Call for Artists: International Sculpture Competition

The Artistic Landscape The Gabarron Foundation is welcoming international artists and designers to submit works for an international public sculpture competition for the future Parque de Levante in the city of Murcia, Spain. When finished, Parque de Levante will be the largest outdoor sculpture parc in Spain and one of the largest of Europe. In… Continue reading Call for Artists: International Sculpture Competition

COAL Prize Art and environment 2013 – Call for proposals

Theme: Adaption The Coal Prize Art and Environment rewards each year a project by a contemporary artist involved in environmental issues. Its goals are to promote and support the vital role which art and creation play in raising awareness, supporting concrete solutions and encouraging a culture of ecology. The winner is selected out of ten… Continue reading COAL Prize Art and environment 2013 – Call for proposals

The Sun behind the Clouds

A meditation about the sky by Ettore Favini and He-He Parco Arte Vivente´s (PAV) 2012 art program, dedicated to the Ethos of the living,  is being concluded with the dual-person show The Sun behind the Clouds by Ettore Favini and the Anglo-German duo He-He (Helen Evans, UK and Heiko Hansen, D). The exhibition, curated by… Continue reading The Sun behind the Clouds

Environmental “artshop” and teaching laboratory this fall at Parsons the New School for Design

From the 27th of September, continuing over a four-month period, artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs and scientists will be offering a wide array of interactive exchanges, ranging from workshops to of-site explorations at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design (NYC, USA). The focus of this laboratory lies… Continue reading Environmental “artshop” and teaching laboratory this fall at Parsons the New School for Design

WEAD Magazine

The 5th issue of WEAD Magazine is out, and it’s about enviromental/ecological artists responses to “the atomic legacy” – this issue is edited by Susan Leibovitz Steinman. It brings perspectives from Japan, Chernobyl, New Mexico, and US areas threatened by aging nuclear plants in Florida, California and Washington. (WEAD stands for: Women Environmental Artists Directory.)… Continue reading WEAD Magazine

Dorsky Museum announces programs for Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art announces the programs they have organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012, on display in the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery through November 4. The program, developed by curator Linda Weintraub and the exhibiting artists, seeks to increase audience understanding of individual artworks… Continue reading Dorsky Museum announces programs for Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012

Sideways : Artistic laboratory along slow paths

33 projects in open space, a journey of 334 kilometres, 16 walking days, 5 festival weekends, 2 symposia and 1 multimedia donkey! 17 August – 17 September 2012, Belgium Sideways is an itinerant festival for contemporary arts and cultural research. In times of acceleration and hypermobility, this nomadic initiative follows a web of slow paths.… Continue reading Sideways : Artistic laboratory along slow paths

Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art presents its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. The exhibition will run from June 23 to November 4, 2012 in the museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. This year’s exhibition titled Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 is organized by… Continue reading Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012

Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012

For the last decades, collaborations between art and ecology have become more popular as an option to try solving environmental issues, as well as a way of social intervention. You can take a look at the work of several environmental artists in this article by G. Roger Denson, cultural critic and essayist, published by the… Continue reading Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012