Our vision is to influence public and private strategies related to eco-sustainable development. We aim to improve the lives of children, young mothers, and other fragile groups within specific communities.
Our mission involves mobilizing artists, cultural actors, and professionals across various fields to shed light on issues such as childhood fragility, economic disparities, and environmental challenges. Through our social awareness and educational projects, we are committed to constructing a cultural and emotional alphabet around issues of economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
IMPACT POINTS
Companies that foster creativity among their workforce are 3.5 times more likely to outperform their peers on key indicators of success.
The use of the arts to illustrate complicated issues related to the environment can inspire thousands of people to take action who would not otherwise.
Researchers have found that artist-created visualizations of complex scientific concepts not only help the general public better understand--the help the scientists themselves understand the meaning of the data and devise next steps.
Anecdotal research shows that the use of the arts to illustrate complicated issues related to the environment can inspire thousands of people to take action who would not otherwise.
Just looking at art improves your ability to think critically. Students from high-poverty schools, according to one study, experience an 18% effect-size improvement in critical thinking about art after a 1 hour tour of a museum.
The right art amplifies the effect of pro-environmental messaging. Participants who view an underwater photograph with related text about plastic pollution in the ocean are more likely to change their behavior than participants who only viewed the corresponding text.
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EXAMPLES OF PRACTICE
Sustainable Environmental Public Art Project Initiative
The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County and the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection are sponsoring 3 local artists to create public art that heightens awareness of today's climate crisis, promotes an environmental
Doomacracy was a haunted house open to the public in Oct. of 2020. Instead of showcasing popular Halloween terrors, the attraction highlighted the horrors of the American political climate. Topics included gun violence, climate change, voting and GMOs
ARTFARMS employs local artists from the Buffalo area to ensure an ongoing level of community investment and participation. The first iteration of the project worked with 3 farms on 5 locations around Buffalo. ARTFARMS developed innovative ways of
Not a Cornfield was a living sculpture that consisted of a cornfield planted on a 32-acre piece of land in the center of Los Angeles. The project was founded upon a desire to redeem a plot of once fertile and now depleted and derelict urban territory
Research Group: Art, Environment & Sustainability was designed to engage artists with scientists in the global dialogue around climate change. The project explores how Universities are joining community, in this case a small rural town in Colorado
The mission of The Alternative Art School founded by Nato Thompson is to provide an affordable program that provides a visionary faculty and intimate class sizes.
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ORGANIZATIONS
Organization that builds communities with refugees and immigrants that foster compassion, creativity and human connection.
Connects artists, cultural organizers, and activists who wouldn't otherwise know each other and creates the connective tissue and generative environment needed for cross sector collaboration to succeed.
The CA+E is an internationally recognized research center housed by the Nevada Museum of Art dedicated to supporting the practice, study, and awareness of creative interactions between people and their environments. It also hosts an annual Art + Environment conference.
The Arts Impact Explorer was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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