Projects tagged
Natural Resources & Energy
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She Draws the Urgency of Climate Change
Read more: She Draws the Urgency of Climate ChangeHer name is Zaria Forman, a leading artist in contemporary art with a cause. She is not only an exceptional human being; she is also an incredible American drawer who uses art to convey the emergency of climate change. Zaria’s…
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Reframing Trash Into Art
Read more: Reframing Trash Into ArtIn 2008, my work as an artist took me to a gigantic landfill outside Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Gramacho. After operating for more than 30 years, the sanitary facility, once one of the largest in the world, had reached…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual Arts
Read more: Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual ArtsJapan has begun discharging nuclear wastewater into the ocean four times a year, each time lasting 17 consecutive days. Under their 30-year plan, it is estimated that approximately 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will…
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what is missing?
Read more: what is missing?“What Is Missing?” is a multi-sited memorial created by Maya Lin to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present sixth mass extinction of species, connect this loss of species to habitat degradation and loss, and emphasize that by protecting…
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Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the Amazon
Read more: Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the AmazonThousands of Indigenous activists and environmentalists have converged in one of the Amazon’s biggest cities to voice their hopes and fears about the future of the world’s biggest rainforest. The Brazilian city of Belém will this week host a two-day…
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Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage Visions
Read more: Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage VisionsDavid Opdyke’s wry, panoramic visions of an America perceptibly in the grips of climate crisis were born of an artistic crisis—of “needing to come up an idea by digging somewhere other than my own brain.” Having drawn on his imagination…
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Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers
Read more: Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal TrawlersIT’S 7 AM, and a thin layer of mist still hovers over the harbor in Talamone as fisherman Paolo Fanciulli stretches out his nets. Pulling them out of a plastic tub, he examines them section by section, setting the ripped…
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Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond
Read more: Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a FishpondZhuang Huan invited more than 40 men – laborers, fishermen, construction workers––who had recently migrated to Beijing from other areas of China to participate. Zhang Huan said, “In order to find these workers, I visited many of the shacks where…
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This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Read more: This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic PollutionBenjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout. The symbolism of the #TurnOffThePlasticTap installation is somehow both over-the-top and…