Updated "Arts with the Environment" links (scroll down right page column to link)

Green Blessings

Arts with the Environment

• Art Not Oil
• ART:21 / Ecology
• Artists Project Earth
• Arts & Healing Network
• Arts:Earth Partnership
• Ashden Directory for a great list of links in all the arts for environmentalism
• Biomimicry Institute
• Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
• Clearwater Organization founded by Pete Seeger
• Climate Greenwash Awards
• Community Arts Network
• eco/art/scot/land
• ECOART
• Ecoartspace
• Electric Lodge
• Garrison Institute
• Green Arts Organization
• Green Arts Web
• Green Museum
• Healthcare For Artists (in Massachussetts)
• Island Institute for sustainable living, art & natural design
• laboratory of insurrectionary imagination & friends links
• Liberate Tate Blog
• Little Artshram
• Morning Earth
• Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
• Shambhala Art
• Stockmar
• The Yes Men
• WEAD Women Environmental Artists Directory

Mark di Suvero at Storm King Art Center        
photo courtesy of calyla b. Curtis fine art photography http:calyla-bcurtis.squarespace.com/

"Bath" and "Greenville"

Bath                                         digital                              ©Greg Patch

Greenville                             digital                              ©Greg Patch

HONEY Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:oo-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Exhibition

HONEY is a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity.  Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera.

Artists whose work has been juried into the exhibition are: Heather Beck, Barbara Blaisdell, Aleta Braun, Ben Bridgers, Katy Cassell, Megan Clark, Kelly Jean Conroy, Laurie Corral, Desiree DeMars, Gina Dill, Christine Dougherty, Mary Early, Bob Ebendorf, Kristen Egan, Jane Wells Harrison, Sarah K. Hooper, Melissa Hronkin, June Jasen, Rachel Kauff, Joyce Watkins King, Timothy Lazure, Jenny Lynn McNutt, Jeff Millikan, Greg Patch, Betsy Peters, Christine Reising, Suzanne Sawyer, Pat Spainhour, Elizabeth Staiger, Melvin S. Stanforth, Rebecca Stirner, Isaac Talley, Lauren Thiele, and Robin Wise.

The exhibition dates are March 10 – April 8, 2012.
Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:00-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Our juror, Catherine Coulter Lloyd is the current Visual Arts Specialist at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount, NC. She has worked in arts administration for over ten years in a variety of capacities including curator, education director, collections manager, registrar, and preparator. Lloyd has served on the board of the North Carolina Museum Council as Government Affairs Chair and Directory Chair. She obtained a BFA from Western Carolina University and an MFA from East Carolina University with focuses in the area of ceramics, fiber, and photography.

For full details, please download and read the prospectus [PDF format].

art tripped up to Greenville, NC 2/2/12

North Carolina's 10th largest city, pop. 84,554 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_North_Carolina


Yesterday was treated to a spontaneous/perfecto timing/full blast pre First Fri. nite Greenville Artwalk with Destry Sparks of Greenville, NC. Think southern, coastal country boy, gentle, hospitality with humor, grace and centered fine artist focus, he's the man. www.destrysparks.com/ Many thanks Destry!!, and to all the warm art folk he introduced me to!


We met up at the public library, hung a right, just next door, on Evans Street, (Greenville's main artsy street; arts, Dale's Indian restaurant and Americana restaurants, coffee/reading/rest spots, gifts and etc.)... 


...is the Greenville Museum of Art www.gmoa.org/ GMA houses a really sweet,,several rooms collection. There, are artstudiohold name artists and some I'd not met yet; Charles Burchfield, Minnie DesChamps, Claude Howell, Clarence Morgan, some Kenneth Nolan, a large Louise Nevelson, 19th c. Japanese woodcuts and a few Hudson River painters, Hobson Pittman, Donald Sexauer, Francis Speight, et y et... Upstairs was a large, well installed, group show of young people's art from the local Oakwood School.

Bayou Houseboat by William Henry Stevens, Pastel, 1945 (from the GMA collection)

Then to The Art Room Gallery & Studio with Nelle Lee Hayes; a collaborative IPad adventure between two artists in England and France;




Across the street; Pitt County Arts Council Emerge Gallery, http://www.emergegallery.com/
Two simultaneous juried shows, March 2 - 31.
               and                 

spinning a few blocks over to East Carolina University's Gray Gallery
https://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graygallery/exhibitions.cfm;

Exhibitions

March 1-31: ECU 2012 Undergraduate Exhibition
East Carolina University features the largest studio art program in North Carolina, which is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Curriculum areas represented in the show are: art foundations, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, illustration, interactive media, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture textile design, video, film and wood design. Area curriculum coordinators in the School of Art and Design select the outstanding works submitted from over 600 undergraduate students.

The awards ceremony will be Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 PM in Speight Auditorium of the Jenkins Fine Arts building on the ECU campus.

Students in Art History will have work in the Burroughs Wellcome Gallery adjacent to the Gray Gallery from March 4 through March 24. More details are on the Gray Gallery main page.

and over town to City Art Gallery http://www.cityartgreenville.com/feature.htm

with other artists represented and a group of young and old spread
on the floor playing art making with plastic doodads...

a special stop at Destry's home studio to chat over his latest piece;

no justice in this photo sketch to the potent, subtle, simple complexities
of another fine art piece of Destry Sparks...

a quick drive over to little Inkstone Gallery with a focus on quality ceramic work... 

and finally to the Pitt County Community College' Juried Exhibition where many of Coastal North Carolina's Fine Artists are represented.

for more on artsy Greenville http://greenvillenc.localguides.com/ypcyellowpg/art_galleries.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=yellowpages&gclid=CJ-t-sfzyq4CFQKf7QoddjqnDA

...Dang.

Beacon NY on the Hudson River

Am visiting with my daughters and families along the Hudson Valley for a few days. This morning while being with the Hudson River I sat acknowledging these images... along with Great Blue Heron (self/family/community/greater community), young female Mallard Ducks (youth/feminine/water), the River with its tides going inland further than most Ocean connecting rivers in the world, ...

∞BEACON∞

instillheartbeacon                

and in considerating in healing work the mantra "do no harm" as I pondered a painting proposition to the city of Beacon placing a beeswax rainbow heart echoing out with the grain center of the river worn stump. Am content to instill healing/balance/ease energetically.


this afternoon will spend at the Dia:Beacon
http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/107Blinky Palermo

Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977

at Dia:Beacon and CCS Bard June 25, 2011 - October 31, 2011

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Blinky Palermo, Graue Scheibe (Gray Disk), 1970. Oil, synthetic
paint on cotton on wood-core plywood, 5 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 3/4 inches
(13.1 x 26.5 x 1.8 cm). Collection Olga Lina and Stella Liza Knoebel.

 

 

• Main
• Artist Biography
• Funding
• Opening Day, June 25, 2011
• Public Programs
• Directions
• Press Release: June 14, 2011
• Tour Venues and Dates
• Publication

Dia Art Foundation and CCS Bard organized the first North American retrospective of the work of Blinky Palermo (1943–1977). The exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke and culminates its national tour in the Hudson Valley.

CCS Bard will present Palermo’s Works on Paper and early works, 1964–1973; the exhibition at Dia:Beacon will comprise the artist’s Metal Pictures and late works, 1973–1977.

 and more...

Wilmington, NC Cameron Art Museum puts it on State of the Art/Art of the State

Went to check out the flow of artists lining up to enter their one piece into this unique event around 1:30 PM. Arrived back around 5 to a jammed parking lot and slipped into a spot off the grounds and conveniently close.
I'd applied online and was directed to the "sign in room" to get my entry number. #202 gave me a sense of being well grounded here!. Staff were at the beginning calls, "11 - 20", "21 - 30", etc. A well organized excitement filled the Cameron spaces. I ran into several local artists, a friend from FB, and met several new folk from different areas of NC. By 6:30 "201 - 210"!
Initially I was warmly and enthusiastically greeted by Susan Davidson, Senior Curator, Collections & Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Then a very attentive and personably interested interview about my work, WebhGround 3, by Timothy Anglin Burgard: The Ednah Root Curator of American Art and the Curator-in-Charge of the American Art Department for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco lasted for a couple minutes. Did I talk quickly Timothy?! The staff at the Cameron receiving the work were most careful in listening to and handling my installation requisites.
When I left a little after 7PM they had reached #33o something.
The opening is tonite. The works will remain at the Cameron thru Oct 31.
enThanks to everyone involved!

  

early line up

http://www.cameronartmuseum.com

State of the Art/Art of the State

May 8 – October 30, 2011

Organized by the Cameron Art Museum, this exhibition focuses on contemporary art by artists currently living in, or native to, the state of North Carolina. Artists are invited to bring a single work of art to be installed in the museum, delivering the work within a 24-hour period (between 5:00 pm Friday, May 6 and 5:00 pm Saturday, May 7, 2011). During this timeframe, one of three internationally renowned curators will be present to greet each artist, shake his/her hand - and direct the exhibition installation. All three curators will attend the exhibition opening on Saturday May 7, 2011 from 6:00-9:00 pm.

The design of this project provides any participating artist equal opportunity to meet a significant curator working in the field of contemporary art today and have their work seen by all three visiting curators. The curators for this event are Susan Davidson, Senior Curator, Collections & Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Nicholas Cullinan, Curator at the Tate Modern, London.

This event pays homage to the open, creative curatorial spirit of the late art world maverick, Walter Hopps (1932-2005). In 1978, responding to a comment from his junior colleague, Deborah Velders (Jensen) about the problems artists face gaining access to notable curators, Walter Hopps conceived an entirely open, unmediated event to remedy the situation. His program invited any artist to bring a single work of art, to meet Hopps, and see installation of work. This event called “36 Hours” occurred in a gritty, street-level alternative space called MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art), located in downtown Washington, D.C. There was no jurying, no selection (or rejection), and no entry fee. The only restrictions were size (work needed to fit through the door), weight (regarding transporting/placing and support capacity), and the delivery time frame (36 hours). This unprecedented opportunity for artists was covered by the Washington Post, and attracted over 400 works of art, all by artists living and working in the Washington, D.C. area.

Celebrated curators for State of the art/Art of the State event are:

Susan Davidson, Senior Curator, Collections & Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York;


Nicholas Cullinan, Curator at the Tate Modern, London, England;


Apsara Di Quinzio: Assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; 


Timothy Anglin Burgard: The Ednah Root Curator of American Art and the Curator-in-Charge of the American Art Department for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.


A few more shots;

line up to the "curator/install room"

artists waiting their spot

the event!

doors into from out to to into

staff preparing for hanging

curators chatting w/artists

Opening shows @802 NC Artists with a turnout that Sparkles for Wilmington and NC arts...

the public shows up to support NC Arts

wall to wall 

Call for Entries at Cameron Museum for NC Artists

http://www.cameronartmuseum.com/state

Based on the MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art) held in Wasington DC in 1978 put together by Walter Hobbs and Deborah Velders. The Cameron Museum in Wilmington, NC will host a similar format where artists may bring original work during a 24 hr period to meet with curators Susan Davidson of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC and Nicholas Cullinan from the Tate Museum in London. The idea is to give artists an open meeting with curators from major art museums. All work submitted within size and suitability for hanging art work restrictions will be accepted and shown at the Cameron from May 7 throughout the summer and picked up Oct 30 and Oct 31, 2011. Space for showing work is limited and entry into the show is based on a first come first serve basis. Check the above Cameron url for details and submission form.
My biggest question is will camping on the lawn be permitted for the really able and eager?! I submitted my entry form and am waiting to hear reply from the Cameron on this email I sent to them.

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Sunday, May 1, 2011 4:09 AM

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holly@cameronartmuseum.com

Holly Tripman, Am looking forward to the possibility of participating.  My concern is with eager and able folk forming the line in advance of the 5 PM opening acceptance period, "extreme ie". camping out on the lawn days in advance. Is the Cameron prepared to accommodate the handicapped, aged and time restricted artists who want to participate?  enThanks, Greg Greg Patch www.gregpatch.blogspot.com www.greenartstudio.com

Will post their response....

Nevada Museum of Art, Art & Environment Conference

http://nevadaart.org/conference2011/

Sept 29  -  Oct 1

Art museums can be temples to culture or cultural catalysts.

Featuring

• Laura Allen
• Subhankhar Banerjee
• Richard Black
• Johanna Burton
• Edward Burtynsky
• Gaetano Carboni
• John Carty
• William L. Fox
• Amy Franceschini
• David Gissen
• Tim Griffin
• Fritz Haeg
• Newton Harrison
• Helen Mayer Harrison
• Laura Jackson
• Chris Jordan
• Geoff Manaugh
• Mandy Martin
• Christie Mazuera-Davis
• Jorge Pardo
• John Reid
• Libby Robin
• Sean Shepherd
• Mark Smout
• Leo Villareal
• Stephen G. 

They can be passive and predictable or unpredictably idea-driven. Museums can watch the world pass them by, or they can shape the trajectory of its course. Art and ideas matter here. We see art that challenges minds, melds environments and cultures, and responds to the uncertainties of the future. Art has a point of view and it deserves a voice at the table. That's what the Art + Environment^SM Conference gives it.

The Art + Environment Conference^SM at the Nevada Museum of Art reaches across continents, disciplines, and media to unite a dynamic group of thinkers shaping ideas about human interactions with global environments. A flagship program of the Museum's Center for Art + Environment, the 2011 Conference brings together artists, scholars, designers, and writers for a dialogue that fosters new knowledge in the visual arts. During the Conference, the Museum's galleries feature exhibitions that question our relationships with natural, built, and virtual environments, while serving as a springboard for Conference sessions
and keynote presentations.