bit of everything:…
Glendale, CAMy project and passion, "California Oaks as Art" is an artistic journey through California and its communities collecting stories and creating paintings of significant oaks.…
Jennifer Weigel is a multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation,…
KatoombaJenny stakes out claims for both functional ends and aesthetic forms with her sophisticated multimedia practice that combines video, film, photography and installation, often with…
Richmond, CAJenny E. Balisle earned a B.A. in Art and Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a M.F.A. from the Academy of Art College…
Kalamazoo, MIThe Beauty and Wonder of Trees Project is a photographic exhibition and environmental art program geared towards children, grades K-6, and their grown-ups. It creatively…
OBITUARY JO HANSON: Pioneering Environmental Artist Dies in San Francisco By Susan Leibovitz Steinman Jo Hanson, a pioneering spirit in both environmental and feminist activist…
San Francisco, CAChoreographer, Dancer, Aerialist, Artistic Director of Flyaway Productions. In both site-specific and stage performance, I choreograph on steel objects. I work with flight as an…
Scottsdale, AZJoan Baron considers herself an environmental public artist. Her work explores the integration of timely political and economic issues to stimulate a dialogue with the…
Toms River, NJMy work relates to preservation, regardless of the series. I question our culture, which promotes instant gratification while ignoring evolving consequences. I feel obligated to…
North Hollywood, CAThe beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for my entrance into the field of photography. I began vigorously studying photography and other…
Oakland, CABorrowing from cycles in nature and modes of measurement, sometimes with humor, my work considers the contradictions between measurement and direct experience. Through abstraction, recontextualization…
New York, NYEnvironmental artist Jody Pinto studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Philadelphia College of…
Oakland, CAThe Recovered Bottle Project The idea behind the Recovered Bottle Project is to build community through the gifting process. Gifting has a long history of…
“You can, as an artist, try to say something big about life; or be content to make the stuff in your hands come to life.…
Jourdan Keith is the Founder and Director of Urban Wilderness Project which develops curriculum and workshops for a changing society. She believes that connecting to…
Bolinas, CAThe idea of "natural selection" is almost anachronistic. Whole species are passing from Planet Earth at a speed accelerated by humans, not by the slow…
San Diego, CAMy subjects are of the natural world, of human nature and the built environment within nature. Recent works include Of Water and the River: Meditations…
Hancock, MII was raised in the north woods of Baraga County, Michigan. In 1998 I returned after a lifetime away: an MFA from the University of…
Whitehorse, Yukon, CanadaJoyce’s work examines her connection to place, particularly wilderness and northern landscapes, usually within a context of global environmental concerns. Her past careers as a…
Sebastopol, CAI create spatial metaphors for human experience in installation works comprised of architecturally inspired structures. Interested in the PSYCHOLOGY OF SPACE and a humanistic approach…
NYJudith Gale is an internationally exhibited artist, featured in galleries in Chelsea, New York, as well as in Italy and Madrid. Her lifelong interest has…
Big Lake, MNCommercial illustrator and fine artist for over 50 years, specializing in transparent watercolor medium. My artwork always makes a statement; it is my social life…
Judith Leinen is a German sculptor and currently a guest scholar for the California State University in Chico. In her own work, as well as…
Forest Knolls, CAFor years making something out of nothing has been my motto, my byline. I am thrilled to make something from a found object from a…
EL GRANADA, CAJudy Shintani is the Narrator of Culture. The unspoken compels her to create. She believes art leads us in a search for our connection and…
Hollister, CAI am a creative artist ever inspired by nature and the natural world. I make a difference in the lives of others by sharing my…
Woodside, NYRoundness is fundamental to my visual thinking. The form conveys an essence of interconnection, wholeness and metaphysical purpose. When you look into one of my…
Port Townsend, WAThe tenuous boundary between living nature and human encroachment is the primary unifying theme in my artwork. In my ongoing painting series, Watershed, I take…
Tujunga, CAAs a painter, I seek moments of breath-taking transition in nature; a gathering of clouds or changing tides; times when the elements of the landscape…
Crockett, CAKatherine Keefer began as a ceramic sculptor in 1973, studying first with Ben Sams in Seattle, Washington. She studied at UC Davis under Robert Arneson…
Sebastopol, CAI am a visual artist from Sebastopol, CA, who creates original pen and ink works. As an active advocate for animals and the environment, my…
Upland, CABorn and raised on the coast of Brazil, Kathryn Miller combines her childhood fascination with nature and an awareness of the profound effects of human…
New York City, NYMy site-specific sculptural installations explore archetypal mythological female forms within the context of environmental issues. These works incorporate allusions to the universal symbol of women…
Haines, AKMy art is a response to the imminent transformation and vulnerability of the north. Within any given fragment of land or water there are ethereal…
Oakland, CAKerry Vander Meer completed her MFA in sculpture from Mills College. Her talents, however, also extend into the realms of painting, printmaking, mixed media, installation,…
Los Angeles, CAKim Abeles' art crosses disciplines and media to explore biography, geography and environment. She has created projects with the California Science Center, air pollution control…
Oakland, CAArtist, Educator, Activist. Fascinated by cell biology, geology, estuaries and the environment.
Fallbrook, CASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ACTIVISM AND SUSTAINABILITY are core elements of my combined media art projects and teaching. I specialize in intergenerational and collaborative community…
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music…
Oakland, CAIn 1999, after seven years of working in the field of accounting, I decided to pursue a degree in fine art. While studying at the…
Waldoboro, MEKrisanne Baker's ecological work and activism focuses upon water - water quality, availability, and rights. Her multimedia works and installations are created from mostly upcycled…
Sebastopol, CAFind me on cliff edges or peering through a microscope, exploring the intersection of ecology and art. Inspiration comes from puddles of ink, cellular structures,…
Oakland, CALaila Espinoza Feik is a mixed-media visual artist who lives and works as a bilingual arts instructor for school age children in the East Bay.…
GuayaquilBIOGRAPHY Larissa's artistic career began 29 years ago, she received a scholarship to attend Lester B. Pearson College in Canada. As a result of her academic…
SkyLonda, CA
Isle Of North UistI am an environmental artist based in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. My work focuses on the principle that consciousness is the faculty of our whole…
Los Angeles, CALaura Larson grew up in Chicago surrounded by the influence of the Chicago Imagists. Her work reflects the dual interests of story-telling and theatrical production…
Santa Barbara, CAMy early graduate work at California Institute of the Arts which included a yearlong study at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio…
Denver, COArtist Statement As a contemporary artist, my three-dimensional work has had a focus on metal fabrication, iron and bronze casting. Digital photography plays a critical…
Phoenix, AZLaura Spalding Best's artwork documents and dissects the urban landscape of the contemporary American West. Exploring mundane iconography and infrastructure, her oil paintings on found…
Sausalito, CAI began my artwork in two and three-dimensional form at the age of four. My work as a sculptor started in 1983 when I studied…
Oakland, CATrained in Sculpture (UCLA) and Landscape Architecture (UCB Extension), I create eco-environments for everyday life and facilitate community participation in the design-build process. Since 2009…
Tempe, AZConnection to place is a powerful elemental relationship that influences our way of being in the world. As an artist I aspire to design places…
Santa Cruz, CADiscovering hidden treasure inspires me. Seeing the playful or dark possibilities lurking in a dumpster, recycle bin, farm field or free sidewalk pile turns me…
Oakland, CAI work across media, creating public art, installations, video and sound projects, sculpture and image/text pieces that address issues relating to culture, memory, natural phenomenon,…
Salem, ORVisual artist Leah Wilson creates place-based paintings that address changes within environmental ecosystems over time. Both process and finished paintings reflect an engagement with ecology…
Blue Hill, MEInspired by natural ecologies, Lee Lee is a visual artist who cultivates ‘creative ecologies’ to explore human intersections with the natural world. Starting with the…
Denver, COLee Lee attained her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has spent time in over 40 countries. These experiences have led her…
Santa Cruz, CAA Research Associate in biology for over twenty years at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I specialize in realistic paintings and illustrations of the…
Lummi Island, WAI am confused and alarmed by the 'throw-away' attitude of much of the US population. We are dazzled and enslaved by the superficial shiny surface…
El Cerrito, CAThe exploitation of non-human animals has been the focus of my art work for a while. Recently, I've broadened my view to include the oppression…
San Francisco, CALeslie Morgan was born and raised in the middle of a Texas desert where the nearest ocean was 600 miles away. As a kid, she…
buenos aires, NATURAL WRITINGS Try always, whenever you look at a form, to see the lines in it which have had power over its past and will…
Born in China in 1939, Lily Yeh came to the United States in the early 1960s and attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate school of…
San Francisco, CAFor the past several years I have created paintings using natural earth pigments that I collect from local soils, grids by hand, and mix with…
Los Altos, CAI explore land use and water issues in the American West through my artwork. I blend painting and textile techniques to create highly textured aerial…
Harvard, MA"We chose Linda because her work is so much about the land," said Maud Ayson, Fruitlands Museum director. "We look at the historical relationship between…
Beverly Hills, CALinda was born in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Beverly Hills, California in 1978 where she currently resides. Although she initially earned a BA in…
Willits, CAIdeas and Issues Current Work California is filled with hot environmental issues: logging, endangered species, control of water, oil pumping, freeways, encroaching vineyards, nature, etc.…
Saskatoon, ALI am a Canadian artist living and working as the Artist in Residence for the Cloudbridge Nature Reserve in Costa Rica. In my past occupation…
Topanga, CAMy first memory of painting was at four years of age and it has continued as my life’s dedication. My goal as an artist has…
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art.TO LIFE! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet was…
Portland, ORLooking at natural and urban systems, I explore their continually evolving relationship with our daily lives. Striving to create opportunities to “re-see” the everyday world…
Peekskill, NYLISA BREZNAK is a sculptor living and working in Peekskill, New York. Through the authority of the object, constructed in clay or in recycled and…
Tempe, AZThe artwork that I make is a testimony to my search for a point of reconciliation; an attempt to navigate through the paradox of having…
Tel Aviv, IsraelFor more than 15 years the basis of my work has been other people's discards. A quick survey of my studio in Azure, Israel, attests…
Sausalito, CAMy work focuses on food and farming. Using images and words, I aim to heighten both the sensual experience of eating and people's awareness of…
Berkeley, CAAn Exploration through Paintings, Photography, and Installation My art is a metaphysical journey of discovery. Ever since childhood I have been fascinated with the liminal…
Newton, MALisa Reindorf is an architect, artist and environmental activist. Her work addresses climate change and the conflict of architectural systems and nature. By building into…
Norwich, ALEnvironmental artist working with the detail, pattern and processes of landscape through fine art, sculpture, ephemeral site specific installations and work with community.
Edmonds, WALiza Behrendt launched Beauty of Water in 2006, an all-volunteer non-profit organization generating collaborative art experiences in communities around the world on the theme of…
cSPACE director Dr. Loraine Leeson has worked with communities through the visual arts for over thirty years, creating artworks and initiatives in the public domain.…
San Diego, CAMy practice is rooted in experience and play, experiment and learning. I go between outdoor temporary installations, and an indoor studio practice, each of which…
Bramhall, Cheshire, England, I work mainly in public art/environmental projects, functional earthworks and sculptures, the redesign of landfill sites - in both urban and rural landscapes, indoors and…
San Francisco, CAI’m interested in exploring the boundaries of culture and nature. My work is conceptual; my materials and techniques are integral to, and representative of, my…
Marshall, CAI have imagined the different stages of the Earth’s evolution as seen from outer space. I began a series in the late 70’s that I…
My most successful art works have been unique "books-of-changes" and "fans of possibilities". The representation of them in stories of depth and discovery came to…
DerbyWe are collaborating identical twin sisters using ourselves as a symbol to represent opposite/parallel aspects, or counterparts. We realise ‘complimentary polarities’ not only through the…
Arroyo Seco, NMI have a vision of peace on Earth. Through my experiences and travels, I’ve come to understand that people everywhere share that same vision. My…
lynn mowson is a sculptor whose practice is driven by the entangled relationships between human and non-human animals. lynn’s research focuses on agricultural animals and…
Fort Collins, COMy sculpture and installations provide shelter, food, water or space for wildlife, as eco-atonement for their loss of habitat to human encroachment. My current projects…
healdsburg, CAMovement within/ hidden vistas exposed quietly/ unpredictability/ anger not violence = MILL CREEK CAROLYN Visual creations the eye walks through … your mind begins a…
Philadelphia, PAI am a performance-artist-researcher who works nowadays with the Counter Narrative Society to transform the weight I carry from witnessing the colossal architecture of the…
Manila, Philippines, A recently-published article in HandEye Magazine provides a sneak peek into the artists' life and finished works during the international art/craft exchange in Orissa, India.…
CAI create mixed-media sculpture using recycled materials, ceramic figures and objects from nature. I use symbols such as wings, wheels, nests, ladders, cages and confined…
Washington DC, VAMy art practice employs environmentally proactive strategies; using my knowledge of botany, horticulture, and alternative energy technologies I attempt to call attention to and help…
Student, educator, and builder of things. Building functional furniture and silk screening are my two main mediums.
Kamuela, HIIn my work I have established an iconic language inspired by the rural Hawaiian landscape, where the ‘wild west’ of American myth is here pushed…
Los Gatos, CAMarguerite Garth is a photographic artist and environmentalist living in Southern California. Her artworks probe the nature of place and the complex ecological and societal…
Livermore, METhe consequences of our impact on the environment are shown in weaving with traditional, and more recently with re-purposed material.The importance of clean water to…
Sacramento, CAMaria Paz Gutierrez, Associate Professor of Architecture at University of California, Berkeley, is an architect and researcher focused on nature and multifunctional material organizations and…
MDContact me for: exhibitions, gallery representation, commissions, and collaborations Artwork: painting, wall hangings, printmaking My art explores the universal connections of diverse cultures, spirituality and…
Oakland, CADuring the course of my development, there has been a variety of images which have sparked my curiosity and ultimately found their way into my…
Los Angeles, CAI have been picking up trash along Los Angeles beaches for over 14 years. My mission began when I moved from Bondi Beach, Australia to…
MAriska (MA)-Eco-spiritual Earth-Nature Goddess Art I am an eco-spiritual artist, living in Southern Tamil Nadu, India. My paintings celebrate and symbolize the sacred immanent Mother-Goddesses-Mother…
Fairfax, CAI am a sculptor and an installation artist. My work addresses the societal impacts of contemporary issues—hunger, unemployment, war, environmental degradation and restoration. During the…
Berkeley, CAAt this time in my life and career as an artist/ educator, I am most interested in the intersection of art/ craft, environmental sciences, arts…
Durango, COI live in a mountain setting and work directly in nature on surrounding lands, intervening in subtle ways with what is found and observed; using…
Inverness, CAThe relationships between spirit and matter and between magical practices and natural processes are what interest me. I combine paint, found materials, other media and…
Syracuse, NYMicroscopic images of water-borne organisms have inspired my artwork. These organisms have an organic chaos of elements of beauty, complexities and fragilities. Through the use…
West Palm Beach, FLMary Jo Aagerstoun is an "accidental environmentalist." When she moved with her family to West Palm Beach in 2004 between the two big hurricanes of…
OBITUARY Mary Lee Warshaw was a beloved member of our community in Corralitos, Watsonville and Santa Cruz in many circles. She lived in Corralitos…
Sausalito, CAMy art reflects my creative response to a deep concern about global warming, climate change, pollution and nuclear power.
Croton, NYMary McFerran is an artist interested in using textiles, stitching and mixed media to explore themes of personal and political narratives.
Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is…
Fairfax, CAMary O’Brien creates remedial environmental art installations and interactions in the public domain. O’Brien co-founded the art practice, Watershed Sculpture with Daniel McCormick. and leads…
PRINCETON, NJArtistic expression about nature can be far more than an escape from human-centred reality. It can make a pressing commentary on the state of our…
Glenford, NYMy work is an expression of that profoundly deep connection between humans and the natural world. Our bodies are composed of the elements of earth…
Los Angeles, CASocially Engaged artist currently LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs Artist-in-Residence. Past CAC grants. worked as Arts administrator, curator, arts instructor and focused on reconnecting poor…
los angeles, CAExhibiting artist using photo conceptually and as a material. Currently site specific project on BOULDERS in mohave desert site. Project part of Highway 62 Art…
San Francisco, CAI work in culture, nature and structure. CULTURE I work and create in many facets of culture: performance, design, management, writing. I understand culture by…
oakland, CAMelissa Louise Bolger was born in Walsonburg, CO and raised in the country off the grid in northern California. Her surroundings were cliffs, forests, creeks…
Oakland, CAPeople are sometimes struck by the apparent disparity of subject between my abstract work and my landscapes. To my mind, they are not so very…
micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who creates and studies trans of color movement in digital media, where movement includes migration, performance and mobility. cárdenas earned…
New York, NYThe essence of Michele Brody's work is to understand how we live with change and the constant flux of our environment. Working with the anthropological…
Sunnyvale, CAFrom large-scale installations to teaching art to kids, my art is informed by my roles as a mother, a traveler—and as both an immigrant and…
San Francisco, CAMichelle Echenique is a mixed-media artist living and working in San Francisco, CA. Her work utilizes found material. Using throwaways is equal parts preference—she revels…
Redwood Estates, CAMy art gives voice to the wild animals whose world is being stolen by habitat destruction, over-consumption and poaching, and the billions of animals who…
Mendocino, CAMickie McCormic: I am a printmaker and fiber artist in Mendocino, California, primarily in surface design and quilting. I specialize in transferring my photos onto…
New York City, NYI make utterly public art to transform the environment, urban infrastructure, and stigmas around service and dirt; often injected into and coming out of public…
Mirjam is a visual artist and has been teaching at the Academy of Art Design of the Brabant University of Professional Education since 1987. Over…
Nesoddtangen 1450I collect and recycle mostly what nature has discarded or what has been in contact with Earth over time. In addition to the “discarded nature”,…
Santa Rosa, CAAfter living three years in Singapore, 1996-1999, Bryant created distinctive mixed-media paintings using found photographs of South East Asia in the 60’s. These works were…
Overland Park, KSMonika Teal works from a cross cultural background, allegorical in origin, but with frozen moments that connect to spirit,magic and nature. The combination of old…
Brookline, MAMyrna Balk is social worker and an artist who spent several seasons in Nepal consulting with NGO's about rehabilitation programs for survivors of sex trafficking…
Pleasanton, CALife in harmony with art is the best way to describe Nalyne Lunati’s creative process. She carries her artistic touch and mindset in everything she…
Delray Beach, FLNancy Pawlowski
JERSEY CITY,, NJI am interested in the juxtaposition of fragility and strength – evident in our personal lives and our broader environment. Under that overarching idea my…
Sunnyside, NYMy artwork employs methodical processes to conflate histories, materiality and science into new visceral narratives. I create assemblages and sculptures comprised of natural materials such…
I have pioneered public art (since the 1960's) both in the United States and abroad. Among my numerous public art projects are Sun Tunnels in…
I use a camera to examine spiritual connection, a return to the source and the search for Nature, of the external landscape and on an…
Berkeley , CANancy Selvin trained as a sculptor at the University California, Berkeley, both in the undergraduate and graduate programs, receiving an MA in ceramics in 1970.…
Redwood City, CACalifornia native Nanette Wylde is an artist, writer and cultural worker making socially reflective, language-based works generally of hybrid media. She has a BA in…
Nanette Yannuzzi was born in El Paso, Texas. She received her MFA from The University of California, San Diego, during which time she was also a…
Mumbai, India, Since 1973 i have had exhibitions in India, Germany and New York and has been invited to participate in major national and international exhibitions, biennales…
Vancouver, ALNicole Dextras is an environmental artist working in a multitude of media including sculpture, interactive public installation and photography. Dextras is a graduate of the…
isfahan[gallery link="file"] Environmental art can be followed through many different angles. What has been attractive in my works, sometimes leads to an absence in the…
Marina, CANormi Burke is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Living on the coast of California forces attention to water, drought, flooding, fire and a need for…
oakland, CASculptor working in paper and organic matter.
Austin, TXIn my work, I like to experiment with different media, sometimes a bit unexpected, like wine as a watercolor. Without any formal training in either…
Berkeley, CABlotner’s mixed media sculptures and drawings explore humanity’s relationship with nature, belief and calamity through both functional objects and symbolic forms that are made from…
San Francisco, CAI received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. I now do painting, collage, and digital photomontage. I have done…
Los Angeles, CAPascaline Doucin-Dahlke is a contemporary painter and digital artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Being in this city and region of constant visual…
Berkeley, CAPat Augsburger ARTIST STATEMENT My artistic practice investigates social issues using strategies of para-functional poiesis. I engage environments beyond the studio and class¬room through collabora¬tive…
Berkeley, CAI work as a community artist making site specific events commemorating place, imagination and memory. I have produced a storytelling tea party for girls and…
Buskirk, NYI use aesthetics to help solve environmental problems and create habitat and public recreational space. COMMISSIONS INCLUDE: ROCKY MARCIANO TRAIL AND SALISBURY RIVER GREENWAY, Brockton,…
Occidental, CAPatricia Watts has researched art and nature practitioners since 1994. She has participated as panelist at numerous conferences and has given lectures at art departments…
Petaluma, CAin progress, coming soon!
United KingdomPaula Ortega is an Anglo-Argentinean artist concerned with what constitutes the objects we use and admire, their origin and the trace they eventually leave, whilst…
Fremantle, ALPerdita Phillips is an Australian environmental artist working across mixed media installation, walking, sound, site-specific environmental projects, performance, sculpture and photography. Her projects all have…
Ann Arbor, MI, MIPetra Kuppers is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias (www.olimpias.org), an artists’ collective. We create collaborative, research-focused environments open to people with physical, emotional, sensory…
Berkeley, CAMaking the art cannot stand alone as taking action - nor can viewing it. I believe we must all use what we can to activate…
WinnipegPraba Pilar is a diasporic Colombian artist keen on disrupting the overwhelmingly passive participation in the contemporary ‘cult of the techno-logic.’ Over the last two…
Loveland, COMy work considers the influence of solastalgia to our perceptions of the natural environment. Our eco-biographies are changing at a pace that is difficult to…
Franklin, TNThe greatest influence in my life was the farm I grew up on in Tennessee. My relationship with the eco-systems there were central to the…
Portland , ORI work thematically, allowing the materials employed to bring their own dynamic to each project. "Weather" begun in 2000, focuses on climate change. I approach…
Los Angeles, CARachel Rosenthal founded The Rachel Rosenthal Company, a non-profit organization, in 1989 to work collaboratively with artists from other disciplines and pass on the legacy…
Albany, CAThe self exists in a physical and psychological environment. An underlying theme in all of my work is the relationship between the self and its…
Randy Jayne Rosenberg is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Art works For Change. brings an academic and experiential background as artist, art therapist, educator…
Rhinebeck, NYRaquel Rabinovich is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including drawing, collage, painting, sculpture and installation. Born in Buenos Aires, she…
Bellingham, WA"My art evolves around land and trees -- maybe because as a child that is where I found centering protection. Having a strong bond with…
Richmond, VTAll things, histories, and particles are connected and pulsing. This is my inspiration. Through art I aim to bring more knowledge and beauty to my…
Leavenworth, KSAward winning artist and teacher paints to preserve Belizean rain forests in Central America. I received an NEA grant in 1993, for a proposal entitled…
San Francisco, CAIt has always been my belief that art and creativity is a transformative process. Transformation of feeling into idea, idea into form, recycled materials into…
Oakland, CAMy choice of materials triggers a collision of clumsiness and grace. My work develops from observations, photographs, videography, and playful transformative sculptural manipulations of the…
Reiko Goto has sustained a creative inquiry that is concerned with empathic relationships with living things for over twenty years. Recognized for her approach to…
Berkeley, CASculptural work in the realm of reuse featured in national and international traveling museum exhibitions. Teach the art of "Transformation" in schools, museums, residencies, summer…
Sebastopol, CARenée Owen's book and fiber art combines repurposed, found objects with paper, natural dye, mark-making thread, and calligraphy, elevating the detritus of everyday life to…
Obituary from: Oregon Arts Watch http://www.orartswatch.org/tag/rhoda-london/ By, Barry Johnson Editor’s Note: ArtsWatch was sad to hear about the passing of artist Rhoda London, and we received this obituary from…
Wamego, KS“My art focuses on the intersection of artistic expression, science, food, farming and sustainable agriculture, while also exploring issues of social justice and healing. I…
Oakland, CARita Sklar www.ritasklar.com RitaAtArt@sbcglobal.net Like the canary in the coal mine, birds are an indicator species, and their decline is a wake-up call to take…
Dulzura, CAAs a public artist, I see my job as recognizing the potential in people, places and things, and then realizing that potential. I have created…
Oakland, CADress Tents: Wearable Architecture by Robin Lasser + Adrienne Pao www.robinlasser.com www.adriennepao.com Artist Statement: We are interested in the land and the body as…
Huntington Beach, CACurrent Exhibitions: You Say You Want a Revolution, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2017 ArtStart, OCCCA, Santa Ana, Ca. 2016 XPhotoX, Orange County Center for…
Saint Paul , MNRobyn Beth Priestley is a mixed-media block printer, painter and designer who has been working on conservation issues in both her artistic and professional career…
RandolphMy subject matter is the human animal, our relationship to each other and to the earth we inhabit. Whatever the scope of the work I…
Brooklyn, NYBorn in Spain, Valado holds a BFA from Queens College, NY. A recipient of a number of grants, she has completed residencies at Yaddo and…
Edina, MNArt Historian/Visual Culture Studies Faculty Uof MN/Master of Liberal Studies Program. Curator, Institute on the Environment/Uof MN special projects Conversation-E; SAMEE /Sustainable Acts:Mother Earth's Embrace…
Berkeley, CABio: Roxanne Schwartz makes textile art inspired by social justice and environmental issues as well as by travel, health, and family. Her goal is to…
leuraR. R. Pascoe is an Australian sustainable designer and artist. Largely self taught, she has been creating wearable artworks from found objects and waste materials…
My work is about hope. It’s about praying in a spiritual but secular way. bringing a balance of male/female energy and intelligence back into the…
Berkeley, CAIn a noisy, busy, fragmented world my intention is to create paintings and prints that invite viewers to hear and remember the silence. As much…
San Diego, CAMy artwork is dedicated to promulgating an ecological ethic and the healing, renewal, and long-term vitality of ecological systems. Trained in both the arts and…
Santa Rosa, CAMy work reflects my thinking about our relationships to each other and to our fragile planet; through making it, I hope to reveal our commonality…
Berkeley , CASalma Arastu Painter, Sculptor and Poet A native of India's Rajasthan, has been creating and exhibiting her paintings internationally. Her art works, whether paintings, sculptures…
Pottstown, PASandra Camomile is a mixed media artist and an associate professor of digital art at La Salle University in the Digital Arts and Multimedia Design…
Artist Statement I think I may be trying to challenge my need for systems, traditions, orders, and beliefs that categorize. To help me understand the…
Holland, MISandra Hansen is an international artist, adventurer, world traveler and founder of Artists' Cultural Exchange. Hansen's art embraces the beauty of water while making commentary…
Malibu, CASandra Mueller is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and arts facilitator, who has been on a lifelong journey of social concern and creative expression. She spent…
CAMost of the fiber compositions that I plan ahead are inspired from the natural world and the people in it. Curiously I find that when…
Sebastopol, CALiving between a wetland & the coast, I love how water sweeps in from the ocean, falls from the sky, flows over the land, and…
Natural Elements including iron, water, air, wind, and those that occupy them. Visual representation of transformations that occur in nature. I am seeking to continue…
Culver City, CASant Khalsa (b. Sheila Roth, January 3, 1953, New York, NY) is an artist, educator and activist living in Southern California since 1975. Her artworks…
Atwater, CAMy artwork addresses nature and culture, the potential for art to promote global environmental change through action, and the role of the artist from diverse…
San Anselmo, CARepurposed objects, recycled shoeboxes and nature objects became shaman dolls and birth angels. My aim is to celebrate female creativity including and beyond sexual reproduction.…
Fairfax, CAThe plants and animals of the West are a treasure trove of subjects for my work. From the Mojave to the Sierras to the Mediterranean…
GenoaAs Joyce wrote in his novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the work of the artist should arouse, or should inspire, an…
Emek Haela, Israel1st stream reclamation via eco-art in Israel "I would like there to exist places that are stable, unmoving, intangible, untouched, unchanging, deep-rooted; places that might…
Berkeley, CAMy work comes from a belief that art can be a powerful catalyst for personal inquiry and social change. Conceptually, I draw from the personal,…
Sharon Spain serves as coordinator/curator for Recology San Francisco’s Artist in Residence Program. The Program’s mission is to educate the public about recycling and resource…
Albany, CA
San Francisco, CASheila Ghidini was born in Connecticut. She attended Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and did graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She completed…
SF, CASheila Ghidini was born in Connecticut. She attended Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and did graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She completed…
MNMy artwork is focused on notions of place as defined by environment, gender and community. I examine the intricate notions of earth as mother and…
New York, NYThe remembered moment when a particular light and atmosphere transform the landscape inspires my work. I explore a fleeting reality where, color, form, sound and…
Shelley Sacks is an artist who writes, teaches, performs and works across many disciplines to facilitate creative exchanges that empower people and lead to new…
Redwood City, CAThemes of growth and change are the focus of my work: the entangling and liberating of groups of people, the shifting of the seasons, the…
Lafayette, CAARTIST’S STATEMENT - SHERRY SMITH BELL My artwork - mixed media, printmaking or painting - is based on my memories of the earth under intense…
New York, NYAs an artist, my concerns are Eco-feminist: Woman and her relation to Nature. Combined with images of flowers, wooden tree trunks, stone, sea, air, the…
Oakland, CAAs someone who already adheres strongly to ecological values (veganism, zero-waste, organic and conscious consumer habits), my mission in art is similarly to “use it…
Oakland, CAMany dreams are a blur and melt away at their remembrance. Others are a rush of scenes, racing through faces and landscapes from the present…
San Francisco, CAI graduated from the Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany in sculpture (1997) and performance/video (1998). The recipient of a Merit scholarship I…
Interacting in the real space, the modules can be manipulated freely by the spectator, instigated to exercise his creativity and to form his own installations.…
Pacifica, CAThe is also sustainability in Art. The times for elitist art are over. Art must be at everyone's fingertips. Art must cross over barriers of…
San Francisco, CARestrictions imposed by the religious society I grew up in simultaneously limited and expanded my creativity. As a post-colonial Middle Eastern artist struggling with the…
Spring Mills, PAAs a sculptor, my interest in the natural world rests both in art and science. I work within the two fields using art as a…
PAARTIST'S STATEMENT As an interdisciplinary artist, my work has evolved over time. The majority of my work focuses on the environment, nature or natural elements…
As an artist/activist, I am inspired by events and situations in the life world. Growing up in Latin America deeply influenced me: I saw people…
Riga, LatviaStella Hermanovska is based in Riga, Latvia. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Europe and United States. As an artist she mostly…
Fargo, NDStevie Famulari—aka ‘SUGART, Environmental Art & Design’—creates edible landscapes and murals, candied people and fashions, frosted buildings and windows, scrumptious sculptures, and delectable events nationally.…
Iowa City, IAMusing on the interdependence of human and botanical, organic and inorganic systems in a conflicted embrace, my work provokes thought about cultural perceptions and attitudes…
Wheaton, ILNow showing CCT Gallery, Life Force Arts Center & University of IL, Circle Campus in Chicago and Regional Commission of Arts St Louis, MO. She…
Albany, CAMy work is a celebration of the universe as it is, with its incredible vibrancy, worlds within worlds, and mystery. I embrace the physical stuff…
Gualala, CAI have been working as an artist for 27 years. My work is mainly sculptural in form and reflects my pleasure in materials such as…
Princeton, NJArt for Conservation, Ecology, Anthropology: My paintings reveal the beauty of nature and the devastating effects of climate collapse. I depict the symbiotic relationship between…
Oakland, CABIO Melding art, ecology and grassroots activism, California artist Susan Leibovitz Steinman engages multi-group collaborations to create street-front installations that revitalize blighted natural and cultural…
tiverton, RII have been working with the dress form for the past nine years. Through this format I have utilized materials such as tree sap, resin,…
San Francisco, CAMy work reflects my fears and concerns about human impact on the degradation of our environment. I have moved from working with abstract forms to…
Houston, TXI recently moved to Mexico where I spent the first 20 years of my life. The bicultural experience has played a large role in influencing…
Yorktown Heights, NYMy work reflects the ephemeral and transient qualities of life. When I am working directly with the earth and natural objects I am reminded of the inevitability…
Berkeley, CAMy work is pit fired ceramic. Pit firing, one of the most primitive of firing methods, requires surrender of control over results. I surrender my…
Petaluma, CALANDSCAPE DESIGN S.BIAGGI/sculptural landscapes offers the unique combination of an ecological designer with an artist’s eye and years of experience in contemporary design. I have…
NYEarthworks: Art in the Landscape of the Late Sixties is a broadly contextualized book on the emergence, ideas and forms of (post)modern Earthworks; published by…
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums…
Petaluma, CAA fourth-generation San Franciscan, Suzanne Girot’s personal connection to that city includes the famous Mechanics Statue featuring her great-grandfather’s gorgeous body at a busy downtown…
Berkeley, CAProblematics relating to the exploitation of natural resources, landscape use and globalization are at the core of Husky's multimedia practice. From sculpture to drawings, action…
Suzanne Lacy is a visual artist whose prolific career includes performances, video and photographic installation, critical writing and public practices in communities. She is best…
BrisbaneSuzon Fuks is an intermedia artist originally from Brussels, Belgium. Her background is in performing and visual arts. She studied dance, theatre & music and…
Oakland, CATakako is interested in intangible forces and interconnectedness of all things. Her early works focused on how the environment affects how we feel. In recent…
KhorrmAbad, ALStatement: I’m searching for a relationship between myself and the world by exploring my environment and considering such concepts as creation, human, life, death, infinity…
Chicago, ILMy art speaks of things I have a hard time talking about. As an individual from a war-torn country I create art about detachment from…
I am committed to help create a new paradigm of cooperation with nature by way of creating educational programs to increase our knowledge and understanding…
Santa Rosa, CAJulianne Skai Arbor, aka TreeGirl, has been on the forefront of the fields of environmental art, ecotherapy and nature connection since she began creating self-portraits…
Trena Noval’s interdisciplinary work crosses experience design, social practice, science, digital media, community engagement and food adventures. At the heart of her work is the investigation of…
How is the landscape observed, divided and apportioned? What are the extents of our notions of connection and responsibility? How are we affected and how…
NYC, NYSince the late 70’s I have been creating collage & installations, like “The Endless Junkmail Scroll”, a 200 foot collage shown in its entirety or…
Berkeley, CAVerona Fonte is a digital media maven and President of Iris Arts and Education group, a non profit with a mission to produce and support…
Berkeley, CAVerona Fonté, is a digital media artist producing fineart images, graphic designs and 2D/3D animations of her own style. The focus of her art is…
Since November 2010, Veronica Wiman has been programming a new gallery that she intiated, the Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo within el Museo la Tertulia, Cali,…
It’s an honor and an obligation to contribute to my urban environment through my sculpture and environmentally conscious gardening activities. For much more than a…
Wilmington, NCThe common denominator for all people is the environment. We need air, water and food to survive. As a society, we have reshaped our environment…
Castle Valley, UTI am a visionary earth artist, founding director of Earth Mandala, Global Peace Through The Arts, an artistic forum for global understanding. By working through…
My outdoor installations are a visual response to the natural environment and examine how ‘site’ is defined in a contemporary context. My work examines issues…
Santa Cruz, CAVirginia Ray, transforming everyday objects into inspiring art. Curious and imaginative, I love studying ordinary and mysterious objects found in our everyday life and the…
San Francisco, CAI have created a series of fabric pieces designed in part as ecological education tools. These include oversized compost critters (a 16 ft pink velvet…
Chicago, ILIf we wrap our naked soul’s in the raw and mysterious power of nature, taking refuge, we would leave personal artifacts, vessels with the voice…
Los Angeles, CAAs a young artist growing up in New York, I was surrounded by acres of lush woods. Our mailbox was marked RFD #2 for “Rural…
New York, NYDedicating my creative energy to our common future, my work has centered on sustainability for 30+ years. I am best known as creator of NYC’s…
Cooroy, QLD, OKMy practice is contemporary and multi-disciplinary, including site specific and ephemeral installation, photography, drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, and Design. I am a founding member of…
Artist and academic from Taiwan, born in Taipei. Wu Mali lives and works in Kaohsiung and Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating from the National Art Academy,…
Valley Village, CAMy interdisciplinary practice draws on history, memory, and survival to visually examine relationships among identity, narrative, and trauma. My desire to understand my contemporary sense…
Inverness, CAMy recent work centers around the book, both as a form in which to work and physically, as a support for painting and mixed media.…
